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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-02-09
Pope Takes
Firm Stand

The Vatican will continue to IN
sist on its right to grand sanctuary
to victims of Fascist wrath, the Of
fetal newspaper OSservatore Ro-
mano said last night in a dispatch
broadcast by the Vatican radio and
recorded by U. S. Government
Monitors.
The newspaper renewed its charge
that Fascist police had violated ex-
traterritorial rights of the church
in a raid on the historic st. Paul's
Basilica, one Of Rome's Oldest
churches.
Further, OsServatore Romano
charged the controlled Fascist news
agency, Steffani had issued "false"
reports about the raid, in which
Ga persons repeatedly were taken
into custody, including General
Monti, former commander Of Ital-
ian air forces in Sicily, other offic-
ers and some Jewish refugees.
Insisting on the church's right to
grant asylum, the paper said,
charity is for all, and rejection and
Punishment for none.
The NaZi-controlled Rome radio,
answering the Vatican broadcast.
said 1.-The people who had taken
refugee in st. Pauls College are for
the greater part Italians who have
failed as Italians.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-02-09
All Islands
Are Secured

Kwajalein Island, Feb. S. (UP)-
All the islands of the Kwajalein
Atoll were secured tonight after
Seventh Division reconnaissance
troops who made the first landing
on Japanese soil on ID" Day-wound
up the show with a rubber-boat
assault on Bigej Island.
1t was day of rapid action as
the Seventh Army division swept
through to conquer the islands of
Loi and Gugegwe and Bigej, all due
north of Kwajalein, and marines
cleaned up all defended island of the
northern end of the Atoll.
In hot battle, American
machine-gunners riddled IA enemy
soldiers and the attackers advanced
in a semi-circle around log pill
box from which the enemy was fir
ing.
While the pillbox operation was
underway, machine gunners under
End 1t. James S. Mahoney, OF New
ton, Mass, moved down numbers
of Japanese.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-02-09
London Mail Calls
u. S. Sensitive

London, Feb. 9WP)-The
London Daily Mail carried a
large cartoon on its editorial
page today depicting a GYM
nasium in which President
Roosevelt, Wendell Willkie and
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey were
training.
Roosevelt was punching twin
bags bearing the licensees OF
Hitler and HirohitO. Willkie
was punching a bag labelled
"McC ormick." Dewey was in q
corner skipping rope. Standing
by the door Uncle Sam In
gym clothes was telling a man
who was peeking in I'd "scram
this Is private
In an adjoining column, the
paper advised Britishers that
III we want Roosevelt to carry
ON in the White House, we
should shun advice giving 10
the American electorate"
'sYnu have no idea how sen-
sfttgo The people Srcsy u said.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-02-09
Courage of Helen Talboy Is
Epiton1e Of Nurses Under Fire

on duty in the surgical section
which was punctured by hundreds OF
shrapnel holes.
Without a moments hesitation she
took charge. She collected the sur
viving nurses, gave them bandages
and first aid equipment and started
them caring for the wounded, lying
crumpled and moaning over the
bloody hospital area.
She supervised the first aid, and
saw to it that the dead were covered
as quickly as possible, bringing some
merciful semblance of order to the
whole nightmarish scene.
The same nurses who seemed so
near breaking a week ago, were busy
everywhere. Late last night they
were still working. Nurses from
other units came up and volunteer
ed to help, but these tired, stone
eyed veterans insisted on caring for
their own.
Nearby, I saw some men weeping,
standing in small shaken groups.
Some Of the nurses were crying
too, but soundlessly-- 1.-The tears on
their cheeks in the pale moonlight
were the only sign.
Eventually their grief would get
the best Of them, for these dead and
dying were not strangers but their
comrades Of many months. And
their fears would return.
But hundreds Of soldiers who lay
wounded In those tents never viii
forget how Helen Talboy and her
gang Of spunky girls discarded Their
fears, postponed their GRIEF, and I'D
their icbs when ere chips were down
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-02-09
Gen. Clark
In Hero Role

