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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16
HEAVIEST RAID EVER ON bERL| Z, 300 Short Tons Of fPuIverizing Bombs
 BIitz Ravished City Tn Twenty Minutes
Yank Shells Denolish Ancient Shrine, Benedictine Monastery Blasted In
 "A War Is War" B0mbardment

Allied H e a dquarters s, Naples, February 16. = (UP) = American shellfire beat mercilessly into the smoking ruins of the ancient Bene- dictine Monastery atop Mount Casino today, while 5th Army i n f a n t r y m n massed on the mountain slopes for a climatic assault on Nazi gunnerS still holding out on the hilltop.
 An official headquarters announcement said the mon- astery was destroyed = for the fourth time in its 1,415- year history = by the drum fire of bombs and shells hurled against it yesterday.
 It was indicated, however, that desperate German gum ners had dug in again this morning in the broken mass of rubble and were fighting on under a steady lombard ment from American field guns placed in the valley below.
 The Allied communique revealed that fighting in the Cassino area and on the Anzio beachhead below Rome Slackened almost to a stand still as the Allied bombing fleets swung into action in an effort to blast the German armies in western Italy into submission.
 American tanks and infantrymen were reported to have penetrated about one third of the way through the streets of Casino, while other American units moved slowly up the slopes of Mount Cassino under cover of the artillery barrage.
 British and American patrols clashed repeatedly with German units in the Aprilia sector of the AIlZlO DcdCIulSdQ d1AO dlOu1AO VAAS village of Sessano on the Cisterna- Littoria road, six miles south of CiS- terna.
 Headquarters spokesmen acknow- 1edged that the Germans had re- gained possession of Aprilia, a key strongpoint on the northern flank of the 5th army beachhead.
 Allied warships, including an un- Identified American cruiser, joined in the attack on the German coastal positions, adding their fire to the carpet of bombs laid down by the Anglo-American air forces.
 The communique also revealed that British destroyers again attack ed German installations on the Adriatic Island of Korcula, off the Jugoslav coast, Saturday night.
 Active patrol fighting flared up all along the British 9th army front in eastern Italy. The Germans launch
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affect federal indictments charging Chaplin with violating the Mann act and conspiring to deprive Miss Barry of her civil liberties. His lawyers pointed out, however, that the indictments were based largely upon the testimony of the red haired girl from Brooklyn.
 Chaplin appeared secretly yester- day morning at a clinical laboratory where his physician, Dr. V. L. An- drews, Dr. Roy Hammick, represent ing Miss Barry, and a neutral phy- sician, pr. Newton Evans, drew a thilnble of blood from his arms.
 Two hours later Miss Barry brought her red-haired daughter tC the laboratory. Dr. Russell Starr, who delivered it last October. iden- tiled the child and she, too, gave up a portion of blood.
 The physicians stood by while technicians made snears on micro scope slies, and consistently refused to reveal the findings. Not until late last night would Loyd Wright.
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Boston, Feb. 16 - (UP.) - The name of Governor Leverett Salton- stall of Massachusetts was linked today with that of U. s. Senator Harry F. Byrd, D., Va, as possible coalition ticket for the 1944 presidential election.
 Probate Judge Robert Gardiner Wilson Jr., said at a dinner meet ing of Business Women'S Club last night he would favor such a ticket with Governor Saltonstall as the presidential nominee and Sem ator Byrd as vice-preSident.
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waves of flying fortress and medium bombers hurl ton after ton of high explosives into the monastery, there vas none who failed to realize the military necessity for the bombing.
 The aerial assault, combined with heavy artillery fire, left the struc- ture badly uptorn," one reconnais- sance pilot reported, with tons of stone from the strong eastern wall tumbled onto German pillboxes and bunkerS.
 Many German soldiers, who manned the guns when the Nazis converted the monastery into a fortress, were believed buried in the debris. Some returning pilots said they were unable to sight any move ments around the abbey after the attacks.
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Other Bombers Blast
 Frankfurt Oder: Only 45 Planes Lost
BY PHIL AULT United Press War Correspondent

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Evening star., 1944-06-17
Navy Officers Wife
Beaten Insensible
By the Associated Press.

