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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-04
Heavy U. s. Bombers Raid Western Reich

London, Feb. A. (UP) = Strong formations of American heavy bombers and fighters raided western Germany for the second straight day today, rounding out a week of unbroken Allied daylight attacks on the continent.
 Indicating that the daylight raid was on a massive scale, observers along the channel coast reported that the big bombers and their long range fighter escorts thundered out over the southeast coast for fully 90 minutes.
 British, Dominion and Allied fighters swarmed out later to sup port the American assault.
 The daylight raiders followed in the wake of British Mosquito bomb CTS which stabbed at Germany for the third straight night while about 20 German planes were carrying out two small scale thrusts at London.
 British planes also mined enemy waters and shot down an enemy air craft on an intruder patrol over northern France. All aircraft re- turned safely.
 Altogether 70 German planes crossed the British east and south east coasts during the night, but only about 20 of them penetrated London's heavy anti-aircraft bar rage and at least four were shot down.
 It was the first night in which two alarms have been sounded in Lon don since Jan. 21.
 Some 700 four -engined American bombers spearheaded yesterdays daylight offensive against Axis Eur ope with an HOO to 1,6O0-ton raid on the big German naval base at Wilhelmshaven. Enemy fighter op- position was weak and only four bombers- slightly more than one half per cent--were lost.
 Escorting fighters, which boosted the raiding force to HOO planes, shot down eight intercepting enemy planes and heavy bombers destroyed one for days bag of nine.
 American arauder medium bombers and other Allied planes raided the French invasion coast
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Jeff Erickson, representing the combined allied press on the joint expeditionary forcs1 flagship, said the ships enc tered the lagoon on the sec-a ond day of the invasion Tuesday while Marines and Army troops still were battl- ing desperately = resisting Japanese at either end of the 66-mile-long Kwajalein atoll.
 The 4th Marine Division under Maj. Gen. Harry Schmidt complet-1 ed the conquest of Namur Island. ravaged by bombs and shells in probably the most concentrated bombardment in history, at the northeastern corner of atoll at D. m. Wednesday after wiping out the defenders in 241s hours.
 The adjacent islands of Gagan, Edjell, Debuu and Edgijen also were overrun by the invaders, with OYer- all American losses in the northern part of the campaign totaliing only 100 dead and 400 wounded.
 On Kwapalein Island at the sSiibli@ ern tip of the atoll. the 7th Army Infantry Division under Maj. Gen. Charles H. Corlett was reported mak satisfactory progress with tanks, flame throwers and possibly secret weapons never before em- ployed in the Pacific, methodicaIly annihilating the remnants of the trapped garrison.
 A spokesman for Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, commander of the Pa cific fleet, announced yesterday that known enemy dead on Kwa-i jalein Island up to Wednesday night were 1,250 of the estimated original garrison of 1000 while American casualties totalled 27 dead. nine missing and 19O wounded.
 The Japanese counter-attacked on Kwajalein Tuesday night, but were thrown back and dispersed with heavy losses.
 Kwapalein Island, 2-1 miles long. was the main Japanese base for the atoll of the same name and hto enemy had massed a huge conceu- tration of military stores in 250. large buildings in the northeastern corner, where the last defenders were holding out.
 The 7th American Air Force and Fleet Air Wing 3, meanwhile, kept up their ceaseless pounding of other islands in the Marshall group naak- ing at least five attacks Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-04
Reds Pull Moose On Tired Foe

