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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-09-13
Editorial
LOOKING TOWARDS
TOMORROW

Bremerton Is carrying the
torch of liberty in one hand and
sowing the seeds of segregation
will the other. Out of the con-
fusion of war, perhaps nothing
has become more confusing than
the Jim Grow pattern being tact
fully forced upon colored Brem-
erton citizens by race-hating
Southerners.
No white person has the i'm
aginative powers to truly visual
ize how any Negro feels when
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-09-13

Ebenezer AME Church, Rev.
Everett P. Williams, pastor.
Sunday school $3.50; morning
worship Il; Christian Endeavor
z; evening service s; prayer
meeting Wednesdays at 9 o'clock.
Ninth asd Park in downtows
Bremerton.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-09-13
SINCLAIR NEWs

The Homemaker's Club enter
tanned with a monthly luncheon
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-09-13
BREMERTON NOTES

Official Representative Northwest Enterprise
JAS. T. WALKER, 1901 9th Phone 277S-W
Important Social Clubs, Organizations. News Must
Be in by Sunday P. NJ Please Cooperate
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-09-13

Sinclair Community Cnnrel.,
Rev. Hunt. acting pastor. Sun
day school 9:45; services 1880
and s.
East Port Orchard. Rev. c. w.
Williams, pastor. Sunday school
9:45, services IL and 7:45.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-07
Red Domination
of Labor CHARGED
By DAVID SENTNER
Detroit Times Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON Oct. evidence presented before
the House un-Amercan activities committee shows the
Political Action Committee spearheadng the Roosevelt
fourth term campaign, hotbed of communism Rep
John NJ. Costello Cd of California, chairman, declared
today
More than 80 per cent of the Political Action Com
mittee has been revealed to have a Communist back
ground said Costello THE facts show that labor being
dominated by Communist groups not representing labor
CostelloS declaration in reply to the charge that
the committee conducting shipping campaign against
the Deal delivered by Rep Herman p Eberharter CD
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-07
FDR's Attack Leads
To Sedition Trial Plea

WASHINGTON. Oct. 6 uNS)
-Denuncation of the "Silve r
Shirts" by President Roosevelt in
his political speech last night re-
suited today in motions for mis-
trial in the mass sedition case or
adjournment in the proceedings
until after the election.
Chief Justice Edward Eicher.
presiding in the marathon trial,
announced that he will hear argu-
mentS on both motions next Mon
day and rule Immediately there
after.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-07
StrdngIing Victim
Is War EmpIoye

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 GNS)
Police today identified the at
tractive girl who was found
Strangled with her own snood on
a Washington golf course this
morning as Miss Dorothy Berrum,
Is, of Chippewa Falls. Wis, an
employe of the war department
who had been in Washington since
June.
Two park employees found the
body early today while walking
across the Potomac golf course.
Preliminary examination indi-
Gated that she had been crimi-
nallV assaulted.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-07
Figure in Hopkins
Letter Scandal Dies

NEW YORK. Oct. 6 uNS)-
George n. Briggs, -, former ass
sistant to Secretary OF the In
terror Ickes. died in a Queens
Hospital.
Briggs. who was involved in a
controversy last January over a
letter allcgcdly written by Harry
L. Hopkins concerning Wendell /.
Wilkes presidential nomination
prospects. had been indicted by a
Washington grand jury in con-
nection with the episode
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-07
OTHERS LISTED

Others listed as having high
score affiliations included Man
Lcrncr. 20. Louis Adamic, 25,
Francis J. Mcconnell, 27; Mary
Van Kleeck, %; Cary McWillamS,
Is, and James Waterman Wise, %
Sidney Hillman was listed as
having IA affiliations.
Matthews expressed doubt that
the membership of the Political
Action Committee was drawn up
by Hillman. It's head.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-07

Complete service for sin in
lovely nultcolorcd floral pat
terri on cleaning white dinner.
~aIG.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-07
Probe Helped
By Forrestd|

