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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-16
RAF Flyers BIitz Ally

Canadian Army Headquarters. Aug. i6 0UP) An undisclosed number Of Canadian soldiers were killed and several others were listed as missing and wounded today as result Of the RAP assault Monday on the Faiaise defenses in which 800 tons of bombs fell short of the target and landed in the Canadian lines.
 The accident was the third In five weeks on the Normandy front in which Allied bombeFs, supporting closely the land drives, have hit their own men. One of the victims in a previous accident was It. Gen. Lesley ]. MeNair, commander Of American ground forces.
 Coming SO soon after last Tues days incident in which U. s, flying foTtresses and libefatoFs dropped part of their bombloads on the cans adian rear areas, Mondays aeei- dental bombing was announced frankly by local army authorities.
 They decided that the accidents came so close together they were capable Of producing adverse e0ndi- tions among the troops morale un- less the bombing policy was explain cd together with its advantages, de- spite accidents,
 4 Canadian army staff officer eSS timated that 20 percent of the lI000 tons of Augmentation bombs drop ped by some TOO RAP Laneasters and Halifax fell on the Canadian soldiers driving toward Palaise.
 The accident. however, did not materially affect hte progress Of the attack, which already vas under way.
 The officer said the final toll 0l wounded from Mondays aeeiden, might rise, although there was some doubt in the ease Of certain W0und- ed men of whether they were in- juTed by our own or enemy fire,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-16
Nazis Seize Offensive Against Reds at Warsaw
Signal Corps Radlotelephoto by NEA Telephoto

Moscow, Aug. l6. (UPD-The Ger mans, admittedly seizing the in- itiatiye hurled their largest forces of the summer campaign against the Red Army before Warsaw and East Prussia today in desperate effort to stabilize the eastern front whatever the cost.
 The Soviet high commands c0m- munique last midnight spoke of German attacks" rather than 'counter, attacks for the first time since the start of the Russian sum mer offensive June 23 and conceded that the Nazi forces has wedged their lines temporarily,
 Keeling under crushing blows from both the east and west, the WehTmaeht appeared committed to an all-out attempt to plug the holes on the Russian front to prevent Soviet armies from breaking through to Germany while Angl0-Ameriean forces were enguIFing German troops in France,
 Both north and south of the War saW-East PTusslan fronts, however, the Russians gained new ground. Gen, Ivan !, Maslennikoy's Srd Bal- tie army struck three miles farther into the flank of the German pocket of nearly 200.000 men on the Bal- tic coast with the capture of Anne, la miles west of the railway june- tion of Valga on the EstOnian-La Yiap frontier and 7b miles from the Baltic,
 Kassi, l7 miles northeast of Valga and nine miles from the Riga -Tal- linn Railway, and Mnstaja, 20 miles south of Tartu, also were seized by MaslennlkOY's men,
 Marshal Ivan 8, Koneys Ist UkTainian Army occupied several unidentified villages in enlarging it's
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-16
ComImCndos Led The Wcy
By GEORGE TUCKER

By GEORGE fAEkkk Representing the Combined V. \.
 Press)
 lDistTibBted By The United PressD Aboard Admiral Lyal 4, Dayid- sons Flagship. Aug. IS - dUPD - The Navy got 'em here but the commandos unlocked the door.
 Under protection of booming nae val guns, tens of thousands AHaer- lean and French troops pOurea across the beaches of S0utheFD France along a % mile front Bus they did it only after desperate bands Of troops had slipped ashore six hours before H-HOur, sealed uii- gealable cliffs and overwhelmed oT slit the thr0ats Of crews of fOfmidT able coast batteries so troop trans ports could approach the jumping of point with a minimum Of dan ger.
 The plan was so imaginative in its conception and so daring in It's execution that originally t wRS ruled out by the Navy as being tfii- possible but the Army insisted tt could be done and the toug1 ger-commandO type boys mace
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-16
ALLIES DRIVE 8 MILES ON 40-M|LE FRONT CAPTURE 8 TOWNS IN SOUTHERN FRANCE Thousands Of Foe Fall In Normandy
Some Ground Forces Said ToHaveL eLinked UpWith US. And British Air Borne Troops

