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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-18
Cool Here
 For 4 While

The temperature in downtown Waterbury was 8 mere 16 degrees at noon today, as showers which began yesterday afternoon broke the heat wave q day earlier than Rntls ejpated,
 Much G00leT weather commencing tanlght and continuing at least until "Wednesday Is the weather bureau forecast
 During the past eight days, the average daily high temperature was a3 degrees, Yesterdays high Of N9 vas one degree below the allvtime high for the date set in 1885,
 Yesterdays Fainst0rm, which brought ,a3 inches of rain to the city, was accompanied by only minor electrical disturbances here, alr though severe electrical storms Oes enFFed lD several western coHnees HeNt towns,
 One lightning bolt here struck Q diVaD on the third n0Ng at 10 Bids well street, where Ivory French was resting Ng, French eFtllglIshed the small blaze which started Np,
 Alth0Rghg coming e00leF temperas tllFes are expected to end the ice scarcity, the local office Of the Southern New England Ice %, agalD closed lts doors shortly after noon today, 4 shipment Of natural Ice from Pittslleld, Mass, tonight, is expected 10 take care 0f t0m0FS
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MASS FOR WvASIONOF
 KONIGSDEWG

Moscow. August IS.-(UP) - The 3rd White Russian Army, massing along a broadening front on the Szeszuppe river border OI East Prussia, began an in- tcnSive air and artillery bOEnbardmcnt today prepar- atOry tO a fuII-scale drive across the frontier toward K0nigsberg in the first invaS- ion of the ''hOIy soil" of Ger many in this war.
 (An NEG broadcast from Moscow said reports had reached the Soviet capital that the Red Army had al- ready crossed the East Prussian bor- derD
 Soviet patrols already may haze pushed across the marrow, shallow Szeszuppe into Gcrmany's eastern- most province to test enemy resist ance. but there was no evidence yet that the long-eXpected advance tl force had started.
 Russian mobile guns, rushed up to the east bank and arrayed in close order. joined Red Air Force bomh- CTS in laying down a pulyerizng bomhardment designed to hatteil barbed wire entanglements. pill- boxes and other defenses hastily thrown llp 5y the Germans behind the frontier in the past few weeks
 Gen. Ivan D. CherniakOysky's 3rd Army reached the Prussian border yesterday on both sides Of the -KOngsberg railway north west of Mariampole. smashing to within 4i miles east of the big rail- way junction Of Insterburg and B2 miles of K0nigsberg.
 Steadily broadening and widening his hold on the east bank of the Szeszuppe to protect the Soviet Hanks, cherniakhoysky swept up 30 Lithuanian towns and villages
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BuIsors Seen Ewing Peace

Ankaga, Aug, i8-(UP)-Phe Ger mans were reported today to have taken back the tanks, aiFplanes and other war materials they once gave to tine Bulgarian army, after Pre- mier Ivan RagrianoY told the Bul. garian parliament that he would seek peace with the Allies,
 Asserting that peace VII pc cons eluded by those who will assure llD- erty and freedom for all nations, BaeTlanOy made an open bid Tor the Allies not to be oyeF-haFd on Balga- ria, which was the first enemy sonnS 'tTy tG eapitulate in World War ],
 Reports reaching diplomatic elFS eles jn Ankara today that war ma teIlals had been withdrawn from the Rulgarlan army were taken ns an obvious sign that the Nazis no long' or trust the BulgaTs and fear the weapons might be turned against Germany,
 hagTianOy, who became premier only two and half months ago, charged that the previous govern Dlent had taken the country into
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Strike Aids Fr. Patriots

London, Aug. I8-(UP)-Increas. ing patriot activities throughout France. including the almost com. plete liberation of Haute- -Sayoit Province, were augmented today by q police strike in Paris and thu galkout of thousands Of rail work CTS who tied up one fifth of the French railroad system.
 Street fighting was said to bf raging in Paris where local police left their jobs with the approach Of American armofed columns to the outskirts.
 A resistance leader reaching the British front in France, told the United Press that Premier Pierre Laval, Security Minister Joseph Dapnand, and other cOllaboratiopisi officials, fled Vichy to Metz fol- lowing the invasion Of southern France.
 The patriot, who had just left Paris, said it was not known if Marshal Henri Philippe Petaln ac' eompanied Laval, although an at- tempt was being made to induce him to leave Vlehy, He reported the Viehyites now In Metz, would go into Germany when NaEl troops Te- treat across the Rhine,
 German bToadeasts admitted that rail workers had struck on the main lines running north and east
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Rebt. TsyIov Exhibits Wooden Bullets