By the AsS0clateQ fTeS8.
WEST CORNWALL, Conn, June
17.-Found unconscious in 3 pool Of
blood in the living room Of her
home here by neighbors, Mrs. Fran
els Lee Higginson, 81, was taken to
a hospital in Torrington yesterday.
Her condition was critical.
Physicians said there were 23
wounds on the woman's head that
had been caused by q blunt instru-
ment, and that she had q compound
skull fracture.
State Police Commissioner Ed
ward j. Hickey, directing the search
for clues to the mysterious assault,
said the apparent bludgeoning had
been uncovered when a neighbor
telephoned Mrs. Higginson during
the day and was told by the wom-
ans son, Petero, 7, that "Mommy is
dead on the floor right here"
Mrs. Higginson, whose husband is
a lieutenant commander In the
Navy, stationed at Key West, Fla,
had apparently been struck from
behind.
Mrs. Higginson is the former Har-
riet Beecher Scoville Of Hampton,
Va. Her father, william Scoville,
died here last year.
She is granddaughter of Gen.
Samuel G. Armstrong, founder Of
Hampton Institute, and a great
granddaughter Of Henry Ward
Beecher.
Commissioner Hickey said robbery
and assault had been eliminated as
motives for the crime. Mrs. Higgin-
sons purse and jewelry were un-
touched, and the house had not been
ransacked. A thorough search Of
the house and grounds failed to un-
cover the weapon used.
Evening star., 1944-06-17
Taylor Leads Worth Clark
By ISL Votes for Senate
By the Associated Press


BOISE, Idaho, June l7.-Glen
Taylor, former cowboy troubadour
increased his lead over incumbent
D. Worth Clark to 161 votes today
In the hot race for Idahos Demo-
cratic senatorial nomination.
Returns from 778 of the States
845 precincts gave Mr.. Taylor 10,4s6
and Senator Clark 10,325.
Mr.. Taylor, who quit singing cow
boy songs to work in a war plant,
has been In the saddle since early
Thursday. He then forged ahead
OF Senator Clark and has increased
his margin slowly.
Mr.. Taylor has pledged his en-
thusiastic backing to the Roosevelt
administration. Senator Clark often
has voted against major admins
tration bills.
Returns continued to trickle in
from isolated precincts four days
after the primary election. The
omcial canvass beginning June "a
will determine the result. Ballot
boxes have been locked and returns
from 45 precincts in four counties
will not be available until the can
vaSs.
Evening star., 1944-06-17
Ii. Col. crandaIl Attached
To Big Base Defenders

1t. Col. Derby Crandall, jr., whose
wife, Mrs. Elsa Morales Crandall,
lives at 1850 Harvard street NV, Is
attached to the 3l2th Fighter Wing
which arrived In Western China a
month and a half ago to defend the
big B-20 base there.
A native of Jersey City and q
1910 graduate Of Phillips Exeter
Academy, Col. Crandall enlisted in
the Army in 1918 and served nine
years before resigning. He par
ticipated in the Mexico Border con-
hict and held the rank of captain
during the World War.
Col. Crandall was commissioned q
major in April, 1912, and assigned
to the Army Air Forces intelligence
division in Washington. He served
here until September. 1943, when he
went to North Africa for three
months, then to India and China.
Evening star., 1944-06-17
Senator'S Ask Report
On PiIohess Planes
~ the Associated Press.

~ Tue Ass0Cleted fteS&.
A senatorial Investigation into
United States development Of pilot
less planes was projected today a.
the aftermath Of Nad raids on
Southern England BY secret robot
bombers.
Chairman Truman said he would
direct Chief Counsel Hugh Fulton
Of the Senate War Investigating
Committee to undertake q private
inquiry at once.
Oficials of the Army. Navy and
Marine aircraft forces and Of the
glider industry viii be questioned,
Senator Truman told a reporter,
with a view to giving the COM
mittee full picture OF Amer
lean progress. The Glider Insti-
tute of the Americas requested the
inquiry soon after disclosure Of the
English raids.
mo disputes such as jurisdictional
competition within the armed forces
should block the fullest and most
expeditions development Of such
American glidercraft and flying
bombs" the institute said.
Work is underway on q number
OF unusual types Of air-borne weap-
ons. The armed forces will not per-
NIT any disclosure Of the progress
made.
Evening star., 1944-06-17

