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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-02

Another correspondent, Robert Trurnbull, reported that Roi and adjoining Namur Island, which stood green and proud yesterday, are now terribly broken and burning"
 The 4th Marine Division under Major General Harry Schmidt swept ashore on five islets flanking Roi and Ma mur between 9::51 and 6:24 p. m. Monday and the last of the beachheads was reported secured by SIP p. m., Trun1- bull said. Virtually the only opposition came from Scat- tered snipers, who quickly were wiped out.
 Great Explosions
 Even as the troops were c0nsolie dating their beachheads, artillery WdIS1lkDS d440 pA6hAAC0 GOAAuA4AeANN1 their pounding of Roi and Namur, and Trumbun said great explosions rumbled like "distanct thunder. he said.
 Eighteen Japanese planes which attempted to intercept the invasion forces were shot down and 5l mor0 were destroyed on the ground. Tho main Japanese air base for KWa@ jalien Atoll, the largest lagoon atolk in the world, was situation on Rois which was connected with supply dumps and other installations on Namur by narrow causeway and Sandbar.
 The other five islet beachhead9 in the atoll were seized by Attn veterans of the Army'S 7th infane try division on the approaches te Kwajanen Island, 40 miles south Ox Roi at one of the two principal entrances to the Lagoon anchcr~ ages.
 The combined air-sea bombard- ment had been so effective tha& not a single enemy plane was sighted during operations in the KWaJalln Island area.
 Front dispatches indicated that the marines and army troops were preparing to hurl everything from flame throwers to new type weaps ons never before used in the pa4 cific against Notifications built b1 the Japanese during the past 70 years to protect Kwajalien Atons their greatest naval base east C8 Truk.
 Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, commander of amphibi> ous forces, warned that the ops eration was going to be tough and we must expect losses,a tlAila other high sources said all 9slm dence argued against any ssls3
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-02
RabaulP PoundedAgain; Planes Destroyed

Advanced Allied Headquarters, New Guinea, Feb. 2.-(UP)- Step ped-up ground fighting in the south- west Pacific was reported today as a communique disclosed that Allied airmen gave Rabaul another pound- ing, downing g more enemy planes and hitting four Japanese ships, one 8 destroyer.
 Reports from Guadalcanal said that U. s. Army ground forces, in a combined infantry and tank as- sauIt on Japanese forces east of the Torokina river mouth on Bougain- vile Island, expanded the beach, head established by Marines on Em- press Augusta Bay on Nov. 1.
 The Army troops knocked out 20 Japanese pill boxes and killed 80 enemy troops at loss of five men killed and 10 wounded.
 "At the days end, our forces had advanced several hundred yards and
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Citation To Lux For Extraordinary Job

For an outstanding contribution to the war effort, involving savings in vital material, time, money and manpower, Frederick Lux, vice. president and treasurer of the Lux Clock company, of this city, will re- ceive an official Ordnance depart ment citation next Saturday morn ing Representatives of the Water bury and Springfield districts will be in attendance at the Lux Com pany's plant on Johnson street when Captain D. F. Linsley, repre- senting Brigadier General Drewery of Washington, D. c. presents the citation.
 Incidentally MT. Lux's method of stamping out necessary patterns for the M-103 bomb fuses has been adopted as the standard for the in- dustries of the nation. In the Lux factory alone since MT. LuX'S inven- tion more than 240,O00 pounds of brass have been saved. Estimates in other plants engaged in similar work with the local mans system ranged from 100000 to 5OO,OOO pounds of brass saved for vital needs.
 In terms of money MT. Lux's plan here saved more than $90,00O in cash. Other plants have saved proportionate amounts.
 Under the old method certain types of screw machines extremely scarce in 1941 were needed to fash ion solid bar of brass into specific proportions for the time fuse. MT Lux's plan followed the stamping process with the saving of time, en- ergy and material. It was adapted quickly to mass production and copied throughout the country. A saving of 40 cents on each fuse re- suited.
 MT. Lux, native of Waterbury, is graduate of Webster School and Crosby high school. He served overseas in the last World War. His buddies will recall the wide publicity he received lover there" and over here on his return for repairing a clock in French town The town timepiece had been on the inactive list" for years. When the troops moved in Freddie Lux went back to his former trade and repaired it. It was miracle to the natives. It was just days work for Freddie.
 The ordnance citation such as planned for MT. Lux is a rare honor and reserved for exceptional achievements. It is believed to be the first awarded in Waterbury dis trict since the start or the present World War.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-02
PROMOTION SEEN FOR LIEUT.. ). R. BENDLER