Rome, August l6. - (UPl - Powerfully reinforced American and French invas- ion forces st0rsaed eight miles into southern France on a lO-mile front between Cannes and TOuion against weak German opposition to- day. while thousands of sky. borne troops struck far til- land tO throw a solid block across the path of enemy re- serves moving down on the beachheads.
 Barely 24 hours after the initial air and sea invasion that preached the Germans Mediterranean wall, Allied headquarters announced that every initial objective had been taken and that the combined American and French Army was firmly es- tablished on the coast be- tween Cannes and the Tou- lon naval bese.
 Casualties in the fir and night of the assa been exceptionally communicate said.
 The fast-Tolling
 ran into some oppos
 man beach troops a
 teries last night, bul
 nounced officially tha.
 lenses had been overrL
 Simultaneously, a gre
 paratroops and air-boFn
 men were revealed 10 h landed far ahead of the r ing force last evening to the original sky troops wl1s headed the invasion before yesterday.
 Unopposed by the strangely-dor- mant LuftWaife. hundreds of gliders and transports streamed boldly across the French coast before nightfall yesterday and sent thou- sands of fighting men out onto the network Of highways over which the Germans must move their arnor and infantry if they are to mount an important counter-attack,
 The glider fleet was described oin- cially as fully 50-miles long, indi- eating that the Allies were throw ing a major blow into the heart oa the Germans rear defenses.
 It was announced officially that the air-borne units had established themselves successfully" across the highways funnelling into the Toul0n-cannes beachhead front and had blocked Of the flow Of enemy endorsements.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-16
The GvipshoIm
 Needs Men Nurses

Boston, Aug. I6. tuPl-War ship- ping Administration ofiieials today sought 90 male nurses t0 serve aboard the Swedish Exchange ship Grispsh0lm.
 No reason for the need of male nurses gas given in the urgent" request. but it was believed the re. patFlation liner may carry sick and wounded var prisoners on its next trip.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-16
New Lending 

London, Aug. I6-(UP)-oerman and neutral sources speeulated today on the possibility of another Allied landing in southern Europe, prob ably Yug0slayia,
 Radio Ankara said a landing was expected in the Adriatie, which in' eludes Albania as well as YugoslaTa, while a Berlin dispatch ip the Stockholm newspaper Tidnlngen said the Allies probably would open Fifth Front" soon in Dalmatia.
 Allied sources declined to conn ment on the reports, but it was re- called that Prime Minister Church ill conferred with Marshal Tito, commander of the Yugoslay parti- san army, and pr, Ivan Subasiteh, Prime Minister of Yugoslayia, last
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-16

Supreme Headquarters, AEF. August l6. - (UP) - Allied Armies struck from all sides into what remained of the German 7th Army in the Normandy pocket today, kill ing or capturing thousands of fleeing troops, while Berlin reports said American arm. Ored columns were striking eastward tn a new drive to- ward Chartes, 46 miles from Paria
 Shaken by the incessant pounding of Allied planes and shellfire, the broken rem nants of Field Marshal Gum ther Won Kluge's l2 divisions were splitting up into small banGg in a frantic attempt to escape through the ring of guns and armor tighten ing around them.
 The Canadian list Army fought its way into the out skirts of Falaise, narrowing the main eastern escape cor ridor to six miles or less, and front reports indicated that the Germans were trying to break out over secondary roads and sneak through the hedge rows to safety.
 Rowing Allied armored patrols raced along the perlmeter of the pocket plugging the loopholes in their trap and slaughtering hun- dreds Of the fleeing enemy. More than 4400 others were rounded up end shunted back to prisoner-of-war stockades during the past 90 hours,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-16

(The author of the following dispatch was for many years United Press manager for France until he was arrested and m termed by the Germans in vlehy in lell, 4 correspondent in Paris continuously from 1919, he Is a recognized authority on the French and France and Is now on a lecture tour Of the United RtatesD
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-16
BY RALPH HEIkzEN Limited Press staff Correspondent

Indianapolis, August i6' " UP VI The powerful pineers the AllleS are applying t0 France promises 10 eliminate quickly the Viehy govern. ment and lhls raises the question oi what ls to become of It's two leading personalities Marshal Hehfl Philippe Petaln and Pierre Laval, chief Of staff.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-16
Heot We've 

The heat wave rolled into Us seventh day today with shortages of Ice and ice cream, felt throughout the city, and the possibility of ban on spFinkling lawns and gardens being placed into effect to prevent 2 possible water shortage,
 Definite relief appeared in prosv peet for the weekend, as mass of cold air coming out Of the west bit the North Central states today and continued on it's way eastward,
 War plants reported eontinua- ton Of a high level Of ahsenteeism, No heat prostFati0n eases were Te- ported at local hospitals today or yesterday, however,
 The maximum temperature yess ieFday was 97 degrees, the lowest daily maximum after four days ln which the average high mark was 100 degrees,
 Chicago. Aug, l6-tUPl-The long August heat wave and a mtdsum.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-16
ROUTED FOE IN FRANTIC
 ESCAPE TRY
BULLETIN