Moscow, February 4. - (UP) - The Red Army frightened a moose of anni- hilation on 10 encircled Ger man divisions in the Ukraine today and drove ahead in at tempts to spring traps on formidable Nazi force s threatened with envelopment at opposite ends of the blaz- ing battlefront.
 The first and second armies of the Ukraine hammered the 100000 to 15O, O,0OO trapped Germans from all sides, clamping them in a fast shrinking death pocket, with an early end of the battle of exter- imitation in prospect.
 Gen. Nikolai F. Vatutin simul- taneously sent the southwestern wing of his First Army storming anew toward the Bug River de- fense line after beating down fierce German counter-attacks which had stalled his forces for three weeks.
 The new drives put the SovietS on the march along almost the entire 750-mile length of the eastern front from the Ukraine to the gulf of Finland.
 Gen. LeonId A. Govorov's northern forces pushed up to five miles into Estonia on broadening front and the fall of Narva, historic railroad and highway junction, was reported imminent. One Soviet column slaSh- ed across the Pskov-Narva railway at the Estonian border, isolating Narva from all hope of reinforce ment and supply from south.
 GoVorov also narrowed the exit from the German bulge below Len ingrad to "A miles with the capture of Lugi, "A miles northeast of Beloye.
 The Germans hurled fresh re- serves into counter attacks against Gen. Kyril A. Meretskoc's forces west of Novgorod at the southern end of the exist from the Bulge, but all were repelled with more than 800 enemy troops being killed.
 On the central front, the second Baltic army advanced through Abovo, 10 miles west of Novsokolni- Xii, toward Latvia after killing more than 5000 Germans in the first three days of their new offensive.
 The Russinas still had not con- firmed the capture of Dovno, ad- ministrative center of the occupied Ukraine, and Luck, 43 miles to the west, which the Germans announc- ed yesterday had been evacuated to Red armies that advanced up to 55 miles inside old Poland.)
 The first and second Ukrainian armies pressed a battle of annihila- ton against nine German infantry and one tank divisions encircled in an area of about 1000 square
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-04
Petroleum, Biz actor

Washington, Feb. 4-(UP)-Oppo- sition of the petroleum industry and some congressional quarters to gov ernment entry in the foreign oil business brought new demands today for an immediate and thorough air. ing of United States postwar petroleum plans and policies.
 Some of the plans may be made public within the next few days in connection with the appearance be- fore a congressional committee of Petroleum Administrator Harold l.. Ickes.
 Ickes was to have testified before the senate interstate comm cree sub committee today to answer demands for the PROS immediae liquidation so that the field of Reogin oil de- velopment could be left for private enterprise.
 He announced yesterday that the Arabian American oil ,Co., owned jointly by Standard oil of California and the Texas Co.,, would construct a refinery in Saudi-Arabia to pro- duce petroleum products for the United Nations.
 Present indications are that these new facilities will serve to meet additional future demands rather than replace current sup plies from the United States" he said. 'The program will be financed by the two, firms.
 The fact that the new program was left to private companies. how ever, did not quiet the criticism of the PRO. Sen. E. H. Moore, R., Okla, charged anew that its activi- ties were "Shrouded in mystery" And postwar policy committee of Ickes' Petroleum Industry War Council said natly it would abandon its plans unless PRC were Scrapped.
 Moore, who believes the admin istration is trying to destroy the oil industry and the entire field of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-04
FOR Gets Slap An The Face On Soldier Vote Decision

The administration concentrated its fight for a special federal ballot for absentee voting by service men in the Senate today after meeting a stunning defeat in the House.
 The House climaxed an II hour marathon session last night by pass ing bill to leave the balloting almost entirely up to the states. The same bill denounced by President Roosevelt last week as Q fraud" on the public and the Armed Forces.
 The measure, originally approved by the Senate December 3, thus went hack to the upper chamber, carry ing only minor House amendments. It promised to complicate still fur- ther the soldier vote debate in the Senate which is considering whether 1t should revere itself and provide at least limited use Of . federal hallot,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-04
Army And Nauy Officials
 Ask For Hon1e-Front Heb