The appointment of Lieut.. Joseph R. Bender, as chief inspector of the city'S detective bureau is expected to be made at this afternoons meet ing of the Police Commissioners. It has been stated that James Wagner, previously mentioned as the most likely to receive the aforementioned appointment will instead be made a Sergeant on the regular force. Frank Romano, well known in the city as a musician and guard at the Chase Co.,, who is now a super numerary on the motor-patrol is scheduled to be made regular pa- trolman at today's meeting.
 The appointment of Lieut.. Bend- Ter as chief inspector, a position that basically pays $3,500 and now in- cludeS the $500 annual cost-of- living increase, will come as surprise to supporters of Wagner and the now acting chief-inspector Lieut.. Will liam Pollard. Bendler succeeds late chief-inspector, Captain Joseph P. Stevens who died last November.
 No other appointments are sched- uled for this afternoons meeting, 1t has been stated, but it is possible that the board may adjourn subject to the call of the chair for the pur- pose of making further appoint ments, next week, of other members of the force said to be slated for promotion or established as regu- lars.
 Among others slated for future changes, reports state, are SgtS. Jo- seph Petit and Charles McWeeney who may be made Leutenants; John Moynihan, Patrick Hughes, Ralph Baril, and Matthew Guarini, at least two or three of which will be made sergeants; and Supermnumaries August Rinaldi and Christopher De- laney who are said to be slated to be given appointments as regulars.
 It is possible that these latter ap- pointmentS will be held over until the next regular meeting after to- days.
 lieutenant Bender was appoint ed a member of the force, as Q regular partolman, February 6. 1924, after many years as a super numerary. He served with the United States army in World War I remaining overseas until 1920 as
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-02
Senate Rejects State
 Clause m Soldier BiU

Washington, Feb. 2(UP)-The Senate rejected today, g to 6S, an amendment to the pending soldier vote bill which would have provid- ed that the validity of service bal- lots should be determined sin ac- cordance with state law"
 It was the first vote on the bill since the Senate began debating 1t 10 days ago. Introduced by Sen. John H. Overton, D., La, the amendment was one of a series de- signed to guarantee state control over voting by armed service per- sonnel.
 It would have revised the section dealing with the validity of ballots As wri:tsa, this section provides that the proposed federal war bal- lot commission will baye no power to pass on the validity O8 ballot but that t;lis determination shah "be
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-02

and religiously for alternating itself from the Allies and making sep arate peace with Germany"
 Three Catholic archbishopS, two bishops and House Democratic Leader John w. Mccormack of Massachusetts also described the Russian charges as false and ridicu- Ious.
 Archbishop Michael J. Curley, head of the Baltimore Washington Archdioces, said there was not a word of truth" in the Russian statements. "Fascism is utter stu pidity in itself and certainly can't be tolerated" he declared. T know the Pope holds the same view"
 Similar statements were made by Archbishop Joseph w. SchremhS, head of the Cleveland Roman Catholic Diocese, Archbishop James McFadden, head of the Youngstown Roman Catholic Diocese, Bishop Edwin V. OHara of the Kansas City
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Guns Over Roi Island
BY ROBERT TRUMBULL Representing the combined U. s.
 Press

Distributed by the United Press)
 Off Roi Island, Kwajalein, Mar shall Islands, Feb. This morning we can hear the continuous rum- ble of bombs and shells on Roi and Namur Islands, which are hidden from our view by the heavy smoke cloud raised by the bombardment of the past S6 hoars.
 The bombardment by battleShipS, cruisers and destroyers began yester- day at dawn and with bombing and strafing by carrier planes continued throughout the day. Last night great fires flickered on Roi, principal air. base at the northern end of Kwaja- lein Atoll in the Japanese mandated MarShallS.
 Tremendous smoke clouds from burning oil and other stores swirled somberly in the soft light of quar- ter moon.
 Yesterdays landings were prelim- mary to the main assault. Before that is accomplished, Roi and Na- mur will have received the most con- centrated pounding in history, talk ing 5000 tons of naval shells at a minimum estimate, plus continu- out bombing.
 AS the brisk northeast trade wind occasionally clears the smoke, we can see through our glasses that Roi and Namur, which stood green and proud yesterday, are now terribly broken and burning. The Japanese there have had no sleep and cer- tainly must be bomb happy
 Each of these islands, which are connected by a narrow sandbar and man-made causeway, is less than a mile in area and the devasta- tion wrought by our ferociouS at- tack must be terrifying.
 Our first landing on the Island near Roi was made at 9:51 yester- day morning. There was little fir ing. Marines using grenades wiped out Japanese nests. Immediately supplies began to be landed on the narrow beach. There was no oppoSi- ton.
 Thus two years to the day since Admiral William F. Halsey's carrier force first attacked the Marshalls,
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Big Bombers Visit Wake
By H. ID. QUIGG United Press War Correspondent Representing the Combined
 U. s. PreSS)