With the Fifth Army in Italy,
Feb. 7.-(UP)-Gen. Mark w. Clark,
Fffth-Army commander, went to
within 40 yards of a blazing am
munition truck today to assist a
wounded British driver after the
truck was set aflre by a German
bomb.
(Another dispatch said that Clark
was within 100 yards of the bomb
hit and that he rescued the driver
from the wreckage of his burning
truck)
Capt. Campbell Dixon, dean Of
HAMILTON College, and now a. civil
affairs officer attached to an
American division, said he was
standing in the doorway of the
Allied military government Office
when the bomb exploded a short
distance down the road, and set
fire to the truck which was loaded
with high explosive shells.
Dixon said the driver stumbled
from the burning cab and ran a
short distance before collapsing. The
exploding shells drove Dixon from
trying to reach the driver.
Dixon said he went for littel
carrier, but when he returned he
saw Clark and two aides standing
over the driver. The truck still was
blazing, but most of the shells
had been expended and the litter
bearers were able to carry the driver
to first aid station.
None of the military government
personnel was wounded but the
building was weakened, forcing the
organizations third move since Its
arrival at the Anzio- Nettuna beach,
head.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-02-09
Navy Ready
ToHit Truk

Washington, Feb. 9 - CU.P.) -
Naval experts believed today that
the might American invasion forces
in the Central Pacific, already
dominating the entire Marshall Is
lands area, soon will be ready for
the next blow in the westward drive
toward Truk, Japan's Pearl Har-
Dor.
The nine-day conquest of Kwaja-
lein Atoll, largest in the Marshalls,
still left the Japanese five princi-
pal Atolls. But the four biggest
Wolfe, Maloelap, Mile and Jaluit-
lie generally to the rear of the
newly won American positions, cut
off from sea reinforcements and
subject to pounding by U. S. sur
face ships and planes from Kwa-
jalein as well as from Tarawa, to
the south in the Gilberts.
Most observers felt that Admiral
Chester w. Nimitz, commander of
the U. S. Pacilc Fleet, may well
choose to let time, and mercilesS
commandments, bring about the COL
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those four Atolls instead of order
ing a direct assault by land forces.
Before n owing west into the
Japanese held Caroline Islands, of
which Truk is the main bastion,
however, American forces may
storm Eniwetok Atoll, about $50
miles northwest of Kwajalein. Its
capture would bypass the Japanese
on Wake Island and complete an
arc before Ponape, eaSternmoSt
enemy base in the Carolines.
An American attack on Ponape
or any other island in the Carolines
may compel the Japanese fleet to
leave it's hiding place at Truk and
make the first full-fledged chal-
lenge to the steady U. S. advance
into the waters guarding the ap-
proaches to Tokyo.
Navy men here said that q sue
cessful assault on Truk would go
down as one of the greatest mill
tary operations of all time. Japan
has been building it up since World
War I and its defenses are formid-
able.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-02-09
$4,000 CASE
IS SETTLED
OUT OF court

Hardness of a juror this
morning held up resumption
of the hearing in the superior
court civil action for $4,000
brought by William Wright
of Southbury against the
Oneglia and Gervasini Con-
Struction Company of Tor
rington. When the court took
a recess to await arrival of
the juror lawyers in the case
went into another confer
ence. They emerged later to
inform the court a settle
ment had been made.
Attorneys Michael v. Blansfield
and Edward F. Sweeney, counsel for
the plaintiff who was injured in an
unusual accident March 81, 1912,
said the settlement was for "a very
substantial sum-" but did not dis
close any figure. It was reported
unofhcially by another source that
the settlement figure was in the
vicinity Of $1,000.
The plaintiff claimed he lost con-
troll of his car and struck Stiles
Brook bridge on the Woodbury.
Southbury highway when gravel
sand, and other debris on a truck
of the defendant concern was tossed
off and crashed through the wind
shield of his car. A compound frac-
ture of the skull, and injuries to the
face, chest, body, arms, and legs
were listed in the complaint. The
plaintiff, who was reported to have
remained unconscious at a hospital
for three weeks after the accident,
also claimed he lost the hearing in
his left ear and liberation of his
brain affected his speech and abil-
ity to read.
Counsel for the defendant brought
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-02-09
Avalanche OF Bombs BLitz
French muasion Coast Line