several seconds. After that n stArted
falling once more and finally glowsd
orange and red before sotn9 out.
I saw about a half dozen OF these
during the fight"
The Fischer Trcpsch synthetic otl
plant, one Of 10 In the Ruhr and
Rhineiand. has o capacity Of almost
l3S. 900 tons q year. About one
third Of the enemy's oil comes from
synthetic plants, many Of which
have been damaged severely In re-
cent attacks launched from both
Britain and Italy.
Blockbusters Hit Berlln.
Berlin, where the residents are
being told ct length how the Nazis
are "avenging" Allied raids with
their new pilotless planes, was
blasted with 4.0O0-pound block
busters by swift twin-ensined Mos
quitos.
A feet Of nearly 1000 United
States Flying Fortresses and Liber-
atcrs and escorting fighters hit the
Pas-de-Calais area late yesterday
and three Nazi air bases In the
vicinity of Paris and Laon, 80 miles
to the northeast. One bomber and
four escorting fighters failed to
return
American fighters also bombed
and shot up railroads and truck
conveys south Of the beaciahead.
Flight Oficer Steven Gerick OF
Pittsburgh was the only American
pilot credited with an enemy kill,
his seventh since D-day.
The fighters inaugurated . new
technique by dumping their aux
iliary fuel tanks half full Of gaso-
line on targets and then starting
fires with incendiary bullets. In this
manner enemy transport was de-
stroyed, freight and tank cars were
left burning and number Of am
munition cars were exploded.
Fighter pilots reported destroying
or damaging about 500 railway cars
II locomotives, u trucks, 10 tanks, !
military building, "a tank cars, an
armored car, a gun emplacement, q
flax tower and a power transmitter
yesterday.
Evening star., 1944-06-17
Understand Veterans,
Mrs. Roosevelt Uroes
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RED HOOK, N. Y, June ia
principal postwar task will be "to
try to understand our men when
they come home" Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt said yesterday.
Addressing members of three
Duchess County women's clubs yes
terday Mrs. Roosevelt asserted
women of America will have to
remember that homecoming service
men will not be the same people
who went away"
She added that many of the re-
turning veterans will be wounded
and women at home will have to
understand that what they will
want most will be ordinary consid-
grafton, not ostentatious sympathy"
Evening star., 1944-06-17
Town Sends a Girl
To WACS for Every
Male Casualty
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DOBBS FERRY, N. Y, June
17.-There's no gap left in the
ranks of the Army when
Dobbs Ferry boy is killed or
wounded. His place is taken by
. hometown girl joining the
WACS.
About six months ago." said
Vicky Armacida, who enlisted
in the WACS yesterday, some
of us girls got together and de-
cided that every time one of
our boys was wounded or killed,
one OF us would Join up"
She said she was taking the
place Of Pvt. Sam Flippo, killed
Ia April.
Evening star., 1944-06-17
Movement 10 SoIidify
Democrats in South
Wins New Support
b. the Associated Press,