Newbnryp0rt, Mass Aug le " (uPD " Maritime Commander R0v bert E, Taylor today displayed clips of purplesdyed w00deT bullets which he brought home from 2 shattered German plllb0S on the Normandy heaehhead,
 The bullets were iD steels Jaeketed cartridges and differed eonsldeFas ably from the standard mlssle, They were designed to be fired from hlgh' powered rifles, Taylor said,
 He explained the pellets could be. come embedded ln . wound with the splnteFs undeteelable by K-TRys.
 Reports have discFedlted use 0l the wooden bullets against Allied invasion forces, claiming that they WeEe German practice ammunition which might have been fired in lso' lated instances when other Ains nlunltlon vas exhausted.
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{ Men Steel Sofe With $IO,OO0

Medf0rd, Mass, Aug, IB-lUPl- W0uT men stole Q safe containing sl0000 ln cash, security and jewels from the home of Medf0rd bus' lness woman early today and es, eaped in an automobile toward H0meEVille,
 Though details were not immed' ltaely available, nelghboFs said the safe was the property Of Miss gloTs enee 0abaFlnO, 70, owner Of Q Bos' ton firm, Part of the loot was be- lieyed to have been the payroll tor her firm,
 The safe, which apparently was carried from the house to the ear. was described as tE0-Rnd'0ne'h 'hali feet high. 4 police report said the burglars were between 70 end so years old.
 No one vas lH the house when the robbers arrived,
 Miss dahaTlno had the safe ln. stalled in her home three months ago after she lost her p0cketboek containing ei400, The money and puTHe were recovered
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Huge Fire
 Rozes HuIf |Of Old Town

HarbOr Grace. Newfoundland, Aug. l8-(UPD-Half of this four and a half century-old town was in smoking ruins today following a s2.- 5O0!000 fire which started tn a jam factory yesterday and spread with lightning swiftness through tindeT- dry buildings and homes.
 The fire started In the eastern end of the town, famed as the take- off point for TTansaflantig likllfE l5 years ago. and, famed by Q brisk breeze swept eastward along both sides of the narrow winding street that follows the waterfront.
 Workers in the fish wllarves were having their luncheon respite from the sweltering humidity when the alarm sounded from the i00-year- old bell tower. People pushed into the streets to see a heavy pail of smoke and ribbons of flames issuing from the jam factory.
 The volunteer fire brigade. the only fire company" in this town Of 3.200. left their lunch pails to man a creaky ld-fashiOned two-wheel hose wagon. With a gasoline pump CT drawing water from the ocean, they began the almost impossible job of fighting the racing flames.
 But the equipment was inadequate and the fire spread through build ings dried by five days of intense heat. An alarm was sent out to nelghboring villages and soon 2O0O volunteers were on the job. Amer ican and Canadian service men drove oyer 70 miles of highway in 50
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TmeAdUanced Forming NeU League OfNations

As little as two weeks ago AmeFlr can officials were talking ln terms Of the final conference being held early next year, or more probably ln the spring Of ge46, But Secretary Of State o0Fdell Hull VI noted for caution lD predicting any future event-anD0un yesterday that 2 full dress and final conference of all the United Nations to create the new organization would be held as soon as possible, probably s0meE tlHge iD the Pall,
 Looking f0V what has happened ID the last two weeks to step up Ule schedule so dVastieally, the Fee0ga showed two Items that appeared % have played big roles
 !, The British delegation t0 the world security talks whleh begin here Monday announces US ReFee' Eaent with the American plan,
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75O Bombers Blifz Dromes

