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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-01

Adolf Hitler is said to have strong
Oedipus complex. Ten years ago the
big romance of his life was with Frau
Bechstein. 60 and wealthy. Whether
they considered marriage never be-
came known, but he got her money
and Jewels for the NaZis.
Elizabeth. England's Virgin Queen.
had one great love affair lasting u
years The object of her affections,
not exactly maternal. was Essex, who
was 80 years her junior.
History is filled with similar eX-
amples, such as Catherine the Great
of Russia, who had one husband and
IL lovers, each younger than his pre-
decessor. The last was 10. She was 10.
George Sand, famous woman
writer. was 30 when she eloped with
Alfred de Musset, who was %. After
that it was a young Venice physi-
clan, then List, then Chopin, who
was six years younger than she.
Maybe the real answer, after all.
is experience. An older woman who
has been around knows enough TO
snatch a handsome youth right out
of the arms of younger rival.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-01

kept him out late at
night clubs" so he took
out a license TO wed Hen
rietta w. Peiper, a
wealthy spinster nurse.
She'll get me home
early and take care OF
me if I'm sick" he said.
Some of these in
stances are due to what
psychologists call an
Oedipus complex. An
excess of mother love re-
suits. in a desire in a
man TO marry someone
who resembles her.
A Sky ear COurtShip
Preceded the Marriage of
AlIesandrO Gagliardini,
81. and Mrs. Bennett Clay
jefferson, 81.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-01
and Lecturer

UOVE is getting tipsy in a tipsytopsy
world. Life insurance statistics
49, show that three times as many
boys under 20 were married in 1912
as in 1899, and that since the war
more than half OF the bridegroonns OF
rs and II married older women.
Why? II Is true that the draft
has cut deeply into eligible husbands
between Is and 80, but a man con-
siderably beyond the draft limits
Knight appear TO be about the right
ge for some of the unblushing brides
who are barging 10 the altar with
bcardless boys clinging 10 their arms.
The fact is that in times of uncer-
tainty, when the whole world seems
to be coming apart at the seams,
men have a tendency TO look back
longingly at the security OF their
mothers all-embracing love. The
younger the man, the more urgent
is this desire TO regain the comfort.
ing protection that time and Circum-
stance have taken away.
II Is not particularly surprising,
then, that 14-year-old Ellsworth Wise
carver eloped recently with a two
time mother half again his age, or
that 16-year old Ronald Smith insisted
on marrying Mrs. Mary Alice Breon,
81, who had two children of her own.
Ellsworth had been having a little
difficulty at home He thought he
was misunderstood He was mature
for his age, and a lot of the fellows
he had been palling around with had
gone off 10 war. He was moody and
unsettled until the morning Elaine
Monfredi smiled at him as he passed
her home on his way TO junior high
school at Compton, Cal.
After that he went that way often.
and Elaine, who was 81 and not hard
10 look at, was usually outside 10
exchange a few pleasantries. Some
mornings he stayed for visit inside
the house and was quite late at
school Elaine told him that James
Monfredi was just her commonlaw
husband. One morning She took her
two children. Elaine, ?. and judy
months, to her mother in nearby
Los Angeles and started out with
Ellsworth for Yuma, Ariz.
They were married there and
headed east, but ran out of funds in
Albuquerque. N NJ, because Elaine
lad used most of their cash 10 buy
$50 wedding ring. She wired her
mother for more money, and the po
q lice were waiting when the two re-
turned to the telegraph office.
Taken back TO Los Angeles, Elaine
was held in $500 bail on a child
stealing charge. The charge later
was dismissed. She said IL was all
very silly because "age doesn't mean
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-01

later. Mrs. Tucker
said her husband
went on a 6-monthS
drunk and punched
her in the eye.
An even greater
disparity in years
didn't bother Mil
ton Steele, 80, a
masseur of w g s I
Palm Beach, Fla.
He was called to the
home of Mrs. Frank
Vernon Skiff, 70
year old widow of
the founder of the
Jewel Tea Com
pany, and became
the new head of
the family.
Folks in RocheS-
for ~ Y were
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-01

shocked when Frank Stonegraeber,
80, married his former housekeeper,
Barbara Bundschuh, 81 years old, who
tipped the scales at about thrice that.
John Lorenick, %. of UnionVille,
Conn, got tired of young girls who
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-02
LIBERAT0RS RANGE FAR Over EUROPE
Term
FOR GAUNT'S
MURDERER