London, Feb. 9.-CUP)-Hundreds
of American and British bombers
and fighter-bombers loosed an
other avalanche of explosives on the
French invasion coast today to
usher in the second day of an al
most nonstop bombardment.
The assault followed British night
raids without loss on detectives in
Germany and France, including the
Gnome- Rhone airplane engine fac
tory at Limoges, Central France. An
Intruder plane destroyed six-en-
giner German flying boat over its
base on the west coast of France.
Big formations of Marauder Me-
dunn bombers of the 9th U. S.
Air Force joined British, Dominion
and other Allied Boston and Nit
chen madium, Mosquito olight and
Typhoon and Hurricane fighter
bombers in the first of today's day
light assaults. Fighters escorted
and covered the bombers.
The thunder of bomb explosions
along the Pas De Calais area of the
French coast ratified windows on
the British southeast coast.
The first Raj raid on the Gnone-
Rhone factory, which turns out mo-
tors for Focke Wulf and other Ger
man planes, was carried out by a
small force attacking under full
moon.
(The federal communications COM
mission reported that the Paris
radio went off the air at 9:42 a.
m. (4:42 a. m. EWT), an indication
that the bombers also may have at
tackled farther inland.
Targets
Targets were not announced inn
mediately, but they presumably in
cluded rocket and long-range gun
emplacementS, airfields, railway in
stallations and other anti-invasion
defenses. The London daily Sketch
suggested that take-off points for
radio-controlled "pilot-less planes
also may have been attacked.
The first of the daylight raid
ers roared out across the English
Channel soon after dawn and other
formations followed at intervals
throughout the morning.
Yesterdays Allied daylight as
sault rocked Axis Europe from the
French invasion coast to Frank
furt with one of the heaviest series
of raids of the war.
Strong formations of flying for
tresses spearheaded the attack with
the third raid in II days on Frank
furt, major arsenal city and COM
munications center in wester Ger
many, while American Liberators
and hundreds of Allied medium,
light and fighter ombers pounded
miltiray detectives in northern
France.
Nineteen enemy planes were shot
down during the Frankfurt raid and
two others were destroyed over
northern France. Twenty-Five planes
including IL heavy bombers, were
lost in all operations.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-02-09
ALLIES STRUGGLE TO HOLD bEAcHHEA n
Reds Smash Toward Black Sea Ports
Nimitz Plans Straight Drive
Across Pacific To China Bases

Pearl Harbor, T. H., Feb. g.
(UP)-Adm. Chester w. Nimitz
commander of the Pacific fleet, re-
vealed that his forces intend to
drive straight across the Pacific
to China to gain bases for the final
defeat Of Japan am challenged the
Japanese fleet to Try and stop them
81 believe Japan can only be de-
feated from bases in China" Nimitz
told newsmen lase yesterday on his
return from an inspection trip to
newly conquered Kwajalein Atoll
in the Marshalls.
my objective is to get ground
and air forces into China so that
we can get the ball rolling. That's
simple strategy. I don't believe the
Japs can be defeated at sea alone. -
Nin1itz said that it should be no
secret that 1--WE will try to land
wherever we can in China and i'm
piled that any interference from
the Japanese fleet would be most
welcome.
1--WE are ready to meet them at
any time and are very optimistic
regarding the outcome" he said.
Nimitzs revelation of the main
objective of his trars-Pacific drive
raised the possibility that he intends
to drive gigantic wedge through to
the Chinese coast covered by a re-
rnendous Armada of aircraft car
tiers, battleships, cruisers and de-
stroyers such as enabled the United
States to wrest control of the Mar
Stalls from Japan in eight days.
He did not say how his drive
would complement that of Adm.
Lord Louis Mountbatten through
Southeast Asia toward China.
Once American Pacific forces have
driven an invasion spearhead into
occupied China, Nimitz said, the U.
S. air forces would begin to raid
Japan on the scale they now were
blasting Germany.
Niniitz implied that the entire
Marshalls now were under Amer
lean control as result of the con-
quest Of Kwajalein Atoll, their adj
ministrative center and main air
and naval base, and limited that the
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(DNB said the Nazi forces,
attacking the Aprilia sector
of the Allied lines from the
west, north and northeast,
had reached their initial OBJ
jectives in a series of "con-
centric" assaults. It was indi-
Gated the Germans were fol-
lowing their familiar tactics
of trying to chop up the
Allied lines by overwhelming
armored thrusts against rel
atively narrow sectors of the
front.) (DNB said the Ger
man attack gained Several
kilometers".)
The Allied headquarters COM
munique, covering yesterdays
fighting, said enemy troops con-
tinued to probe" the Allied posi-
tons and made no mention Of 8
major German attack.
Headquarters spokesman said,
however, that massed German ar
tillery opened up with a terrific
barrage on the Anglo American
lines, and a dispatch from United
Press War Correspondent Reynolds
Packard said savage fighting was In
progress.
Packard reported that the Ger
mans twice bent back the Allied
lines in series Of onslaughts that
begSn late Monday night, only 40
lose their hard-bought gains when
the Allied troops counter attacked.
Another pooled dispatch from
Daniel De Luce said the British
main weight of the attack, and re-
ported that no vital" ground had
been lost.
(The Nazis Transocean news
agency said the British Seth Infan-
try division was being evacuated by
sea from the beachhead and as
serted that the alleged retreat
proved the Allies had suffered ''tre-
mendous" 1osSes)
American medium bombers joined
In the battle of the beachhead yes
terday, striking in two waves at
Cisterna, where the Germans were
reported massing troops and tanks
for their counter-offensive
Returning crewmen said the at
tack was highly successful, and one
bombardier declares that '.if there
were any tanks in that town they
were blown apart
Casino Battle
On the 5th Army's southern front.
meanwhile, the bloody battle for
Casino Numbered into its ninth
day and front dispatches indicated
the showdown fight for that EN-
battled Nazi stronghold was in fun
swing.
United, Press war correspondents
Dana Adams Schmidt reported that
American tanks and infantrymen
hurled full-scale attack againsD
the Germans at 4 a. m. yesterday.
Striking in great strength from
the hills above the town, the Amer
leans overwhelmed units Of the MAJ
garrison in the northern end Of Cas-
Sino and by Woodworking had oc-
cupied a considerable number of
buildings that had been converted
into miniature fortresSeS.
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-02-09
KR|vOI ROC,
Mine CENTER
IS ISOLATED

