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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
DeGouIIe,FR Get tTogether
By R. H. SHACKFORD

(UnlCe0 freSS Stam COfreSpOnueutD
 Washington, July 6 - (U.P0 = General Charles De Gaulle, 5S-year- old Frenchman whose name has be- come synonymous with French re- sistance and political controversy will arrive today to be the personal guest of President Roosevelt for four days.
 When he steps from the plane which is bringing him from Algiers, the seat of his French Committee of National Liberation, it will be one year minus only one day since his former co-leader, General Henri Honore Giraud, came here on a sirn- liar mission-to improve French American relations. And 1t will be exactly one month since Allied troops began the liberation of France.
 The major objective of De Gaulle and President Roosevelt will be to create better understanding be- tween the French Committee, which now calls itself the provisional gov- ernment of the French Republic, and the United States, which re- fuses to recognize the committee as such a government.
 No agenda has been prepared. which means that no subject will be specifically included or excluded from discussion. The field will be wide open once the two men begin to talk. And they will be able to talk on an intimate basis because of the Presidents fiuency in the French language. De Gaulle speaks English only slightly.
 What may have been a major stumbling block to amiable discus sions apparently has been elimin- ated-the specific question of recog- milton. Secretary of State Cordelj Hull said yesterday he understood the talks would be on a general rather than specific level, confirm ing the assertion of French sources that De Gaulle did not plan to press for legal recognition.
 Although the state department is handling all arrangements for the French generals arrival and visit,
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Wor Plants
 Paid Tribute

Washington, July 6-(UP)-Am- erican and British troops are able to pour four bombs, shells and bul- lets into the Germans for every one they receive in return as the Allied invasion of Western Europe goes into its second months, acting Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson said to- day.
 Every soldier knows it is fire pow~ CT is the killing end Of the business"
 For every bomb, shell or bullet thrown at us by the Germans. we will give them four. I am speaking in terms of ammunition and not in numbers of men,"
 Patterson said it was a tribute to American industrial management and labor that the Allies possessed this fire power, which would be maintained.
 We will continue to give our troops these enormous quantities of metals and explosives to throw at our enee mics, both on the continent and Oa the Pacific"
 Patterson said the Germans had employed all their panzer divisions in Normandy in an effort to cons tain the Allied beachhead.
 For four days German RrulOred divisions hammered at ti.e flank of the British and Canadian forces on the Bridgehead across the od0n River.
 The enemy panzeF divisions were stopped with heavy losses fD tznks. Thus a large scale e0unteFaftaek
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No Decisive Turn Taken At La Hoye
BY VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press War Correspondent

Allied Supre e Headquarters, London, July 6-(UP)-A Normandy front dispatch said American troops were encircling the stubbornly de- tended transport center of La Haye- Du Puts today and artillery, was hammering the German positions inside the town.
 United Press correspondent Henry T. Gorrell reported from "the vicin- ity of La Have" that the battle for the Nazi-held bastion of the west Normandy front ragged violently throughout the night, and by mid- morning still had not taken deci- sive turn.
 Earlier advices said La Have had been by-passed on both sides, and Gorrell's report that it was being encircled indicated that the spear heads had turned in for a junction below the town which would trap its German garrison.
 It. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's United States first army was reported storming southward from IS newly captured villages in some of the bloodiest fighting of the Normandy campaign, surpassing in several re- spects even that on the approaches to Cherbourg.
 More than 300 American Mar auder medium and Hovac light bom- bers swarmed to the support of the Allied armies in France today. The Ninth Air Force planes struck in formations of six to 36 at the five main rail lines radiating from the battle zone. They also aimed pin point blow at two bridges within the city of Caen.
 The attack, one of the heavest of its kind, included about 30 separate thrusts at bridges, entertainments and tracks along the Nazi rail ar- teries vital to the battle of Nor mandy.
 Gorrell reported that the advance southwestward from the Carentan area was resumed, and the little town of Culot, near the Carentan- Periers highway about four miles
 southwest of Carentan, was cap- tured.
 The Germans counter attacked early this morning, but were thrown back with heavy casualties.
 The U. s. left flank ran into de- termined German resistance, mostly mortar and small arms fire, as the enemy pulled back his forward bat teries of 88's under the fire of American Long Toms.
 The Normandy weather now is perfect" Gorrell said. Dive bomb-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
Jops Using
 Poison Gas On Chinese