BULLETIN
 Supreme Headquarters. AEF, Aug. l6.-fUPD-BFitish troops have cut the C0nde-Falalse road south Of Bois-DurOi and due west to Condo, and are mopping up Q pocket of resistance directly east of Conde, communlque announe. cd today.
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Home, Final Edition Late Sport News LGte NeuUs Flashes
The CIO news., 1944-10-09

Mars Factory in Baltimore. Betty
NJ. Frazier. Y. SIC. USNR (WAVES)
Washington. D. c., is sister. as
is also Miss Josephine Frazier.
naval inspector. Navy Powder Fac
tory. Elkton. Maryland; Mrs. War
rem Stewart, Mrs. Calvin Almond.
and Gloria Marie Frazier. of Cum
berland.
Cpl. Frazier was formerly en-
ployed In downtwist at Celanese
and was a member Of Local 1874.
He played baseball and softball for
several teams in the Cumberland
area.
The CIO news., 1944-10-09
Former Member 1874
Awarded Infan+ry Bodge

Word has been received here that
Cpl. r. II. Frazier, of Long. Mary
land, has been awarded the Combat
Jnfantryman Badge for perform
ance of duty against the enemy
on the Fifth Army front in Italy.
Frazier. member of the 34th
"Red Bull" Division. has seen ac-
ton with his unit al the Volturno
river crossings. Mount Pantano. the
breach of the defenses of the Gus
tave line along the Rapido River.
Monte Casino, Anzio Beachhead.
and the drive on Rome. He is now
fighting in the Tuscan regions Of
Italy.
Cpl. Frazier Is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. Henry Frazier. Of LaVale.
and husband Of Mrs. Robert (Stein)
Frazier. now employed at Martins
The CIO news., 1944-10-09
Inauguration
At Luke

Local 676 CIO Of Paper Workers.
recently organized in the West Vir-
ginia Pulp and Paper Company at
Luke. by C. C. Smith. CIO National
Representative. had Its inaugural
tion of officers In the Firemen's
Hall, Piedmont, Sunday afternoon.
October /.
The officers inaugurated were:
William E. George. Westernport,
president; Robert Youst. Western
port and William Jones. Keyser,
w. Va. vice-presidents; Milton
Newton. Westernport, recording
secretary; Eldridge Guy, Western
port, financial secretary; Ivan Will
son, Piedmont. w. Va, treasurer;
James 10y. Piedmont, sergeant-at-
arms; Joseph Arnold, Westernport.
guide; Paul Kooken, Mrs. Mollie
Kirk and Miss Dorothy Howard.
all of Westernport. trustees. Com
prising the negotiating committee
are Messrs. George, Youst and
Newton.
The Voice Of Labor extends Its
The CIO news., 1944-10-09
Strikes And
Sabotage

that, too, for generations to come The "wilful"
senators who killed the League of Nations were
saboteurs of the most Machiavellian and Mephis-
tophelian order Their personal hatred of Presi-
dent Wilson instigated them to treason against
mankind Their act was sabotage.
If one looks rightly at matters he will see
that it is not only workers who throw sabots
and monkey-wrenches into machines. The throw
ing is common sport, from town councils to Con-
gress. 1t is terrific cost to the people, too.
And it shows progress beyond estimation.
Cooperation between labor and management
Is a most desirable thing for both parties con-
cerned and for the consuming public. If labor
refuses to cooperate with management for full
production when terms and conditions are fair,
labor is guilty Of sabotage If management re-
fuses to deal fairly with labor, refuses to hear
the reasonable suggestions Of labor. refuses to
improve faulty working conditions, management
Is guilty of sabotage. And the public pays the
cost, and in sum total for all industry that cost
Is enormous.
Applying these tests make your list of busi-
ness and political saboteurs. And study methods
to sabotage them out of existence.
The CIO news., 1944-10-09