London, Aug. iB - OU.PD More than 750 American heavy bombers attacked four German airhelds. an aIrplane engine plant and two fuel storage depots in eastern Ffahce and the Paris area today, while other Allied aircraft bombed and strafed remnants of the beaten GeF- man Seventh Army as 1t fled north- east towards ROuen.
 Meanwhile, a fleet of some DUO Liberators and Flying ForGesses based in Italy attacked German OH installations at Ploesti, R0mania, for the second consecutive day, ana other oil refineries at cAmpina, " miles northwest of PlOesti.
 The U. s. second tactical air force announced the early operations as coastal observers reported a huge fleet of Allied bomberS crossing the Dover Straits with strong force Of eseorting fighters late today.
 Eighth Air Force tighteF'bombeFs, sweeping over the German escape route in France and Belgium, eaught about 800 German foot sol- diers in a field l5 miles southwest of COmpiegne and killed or wounded nearly half of them with machine. gun fire. A nearby military train of six cars also was sifated,
 The U, s, second tactical air force announced the early operations as coastal observers reported q huge fleet of Allied hOmhers crossing the Dover Straits with Q strong force Of ese0rling fighters late today
 Eighth Air Force flghter-bombeFs, sweeping over the German escape route m France and Belgium,
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Two Escaped P.Ws Nobbed

Gilead, Me, Aug. Ie - (UP1 " Two German prisoners of war whe escaped August 8 While cutting wood at West Milan, N, E., were seized last night about 8 mile west Of here by q deputy sheriff and 6 passerby, 1t was revealed today,
 4, Souey. FBf head at Boston, said the prisoners, Johnny 6ars stet and Gerhard ", PrageF, were apprehended by Deputy Sheriff Prank 4, Hunt of oxford County and cy coyle of dilead about l0;SO last night, He said they had tFavel- ed less than 30 miles since their escape, The men are housed at Camp Stark ln Percy, N II,
 Three prisoners still are at large from Camp Stark, They are pFelse Bacher who escaped August 5 eR9 Johnny Hoffman and Rsnn0 kelpv per who escaped August IS,
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It. Gen. George $. Patton's armored forces were across the last natural barriers be- fore Paris anc swinging in at a pace that threatened to bring the old French capital under siege within a matter of hours.
 At the same time, Ameri- can, British and Canadian armies were on the march in the north, cutting to shreds the last enemy units remain ing in the Norma dy pocket and plunging through the enemy lines cast and northeast of that now-sprung trap.
 Tens of thousands Of paniclzy Nazis fled before the new Allied push in the north, and United Press War Correspondent Richard D. McAfillan reported thta the Germans were being hunted like rats"
 Hundreds of enemy troops were slaughtered by Allied tank gunners and motorized infantrymen who raced into the ranks of the stam- peding Nazis to cut across their line Of retreat eastward to the Seine.
 Many more surrendered, and Mc~ Milan said all the captiyes admit ted their army had been completely defeated.
 Tt looks as is the entire German 7th Army is going to be wiped out either before or on the Seine" Me- Milan quoted an Allied headquar- ters spokesman as saying. Some of our men have been fighting almost without a break for the past five days. They manage to carry on be- couse they realize they are in on the greatest victory Of Allied arms in the west-and the greatest de- feat the Germans ever suffered in western Europe"
 Germans BeWildered
 McAfillan said the German front had lost all cohesion and that chief resistance came from isolated bands of suicide troops who fought to the death in pockets far behind the Allied spearheads.
 On the Paris front, only weak rearguards appeared to be opposing the American march and German radio reports hipted that the enemy might abandon the city without a struggle.
 Allied headquarters refused to locate the most advanced spear heads. but German accounts told of savage tank fighting last night around St. Arnoult. barely 22 miles southwest of the city gates on the main chartres-Paris highway.
 American troops also reaheed Au- thOn. 28 l-2 miles southwest of Paris, and the German Transocean News Agency said heavy fighting was in progres near Etampes, nine miles east of Author and 24 miles
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5 Boys Admit Killing Mon