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 GNSh-
Secretary of the Navy Forrestal
today offered the Senate cam
paign expenditures committee
any aid they desire" in their in
vesugation OF the Hotel Statler
brawl between members of the
teamsters' Union and two young
naval officers.
Counsel for the committee. Rob-
crt Murphy, declared after a half
hours conference with ForrestaPs
legal adviser. Matthias Correa,
that "thiS IS a very delicate sit
uation."
lie asserted that the investiga-
ton would continue. but that he
saw no further need TO consult
with the navy secretary's office.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-07
Kaiser Warns Industry

NEW YORK. oct 8 GNS1-
Henry J. Kaiser Shlphl.ld.rc nlz-
ard, Warned TO-DAY that pr-lste
Industry 0ust provide postwar
jobs. With or without government
assistance. or COllapSc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-07
Youth SnatcheS
WOnlan'S Purse

a 20-year-old youth dressed in
a red sweater and dark trousers
carly today Snatched a purse con-
tanning SO in cash and a $50
government check from Mrs. Ada
Beach. 80. of 96S7 Prairie as she
was walking on Grand River near
Prairie.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-07
DISLOYALTY CHARGED

According 10 the accounts of the
naval officers, the fight broke out
after they refused 10 answer
teamsterS' questions about their
political beliefs and had been ac-
cused of being "disloyal" to their
service and to their commander
in chief
While Forrestal had told news
conference that he did not con-
slider the fight a matter for ac-
ton by his office, there was little
doubt but that he would make the
two officers, 1t. Randolph Dick
ms Jr.. and 1t. Comdr. James II.
Suddeth, available TO the COM
mlttee.
The Senate investigation may
disclose the identity of the per
sonal friend of the President"
who was beaten by one of the
naval lieutenants during the fight.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-07
AIDES WITH HIM

Murphy was accompanied to the
navy department by two commit
tee Investigators, George Shillito
and Harold Buckles.
II is understood they requested.
and probably received. a copy of
the shore patrol report of the Incl
dent. and that they likewise re-
ceived permission TO examine the
two naval officers.
The committee, headed by Sem
ator Theodore F. Green CD of
Rhode Island. already has begun
It's probe into the fight on the
night of Sept. %, shortly after
President Roosevelt had left the
Statler Hotel where he had de-
livered his first" political speech.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-07
81 LINKED TO REDS

A previous chart put into evil
dence showed s. members of the
Political Action Committee had
been affiliated with 25 Commu-
MIST front groups labeled as sub
verSiye by Atty. Gen. Blddle.
In the Matthews box score OF
119 Political Action Committee
members linked with Communist
front groups, Langston Hughes
was top on the list with 49 affilla-
tions; Joseph Curran. head of the
Go national maritime union, was
second with AZ, and Paul Robson,
third with "a.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-07
II PENNSYLVANIA.

"a N'i+Ah ' 'a''''
Concluding the committee
probe into SubverSive aspects OF
the Political Action Committee,
j. f. Matthews. research director
submitted a box score compiled
from government agencies which
showed that 10 of the Ill mem
bers of the Go National Citizens
Political Action Committee have
been affiliated with 245 Commu-
MIST organizations or Red front
groups.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-28
Ja tal1ce
 Grows On}Saipan
By FRANK TRENfAINE

United Press War Correspondent
 Pearl Harbor, June 2e-(UP)-U. S. Marines and Army troops, with artillery, flame -throwerfs and TINT charges, slowly battered their way through the stiffest resistance ever encountered in the Pacific on Sai- pan today, with the Japanese re- ported using large numbers of tanks and mobile artillery.
 The strongest opposition was cen- tered in the town of Garapan, where Marines last were reported in the outskirts, and in the hills arousd Mount Tapotchau, where the Japa- nese were making grim stand in inaccessible caves.
 The number of tanks and artillery employed by the Japanese on Sai- pan was described by observers here as the greatest ever used in a Gen. tral Pacific engagement.
 Although Admiral Chester W. Nimitz did not issue a communique yesterday for the first time since the invasion of the Marianas, re- ports said the Americans were mak- ing some progress against the es- timated 10000 Japanese squeezed into the northern hal fof the island.
 The troops were receiving perhaps their greatest opposition from the enemy infantry and artillery lodged in the hills in the center of the island.
 Only direct hits from American guns were able to penetrate the enemy's mountain strongpoints, and in some cases the troops had to clean out the Japanese. nests by hand with fiame-throwers and charges of TINT.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-28
Stores To Close 2 Doys