The refusal to cooperate for a common
recognized good is strike. 1t is more than
strike-it is sabotage. Strikes and sabotage are
not confined to factories and mines, railroads
and ships-nor to manual workers. Strikes in
their more infamous aspects and the most in
furious sabotage are far more prevalent than
people are wont to think, for their attention has
been turned in only one direction: industrial
production.
They occur in high places as well as in low.
They are plotted in dark corners and around
mahogany tables; by political gangsters and
industrial magnates; by tricksters who pride
themselves on their smartness and by citizens
who wear respectable 'front.' But skunks by
any other name would smell as ILL.,
Saboteurs are those who oppose and defeat
any measure or program for the general well
fare which they themselves have not proposed
in order to thwart an opponent or gain some
thing for themselves They set personal interest
or partisan or factional loyalty above the good
of multitudes.
POLITICAL. SABOTAGE
In high places sabotage may extend to the
entire nation and the whole of mankind. and
The CIO news., 1944-10-09
Sez You!

Governor Thomas E. Dewey on
a recent campaign speech in Seattle.
Washington, told labor I'VE are
not going back to ;. settling labor
disputes with gun fire and gas
bombs"
BUT-what do some of the Re
publican presidential candidates big
money-backers say about this?
What say Dewey-backers Alfred
P. Sloan Jr.. president, and Lam
mott DUPONT, chief stockholder, Of
General Motors which contributed
S166, 500. to the 1910 COP campaign
fund and has spent ONE MILLION
DOLLARS FOR INDUSTRIAL
SPIES and $25.0O0 for tear gas.
What says Ernest T. Weir. chair
man of National Steel Corporation.
steady and generous donator to
Republican funds which spent
$4,000 for tear gas and revolvers
and $4,000 for industrial spies?
Well, gentlemen. what do you
say about the Dewey promise"
Speak up, gentlemen!
The CIO news., 1944-10-09
ENocH PRATT FREE 1t.
ERARY
BALTIMORE I ND
WM N

and production would be kept at
a high level. Dewey remained silent
while his Senate friends sabotaged
the peoples reconversion measure.
DEWEY: "They (the administra-
tion believe in the defeatist philos-
ophy that our industrial plant Is
built I believe we have not
even begun to build our industrial
plant. We have not exhausted our
creative genius"
THE PEOPLE: Strange words.
Mr.. Dewey, coming from the man
who poo-poohed President Roose-
velt's bold proposal for $4,000 air.
planes yearly. You said: "What Is
the good Of talking about $4,000
airplanes 1t will take at least
four years to accomplish this" You
lacked faith In America, Mr.. Dewey.
You believed the people could not
meet this assignment. Mr.. Roose-
welt. however. did not lack faith.
While you scoffed, he worked with
US so that 100000 planes were
turned out annually.
PROMISES SECURITY
DEWEY: "Of course we need Sc
curity regulation. OF course we
need bank support for agriculture
Of course we need unemploy-
ment insurance and old age pen-
sions and also relief whenever
there are not enough jobs. or
course the rights of labor to organ
ize and bargain collectively are
fundamental"
THE PEOPLE: Fine words. Mr..
Dewey. But why didn't the last Re-
publican president-Herbert Hoover
press for such reforms? The
need was just as definite then rs
Mr.. Roosevelt found It. The answer
Is that the Republican party didn't
care to bring the people these ~
forms.
The CIO news., 1944-10-09
Dental candidate.

The COP nominees deliberate
Justification Of the Roosevelt admin
istration's war preparedness record.
the whitewash Of the Republican
depression, his air of "friendliness"
toward the people. and his false
hood that the New Deal had lost
faith In America. were the major
causes Of dissatisfaction. noted even
in his audiences.
Here are few Dewey campaign
statements which the people have
refuted with little difficulty.
DEWEY: "They Uhe Administra-
tion) say it is cheaper to keep men
in the Army than to let them come
home when peace has been won."
THE PEOPLE: What statement
to make on the very day the Army
announced its rehabilitation plan,
hailed by the nation - and the
armed forces - as the most logical,
fair-minded plan that could have
been proposed.
DEWEY: 1T was the New Deal
that made, that managed to make
a three-year depression last eleven
straight years"
THE PEOPLE: During the time
Dewey says the New Deal nursed
the depression along, employment
rose from 81 to As millions. Our
national income scared from 40 to
20 billions. business improved.
farmers income doubled, and great
public works and iva projects
were started. inexpensive but stur-
dy, attractive homes were built.
Slums were blotted out and child
labor reduced. These are the results
of the New Deal depression"
WPB AND JOBS
DEWEY: "When the WPB fell
apart, so did your chance under
this administration for jobs after
the war;"
THE PEOPLE: The crux of the
problem as the Governor knows
was not the WPB but the Murray
Kilgore Bill an Administration
measure-which was killed by Re-
publican opposition in the Senate.
with only three Republicans voting
for II. The bill called for a planned
reconversion, urged sufficient un-
employment compensation for
workers and veterans so that pur-
chasing power would not diminish
The CIO news., 1944-10-09

