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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-31
MASSES

RYDER-Anniversa Mass of re- quiem will be celebrated Saturday morning, at 500 o'clock, at the Immaculate Conception Church, for the repose of the soul of the late Mrs. Anna Cass Ryder.
 SMITH A months mind Mass of requiem will be celebrated Satur- day morning, at 8:30 o'clock, at the immaculate Conception Church, for the repose of the soul of the late Mrs. Mary Lawlor Smith. CONLONG - A first anniversary Mass will be celebrated Saturday, April 1, 1944, at 7:30 a. m. at st. Margaret's Church for Mrs. Kath- ryn Conlong.
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wept and embraced him as the in dictment was announced.
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ODEA-A second anniversary Mass of requiem will be celebrated Sat
 iurday morning, April 1st, at 7:30 o'clock, at St. Fra ci s Xavier Church, for the repose of the soul of the late Mrs. Bridget F. O'Dea.
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Natal coal mines are working at capacity to meet the increased need for coal in Italy, India and the Mid dle East.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-31

Meantime, the coroner said, Law bragged to acquaintances of what he had done, and this eventually led to his arrest nearly six months later.
 Following a reunion with her hus-
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Evening star., 1944-06-06
Can you get them say, 1--WE Were Wrong"?

Whot good will it do down the Nazs tumpha arches
millions of sullen and boys still hold them in sacred
memory?
What good will it do burn the banners of clothofgod
and black velvet if the whirlng swaska forever
German hearts?
What good will do to stand Hitler up before firing squad
if another unknown little corporal looking gnds his teeth
and muers 'You dumnkops will forget but Germans
-never"
You and your family will be safe the peace of
your country and the world will be safe long
as one of the fierce and fertile tribes this planet
continues to believe that it should, and eventually can
conquer and rule the Others
What are you going to do obou+ il?
We TINE believe that it every citizens obi gaton
think this problem through TIMES role crusade for
any solution but it definitely is TIMES obligation give
thoughtful people the information and facts they need form
intelligent opinions
On two broad ideas there general agreement1
easy senunentaHy about the goodhearted German
people, T. the other hand, cannot extermnate the
German people without making ourselves into Hmmers.
Evening star., 1944-06-06

But when the time specific do know the facts
necessary have opinion such camorng questions
l. Who is to re-educate the German people? Teachers
imported from the United Nations? Reparated refugee
Germans of democratic faith? -. Or there enough
democratic Germans left inside Germany to do the job?
Will attempts to educate Nazism out of German
minds boomerang much resentment we shall
tualy stimulate German nationalism?
z What should be done with Germanys heavy industry her
actual and potential plants? Should they be per-
manently dismantled? Should they be operated by the
United Nations? Should they be operated by Germans
under tight United Nations surveillance?
3. How we to get back Germanys intangible 'oo-the
phony ownership her citizens have acquired in every
pany and corporation worth taking in Europe?
Different ways of answering these questions will
before the public from elected and appoine whose job
to know all about such problems When that time
the reaction of public opinion will have much do with the
plan finally adopted.
Will American public opinion be informed prepared to
throw the weight of its approval the side of the wsest choice?
Will you be informed?
your only this personally important question
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-13
Resume Seurch For Missinq Girl