14th U. s. Air Force Base, China, June 29-(UP)-Capt. Ralph F. Thompson, a U. s. Army Chemical Warfare Intelligence officer, con- firmed today that the Japanese were using poison gas against the Chi nese defenders of Hengyang.
 Thompson found evidence of use of both mustard and lewisite gas, he reported on his return from 8 special trip to Hengyang to investi- gate Chinese claims that death- dealing gases were being employed by the Japanese.
 Though the Chinese on several occasions have made similar claims, this was believed to mark the first time that they have been investi- gated on the spot and confirmed byb an American Army officer.
 GA Chinese high command com- munique last week charged the Jap anese were using poison gas on Hengyang, which since has been encircled. The Japanese claimed to have captured the city)
 4tlC uICAQCIlb kCCdAACO EAOoA0CAAb Roosevelt's warning to both Ger many and Japan that the United States would retaliate if poison gas were used against her or her Allies.
 Thompson said he found gas vic- tims with burns and bIisters on their legs between their ankles and thighs. left exposed by the short summer uniforms.
 Some blisters the size of half dol- lars were half inch high and filled with yellow fulid caused by mus tard gas, he said. while smaller blisters were bluish in color caused by LeWisite gas.
 Thompson said he believed shells containing a mixture of mustard and Lewisite were fired by the Jap- anese from 75-millimeter guns.
 The officer narrowly escaped death when the car in which he was riding was diye-bombed and strafed by Japanese planes as he was leay- ing Hengyang. His home is at Her. ul0sa Beach, Cal.
 "Swift Retaliation"
 Washington, July 6 - lU.P) - Confirmation of reports that Japan
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Reds HurI German Reserves Aside M Lithuanian DriUe

Sglorgop, IS miles northwest ot Mos lodechno, and pressing OF to with in 42 miles of Wllno,
 The advance carried the Srd army to within Ab miles of the Lithuanian border and I2I miles of the East PrllSslaD border as established by Russia and Germany respectively following the partition Of Poland ID 1889,
 North 0f Wllno, Gen Ivan c, bas gramiaD's ist Baltic army Fan iDio stiffeNed enemy resistance 0D ule approaches to pangayplls lDglDskl in southeastern Latyia, but to tbe south, the Ist White Russian army ef Marshal k0nstantin k, R0k0ss s0ysky pushed t0 within le miles east of the companion stf0nehela 0f nafaD0wieEe,
 lRFnst V0n Hammer, German lills lliaFy commentator, said the Soviets assault army attacking the outer oes lenses 0f Daueavpis Was stronger
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BY M, $. HANDLER Limited Press Staff Correspondent

Moscow, July 6-(UP)-Phe Ger- mans rushed fresh reserves, melud- ing air-borne divisions, into battle on the approaches to Liibuania to- day, but the onrnshiDg S0ylels hurled them aside and drove 10 within T little more than 70 miles of the border and s2 miles of the stronghold of WilDo.
 The fah of the en0lreled strong hold of MOlodeehDO, 42 miles norlh- west of Minsk and 63 miles south east of Wilno, yesterday opened the flOodgates to cavalry, tanks and mos bile infantry Of Marshal Ivan D' cheFniakhogsky's 2Fd White Rnsslan army and they suFged westward with increasing momentum,
 An outflapking column north Of Mol0dechn0 set ln pace i0F the as~ sauit on Lithuapia by smashing through reinforced German lines along the Wilja River, capturing the highway and FailWay center ef
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
DriUingRains, Mud Hamper
 US.Am1ored Forcesl ln Italy

the big seaport.
 Even there, the Nazis were being pushed back yard by yard through the gun-studded street by power. ful American tank and infantry forces that slugged their way into the centre Of the town late yester- day.
 The Germans hurled four strong cOunter-attacks against the Amert. cans yesterday. only to be pushed back again into their dwlndllng corner In the northern end of the town. Giant enemy coastal batteries and even antl-airefaft guns blasted away at the attacking Amerdlcan columns in a futile effort to smash their salient in the southern half.
 There was no word on the pro- grnss Of the American units attack Ing around Castiglloncello. two miles to the northwest.
 Bitter fighting also was e0ntinu- Ing around Castelllna. Ave miles lfl- land, where another American col
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Germans Charged With Publicly Slaughtering Thousands Of Jews