Moscow, February 9. -
(UP) = Two Russian armies
smashed toward the Black
Sea ports of Nikolaev and
Kherson with increasing
momentum today, collapsing
the whole eastern end of the
German salient inside the
Dnieper bend and isolating
the mining center of Krivoi
Rog from three sides.
With Nikopol, source of go per
cent of Germany's manganese sup
plies, and the whole left bank Of
the lower Dnieper in their hands,
General Rodion Y. Maliovskys 3rd
and General Feodor I. Tolbukhlin' S
4th Ukrainian armies joined forces
for powerful new drive toward the
Black Sea.
Tolbukhin's men already had
forced the lower Dnieper at Nikopol
and were expected momentarily to
attempt new crossing more than
100 miles to the south east in a
frontal assault on Kherson In the
Dnieper estuary. Nikolaev lies IS
miles northeast of Kherson in the
Ingul and Bug River estuaries.
Front dispatches said powerful
Russian columns were pushing rap
idly along the right bank of the
Dnieper from the Nikopol sector.
Krivoi Rog, center Of rich iron de-
posits to the northeast, appeared
to have been by-passed in the new
offensive.
Tolbukhin's 4th Ukrainian army
killed $4,000 Germans, captured
1000 others and routed an additional
10000 to 100000 in liquidating the
last German Bridgehead on the
lower bank Of the Dnieper opposite
Nikogpol, an area of 1,628 square
miles.
Front reports told of Germans
throwing themselves into the icy
waters of the Dnieper in the last
stages of the battle in an attempt to
escape the whitening fire of Soviet
artillery and planes, only to die by
the thousands. Two ferries and
dozens of landing boats were blast
ed to the bottom of the rivere.
Hitler Order
German prisoners reported that
Adolf Hitler personally had ordered
the bridgehead held at ANY cost
because of the great influence its
retention would have on the out
come Of battles on other sectors of
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close calls. She was trying hard to
rationalize her growing fear she
was not ashamed Of it, nobody is
ashamed of fear over here she
merely was trying to keep 1t from
getting control Of her.
AS 7 left. I said, "Jack, she's in
bad shape. She has been through too
much. She is about to go to pieces"
TT looks like it," he said. But
she's trying hard. I wonder what she
would do in sudden crisis?"
Yesterday afternoon the crisis
came.
When German bombs hit the hos
pital, killing q and wounding more
than CO. -incl1ding three nurses kill
Led and three wounded Helen was
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-02-09
.HuII's Advice
ArouSes Firms