Scituate, Mass, June l3-(UP)- The organized search for i0-year- old Frances McGrath. who vanished Saturday night. was resumed today after being suspended for 10 hours to permit exhausted members of the 500-man posse to sleep.
 As the soldiers, coast guardsmen, police, firemen, boy scouts and naval reseryists deployed through this south shore countryside, police Chief Michael Stewart reported that there still was no clue to the fate of the daughter Of a former Boston City Councillor.
 Though no material evidence was found to support 1t, a theory of ac- cidental drowning appeared to offer the most plausible explanation of the child's disappearance. The tide was flooding when she vanished dur ing a rainstorm enroute home from church. and authorities said her body could have been carried some distance.
 The frantic parents. Mr. and Mrs, John ]. Mcdratll. suggested tWc other theories: That she might have been killed hg a hit-rnn notogigi and her body concealed in woods: or that she might have been kid- |naped.
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While the main forces were ad4 vancing less than 12 miles soulhA east of Cherbourg, swift mobll4 American patrols Surged ahead axia probed the approaches to the port Allied Headquarters revealed.
 The Germans, meantime, were e4 timated to have thrown IA to IS d visions-one quarter of all the& armies in western Europe-irlto a4 all-out attempt to save Cherbour& one of Frances best ports and maiE objective of the first phase of thS invasion, and drive the Allies bacH into the sea.
 The highway junction of PoES L'Abbe was captured by the Amert jeans in Q five-mile advance from St. Mere Eglise, 20 miles southeas of Cherbourg, toward the we@ coast of the peninsula.
 Only eight miles southwest ul Pont L'Abbe lies the communieaA tions center of La Have Du Puts through which pass the sinKla=tracn | railway and west coast highWa3 that comprise the Cherbcure N1{H rison's last practical routes of ezl cape.
 Farther to the southeast, cthe1 American forces pushed to withiN less than six miles of the lith cen1 tury citadel of St. Lo, half wgs across the Normandy peninsula, in a developing drive to split the pellA inSula in two and isolate CherbourR GA British broadcast said azl American spearhead was engaged east of St. Lo, presumably in q hanking move)
 Gain Ground
 British and Canadian tanks and infantry also gained new ground between St. To and the eastern pert meter of the 80-mile- Allied beachhead beyond, Caen, but both Caen itself and Tilly-Sur- -SeulIea II miles to the west and 2l Mile4 east of St. To, remained in German hands in fierce see-saw fighting.
 General Dwight D. EisenhoWeris 18th communique - marking the start of the second week of the he
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Films Fight Desperately As Reds Push
BY M. s. HANDLER


 Moscow, June l3-(UP)-Finland hurled fresh reserves into battle on the Karelian Isthmus today. in desperate effort to stall the new Russian offensive, but the Soviets were reported still advancing on a broad front less than 40 miles from Viipuri.
 GA Helsinki dispatch to the United Press said civilians were preparing to evacuate Viipuri and other Kare- lian towns. BEG said the evacua- ton already had begun)
 Finnish resistance stiffened all along the front as fresh troops streamed from Helsinki and the north into long prepared concrete and wooden defenses in the woods and marshes below Viipuri, Fin lands third largest city:
 Gen. Lenoid A. Govorov's Lenin- grad armies, however, gained an- other six miles on a 23-mile front yesterday and overran more than 30 towns and villages, boosting to 110 the number seized in the first three days of an offensive designed to knock Finland out of the war.
 One Soviet column broke through the southern terminus of a paved highway from Viipuri with the cap. ture of Kivennapa, 40 miles south. east of Viipuri and 32 miles north west of Leningrad, in Q five-mAe advance.
 At the western end of the offen- sive front, a coastal force seized Vammelsun, 45 miles south of Viii juri and l6 miles across the pre- 1889 Russian Finnish border. The border was mood north of viipuri following the 1939-4O Russian Fin nish war.
 RaivOla Captured
 Raivola, 42 miles southeast of Viii puri on the main Helsinki-Lenin- grad railway, also was captured.
 Completely through the new Man nerheim line built by the Films following their initial advance of the present war in the summer of 194l, the Red Army now was ap- preaching an intermediate defense line south of a third defense belt protecting the immediate outskirts of Viipuri.
 Even the intervening terrain be- tween the enemy defense lines was interlaced with pillboxes and other
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l Deod, ' Hurt In $1,5O0, ,000 Fire