Waterbury stores will be closed next Monday as well as Tuesday, the Fourth of July, according to ac- tion recommended by the executive committee of the Merchants Bureau at a meeting this morning at the Chamber of Commerce building.
 The extra long weekend for store workers was made possible by be- lated War Labor ruling giving au- thority to stores to close on July 3. Notice of the VILE decision was re- ceived here yesterday.
 The executive committee meeting was called by Ralph Paine, chair man of the Merchants Bureau, and the members agreed to recommend the Monday closing for such stores which can do so."
 Despite the Monday closing the stores will continue their Thurs day schedule next week, opening at noon and closing at g p. rri., it was reported.
 Starting July 10, the stores will be closed all day each Monday regu- larly until Labor Day, and on Thursdays the hours will be 9:30 a. m. to 9 p. m.
 Although many suggestions had been made for closing next Monday, the local merchants were without power to act until permission was received from the War Labor Board.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-28
BRITISH TROOPS SWEEP ACROSS RIVER
Minsk Road Opens
 As March On Paris Gains Momentum
BY VIRGIL PINKLEY

United Press War COrrespOndentD
 Allied Supreme Headqsiar- terS, London, June 28.-(UP) - British armor battered forward through Norman villages in violent tank bat- ties beyond the Oron river today reaching the region of Esquay, less than three miles from the Orne river on which the German defenses south of their flanked stronghold of Caen are based.
 United Press Correspond- ent Richard D. McMillan re- ported in a dispatch sent from the Caen sector at 1 p. m, that the British forces widening and deepening a breach in the German posi- tions southwest of Caen had made their farthest penetra-, tion around Esquay andl posed a direct threat to the Orne river line.
 The advanced spearhead now has two and a half miles southeast of Tourville, the capture of which was reported earlier today in dispatch- es revealing two-nlile advances 0f the assault arc aimed at Caen to embrace nearly two- thirds of the perimeter of that stubborn German base.
 Other front dispatches said tho British spearhead flanking Caen was pressed beyond the Odon river and it's parallel transport lines tU fiAa open plains leading to the Orno river which is paralleled by the main railroad and highway runs ing south from Caen.
 The Germans were reported re- sisting ferociously, especially on the southern flank of the attacking wedge where heavy arrnored battles swirled over the gently rolling farm land between the Orne and. odcn.
 The British seized high ground southeast of the Odon. probably 2 ridge from the top of which the strip between the two rivers is in plain view.
 About 20 German tanks were knocked out yesterday, an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Normandy
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-28
Reverses On China Front

Chungking, June 28-(UP)-Jap- anese armored forces smashed against the human province strong hold of Hengyang from all sides to- day but a communique said the en- circled Chinese defenders were hold ing their ground after three days of ferocious fighting in which both sides suffered heavy casualties.
 ''The city is still in our hands, tine communique said.
 It acknowledged, however, that the invaders had thrown a steel ring around the city in an all-out effort to reduce the fortress from which American warplanes had been harassing Japanese supply lines and military bases in central China.
 Chungking spokesmen made nc effort to minimize the gravity oi the situation at Hengyang, an im- portant junction point on the Cam ton-H -Hankow railway line and a mapor objestive in the Japanese campaign to cut China in two by seizing the entire 400-mile stretch of railway from Canton to Tune Ting Lake. Only about 100 miles of the line still were in Chinese hands.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-28
EpochoI Roid On Germans
BY WALTER CRONKITE