Stockholm, Feb. 9 = U.P) -
The newspaper Dagens Nyheter re-
ported from HelSinki today that
news of U. S. Secretary of State
Cordell Hull's advice to Finland to
quit the war had caused senSa-
ton throughout the country.
All Hensinki newspapers gave
prominent display to Hulls state
ment, though Finnish censorship
banned any editorial comment on
1t.
However, the Helsingin Sanomat
in an editorial yesterday said that
Finland ''for long time has been
ready for an agreement" but was
insisting upon its liberty and inde-
pendence.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-02-09
275,Oo0,o00
Books Eoeh Yeor

Boston, Feb. 9.-(UP)-War
has caused a boom in Amer
lean book publishing, according
to Frederic G. Melcher Of New
York, Editor Of Publishers
Weekly.
In q Boston University lee
ture last night, Melcher report
ed that book production had
increased so per cent in the
past three years and that the
nations total production now
was about 275,OOO,00O books
each year.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-02-09
USSR Is Non
IsoIutionist'

Moscow, Feb. 8 - (U.P0 - The
Magazine War and the Working
Glass said today that the Soviet
Union never has wanted to be iso-
lationist, and has given new proof
of desire to cooperate in interna-
tional affairs by granting autonomy
in foreign relations to the 16 So
Wet republics.
who can deny that the new de-
cisions of the supreme Soviet
demonstrate the good will of the
Soviet State to develop and
strengthen cooperation with other
states?" The authoritative Journal
of Foreign Affairs asked.
The magazine denounced what it
described as assertions abroad that
the establishment of the 16 Soviet
Republics as individual entities in
the field of foreign relations was a
scheme to seize other states and
dominate the world.
An accompanying article by N.
Baltisky on Soviet-Polish relations
said Russia needs neither spheres
Va 44A41uCAlCC 11OI VdSodl SldISS. OIlc
needs friendly neighbors. These
neighbors need the friendship of
the Soviet Union.
Both the United States and Bril-
tain also want their neighbors both
large and small to be their friends
and not their enemies, and nobody
blames them for it.
eff the United States protests
when Argentina, 5000 miles from
New York, takes an anti-American
position, why should the Soviet
Union reconcile itself with the fact
that its immediate neighbor Poland
should occupy an anti-Soviet posi-
ton which also is contrary to its
own interests?"
Baltisky insisted an independent
Poland IS not incompatible with a
Poland friendly to the Soviet
Union.
The publication, which reflects
the authoritative Soviet view on
foreign affairs, said that Berlin
propagandists originated the accus-
ationS against Russia in connection
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Fourth Term
Plans Grow

Washington, February 9. - CUP)
- President Roosevelt's progress to-
ward a fourth term nomination was
gaining such momentum today that
only an abrupt and public disavowal
from the White House could stop it.
Under those circumstances, Mr..
Roosevelt's refusal to reveal his
political plans was accepted gen.
orally by politicians and political
writer's here as demonstrating his
willingness or desire to be drafted
again by the Democratic National
Convention.
Asked directly at his press and
radio conference yesterday whether
he would accept denomination, Mr..
Roosevelt replied that there was
no news on that subject. But the
fourth term campaign conducted by
his associates has been making news
for some time.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-02-09
By MERRIMAN SMITH
United Press STAR Correspondent

(UniCed Press STAN correspondent
washington, Feb. 9-(UP)-Presi-
dent Roosevelt has unveiled his
secret weapon for use against those
who are trying to pry out his 1914
political plans-double talk.
In 1910 reporters who asked him
about his third term intentions were
told to wear Ounce caps and go
stand in the corner. His strategy
this year( however, is to talk all
around the lot. leaving the reporters
breathless from the chase and more
than mildly confused.
Like something out Of the realm
Of Snasafran and Biddleclip was
his reaction to fourth term questions
at his news conference yesterday. In
fact, q woman reporter sounded the
keynote when she frankly declared
70 the Chief Executive: I'm con-
MNNM|EA.f
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Allied Lines
Broken-DNB

London, Feb. 8. CUP)-The Ger
man DNB News Agency said today
that Nazi troops have launched d
three-pronged counter Offensive
against the Anglo-American beach
head below Rome and have broken
the Allied lines at several points.
German troops struck heavily
against the Aprilia sector, near tllB
north end Of the semi-circular Allied
Line, DNB said.
The Nazi agency described thu
fcounter- offensive as a ''conccnsziH
attack launched from the weg&
month and northeast.
There was no confirmation Of tMN
German claim from Allied sources