Boston, June 13. CUP)-An un- Identified man was burned to death and seven others were hurt during a Si.6OO 900 general alarm fire that was quelled early today after rag ing eight hours through two West RoxbuTy buildings housing eight manufacturing firms.
 The blaze was heralded by series of heavy explosions that rocked the nearby residential area, shattered windows for several blocks and a-at up Q pillar of fame that was visible more than 10 miles away.
 victim of the fire was believed the watchman though Fire Chief Samuel Pope side the body recoy. cred from the ruins was SO charred that immediate Identification was impossible.
 Fireman Martin Kenealey. 4S. and Francis Connors, b2. both of Dor chester and Joseph Ford, 34. or South Boston were hospltalized E1tn burns sustained ln a valiant but ukl- successful effort to rescue the yle- tims. Four other firemen sustained minor burns or cuts in battling the flames,
 The fire started in a rambling four-story structure housing the Morgan Furniture co. and flremen said that the explosion may have coesn from varnlsh stored on the fourth floor where kitchen furniture is made It was in this building that fhe victim was trapped
 Flames spread through the build ing that houses seven firms include lng a rubber company. then leape6 10 Ahe adjacent five-story building hnuzlng the 4. [. Tower Manufae-
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Eye Witness Reporter Tells or The He'll At Carentan And The BraDery or Men

The colonel parked the orders into the radio. We heard his singsong. "Okay, firel" then, 'on the way" The shells went over with freight train rush. We watched the Ger man pillboxes disappear in clouds and dust. with flashes of vivid red flame.
 Thank God for that one," whis- pered the parson. ''rhat had to be placed just right. because otherwise 1t would have hit our kids lying out there in the gutters."
 Knows His Fighting
 The parson knows his fighting, be- cause he has been in the thick Of 1t since he parachuted down on D. Day. Doctors and stretcher bearers told me later he had stayed in the front line. holding shattered arms and legs. injecting morphine and ad- jtisting splints under fire. Just then It, Jack 4. Borehert, Denver. Colo. came in for a per- sonal report because his portable radio had been knocked out. He gave closeup description of the ! paEBont "heli".
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-13
9th Strikes On Biok Isle

Allied Headquarters Southwest Pacific, June 13.-(UP)-The Amer ican Sixth Army, supported by tanks and artillery, has started a drive toward Sorido and Borokoe air fields, the enemy's last remaining stronghlods on Biak Island, it was disclosed today
 Striking out from newly-captured Mokmer airdrome, the infantrymen began their advance Sunday against stiff Japanese resistance, a spokes- man said, and were moving west and north toward the two airfields, the farthest only two miles from Mok- mer.
 The drive had been delayed while the ground, air and naval forces combined to clean out enemy nests in the cliffs, isolated by the capture of Mokmer.
 Other American troops. operating far to the east, continued to mop up isolated Japanese pockets in the Holiandia- Aitape area, with patrols killing an additional 223 enemy through Sunday. Total enemy cas- ualties in the sector now stand at 4,795. including 62s prisoners.
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Noxon Cop Takes Stand
BY JOSEPH NOLAN
~I WVDKSN M 4NOH~HHHN United Press Staff CorrespOnden


 Pittsfield, Mass, June 13-(UP) Atty. John F. Noxon Jr. told po- lice a few days after his defective sons electrocution that "the Noxon family is doomed" a police witness testified today at the socialite's mur- der trial.
 Police Chief John L. Sullivan of Pittsfield told Superior Judge Abra- ham E. Pinanski and the jury that the 47-year-old defendant had made the statement in the presence of other police officers and Dist. Atty. Charles R. Alberti.
 You told us, John, that the Noxon family was doomed,' said to him." Sullivan testified. What did you mean by that?'
 John replied, I was thinking about all the trouble my father had, and all the trouble I have had, and now along comes this baby and more trouble
 The defendants father, one time district attorney of Berkshire Coun- ty, lost both legs in a trolley acci- dent. Noxon himself was gassed during World War I and later suf- fered an attack of infantile para lysis.
 Seeking conviction and death penalty, the prosecution charges that defendant deliberately electro cuted his 6-month-old son. :.
 Sullivan said he openly accused NoXon of murdering the baby.
 John said, why would I want to kill my own son?' Sullivan tes- tified.
 "'Well,' I said. you knew he was going to be sickly and you knew from your own experience what that would mean. John. I know you killed the baby
 John made no answer, later, he
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Soviets Open New Drive