Washington, February 4. - (UP) < Highest officials of the Army and Navy plead with the people today for na- tional service legislation to assure the men who will face death in the impending new offensives in Europe and the Pacific that the full strength of the nation is behind them"
 The call for unprecedented effort on the home front was sounded at an American Legion dinner last night by General George c. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff; Admiral Ernest J. King, Commander in Chief of the U. s. Fleet; Acting Secretary of War Rob- ert P. Patterson; Acting Navy Secretary Ralph A. Bard; and Chairman Emory s. Land of the Maritime Commission.
 Warren H. Atherton, National Commander of the Legion, joined Patterson, Bard and Land in an open plea for National Service Act, the so-called labor draft. While Marshall and King did not refer specifically to national service, their words made clear their conviction of its necessity at a time when American fighting men were being gathered in Europe for the greatest assault in history.
 '"The Armed Forces" said King, need now = and will continue to need-the full support of each and every part of the home front. until high noon of the day of reck- oning for Pearl Harbor and Bataan." :"
 Said Marshall: Our soldier must feel that the home folk. Are completely united in their. determ- ination to see the thing through to an overwhelming victory in the shortest possible time. They must not go into battle puzzled or embittered over disputes at home which adversely affect the war ef- fort"
 These officials thus echoed the sentiment expressed by President Roosevelt when he asked Congress last month for 8 labor draft law.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-04
Conflict Comes To End On An Island
BY GEORGE E. JONES

BY GEORGE E. JONES United Press War Carrespondent) Representing Combined U. s. Press)
 Namur Island, Kwajalein Atoll, the Marshalls, February 4. - (UP) Scattered Snipers and unseen enemy wounded remain on this shat tered, Stinking island, but the actual end of sustained combat came at l p. m. yes terday in a little corner near the northwest tip of Namur Island as the Marines pressed in for the kill.
 Organized enemy resistance was ended, and even the toughened, battle hardened marines were dis gusted with the task of Wiping out Japanese troops who hovered on the borderline of insanity as the result of the Allied bombardment and the ensuing hopeless retreat across the island.
 U. s. casualtiese have been very moderate, although they include one of the most popular officers in the Marine corps.
 Only few score Japanese of the original force who garrisoned Ma mur and the adjoining island of Roi were left as a ring of Marine gunflre frightened about their defen- sive position. which probably was a command post.
 Their fight was hopeless from the very beginning. It was a murder
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-04
Senator Will Serve Country

Boston, Feb. = (U.P.) = The Ha1&on Post said today:
 4aat U. s. Senator Henry Cabot Todge. Jr., R., Mass, will resign shortly to go on active duty as a colonel in the Army.
 That Governor Levrett SaltoI- stall (R) of Massachusetts will re- sign and be succeeded by Lieuten- ant Governor Horace T. Cahill (R). That Cahill, as governor, will appoint Staltonstall as senator to succeed Lodge.
 Lodge, Al, holds an army reserve commission of major, the post said, and long has been eager for active duty. He has a wife and two chill dren. '
 As one of the five globe -trotting senators on a 45.O00-mile tour of the war fronts last year, Lodge gained national attention with his plea for Siberian air bases for AL lied bombers. Lodge entered the senate in 1886, defeating former Governor James M. Curley (D) to gain the seat once held by his famous grandfather and nar1esake. His present term will expire in l949.
 Governor Saltonstall, who has been mentioned as 8 dark horse. presidential candidate, Is known to be desirious of a congressional career, the Post said. In the event the governor resigns. Cahill will serve as state executive until the November election.
 A Harvard graduate, Lodge was a ilewspaperman prior to his advent into politics. He was elected to the Massachusetts legislature in 1883 and served two. terms.
 The Post quoted Lodges friends as saying the senator has been de- ever since Pearl Ha{b0r.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-04
Tire Shortage Will Continue

Cambridge, Mass, Feb. 4.-(UP)-- New tires for civilian motorists VIII continue to be scarce rnroughout 1944, according to rubber directuE. Bradley Dewey of the War E,godnoA tion Board.
 In an article in the Massael1f@ setts Institute of Technology Review. Dewey declared that pleasure drive ing must be tracked indefinitely because of increases in military ma lend-leaSe rubber demands.
 New synthetic rubber plants. he said, have encountered varying de- grees of difficulty in starting up.e To date, synthetic rubber has rn2 quired more machinery and longer processing than crude rubber. How ever, synthetic rubber M 1n. creasing quantities now is being da- hvered to manufacturers and s service in winning the war is a valuable criterion of adjustment ana adaptation after the peace. DeWx
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-04
U. $. FLEET THREATENS TRUK Main Naval Base East Of Biggest
 Nipp0nese Port Now Tn Allied Hands
Fifth Army Troops Smash Attacks
Allied Headnuarters. Al-