London, June 28.-(UP)-An esti- mated 5000 American and British warplanes raked Axis Europe with bombs and gunfire today in coordin- ated blows from Britain and Italy that spread ruin across Na1 tar gets in northern France, western Germany, Romania and Bulgaria.
 Still heavier blows on the Ger man war machine were foreshad- owed in announcement that Ameri- can flying fortresses had landed in Italy after completing the first tri- angular shuttle raid of the war-an epochal flight from Britain to Rus sia and on to the Mediterranean by way of Berlin and the Galician oil fields.
 Up to 500 fortresses and Libera- tors. escorted by similar number of fighters, thundered up across the Alps from Italy today to blast the Chitila railway yards between Ploesti and the Romanian capital of Bucharest, the Prahova refinery northwest of Bucharest, the tital refinery east of the capital, and the Karlovo airfield in Bulgaria.
 Huge columns of smoke and flame mushroomed up from the battered oil refineries and the Chitila yards, which normally contain scores of oil tank cars, indicating that the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-28
Henriot Is Assossinoted
By JOHN A. PARRIs

United Press Stan Correspondent)
 London, June 28.-(UP)-Philippe Henriot, propaganda minister in the Vichy government, was assassiaated in his Paris bedroom early today in what chief of government Pierre Laval called an act of civil war;
 German broadcasts disclosed that IS men disguised as members oK the Vichy militia boldly entered the propaganda ministry at Paris shortly before 6 Q. m. (Paris time) i, covering guards with their guns.
 Three went to the second floor and knocked on the door of Hen- riots bedroom. When the pajama- clad Henriot opened the door, one of the men shot him in the heart. He fell dead before the eyes e his wife, who was also in the room.
 They presumably were were meme bers of the French underground which operates under direct orders of Gen. Charles De Gauile's French provisional government in Algiers.
 Henriot, who has Q long record of collaboration with the Germans in the drive against the resistanCe forces, was among the first % traitors listed in the underground'a famous keeper of the norguess file.
 More than 100 high French tEait- ors, most of them members of the Vichy government. nave been mark ed for death altogether by the un- derground.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-28
Gov. Baldwin's s Plans
 Puzzle Delegates
Special to The Democrat

Considerable conjecture prevailed here among Connecticut delegates and state party leaders in attend- ance at the convention as to the gubernatorial plans of Governor Raymond E. Baldwin, for this fall. The latter left here yesterday for the home state refusing to commit himself at the time, as to his plans.
 The name of Congressman Joseph E. Talbot is being mentioned promi- nently here as a replacement for Governor Baldwin in the event the latter decided to accept one of the reported lucrative private jobs being offered him. As reported in the Wa terbury Democrat exclusively. Con- gressman Talbot has for many weeks now been the leading choice of party leaders, for the governors post, as reserve substitute. Con- gressman Talbot has long been the party's leading vote getter. Tn the event such 6 choice becomes fact, State Senator Joseph Neill of Wa tertown, Conn, has in the past de-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-28
Major Points In Platform

Chicago Stadium, June 28-(UP) Here are the major points in the 1944 Republican platform:
 Victory in the war.
 United States participation in an international cooperative organi- zation," whose peace forces" would maintain peace.
 Peace time jobs in private indus try, removal of the government from "competition with private industry" l" and termination of "rationing, price fixing and all other emergency power" as soon as possible.
 Extension of Social Security to groups not now covered.
 Fair and just administration of present labor and social security laws and restoration of a labor de- partment now "emasculated by the New Deal"
 Fair market prices rather than subsidies for agricultural products, bolstered by support prices, com modity loans" and "other economic means"
 Prompt settlement of war con- tracts; fair disposal of war sur- pluses. and protection of small bus inesS.
 Reduction of individual income and corporation taxes "as soon as the war ends
 Rigid government economy.
 A flair protective tariff on com- petitive products"
 Prompt relief for peoples of liber- ated countries.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-28
Push Ahead In Italy
NEA Telephoto.
By ROBERT vERMILLION