Selma H. Rasch, an ex-
soldier, was found guilty of
numbering James A. Gaunt,
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. James
Gaunt Of 757 Cooke Street,
and sentenced to life impris-
onment when arraigned in
court in South Dakota, this
morning.
1t was proved that Rasch murder
ed the former Crosby High school
track star while he slept In South
Dakota in August Of last year.
Rasch was captured in December
and police discovered he had a long
police record and held him in lieu
Of bonds until trial today.
Rasch did not even take the stand
and the jury elaborated less than
an hour before it brought in the
verdict Mr.. and Mrs. James Gaunt.
parents of the deceased were among
those testifying.
Gaunt'S body with bullet hole
through his head was found beside
railroad track near Marvin, South
Dakota, last August. It was report
ed at that time he was last seen
alive with soldier boarding west
bound train.
Gaunt was found dead April IS,
l943, near a railroad track in Mil
bank, South Dakota. He was be-
lieved to have been on his way to
Seattle and had left Waterbury
about week previous. He was be-
lieved to have taken a bus to Chi
cago.
The deceased was an active COM
municant Of the Church of the
Blessed Sacrament. He was a grad
uate Of Crosby High and later at
tended the University of Connecti-
cut as Storrs and Perkionem school
In Pennsburg. Pa. He was former
employe of the French Manufactur-
ing Company of this city.
Besides his parents he is surviv-
ed by o brother, John p, now in the
Navy, and two sisters, Lucetta and
Helen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-02
Ponder Knox
Successor

Washington, May 2 - (U.P) -
President Roosevelt's plans for a
successor to the cabinet position
left vacant by the death of Secre-
tary of the Navy Frank Knox re-
manned a topic of wide speculation
in capital political circles today.
Many observers felt that MFR.
Roosevelt may delay a decision
until afr the Republican and DEM
ocratic national conventions this
summer, with Undersecretary
James v. ForreStal continuing as
acting secretary until that time.
Forrestal was high on the list Of
the possible successors to Knox,
who died last Friday of heart dis
ease and was buried late yesterday
In Arlington National cemetery.
Other fayorites in the speculation
included Admiral William d. Leahy.
chief of staff to President Roosevelt
former Governor Charles Edison OF
New Jersey, who served as Navy
secretary just before Knox; Lieu
tenant Commander Harold e. Stas-
sen; Wendell l.. Willkie; Chairman
Carl Vinson, d., chairman OF the
House Naval Affairs Committee;
and Representative Lyndon john
son, D., Tex.
The body Of the 70-year-old Sec
rotary was taken to Arlington
cemetery on black army caisson,
drawn by six white horses, In the
largest military procession since
former President Taft was buried
there In 1890.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-02
DESPOTISM
BY FDR is
NV CHARGE

Chicago, May 2. = (UP)-
Counsel for Montgomery
Ward and Company, attack
ing the governments seizure
of the firms Chicago proper
ties at a federal court hear
ing contended today that
even in war time the Presi-
dent cannot "arrogate to
himself despotic powers
against which free people
have been protected since the
days of Magma Charta." .
Attorney Harold Smith appeared
for the company before district
for the company before District
Judge William H. Holly on the gov
ernment's appeal for an injunction
TO prevent the company's officers
from interfering with the federal
operation of the Chicago facilities
Of the mail order and retail store
organization.
Smith said that the substance Of
the governments case was: THAT
the president has the power to con-
fiscate Wards private property be-
cause OF the existence Of national
emergency which invests him as
ommander-in-chief of the armed
forces with an extraordinary and
terrifying power of seizure"
He argued that there is no law
or constitutional provision which
confers such a power on the chief
executive, and he commended:
That 1t Is an unreasonable seiz-
ure contrary to the fourth article
of the Bill of Rights and that it
deprives them (the company Of lib
erty and property without due proc
esS Of law and constitutes the TAX
ing of private property for public
use without just compensation, in
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-02
Pulitzer
Prize Tokers