Stockholm, June 13.-UP)-A Helsinki dispatch to the newspaper Aftonbladet said today that the Red Army had opened an offensive in the far north, attacking German positions along the LitSa river which empties into the Barents Sea 35 miles west of Murmansk.
 The reported offensive at the northern end of the Finnish front followed by three days the Red Army attack on the Karelian Isthmus above Leningrad. where the Films were being driven back toward Vii- puri.
 The Helsinki dispatch said the Russians attacked on the Arctic front after a violent artillery bar rage.
 Col. Gen. Eduard Die.l is reported to have about seven German di- visions along the upper end of the Soviet Finnish front, which has seen relatively little activity in this war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-13
CenSorS Dote On Love Notes

Washington, June 13 - (U.P0 - The prospect of questioning literal ly hundreds of State Department employees who like to read love let ters' today faced a senate post office subcommittee tracing the leak that permitted publication of censored excerpts from the mail of Vivien Kellems, Connecticut war plant owner.
 State. Department witnesses told the committee yesterday that in some divisions of the department, everyone but the office boys and char-women", had chance to read intercepted correspondence trans mitted by the office of censorship.
 The committe is in temporary re- cess today but expects to resume hearings tomorrow.
 George P. Shaw, assistant chief oi the State Departments Foreign Ac- tivities Correlation Division, saic that people in his department en. joyed peeking at censured love let ters. He said that "any one of l0( persons" could have copies excerpts from the letters that passed be- tween Miss Kellems and Count Frederick Won Zedlitz, German steel agent in Argentina.
 Shaw estimated that perhaps 500 people, in all could have seen the questioned letters in the entire State Department, including one identified only as Jackson" He said Jackson, a $l,620 8 year Negro em- ploye, is responsible for burning all intercepts not kept on file.
 Censorship Director Byron Price told the committee that intercepts have dropped of in the last few weeks-"since publication of these stories which indicate that We are really censoring them"
 People he said, are becoming more careful" in what they write to overseas correspondents.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-13
PresidentIs Is Optimistic
 About Wor
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BY MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent

Washington, June i3.-(UP)- President Roosevelt left with the nation a forecast today that the defeat of Germany, being pressed simultaneously from three direc- tions, will make 1t possible ito force the Japanese to unconditional syr- render or to national suicide much more rapidly than has been thought possible"
 Tn @ nationally broadcast address opening the $16,000, 100000 Fifth War Loan Drive, MT. Roosevelt last night gave an up-to- the-minute re- view Of the global war in which he acknowledged that the start of the northern army of the Allied drive against Germany-the invasion of France-had been costly.
 From the standpoint of our en- emy We have achieved the impos- sible," he said. we have broken through their supposedly impregna- ble wall in northern France. But the assault has been costly in men and materials.
 Some of our landings were des- perate adventures; but from advices received so far, losses were lower than our commanders had estimated would occur. We have established a firm foothold and now are prepared to meet the inevitable
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Foe Fights At Coen
By RICHARD D. MCMILLAN United Press War COrresuonfemfl

By RICHARD D. MCMILLAN United Press War CorrespondentI
 In the Battle Line with the Bri~ tish Forces, France. June 12 - (us P0 - Shattered tanks - German Mark TVS and Allied Shermans dot the wheatfields stretching of toward Caen marking the high wac ter mark of the Germans latest at@ tempt to dislodge the Canadiaus from this sector. We've held tke thrust and now we're hammering back along the road to Caer, village by village.
 My vantage point is British gun in thicket. For the moment it is silent and am able to climb on top of 1t for a better view of the hatti0 of Caen up ahead, which has been going on steadily for days now.
 Massed machine guns are laying down a terrific barrage on a heavily wooded slope in which the Germans are lurking in strength. The mediuru Vickers guns pour volley after v0le ley from 6 poppy-smothered field.
 The air is filled with q denfenin& chatter as their leaden han rips the foliage of the woods.
 This is our second shoot this morning" the major commanding the machinegsfnners. says, "As s0oH as we've cleared this we are aeinE
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Churchill Sees Borraqe
By EDWARD V. ROBERTS