~ tue ASooclateo Ftese.
. The move for 4 united stand BY
Southern States at the Forthcoming
Democratic convention In the inter-
est Of States right" plank and
the nomination Of a Southerner for
Vice President had additional sup
port today.
Gov. ]. M. Broughton Of North
Carolina, q receptive candidate for
the vice presidency, announced ne
favored q plan advanced by Gov.
ChAuncey Sparks Of Alabama as "in
keeping with historic and traditional
Democratic principles"
At the same time, In Dallas, former
Texas Democratic State Chairman
z. B. Germany said he had received
word that National Chairman Rob-
ert =. HannAgan was anxious to dis
cuss Z trade out" that would bring
harmony Ia the ranks of Southern
Democracy.
Anxious 70 Make Peace.
Mr.. Germany said Ia 1 speech
that Mr.. Hannesan Is anxious TO
make peace with revolving Southern
Democrats, to ward Oh defeat and
the resultant loss Of patronage. d
El8eWhere on the Democrat front
the President was indorsed for q
fourth term by the Indiana state
convention which picked an unin-
structed delegation to cast 26 votes,
with Indications all would be regis
tered for Mr.. Roosevelt.
On the Republican side Gov.
Bricker Of Ohio, q presidential cam
didate, said Representative Brown,
Manchester (Ohio) newspaper pub
Usher, would be his floor manager
At the Republican convention. Mr..
Bricker viii speak on the Blue Net
work at tbs tonight.
In Connecticut, delegates to the
Republican National Convention
discl0sed that they have been
asked by J. e. Mcdonald, Texas
commissioner Of agriculture, to sup
port a coalition ticket Of either
Gov. Bricker for President and Sem
ator Byrd Of Virginia for Vice Pres
loenI OF senator 6yrd Tor President
and Gov. Bricker for Vice President.
Reports South Aroused.
Commissioner McDonald's letter
10 the delegates said that Texas
and other Southern States are
aroused, incensed and deeply con-
cerned regarding the New Deal
bureaucratic control, and fear the
loss OF our constitutional form Of
I'VE people Of Texas and other
Southern States stand ready and
willing to unite with other Ameri-
cans In the States Of the North,
East and West to eliminate the New
Dealers and save our constitutional
form Of government
Evening star., 1944-06-17
Six Die as Bomber CoIIides
With SingIe-Engine Plane
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LANGLEY FIELD, Va, June IT,
Six Army flyers were killed yesterday
when q bomber and a single-engine
plane colided and burned while both
were attempting to land, Col. E. A.
Lohman, commanding ofiicer at
Langley Field, announced last night.
Killed in the bomber were:
1t. Col. Cecil Reynolds, 46, Of In
dianapolis. pilot; Capt. Neil S. Wood
26, Of Hampton, co-pilot; Tech
Sergt. 8. j. Scott, AZ, Of Morgan
City, Miss, and STAFF Sergt. Ralph
s. Clark, "A, Of Montross, Ark.
Killed in the smaller plane were
Corpl. Ralph Levin, %, OF Chicago,
and a second person whose identity
had not been established. One man
in the plane was reported to be
injured.
Evening star., 1944-06-17
Relentless y. 5. Drive
And Superior Arms
Winning on Biak
BY ASHALL BUSH,


ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, June II.
Relentless American drive and the
superior weight Of equipment -
notably artillery-are winning the
battle of Biak Island.
Complete victory on that islet OF
Northern Dutch New Guinea seemed
doubtful for a time In earlier stages
of the campaign, but now 1t appears
as certain eventuality.
After spending nearly week on
Biak I was impressed with the rug
gedness and determination Of Amer
lean infantrymen in combating
nature and q Japanese garrison
which has staged willy, tenacious
fight.
Headquarters reported today
an American encirclement move
ment to clear the way for an ad-
vance, after three tank-support-
ed Japanese counterattacks were
smashed Thursday. The assaults,
aimed to interrupt the entrap-
ment move and crush defenses
north of American -held Mokmer
airdrome cost the Japanese 100
dead and two tanks.
(The Japanese have concen-
trated most of their forces in
hills north of Mokmer, and the
counterattacks were launched
from these positions onto fat
lands adjoining the airstrip9
The enemy on Biak is not fool
hardy fanatic, madly sacrificing his
life for his Emperor. He has
played clever waiting game, sell
dom attacking but yielding ground
when necessary and then only foot
by foot, at the maximum price he
could exact.
The American answer to these
tactics is to maintain pressure at
every point where the enemy Is
encountered and press forward
whenever weakness is found. This
strategy is bulwarked by field artil-
lery, naval bombardment, heavy
mortars, rocket craft and aerial
bombing and strAfing.
Evening star., 1944-06-17
Woman Photographer Dies
After Swallowing Poison