By ROBERT VERMILLION
 United Press War Correspondent Rome, June 28-(UP)--Allied 5th and 9th Army troops, battling through rugged terrain and stiffen- ing German opposition, hammered out gains running up to six miles on a 100-mile front in central Italy from Perugia to the Tyrrhenian seacoast, communique said today.
 All along the front the Germans were putting up a desperate rear guard action, taking every advan- tage of the hilly terrain to slow the Allied pursuit and give their main forces time to dig in on the Pisa Florence -Rimini line 40 to 60 miles above the present battle front.
 American units on the west coast highway advanced to within, about 30 airplane miles of Livorno (Leg- horn), occupying San Vicenzo after a savage house. toulouse battle. Six miles inland, another Yankee col umn mopped up isolated enemy units in Belvedere and drove for ward three miles to take the hill town of SaSsetta.
 Bitter fighting also ragged on the approaches to Siena, 40 miles inland, where American armored forces famed out along a secondary east awst highway and captured Travale and Chiusdino, the latter only IT miles southkest of Siena. Front re- ports said the Germans demolished Travale and turned the town into a huge tank trap nj futile attempt to halt the American advance.
 Enemy resistance was reported particularly heavy on the American sector, where the Germans brought field artillery. anti-tank guns, mine fields and extensive demolitions in- to play. Units of the Nazi 18th SSelite division were identified among the Germans fighting on the coastal highway.
 Counter Attacks
 On the American right flank, French troops beat of strong enemy counter attacks and extended their bridgehead on the north bank of the Orica River, taking San Quirico
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-28
Still Seek Sex Slayer

Scituate, Mass. June 28.-CUP)- State chemists and photographers today analysed bloodstains and foot prints in an isolated one-room cabin here in an effort to unearth a clue pointing to the sex-slayer of To- year-old Frances McGrath.
 Police said the cabin may have been the spot where the child was taken by her abductor after she disappeared June 10. According to the authorities, e fairly clear irn- precision of smal body was dis cerned in the straw, and an empty grain sack was discovered to con- tain bloodstains.
 The raped and strangled body of the daughter of a former Boston city councillor was found in 8 Nor well wood-patch June 16.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-28
REDS POUND
 AFTER NAYS
 IN SWIFT ROUT
BY M. S. HANDLER United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff CorreSpondent)
 Moscow, June 28. = (UP)
 - Soviet front dispatches to- day proclaimed a German rout in White Russia and said the road to Minsk lies open" to four Red armies pounding westward on the heels of the fleeing NaziS at an unprece- dented clip.
 (The Moscow radio quoted the famous Soviet writer Ilya Ehren- burg as saying that the objective of the present offensive is Berlin. The broadcast added that the shortest way to the west is through White Russia, and that the Red Army is chewing up the powerful German defenses "by virtue of sheer power."O
 Violent street fighting ragged in encircled Bobruisk and by-passed Mogilev, bastions of the pulverized German defense line, and the fall of rrhoth was reported imminent.
 The Germans were reported in disorderly retreat along g 300-mile front, hammered mercilessly by pur- suing Soviet mobile forces and massed Russian air squadrons sup porting the great offensive with one of the most imposing operations of the war by the Red air force.
 Since the collapse of the Nazis' 'fatherland line" the swift Rus sian striking forces had advanced upward of 80 miles in various sec- tors in converging push toward Minsk, historic fortress city com- manding the westward course to Warsaw and Berlin.
 Field dispatches reportd that the slaughter of overhauled and en- circled German troops was proceed ing at rate unrivaled throughout the war in Russia. Thirty thousand Nazis were killed or captured in the Vitebsk pocket. Another five divi- sions, perhaps 50,000 men, were trapped in the Bobruisk area.
 Big groups of Germans, bypass ed in the whirlwind advance of the Soviets, were isolated in many sec- tors, and front reports said they were surrendering in wholesale lots
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