Boston, August IS, lUP) - Five teeD.age RoEbury boys con. fessed today to the murder and robbery Of Marine Sgt, John r, Prunty Of the South End, whose body was found beside 8 bride path in the FeDway Sunday,
 Police It. John J, Watkins anS nouneed the confessions after the boys had been questioned separately for hours at the Back Bay station, He said all five would be aTTalgned in ROxbuTy district court on mufdeF and robbery charges,
 The boys, one of them l6 and the others lb, confessed that they pounced on Prunty, husky Marine veteran Of tw0 wars, as he strolled along the bTidle path, battered him unconscious and then stFangled him with his own belt,
 They admitted that they robbed him Of el29- money which he had received 9 fey days earlier when he was hon0fably discharged from the Marines because of 0YaFsage, It was
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Fitzpatrick Helped Plant
 At Guam

Ny Sergeant James r. MOseF, IT,.
 a Marine Corps Combat Corr
 respondent.
 Guam -(Delayed)-A Marine Corps Combat Correspondent. Ser geant Raymond J. Fitzpatrick. Of 62 Pleasant St.. Waterbury. Conn. formerly of the staff of the Water bury Democrat used a .30-calibeg machine gun and a carbine to cover two Marine officers who planted the first American flag to fly over Guam since December. I04l.
 Sergeant Fitzpatrick was assigned tO an amphibian tractor outfit to report its activities in the invasion. Six minutes after the first wave of assault troops storned the shore, he had dropped his pencil and pad and was exchanging shots with the Japanese snipers and 20 nm. enemy gun. Two minutes later he was beside the officers, using his carbine. The flag waved on a boat hook staff.
 On approaching the shore. the tractor crew of three had been for" bidden to fire. as other tractors were ahead. Reaching the shore, the men and officers jumped from the ma chine, leaving Fitzpatrick aboard. Mortar shells, sniper bullets and 20 nm. shells were flying close. A second tractor, loaded with Marines was blown up by mortar fire imme" diately behind,
 Seeing the proximity Of well eoD- eealed snipers close to the officers struggling with the flag, Fitzpatrick
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Fed refining For All Boys
 Is Proposed

Washington. Aug. I9 - (UP) - President Roosevelt recommended a nationwide study of a plan whereby American boys, after the war would serve their government for one year in some form Of federal training. not necessarily military.
 Mr. Roosevelt told a news con- ference he thought some advantage should be taken Of the tremendous training and housing facilities which will be left in this country after the war,
 He suggested that the people study the general idea of having about 1000 GOO boys a year between the ages Of IT and 22 or g undergo a i2-mOntb training course.
 MT. Roosevelt said he thought # would be beneficial for the youth of the country to learn, after the war, how to live together jn clean- illness and under decipline.
 He explained in detail why the naval and military training facili- ties constructed for this war and used in training 10000, GOO men were infinitely better than those of the last war. This wars facilities pF0b- ably would have . life of 25 years or better with normal care, he said.
 With this capacity for about s. A0000O0 beds, the president said there were two or three obvious uses to which these buildings could be put;
 ]. Caring for sick and wounded veterans,
 2, Vocational training Of Veter- ans,
 3, Training young men Of the nation who would given, as he put
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Philippines es Drive Grows

Gen. Douglas MaeArthuT's air forces pressed their campaign against the Philippines today while other American warplanes were res vealed to have struck at enemy bases throughout the Paeie. including the Bonin Islands. $50 miles from Tokyo.
 Tn the latest attack on the Philip- pines, Allied bombers sank Q 1000 ton Japanese nleFchantman in DavaO Gulf Of Mindana0 Island and the communique said the aerial campaign against shipping In the M0lueeas threatened" the enemy's vital Philippines -Halmahera de- tense land.
 MaeArthuF said the steady air assault had forced the Japanese to defend on small ships, inadequate for munitions and aviation gasoline, to supply the outlying gaFFlsons on Halmahera.
 The lack Of supplies 0p HalmaheTs was evidenced by the fact that the American LibeFatOrs met no oppo- sltiOn on their last attack when they dumped ST tons Of bombs on the Miu airdr0me and destroyed or damaged 23 parked planes,
 Army Lherat0Hs again raided the large Japanese base of chlehl Jima in the Bonlns, meeting moderate to intense antl-Rireraft fire, but the e0mmunique did not disclose re" suits of the attack.
 In other raids, b0mhers hit Mang. 3l6 miles north of salpan, and nearby Pagan Island in the AoFth- eFp MaTianas,
 Navy search planes Falded Nauru, east Of the Gllbegts, and c0rsalFs struck at Mal0elap tn the MaFshels,
 Aleutian-based Army planes again hit the Japanese naval base 0g PaTamushiro In the Northern ku' rifles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-18
FotheV, Daughter In Double Wedding