New York, May 2 - U.P0 -
With the advisory board deploring
certain acts and policies of Army
and Navy censorship" of the news,
nine pulitzer prize winners in jour-
nalism, five in letters and one in
music were announced yesterday
with Ernie Pyle, Seripps- fiowaru
newspaper columnist and rowing re-
porter, winning the award for dis
tinguished war correspondence In
1913.
The regular award for an origin
al American play was omitted. but
q special award was substituted for
"Oklahoma" and q special citation
issued honoring Bryon Price, direc-
tor of censorship
The board criticized the censor
ship lin handling of news at the
source, and for the unreasonable
suppression of information to which
the American people ar entitled"
Pyle's award, which carried with
1t a prize OF $500, was for distin-
guished correspondence during the
year, the test being clearpess and
terseness OF style, preference being
given to fair. judicious. well-bal-
anced and well-informed inteTpre-
tatiye writing, which shall make
clear the significance OF the sub
ject covered in the correspondence
or which shall promote information
al understanding"
Journey In the dark" by Martin
FlaYin won the distinguished novel
award.
Award for meritous public service
by an American newspaper went To
the New York Times for its survey
Of the teaching OF American his
tory In the nations schools, while
Paul 6ch0enstein, city editor of the
New York Journal-AmeFiean, was
cited for distinguished reporting.
Other awards In Journalism an
nOunced by the advisory board OF
the graduate school of journalism
az Columbia University included:
The Kansas City Star. for the
editorials Of Henry j. Haskell,
clifford X. Bergman, Washing
ton Evening Star. 10 rthe cartoon
but where Is the boat going" IN
CONTINUED on Pago 49,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-02
PoIeI Area
jap RepuIse

Advance Allied HEADQUARTERS
Randy, Ceylon, May 2. (UP)-AIlied
troops repulsed a strong Japanese
attack in the Palel area, 20 miles
south of Imphal, and heavy fight
ing is continuing in the region. q
southeast Asia communique aia-
nounced today.
Although the extent OF the oper-
atoms was not given, the commu-
nique said that patrols also clashed
with enemy units in many places
north Of the Palel road. which was
reported open 10 Imphal Mauipur
State capital.
Tokyo radio said that the Allied
defense OF Imphal has begun %
collapse" although 1t admitted
fierce Allied counter-attaclzs against
japanese units north Of PaleiD
In Northern Burma, the Chimes
22nd division continued It's advances
down the Mogaung Valley ana cap
tured q japanese strong point wesa
OF the Mogaung river and south 81
Warazup, which was taken neaFlS
two weeks ago.
The action, In which q large sup.
ply OF arms and ammunition was
captured. apparently was a moppinE
up of the Warazup area.
Other Burma forces, Intending a.
All-AmeFican tank unit which went
into operation for the FIRST tiEne les2
Saturday, also were reported push
ing farther southwark In the diKees
ton OF the enemy key base -
KaInaing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-02
Destroyer,4
Ships Sunk
By British
BY JOSEPH w. GRIGG
United Press Staff Correspondent


London, May 2.-(UP)-BritiSh
submarines blockading Japan's sea
lanes between Singapore and Burma
have sunk a destroyer and four
merchant vessels and bombarded
Port Blair, main port in the Anda-
man Islands. the admiralty an
nounced today.
Two medium-sized supply ships
and a small escort vessel were dam
aged by submarines, the. admiralty
communique added.
The submarine attacks, following
closely the naval task force raid
April 10 on Sabang, off the north
ern tip of Sumatra, indicated the
increasing attention being given the
Singapore Burma supply route by
Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten's
southeast Asia command as pre-
Jude to further ground offensive
operations.
One submarine torpedoed and
sank destroyer and damaged the
medium-sized supply ship it was es-
corting south OF the Andaman
Islands, the admiralty said. An
other medium-sized supply vessel
was sunk in the same area while
travelling under strong escort.
In the Malacca Straits, between
Sumatra and the Malay peninsula.
another British submarine sank
three supply ships travelling in con-
voy and damaged an escort vessel
and a cargo ship.
The admiralty said third sub
marine successfully bombarded"
military targets at Port Blair and
Ross island in the Andamans, which
lie in the Bay of Bengal southwest
of Burma.
"Shore batteries ineffectiyely re-
turned the fire." the conmunique
said.
The latest sinkings increased the
number OF japanese ships sent to
the bottom since the start of the
war to 1873, including 279 warships.
Another 1852, INCLUDING 423 COM
bat ships, have been damaged.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-02
Ten Most
Useful Men

Washington, May 2-(UP)-F1fty-
two washington newspapermen
gave Gen. George C. Marshall. U.
S. Army chief of staff, top billing
today in a poll 10 select 1.-The 10
most useful officials" in the nations
capital.
The list, published in the current
issue of Look magazine. put Presi-
dent Roosevelt in third place, just
behind Secretary of State cordell
Hull.
Some OF the 50 newsmen omit
ted Mr.. Roosevelt because they
didn't think that he should figure
in the poll" the magazine explained,
adding that the president headed
more individual lists than any other
Official.
The correspondents awarded
10 other Washington officials the
distinction of being, In their coll
lectiye opinion, the least useful
officials"
This category started with Sec
rotary of Labor Frances Perkins and
then followed with Secretary OF the
Treasury Henry Morgenthau, JT..
Secretary OF Agriculture Claude r.
Wiekard, Vice President Henry A.
Wallace. Rep, John z. Rankin, d.,
Miss, Sen. Joseph y. Guffey, d.
Continued on Page iO)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-02
Truk,Po
Roided byU.S.