London, July 6.-(UP)-British Minister of Information Bracken charged that the Germans are set- ting up public slaughterhouses' in Europe into which thousands of Jews are being herded to their deaths.
 "This is the biggest scandal in the history of human crime and the responsibility rests on the German people," Bracken said at memorial luncheon held in honor of the late Brig. Gen. Frederick Herman Kisch, a Jewish officer who was killed in North Africa while serving as chief engineer for the British 9th Army.
 "What the Germans are doing," Bracken said, "is nothing less than setting up abbatoirs in Europe into which are shepherded thousands of Jews They are dispatched with the sort of brutal efficiency in which the Prussian delights the German people have the respon- sibility, also the German General Staff, which could have stopped it.
 T hope that when the time comes when exemplary punishment is giv- en the people responsible for these outrages, the German general staff will be the first to be dealth with.
 "These generals talk about chiv- airy and traditions of the German general staff. I never thought much of these traditions. but there is now a tradition of infamy at- tackled to them which will not die so long as there is decency in life. I hope these men will pay for the bestial cruelties they are perpetrat- ing against the Jewish people to- day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
Bread Rotioning Feors Dissipote

Washington, July 6-(UP)-Fears of bread rationing officially were dissipated today when the Agricul- ture Department reported that this years prospective billion-bushel wheat crop should meet all require ments with enough left over to build up sizeable reserves.
 A departmental survey of the na- tional wheat situation disclosed that this years carry0ver stocks will be at least 5O.OO0yO00 bushels larger than originally estimated.
 At the same time, the department said the i044 harvest should be ans pIe to supply food and industrial needs equal to this years while livestock feed wheat requirements probably will be reduced t0 about half the amount consumed this year.
 The report said there may be enough wheat tO increase exports to i00O00,O00 bushels depending on the proPress Of the war"
 Wheat prospects were so poor only a month ago that officials were Ain'lnP at bread ratloninR by fall. Even Q livestock liquidation pr0- eram was urged because of the then short grnIn outlook
 The department warned that @weather and other factors" stiIi nOuld msteFiallv cilange the current figure. However. excellent weather continues in most parts Of tise wheat belt and unOficlal sources predict the winter wheat output viii sllFpass the Juns estimates.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
Nozis Admit Roids On HoFnbuvg Costly

Stockholm, July 6-(UP)-A Ger man government spokesman ac- knoWIedged last night for the first time that Allied bombs killed 4l,385 persons in Hamburg during the 10 days Of raids June 25 to July 3 last year.
 Berlin dispatches quoted Helmut Euendermann. deputy German press chief, as disclosing that 39,Bl4 bodies already had been recovered from the ruins of Hamburg and that 1871 more were known t0 be still buried in the rubble
 The death toll previously had been withheld for military reasons, EueBdeFmann said. He also showed to newsmen I5 previ0usly-eensored photographs showing half-erazed persons walking barefoot through bomb -devasted German cities, piles Of c0rpses and similar scenes,
 6nendeFmann conceded that he was releasing details of the Allied raids in an attempt t0 eOunteract any charges Prime Minister Churchill may make against the Germans tu connection with tllelF use cf robot bombs against southern England.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
NEW RUSSIAN
 DRIVE OPENS
 IN SO. POLAND
BY ROBERT MUSEL United Press Correspondent