south Portland. Me, Aug. Is. -lUPD--Nerman Ed Anderson ef south Portland was sched- uled Co wed Miss Olive Eough- ty of BtsTpsweli and his daugh- ter, Norma F. Anderson. will be married t0 Leo u. Clifford of East Hiram in a double ceremony at the Anderson homae tonight.
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US. TROOPS SMASH FOES
 RESISTANCE

Rome, August I8. - (UP) - American field guns bom- barded the outer defenses of Toulon, Frances main naval base. today as tanks and mobile infantry smashed through crumbling German resistance to within seven miles or less of the strong hold in converging drives from the east and northeast.
 Some 55 miles to the northeast, other American forces at the op- posite end of the beachhead were expected momentarily to burst into Cannes, Riviera resort town, after capturing La Nap0ule. three and a half miles from its outskirts.
 GA correspondent broadcasting from Army headquarters in Italy for the combined radio networks this morning reported the Americans were in the outskirts of Cannes, but a later CHS broadcast from the same headquarters placed them four and a half miles from Cannes and said other troops had reached the second chain of the Maritime Alps and secured their lines against counter-attacks)
 (A German communique said sev- eral Allied attempts to land troops behind Toulon and Marseille had failed, but acknowledged that the Allies had widened and reinforced their ,eachheadD
 "A report reaching Madrid from Vichy said French forces of the in- terior had engaged the Germans m sharp street fighting in Marseiile and it's Euburbs).
 Fast-roiling American and French flying columns between the two Hanks were striking steadily north- ward more than 90 miles inland, severing German communications and ehopping up disorganized gar" vison forces into isolated pockets Tor easy contest.
 5,oo0 Prisoners
 More than 1000 prisoners already have been captured, oenefal DIT Henry Maitland Wilson, supreme Allied commander, reported in his fourth coInmunique of the invasion, ana the count still was not com" plete. Among those in Allied hands was a German general and his stan presumably seized by Amerlcan paratroops who landed 100 miles in- land.
 Allied Casualties for the first two and a half days of the invasion were revealed to have been fewer than 300 killed, wounded or missing out of the tens of thousands of men put ashore. The total was less than olle- tenth the losses suffered by the 56th Division alone in its unsuccessful attempt to cross the Rapido near
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Entire German Front From Capital To Channel Coast Collapsing In Bloody Rout

Supreme Headquarters, AEF, August lS. - tUP) - Three American columns reported racing through the outer suburbs of Paris broad arc 2l l2 to 28
 miles from the city gates today and front dispatches said coast coapSing in the bloodeSt Naz rout of the western war.
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Fall TeFm Begins Sept, c. Register New, Post JMnlaF College 0f G0ms meFee, % Central Aye.
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By Sergeant James r. MOseF, Jr.. a Marine Corps Combat Cor respondent.
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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-09-23
UAW-CIO-
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tCOntinued FROM rage -
among other things the following
program:
To Air Discrimination
A sum of so thousand dollars
shall be appropriated from the ed
ucation fund for the making OF
films in the coming year. and that
at least one film be made dealinG
with the problem of discrimination
and that one film be made dealing
with the history OF our union.
The committee calls attention al.
so to the need of an active pro
gram dealing with the problem OF
ant-Semitism. anti-Catholicism OF
any other anti-democratic activity
which certain reactionary forces il
this country are trying TO use t.
divide the labor movement.
Twenty-four hundred d 'ngateS
attended the convention.
A great deal of credit for the
behind the scenes fight for Negro
advancement in the UAW-CIO con-
vention IN Grand Rapids last week
must be given 10 Villa G. Grant
president Of Ford Local 600.
Grant threw all of his strength
TO the group that was interested in
securing pasts for Negroes in the
top positions Of the international
He made the nominating speech fol
Shelton Tapes for vice president