By EDWARD V. ROBERTS United Press War COrrespOndent) Representing Combined U. s. Press)
 Adanced Allied Command Post, June 13-(UP)-A Shuddering naval barrage hurtled into the German held coast below Cherbourg. The destroyer H. M. S. Kelvin coaSted to a stop. A stocky figure went to the rail and trained his binoculars. For 10 minutes he studied the effect of the Allied fire, nervously biting on cigar.
 Then the prime minister thrust his cigar to a jaunty angle. lowered the binoculars, smiled and gave the V sign with his fingers" correspond ents on the Kelvin reported today.
 The guns of the fleet still were laundering as the vessel bearing Winston Churchill, Premier Jan Christian Shuts of South Africa and Gen. Sir Alan Brooke, chief of the imperial general staff, resumed its course to the Allied beachhead.
 Robert Barr, representing the combined Allied press, said most shippers seemed to recognize the figure on the bridge as the destroyer threaded through shipping so thick it Hooked like some vast industrial town with miles of closely-set smokeStacks. Many ships gave the familiar V-signal with their whistles.
 The party stepped ashore just after noon at the point the Cana dian vanguards stormed on D-Day.
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1,4OO Tons Of Bombs Blitz Nazi Synthetic Oil Center
BY WALTER CRoNKITE

United Press War COrres0pndent)
 London, June l3-(UP)-Amer- ican Flying Fortresses attacked three enemy airfields in France to- day and fighter-bomber scared out over the channel as clearing wealth. CT permitted increased Allied aerial assaults on German communica- tions leading to the Normandy bat tlefront.
 The steady daylight blows on the enemy's rear lines followed a smash ing attack by more than 1000 RAF bombers last night when they dropped 400 tons of bombs, in- cluding six-ton super-blockbusters on the German synthetic oil center at Gelsenkirchen and four impor- .tant- -ran junctions In France.
 Targets singled out by the Eighth Air Force Fortresses this morning were the airfields at Evreux-Fau- vile, Dreux and Illieres-Lebeque midway between Paris and the fighting lines in Normandy.
 Mustangs, Thunderbolts and Lightnings. which formed the es- cort for heavy bombers, also carried out offensive patrols behind the enemy positions and dive-bombeo a wide variety of targets.
 At dawn Marauders and Havocs headed across the channel only four hours after the last Marauders re- turned from yesterdays attacks on railways, fuel dudmps and other military targets in wide arc stretching from just behind the battle lines to far inland.
 A German transocean news agen- cy broadcast from Berlin reported fierce air battles over the entire invasion area early today and said the intensity was likely to increase through the day. Transocean claimed that up to Il a. m. (6 a. m. EWT) this morning, 43 Allied planes had been shot down in com bats as furious as any previous invasion air battles.
 Transocean reported also that
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HiIImon Says CIO Must ~ Vote FDR =

Washington, June 13.-(UP)-The CIO political action committee, in view of what we think the Republi- can party is going to do," has no choiee but to support President Roosevelt for reelection, Chairman sidney Hillman said today.
 Tostifying ct a hearing of the senate campaign expenditures corn- mittee. in which Republican and Democratic members clashed over charges that CIO witnesses were be- ing "harassed." Hillman said his organization is urging the Demo- cratic party to draft" the President and will continue to support him after the Chicago convention If he is nominated.
 Hiilman had said in a statement that his committee is violating no laws and that if congress is going to turn the spotlight on organized political activity, it ought also to investigate groups spawned by big business" He said the C1O com mittee does not object to being investigated but added:
 We take exception only to the fact that labor has been singled out as a target"
 Sen. Joseph H. Ball, R., Minn, asked Hillman if CIO poster display cd a portrait of the President with the legend, "l-A in our draft" could be squared" with provisions of the Smith Connally nti-strike act which ban campaign contributions by labor unions.
 Hillman turned the question over % John J. Apt. political action counsel, who told Ball that the pos- ter is not a contribution to a cam paisn' because there isn't any can1- paign.
 No Campaign
 No one has been nominated yet" ABT said, ESQ there isn't any cam paign. I would say this comes under the heading of an expenditure; rather than contribution"
 Well, then, MT. Hillman," Ball said, that means that after the president is nominated and a cam paign is on that you will stop sup porting him?"
 Tn view of what we think the
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