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 London, July G. (UP)- The German high command reported today that fighting had flared on a Emile front in Southern Poland, indicat- ing that the Red army had opened a new drive which formed the lower wing of it's great offensive aimed across the Polish plains at Ger many.
 A Berlin communique said the battle line across South ern Poland between Kowel and the upper Dnestr had blazed into action, but the cI.utiouS first reports, lack ing Moscow confirmation, did not make clear the weight and scope of the operation.
 Only yesterday the Nazi com- mand reported that the Germans had withdrawn from Kowel, key- stone base covering the approaches to the Bug river defense line 40 miles to the west.
 A major Red army attack in low CT Poland would complete a. 500- mile offensive front embracing the entire eastern arc of approach to Germany proper, the northern sec- tion of which already was sweeping westward within about 120 miles of East Prussia.
 If the Nazi report of the Kowel- Dnestr push by the Soviets is borne out, 1t will mean a resurgence of hostSlities in an area dormant since Marnhal Gregory K. Zhukov's first army of the Ukraine drove through to the Kowel area and the Czecho- slovak border on either side of Lwow early in April.
 The Soviet offensive front was complete above the Pripet marshes and down to the river of the same name bisecting the swampland. A campaign in the Kowel area-the first moves of which apparently led to the Nazi abandonment of the defense bastion as reported from Berlin yesterday = would encom- pass the marshes and form an un- broken battle line west of them for the big push toward Germany proper.
 The Berlin communique said that in the area of Baranowicze, his- toric milestone on the westward in- vasion route to Warsaw, German and Hungarian troops repelled Soviet at tacks in fierce fighting.
 The acknowledgement that the battle had swept to the region of the town indicated that the Rus sians had closed the 12-mile gap Moscow last reported between them f(~-ks..,aA awa T1ann
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
Stubborn Resistance,
 Nazis' Aim At La Have
By HENRY T. GORRELL United Press War Correspondent

(United Press War COrreSpOnueht'
 Outside La Have Du Puits, France, July 6 = (U.P) - After night of slam-bang fighting, an arc of U. s. Long Toms and 155 nm howitzers has been thrown around La Have Du Puits and the town is under terrific shellfire.
 (Allied Headquarters reported yes- terday that the Americans had fought their way into La Have Du Puits and had captured the rail- road station. Gorrell's dispatch would seem to indicate that our assault forces had withdrawn from the town to permit the heavy guns to soften up German defense en1- placementS)
 A German counter-attack was thrown back with heavy losses to the enemy early this morning but American doughboys, pushing for ward on the Hanks of La Have met determined resistance from mortarS and small arms.
 A deluge of fire from the U. s. Long Tom 1858 evidently had driven the German 88's farther down the road to Coutances, south of La Have.
 Touring forward areas, I was told by our soldiers that the advance southward had become a belly crawling job," slowed by German snipers set SO thickly in the forest that signal corps men, medical aides and water carriers shared the perils of shock troops.
 I observed that the Germans were practicing the same sniper tactics they taught Vichy French Legion- naires to use against the Australians in the battle for Syria in June, l94l. The snipers were set in diamond patterns among the trees. Our men were allowed to move forward along the wooded lanes and then when they fiopped on the ground to avoid surprise volleys from camoufiaged machinegun or machine pistol em- placements, the snipers would pot them one by one.
 The soldier below might crawl out of range of one or two of the snip CTS at the corners of the diamond but another was almost sure to have him in his sights.
 We're treating lots of head wounds from sniper fire and lots more wounds from small arms of all types than heretofor," Capt. Charles
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
GERMAN ROBOT BOMBS ROCK LONDON
2,752 Killed, Many In British Capital, By Pilotless Planes
BY JOSEPH w. GRIGG

BY JOSEPH w. Gk1GG United Press Staff COrrespOndentl
 London, July 6-(UP)-- Prime Minister Churchill dis closed today that the Ger mans were bombarding Lorl- don with robot bombs at the rate of 100 to 150 a day and in the first three weeks of their assault had killed 2,752 persons, a high proportion of them ill the British capital. Some 5000 other persons have been hospitalized for iIl- juries, but a large proportion of them were discharged after only a few days, Churchill told commons in his long, awaited statement on the pi- lotless plane attacks.
 Altogether, he said, the Germans discharged 2,750 flying bombs from their launching platforms on the French coast from the start of the assault June 13 through a. m. to- day, but a very large proportion of them either failed to cross the channel or had been shot down.
 "The house will be favorably sur- prised to learn that the total nuHn- Der of flying bombs launched have yiIIad aIy,,nc avoot1y n74a y1arenYa per bomb," he said.
 13O Killed Daily
 The average number of deatha from the German robot bombs was 130 daily, a relatively light figure in contrast to the slaughter of the l940-41 blitz. During the night of May 10, 1941, 1,436 Londers were killed by German bombs dropped from piloted planes.
 From the beginning of the war to last June 1, air raid deaths in London totaled 5l,778, while another 62, ,868 persons were injured. Churchill said he could give no guarantee for the future, but as- srlred the house that the govern. ment was doing everything in i1u- man power and we never have failed yet"
 That's the only promise I can make yet" he said. T must, how-, ever, make it perfectly plain and I do not want there to be any inis-. understanding about it, that we shall not allow the battle operations in Normandy or the attacks we are making on special targets in GerS many to suffer.
 They come first and we must fit our own domestic arrangements into the general scheme of war op- erations."
 Churchill thus disposed of the cry raised in parliament and in the press in the past week for some form of retaliation against the Ger mans, possibly the indiscriminate bombing to destruction of some of their cities, including those not essential to the war effort.
 The prime minister also revealed that:
 1.-Some 5O,O0O tons of bombs have been dropped by the Allied air forces on flying bomb and rocket
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
By REYNOLDS PACKARD Unlted Press War Correspondent