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 Aboard U. s. Bomber leaving Wake Island, Jan. 31 - (UP) - Twelve minutes ago we wrote across Wake Island 8 blazing notice to Tokyo that a new American aerial weapon has made extreme long range bombing attacks on enemy advanced bases in actuality in the Pacific.
 Thes weapon Is the giant Coron- ado Flying boat known to the Navy as the PB2Y. This raid marked it's first offensive use. We are flying a roundtrip equal to the distance from Washington to San Francisco. It is the longest night over-water bombing strike ever made.
 Our navigators hit tiny Wake on the nose, and we dived our 35 ton planes out of a black sky in the path of a quarter moon to loose more than 20 tons of explosives on the air strips, fuel dumps and plane dispersal areas and other installa- tionS.
 We left glowing patches of orange red fire beside Wake airfield as we turned back toward our advanced base. The flames were visible for miles over the dark Pacific.
 The four -motored PB-2Y hitherto has been used exclusively for patrol ling and personnel and cargo carry ing. Tonight it has proven itself 8 lethal weapon on it's first mission mission that with invasion of the Marshall islands will open an i'm mediate threat of long-range heavy bombing sorties against Truk as new U. s. bases are set up in the Mar Shalls.
 Our attack was intended as a sur- prise for the Japanese, and as such was successful. There was little anti aircraft fire, I did not see a single searchlight, and if the Japanese had fighters they did not send them up. It was the first air thrust at Wake since Oct. 5, when carrier based planes dropped 320 tons of bombs on the atoll.
 The 500 and 1O0-pound bombs
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Moscow, Feb. @(UP)-Observers today saw tremendous" implica- tions, including the possibility that Russia will gain 16 seats at the peace table, in the Soviet Unions decision to permit its constituent Republics to conduct their own for eign policies and maintain their own army formations.
 Diplomatic circles reserved com ment, however, pending a close study of Foreign Commissar V. M. Molo- tov's constitutional change as adopt ed by the supreme Soviet last night. Qualified observers believed the proposal would result in an improve ment of the current cordial rela- tions between Russia and the other United Nations.
 Suggesting the far-reaching po- tentalities of the proposal, observers noted that the new system would resemble the organization of the British commonwealth with respect to diplomatic procedure.
 Further indicating the scope of the reorganization, it was pointed out that all but two of the 16 Soviet Republics have borders touching ad- joining states. The proposal was de- scribed as opening up whole new vista for Soviet Foreign policy after the war.
 The plan was approved by the su- preme Soviet after three-hour de- bate which followed a 43-minute ad- dress by Molotov.
 Indicating the proposal had the full approval of Premier Josef Sta lin, who sat in a back-row seat, Molotov said the diplomatic reor- ganization would grant the individ- ual republics the power "to enter in- to direct relations with foreign states and conclude agreements with them."
 The change was necessitated, he said, by the new tasks and rights of the union republics" arising from "the expansion of their activities as result of their political, economic and cultural growth"
 Molotov said the proposed reor- ganization of the Red army was designed ito permit all the peoples of the Soviet union to take their places in that army" in contrast with the old Czarist policy which
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Soviet Guns Commend
 Escape Road