The Senator from Florida called
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey CUSTOM
er's man" who is trying to sell the
gold bricks of Wall Street to the
people of Main Street in America"
But CIO unions. he said, are not
going to be deceived. "You recog-
nize false prophets when you see
them. You recognize prophets who
speak with the voice of Jacob but
have the hairy. avaricious hands Of
Esau."
The CIO news., 1944-10-09

congratulations to the paper work.
ers and c. c. Smith for the creation
of this Local 676 CIO. and extends
its hand to help in every way a
CIO labor paper can. Best wishes.
brothers and sisters!
The CIO news., 1944-10-09
The TRUTH!
Cold Fdcts!

NEW YORK, N. Y.-Rumblings of discomfort have
greeted Thomas Dewey initial campaign efforts political
agreed this week. In reporting growing GOODNESS
the part the American people to the Republican Pre
The CIO news., 1944-10-09
POLITICAL SABOTAGE

In high places sabotage may extend to the
entire nation and the whole of mankind, and
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-11-03
BRITISH IN BURMA
CAPTURE RAIL CITY

SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND
HEADQUARTERS, Handy, Ceylon,
Nov. 2.-R)-British troops spear
heading the new Allied drive in
northern Burma to clear land
route to China have captured the
town of Mawlu, on the Myitkyina-
Mandalay railwav IS miles south
west of Myitkyina, Admiral Lord
Louis Mountbatten' command an
nounced today.
The town was taken by troops
of the British 36th division under
Maj. Gen. F. W. Testing, with
but few casualties the daily COM
munique stated. The bulletin
stressed that Tlawlp was just 16
miles north of the railway junction
of Nabaa, from .Thich a spur line
leads eastward to Katha on the IT.
rawaddy river, backbone of the
Burmese transportation network.
In northeastern Burma, Indian
troops along the road to Fort
White east of Tiddim are attack
ing enemy positions near bottle
neck stretch of highway, aided by
fighter bombers which made hea-
Wy attacks on the enemy, the COM
muniOlIe said
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-11-03
CHEST DIRECTORS
GET DRIVE REPORT

Report of the campaign COM
mittee, showing a total of $751;
430 raised, report of the budget
committee and appointment OF
three new committees featured a
meeting of the Community War
Chest board of directors held
Thursday afternoon in the Chest
office.
The campaign committee report.
presented by E. L. White, vice
chairman, in the absence of the
general chairman, Ranald Stew
art, showed an increase OF pproxl-
mately $500 since the closing re-
port given at the victory meeting
on October IL. One of the high
lights of the compaign this year.
Mr. White said was the large pro-
portion of cash contributions re-
ceived. This was in line with a
national trend, he indicated.
The directors voted to approve a
recommended increase of 1923 in
the 1914 budget of the Catherine
Kennedy home. This recommenda-
ton of the budget Committee was
presented by F. B. Graham, COM
mittee member, who said that
after a thorough study of the bud
get of that agency, it was obvious
that additional funds would be
needed to complete the present
fiscal year due to increased costs
Of food and fuel, greater than an
ticipated when the budget had
been originally approved over
year ago.
Following the resolution passed
at the August meeting Of the
board, a committee of three mem
bers to meet with similar COM
mittee of the Associated Charities
was elected. This committee, to
consist of L. D. Latta, w. D.
Craig and Paul Wilson will meet
with a group previously chosen
by the Associated Charities board
to study the recommendations pre-
pared last summer by the Com
munity Council of Social Agen-
cies.
The Rev. Walter B. Freed, board
chairman, announced the appoint
ment of two other new committees.
A committee consisting Of F. B.
Graham, E. L. White, L. A. Ran
ey and c. Van Leuven will make
study of the Chest surplus, and
prepare recommendations for the
administration of this surplus for
consideration by the board at its
next meeting. A finance commit
tee, with Alex Sprunt, ]. Walter
Webb and L. c. Robertson as
members, was appointed to study
collection methods and adopt a
policy in regard to the collection
of pledges.