Miss Mary Mcmahon, 81, of 4l10
Beecher street NV, photographer
for the Coast and Geodetic Survey,
died early today in Emergency Hos
pital from the effects of poison
which, police said, she took in the
apartment of friend, Harger
Schell, 2305 Forty-second street
NV. .ast
DR.. I. S. Grisoff, 2510 Forty first
street NV, was summoned by Mr..
Schell and ordered removal of Miss
Mcmahon to the hospital where she
died soon after admittance. Police
said Mr.. Schell told them the girl
threatened suicide after q quarrel.
Evening star., 1944-06-17
Tool Grinders Strike
Al Super Forts Plant
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 17.-oncials OF
the Dodge Chicago plant Of the
Chrysler Corp, which is producing
about 90 per cent Of the power
plants for the new B-29 Super Fort
ress, announced that al its lit tool
grinders quit work yesterday In pro-
test over the discharge Of one
worker.
The company would not say
whether the work stoppage had af-
fected the production Of engines.
The company said all 81 tool
grinders on the first shift quit work
at 4 pm. yesterday. half hour be-
fore their shift was to end, and that
the entire second shift Of so tool
grinding employees refused to work
also.
In recent labor board election
the tool grinders voted for the
UAW-CIO union to represent them.
Henry 8. Tough, president Of the
UAW local, declined to discuss the
strike other than to say ut will be
settled"
Evening star., 1944-06-17
District Rution Boords
Change Saturday Hours

Washington ration boards changed
Saturday hours today for an in
definite period, opening to the public
from 8 am. to pm. The former
hours were l pm. to 5 pm.
The District once of Price Ad-
said the change was
made because many persons pre-
ferred dealing with the boards in
the morning. The afternoon hours
will be used by the boards for paper
work.
Evening star., 1944-06-17
Aerial

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bombers ranged over and beyond
the Normandy lighting zone in at
tAcks on motor conveys, bridges,
tanks, machine nests and a
German airfeld on the Cherbourg
Peninsula.
Duisburg and Berlin Blasted.
Six Mustangs and two Thunder
bolts failed to return from these
late forenoon missions, although one
pilot landed safely behind Allied
lines.
RAJ heavy bombers also hit at
enemy Installations on the Pas-de-
Calais coast last night while other
planes hammered at a synthetic
oil plant near Duisburg and targets
In Berlin.
The night blow against Pas-de-
Calais came q few hours after
American Flying Fortresses and
Liberators In the last hours OF dav-
light yesterday pounded these same
installations.
vulnerable Flying Weather.
Although miserable flying weather
once more hampered the air support
OF the invasion armies yesterday,
Supreme Headquarters said $500
sorties dndividual plane lights
were flown by Allied air units
about 1000 Of them by American
heavy bombers and their escort IN
the twilight smash at the Pas-de-
Calais.
The night attack on Berlin was
made by Mosquitoes, while British
Lancasters and Halifaxes continued
the Allied campaign aimed at drying
up Hitler's war machine by Dump
ing tons Of explosives on the Fischer
Topsch synthetic oil plant at Sterk-
rade, about 5 miles north Of Duis-
burg. It was the second time this
week the Raj had gone over Ger
many in strength.
Thirty-ttree Raj bombers were
missing from last nights operations,
described by the Air Ministry as in
volving q very strong force" This
indicated about 1000 planes were
used.
The weather has favored the Ger
mans nearly every day, allowing
thin to move up reinforcements
while protected from Allied planes
by clouds.
Strong Opposition In Ruhr.
Raj bomber crewmen said oppo-
sition IN the Ruhr area last night
was as strong as ever. Enemy
searchhghts were ineffective be-
cause Of the thick cloud cover,
but the Ruhr defenses put UP an
intense barrage and many fighters
were out all along the route.
The Nazi fighters dropped what
appeared to>b be q new type of flare
over the path OF the British bomb
ers, and numerous combats ensued.
One Halifax pilot said the flares
used by the enemy fighters burst
fairly high with yellow light which
lasted i've or six seconds.
Then 1t dropped like stone for
about 5000 feet" he said. Then
once more it burst into an intense
yellow light, which again lasted for
Evening star., 1944-06-17
Bjornsson Is Chosen
President of Iceland
Y the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
REYKJAVIK. Iceland, June IT,
Sweinm Bjornsson, who has served
as regent for the last three years,
was chosen today as the first Presi-
dent of Iceland, the worlds newest
republic.
Executing the mandate of last
months referendum in which the
voters approved the establishment
of a republic, the Althing, Iceland s
legislative body, formally abrogated
the Danish-Icelandic union Of trea-
ty yesterday.