Moscow, Feb. 2-(UP)-Russian troops swept westward in the Eston- ian border area on a 10-mile front today and hauled up their mobile guns within range of Narva, rail- road junction commanding the German escape corridor between Lake Peipus and the Gulf of Fin land.
 The latest official reports placed the Russian Vanguard less than a mile from Estonia, and 1t appeared likely that advance spearheads al- ready had driven across the frontier.
 Gen. Leonid A. Govorov's were pouring over the approaches to the Narva Gap, and three columns were converging on the Estonian city four miles west of the border.
 All of the three forces striking toward Narva from the east, north east mad southeast had the historic junction within artillery range.
 (Helsinki dispatches to Stockholm said a full scale evacuation of Narva is under way, with all civilians and every piece of removable property being taken out)
 GA German communiQue said strong Russian pressure continued between Lake linen and the Gulf of Finland, with heavy fighting in progress west of Novogrod, along the Leningrad- Pskov railway, and in the area of Kingisepp, the loss of which was acknowledged
 Remnants
 Govorov was throwing the rem- nants of the German forces smashed at Kingisepp back upon Narva. The battles now were shifting to the Lake PeipuS area where Peter the great and Charles II of Sweden fought for the supremacy of the Baltic centuries ago.
 Govorov's spearheads captured at least four towns, the closest only a little more than half mile away,
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made by the duly constituted eiec- ton officials of the appropriate districts, precincts, counties, or oth- CT voting units of the several states. The Overton amendment would have required that the va- lidity determination be made 'in accordance with state law" by the state voting units.
 The Senate also rejected, by voice vote, 8 second Overton amendment which would have written into the law the stipulation that ''qualifica- tions of the voters shah be determ- ined by state law.''
 Overton's third and last amend ment was defeated 10 to 6e. He said 1t was aimed at tearing the heart out of sections one and two of the 1922 law" Sections one and two
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Evening star., 1944-07-23
Browns Dealt Blow
As Potter Is Given
Layoff Of 10 Days
BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, July %. - Charged
with using foreign substance on
the ball." Pitcher Nelson Potter.
who has won nine games and lost
five for the St. Louis Browns, was
out of baseball for a Today period
today on orders from American
League President VIII Harridge.
Potter. a 33-year- old Highlander,
was accused by Umpire Cal Hub
bard. with violating the rules Of
pitching by using the "spitbau"-
outlawed for about 20 years - in
Thursday nights game in St. Louis
with the New York Yankees.
Hubbard submitted a detailed re-
port to Harridge. who investigated,
and then enforced the rule.
His suspension may have a seri-
Gus effect on the Browns, who have
slim hold on first place. How
ever, Denny Galehouse, heretofore
a part-time pitcher. has quit his
war plant job and rejoined the
team.
Club President Don Barnes to-
night said he telegraphed Harridge
in Chicago and protested the 10
day suspension as too severe be-
cause Potter has denied splitting on
the ball or wetting his fingers and
then gripping the pellet.
Barnes said he requested a hear
ing in Harridge's Office with Potter,
the three umpires working the
game and Brownie officials.
Evening star., 1944-07-23
Count Fleet Retired
As Unfit 10 Stand
Tough Training
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, July 22-After
many months of futile attempts to
bring Count Fleet back to hard
training and the races. Trainer Don
Cameron said today the colorful
colt owned by Mrs. John D. Hertz
had been retired.
Count Fleet. Cameron said, would
be shipped to the Stoner Creek
Farm in Kentucky in about 10 days,
there to be pointed for the stud.
Count Fleet. son of Reign Count
Quickly, wrenched an ankle when
he won the rich Belmont stakes last
year and has not started since. The
brown flyer was unbeaten in six
starts in l943. his triumphs in addi-
ton to the Belmont including the
Kentucky Derby. Preakness, With
ers and the Wood.
He had been given some long,
slow gallops but Cameron and John
Hertz decided to take no further
chances with the colt. considered
one Of the best of all time.
The Count was the big winner
OF 1943 with gleanings of $l74.055
despite his curtailed campaign. and
his total earnings, including those
as juvenile, scared to $3.50, 800
He won 16 of 21 starts and never
was out of the money.
Evening star., 1944-07-23
Friendship Nine Gains
Edge on Boy Stars;
Peewees in Tie

A homer by Jack Castro. all-high
center fielder who starred on the
1914 Western High championship
nine, was the big moment of Friend
ships 5-to-4 victory yesterday over
the An-Stars in the final of the
Boys Club of Washington two-day
program of all-star games in Grit
fifth Stadium.
Best efforts of two of the hurting
sensations Of the past schoolboy sea-
son. Scott Cranston of Gonzaga and
Jack Granger of Westinghouse
couldn't hold back the powerful
Friendship nine as Bobo Brown went
the distance for the winners.
All-Stars ------ 010 100 ll0-
Friendship ---- 2l0 600 20x-5
Cranston. Granger, Clouffer and
Ewald; Brown and McLarney.
In the morning game yesterday
the peewee All-Stars from Eastern
and Western Boys Club branches
battled nine long innings to an 8-to-s
vi dN. Uul WClC ecu W lcb III kI
at that so that players In the after.
noon game could run off infelc
practice.
Skippy Miles was the standout
twirler, giving up three bingles ano
tanning seven. Eastern's big inning
was the seventh. when they piled ur
five hits to bring a quintet of tallies
across the plate.
Western - OO4 100 03O-S
Es stern 800 900 5Uu-S ].
Ellis. Holmes and Strain, Davis, Devoe
Miles, Witzel and Poma.
The pair of games concluded the
all-star series initiated Friday when
Eastern insect All-Stars defeated
the Western stellar club, S to 3. and
Central Branch midgets beat West
ern All-Star midgets, 9 to g. Boys
on the eight teams were chosen
from more than 600 youngsters on
the so teams in the Boys Club base
ball leagues.