Allied HeaQquarCerS, AL giers, February 4. - (UP) = Allied 5th Army troops smashed four heavy German counter-attacks against their beachheads south of Rome, it was disclosed today, while American tanks and infan- trymen fought their way through the streets of ruined Casino in a bloody house-to- house battle.
 Headquarters spokesmen revealed that the Nazis, powerfully rein forced by troops and armor rushed down from northern Italy, had launched their long expected cou1- ter blow on the approaches to Rome yesterday.
 Three of the enemy's onslaughts fell upon the British holding the northern end of the Anzio-Nettuno beachheads, while the fourth hit at American troops on the southern flank.
 Wave on wave of German tanks and assault troops crashed against the Allied lines, but official reports said the American and British rolled back the Nazis and piled up heavy casualties on the enemy.
 Massed German guns backed up the fruitless counter-offenSive and the Luftwaffe for the first time ill days threw in strong aerial forces to bomb and Strafe the Allied lines.
 NaI Field Marshal Albert KesSeu- ring, reportedly in the field with his troops to direct the battle of Rome, hurled the main weight of his at tack against British positions. At the center of the Allied beach, midway between the V-shaped highways extending inland from Nettuno and Anzio.
 The fourth drive thrust down from the north against the Ameri- can flank seven miles southwest of Cisterna.
 When the fury of the enemy at- tacks finally spent itself, the Amer jeans and Britons still held their forward positions. extending along 12 1-2 mile stretch of the Rome Naples electric railway line from Campo Leone to Cisterna.
 French and Dutch warshipS bom- barded the German lines in the Formia area, adding to the disor- ganization of the enemy communi- cations between the northern and southern fronts.
 Threat
 With troops and equipment re- ported still pouring ashore to rein force the 5th Army beachhead, the Anglo o-American forces threatned momentarily to break across the main enemy supply rosds between Rome and Casino, which would split the German armies in Italy in two.
 Fifty miles below the battle of the beachhead, American forces ham, mered their way deep into. Casino, were determined German gunners converted the stone houses of the town into individual fortreSses.
 The Germans still were believed holding open narrow supply route into the town awong the via Via Casilina, but American and French troops driving down from the north
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-04
Allied Land Push Hits Japs h NetD Guinea

Is miles from Bogadjim while Amer ican forces on the Saidor beachhead along the northern coast were 43 miles from Bogadjim and 55 from Madang. Bogadjim is the protect ing eastern outpost for Madang.
 Liberator bombers, battling their way through tropical storms which hampered air operations in all sectors. raided the airdrome, the communique said, causing explosions and large fires and leaving columns of smoke visible for co miles.
 Attack planes followed the heavy bombers to atxafe AInele and Mo- rianob missions in the Madaug area south of AlexEhaten, dropping 30 tons of honAhn.
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The administrators defeat in the House was administered by coali- tion of Republicans and southern Democrats. They not only upset administration strategy = to stall house action until the Senate acted on compromise measure = but also accepted President Roosevelts chal- lenge to stand up and be counted" by name.
 The coalition defeated an admin istration motion to recess without a final vote. It defeated, 2l5 to 164, an attempt to substitute the admin istration-approved Morley Federal ballot bill for the states righ meas llre. It defeated, 155 to 104, com- promise substitute which would have provided limited Nse of . fed- eral ballot.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-04

Advanced Allied Headquarters, New Guinea, Feb. 4.-(UP)-An AL lied land drive against Japanese forces holding out at Madang and Bogadjim was presaged today by Q heavy bombing attack on enemy positions along the northern New Guinea coast.
 A communique announced that Allied planes dropped 107 tons of bombs, including 77 tons on the Alexishafen airdrome where the Japanese have concentrated afr craft to protect their northern coastal bases.
 Australian forces advancing up the HaMi Valley were within 30 railss C lEadana arom the south and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-04
2,OOO KILLED

Ankara, Feb. 3. (UP)--More than 2,000 persons were killed in the earthquake that devastated 8 10,- 000-square-mile area of north western Turkey last Tuesday. un- official estimates have revealed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-04
Army Forces Mop-Up On
 Kwajalein Island As Yanlxi |Battlewagons Bristle In.
BY WILLIAM F. THREE United Press War Correspondent