Rome, July 6. CuPl-American aFmOred force battled halfway though the stronghold Of R0signano. keystGne to the German defenses before Liyorn0. today while other Allied troops smashed n0rthwaFd to- ward Florence and Ane0na in gene egal advance Of one to more than five miles.
 Driving rains and deep mud ham, pered the attacking 9th and eth Armies. but official reports said they were moving nOFthWard with tn. ereaslng speed all along the front, riding roughshod over extensive enemy demolitions and the blttereGt opposition since the fall Of Rome.
 Only on the western coastal strip were the desperate Germans able to stem the Allied tide moimentaFlly, taking every advantage og the rugged terrain and lolig-prepaFed defenses around Rnsignan0. l9 miles below Liv0rno. and the coastal town of cQsiigiioncello, 40 miles below
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
Canton Supply
 Depots Bombed

Chungking. July 6-(UP)-Liber- ator bombers of the l4th airforce raided Canton, in Southeastern China. Monday night starting large fires in supply and ammunition de- pots, a communique from It. Gen. Joseph w. Stilwell's headquarters said today.
 The American pilots counted eight separate fires raging through the Japanese city after the attack. and reported the flames were wis., ible for more than co miles.
 Large explosions. possibly of am- munition, followed the initial blasts of the Liberators' heavy bomb loads.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
City's Bond
 Ouoto Still Short Of Cool
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Sales of war bonds, other than 'E" bonds, in the greater Water bury area comprising Waterbury, Naugatuck and Litchfield county have gone over the quota, but the city,s sales exclusive of 'E" bonds remains short of the goal by al- most two million dollars.
 Chairmen of the securities divi- sion of these areas announced to- day that the greater Waterbury area had attained bond sales, other than those of the "E' series, in the amount of $26 ,4O7, ,8O6 as against the original Fifth War Loan Drive quota of $25, ,8OO,OOO.
 The City of Waterbury striving toward quota in this division of $l6, 6,3OOOO has attained to date a total sales of bonds, other than series "E", of $14,641, 900. The city's overall quota consisting of the sales of all type bonds is $21, ,850, 900.
 The board of aldermen in a special meeting called this noon authorized the purchase, by the city, of $250,000 in treasury certificates to be attributed to the current cam- paign. The purchase is to be made from the city's postwar reserve fund and makes a total of $600,000 in- vested in these type securities since the first war loan campaign. This $25, 900 is included in the city's quota figure as well as the greater Water bury area.
 No new available figures on the sales of "E" bonds were announced today but as of yesterday the total sales of this latter type bond amounted to $3,l75.0O0 toward a Fifth War Loan quota of $5.250.O00.
 The current Fighting Fifth cam- paign closes as of this Saturday and expectations as to Waterbury at- taining it's quota seemed slim today.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
Dewey's Stvetssy Committed Nomed

New York, July 6-(UP)-Repubs lIean chairman Herbert br0Wnell, IT,, announced the appointment yes- teFday Of ib men and women, tn. cluding two associates of Wendell L. WillA.l, to an executive committee Of the c. o. ?. National Committee,
 The committee will direct 1884 campaign strategy for uov. Thomas D. Dewey Of New York, candidate for pFesldent, and dov. John ". BFlekeF ef Ohio, vice.pFesidential candidate.
 Members include Ralph F. Cake. Oregon publisher and manager of Wlllkle'a unsuccessful pre.conveIl- ton campaign lor the c. Q. ?. pres ldential nomination. and Sinclair Weeks of Massachusetts, former Republican treasurer and close friend ol Willkio.