Pearl Harbor, May 2-(UP)-
American bomberS from the north
and central Pacific were revealed to-
day to have carried out new attacks
on Truk and Ponape in the Caro-
lines and the big naval base at
Paramushiro in the Kurile islands.
A single Navy search plane raided
Truk Saturday in the 37th Allied
attack on the atoll, scoring a hit on
a japanese vessel lying at anchor
and straflng the airstrips on Moen
and Eten islands.
Ponape, 436 miles east of Truk,
was bombed for the 41st time in a
month by Seventh Air Force Mitch
ellis which met moderate anti
aircraft fire over the battered base.
Runways and adjacent installations
were attacked and one large eXplo-
sion was seen near the airfield.
Aleutian-based Navy Ventures Of
feet arriving four carried out the
raid on Paramushiro, flying through
only light anti-aircraft fire to COM
plete the saith attack of the war on
the Kuriles in Japan's northern en-
pire.
The isolated enemy positions in
the Marshall islands in the central
Pacific were given their daily attack
by Army, Navy and Marine planes,
which dropped IS tons of bombs on
the bases.
A japanese communique report
ed today that an American naval
tsak force made a two-day raid on
the big Pacific base of Truk in the
Carolines and also bombarded Or
oluk, 200 miles to the east.
The imperial headquarters COM
munique acknowledged some dam
age" to shore installations on the
two atolls, but claimed that in
tercepting japanese planes and
ground forces" damaged an air.
craft carrier and shot down more
than 80 planes.
The attack on Truk Sunday and
Monday apparently was carried out
entirely by carrier-based planes,
since no mention was made OF any
naval bonlbardment as IN the case
Continued on Page l0(
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-02
Aerial Invasion OF
Continent Goes
On Remorselessly
BY PHILIP AULT

United Press War Correspondent
London, May 2. - (UPl -
American warplanes of all
types, paced by Liberator
heavy bomberS, ranged far
over Europe today, carrying
through the 10th day of q
record offensive which a u. s.
communique now called "the
aerial invasion of Germany
and enemy occupied terri
tories"
The Berlin radio reported fight>
er plane penetration Of the skies
over Western Germany, indicating
a renewal of widespread offensive
sweeps over the continent.
After bad weather grounded Allied
planes for a few morning hours. q
40O-plane force of Liberators and
fighters plastered the bomb-rocked
Pas De Calais area of the French
invasion coast. No German fighter
opposition and only light anti-ai-
craft fire was encountered, and all
planes returned safely.
Thunderbolt fighter bombers Of
the U. S. Ninth Air Force bracket
ed Paris with attacks on the ran
functions of lie Mans and Tergniers
to the southwest and northeast.
Allied planes were estimated to
have flown almost 5000 sortiea
against western and southern Eu-
rope in the first 30 hours Of May
an average of nearly 200 per hour.
Strong forces Of British night
bombers dropped nearly 1000 tons
of bombs on seven big German war
bases in Germany, France and Bel
GUM by moonlight. In the 70-hour
period, about $500 sorties were
flown from Britain and more than
1900 by the Mediterranean air
| forces.
German night fighters put up
spasmodic resistance against the
Raj fleet of close to 1000 bomb
ers which hit Lyon, Tours, Toulouse
and Chambly in France, MalineB
and St. Ghislain in Belgium and
Ludwigshafen, Germany.
Crewmen said the moonlight was
so bright that the bomber c0olEpita
were almost as light as day. They
described the targets as easy
marks"
400 LiberatOrs
An estimated 400 LiberatUs and
escorting fighters made a short run
over Northern France about noon.
Heavy weather required bombing
through the overcast by means OF
secret devices. No Geman planes
were seen, and anti-aircraft fire
was light.
After a six-hour delay enforced
by murky weather-one of tn long
est lulls in the continuous y -inva-
sion bombardment - larg forua-
tons of heavy and medium bomb
ers and fighters roared out over the
Channel, the throb Of their motors
rafting windows on the coast.
1t. Gen. James H. Doolittle set
the pace Of the daylight assault By
sending striking force Of his four
motored Liberators against German
Continued on Page lO)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-02
Inductees As
Privotes to Go
Back to Jobs