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-02

ment has issued many Instructions
on how 10 behave abroad. The old
American custom of backslapping is
taboo in most countries, especially
throughout China.
A Chinaman doesn't want TO be
touched by anybody, and he doesn't
even shake hands. a polite bow is a
greeting friendly enough for him.
Nor does a MoSlem like TO be
touched or poked in the ribs. either
for fun or for friendships sake. He
likes to shake hands, though. But it
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-02

pressions Many of these may sound
remarkably like swearing TO you, but
actually they are words OF every.
day use in America.
When the Americans ask for n
Il (dog," they mean fried sau-
sagcs in split rolls" And when they
ask for 'hamburgers," they mean
"savoury rissoles in split rolls or
between slices of bread"
A New York hotel requested
guests To- stop taking off their hats
in elevators. The men, eager to be
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-02

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clean. Leave some kuskus in it. The
women and children of the house eat
whatever is left.
You must accept three cups of
coffee in an Arab house. but never
touch the fourth
You must never talk 10 a Moslem
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-02


You can call a man in Iraq almost
anything you want, but don't call
him a dog, a devil, a native, or. a
heather. They are deadly insults
that call for blood.
Sometimes rules of conduct have
to be improvised on the spot. After
the Americans had occupied a small
atoll in the South Sea Islands, an
American Marine officer and the
local chiefs had a powwow that last,
ed almost through the night. The re-
suits were these simple rules:
1. A Marine must promise to
marry a girl before he can flirt with
her or offer her cigarettes.
3 After his proposal is accepted,
the Marine must get the chiefs APP
prevail, the parents consent, and pay
them $3.50.
3. II the Marine leaves the atoll.
he can't take his wife with him.
Looks like the Marines have put
something over on the chiefs. AS
long as the chiefs are satisfied, who
are the Marines to kick?
You must never wake up a sleep
ing Kanaka on the French island of
New Caledonia. KanakaS, the ma
tives of the island, believe that every
person carries the "Ko," a spirit
that leaves the body as soon as you
fall asleep. Sudden awakening
catches the spirit stranded abroad
with no time to return 10 his Ka-
naka. A 10 on the loose is bad
egg, harming people.
BY the way never call a Kanaka
a Kanaka. The French gave him
that name and he doesn't like it.
Just call him Charlie.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-02

Sitting on the boy friends
knee in public is not consid-
cred good manners.
How 20 get invited again:
bring your shoe polish along.
its hard 20 get; shine your
own shoes and then offer TO
clean those Of your hostess.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-02

10 De a per
feet hostess at a
cafeteria m @ a |,
do not / e av
your table i'm a
mess. Don't help
yourself 50 law
ishly that there
is none left for
others Greed or
gluttouy is one
OF the Seven
Deadly Sins.
The Births n
Navy. Army. Air
Force Institute
has is y u t. d a
p a m p hlct OK
planning Ameri.
can manners.
Try not 10 APP
pear shocked at
some of their eX.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-02

A ne wv bro
chure may be eX.
pected soon on
neCking because
the a IN eri can
Red eros 6 in
London recently
received a letter
asking a defini-
ton so that the
g a IN q is fully
un q g rstood by
English girls.
I n q W o m a n
writer added: II
am trying 10 find
out how this ap
parently popular
game is played
and what rules
are considered
standard"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-02

that American boys are leav-
ing a lot OF kisses in England.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-02


etiquette the world
y around today - for
the duration. The war
has changed the rules at home-be-
cause OF crowded conditions. emer-
gency restrictions and the faster pace;
and abroad--because of the necessity
Of distant cousins to conform to local
customs, and vice versa
TO fit the needs to the times, gov
ernment agencies, welfare organiZa-
tons and military commandments
1--we become social arbiters. Here
some of the new regulations:
THE British YXCA issued a book
let OF rules for girls, admonishing
Never wear Stacks IL you go out
10 tea with your grandmother.
BE a good guest: Take your own
soap and hot water bottle. Only dire
distress will make anyone lend you
tho laffpr