WATERFOWL, Mass, May 2-(UP)-
About score of war workers at the
WATERFOWL arsenal under 26 soon
will be indicted into the U. s. Army
as privates and then returned to
their benches at there regular base
pay of $50 month.
Announcement of the plan to in
duct such war workers and have
them continue their jobs at army
wages was disclosed last night in the
plants employe magazine and later
confirmed by army officials.
Drafting of such workers. it was
said. would be done under a war
department order Of April IL which
permits reassignment to war depart
ment installations of inductees
whose loss would substantially i'm
pair the efficiency" of such install
lations.
Army officials said that the plans
OF reassignment here would be the
exception rather than the rule. 1t
was said that only about 20 of the
ia under 26 due to be indicted this
month would be returned to their
jobs.
A notice on which the plan was
based came from the war depart
ment and read:
such war department employees
who are indicted and whose loss to
the employing station would sub
stantially impair the efficiency Of
this station, and If no other means
of preventing this impairment is
available, may be turned after in
duction as enlisted men upon APP
proval Of the war department.
TT is expected that such returns
will be approved only in unusual
cases where the loss Of the employe
would be a material detriment TO
the employing station"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-02
MonsoonsT TO
Help Allies
In Burma
By sANDoR S. KLEIN
United Press staff Correspondent

kOnlteu fTCSS Std1 correspondent
Washington, May 2.--(UP'-Mili-
tary observers believed today that
the advent Of the monsoon season
in northwestern India and Burma,
due within a few weeks, will see
the beginning of vastly expanded
sea-air operations in the Indian
Ocean by naval forces under Lord
Louis Mountbatten's command.
The rainy season is expected to
bring a virtual cessation of land
fighting in the India-Burma area
and Mountbatten may utilize the OPP
portunity to hamstring Japan's sup
ply and communication routes in the
Indian Ocean by seeking to inter-
cept enemy shipping and by hitting
supply bases.
Several weeks ago, naval forces
under Mountbatten' command car
ried out their first large-scale sea-
air assault on any japanese base
thanking the Indian Ocean when
they hit Sabang on the northern
end of Sumatra.
Since Japan relies almost entirely
OIL Scd-DOIllc lIdlIlC " supply I4SL
forces based in Burma, interference
with her supply routes in the IN
dian Ocean would place Allied
forces in India in a more favorable
position to take up land drive to
reopen the Burma road to China.
Another possibility was that
Mountbatten may attempt to re-
take the Andaman Islands which
lie south of Burma. These islands.
guarding the enemy's supply and
communication routes in the Indian
ocean, could provide air bases from
which long-range planes could strike
at Japanese strongholds on the
Malay peninsula and in Thailand.
Whatever naval action is taken
in the Indian Ocean undoubtedly
will be coordinated with Allied OPP
erations in the Pacific. This CO.
ordination especially would be nee
essary and useful when Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's forces begin their
northward push from northwestern
New Guinea toward the southern
Philippines.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-02
RedsAdvunce
SIowIyInT The
Corputhions
BY HARRISON SALISBURY
United Press staff Correspondent

UNITED Press StaH Correspondent
Moscow, May p CUP Soviet
front dispatches said today that the
Red army is advancing slowly but
steadily in logged fighting through
the Carpathian foothills on a broad
front from the Czechoslovak border
down into Romania.
Field reports of fighting on a con-
siderable scale in the Carpathians
were the first Russian accounts of
noteworthy land action since Soviet
assault forces clamped a siege arc
against Sevastopol on April Is.
Dispatches said Marshal Gregory
X. Zkukov's first army of the Uk-
raine was pushing the Germans
back on the Carpathian front de-
spite the fact that the NaZis had
moved up fresh reserves, tanks and
self-propelled guns in an effort to
stabilize their positions.
The fighting on the southern front
was marked by frequent German
counter thrusts, front reports said,
which generally were blunted so eff
fectively that the Russians were
able to forge ahead after dealing
with them.
The Red air force was reported
unusually active over the sector,
carrying out systematic attacks on
German troops, supply depots and
transport functions.
The Soviet aerial campaign in
cluded the softening up of German
strong points in the Stanislawow re-
gion of pre-war Poland and around
Brest Litovsk, East of Warsaw, pre-
paratory to the next phases Of Red
army operations.
Brest Litovsk, five-way rail juno
ton, was hit Sunday night in the
latest of a series Of raids apparent
ly foreshadowing Soviet offensive
on the central front.
Seventeen fires, four of then
particularly large, were started a
the strategic junction and a mum
Der of military trains loaded Will
troops, ammunition and other wal
supplies wrecked. The raid wal
the fourth in as many nights ano
the 10th in Is nights by Soviet
bomberS.
On the ground, the Red Army
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