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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-07
PhiI0. Strike
 Ends Under Army Threot
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Philadelphia, Aug. 7.-(UP)-The strike of Philadelphia Transit Work CTS Operators ended today as the federal government went ahead with plans to prosecute their leaders and determine by grand jury investiga- ton whether a criminal conspiracy caused their walkOut which crip- pied war production in this arsenal city for almost a week.
 The strike began to crack after the Army told the strikers to return to work or lose their jobs for the duration, but 1t was not until early today that subway, elevated train. bus and trolley service took on any semblance of normalcy.
 Steel-helmeted Army troops. arm cd with rifles with xed bayonets, rode the cars as guards, but there were no acts of violence reported.
 The Army, which took over opera ton Of the transit systems last Thursday at the direction of Presi- dent Roosevelt, announced at 2 a. m. that service was 100 per cent and was expected to continue so as later shifts reported.
 The service continued at 100 per cent normal at a. m., the Army said. This report included the first morning shift which started at 4:52.
 Upwards of 5000 troops. hurried here from camps in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. were on duty and there was no indication when they would leave. But the army was ex. pected to step out just as soon as
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-07

Cambridge, Mass, Aug, T-iUPl-- 4 former Harvard professor, who wasn't considered qualified for sebo- lastlc h0n0rs during his uHder-grad- uRte days, presented, the worlds greatest mathematical calculator tQ the university today and explained that hls own laglDess was Tespop- slble for It's invention,
 CmdT. Howard 2, Aiken Of IDdi- anap0llg, Ind, made the pfesentas ton 10 President James B, Conan og Harvard ip the presence of hlgh naval officials, among them Rear Admiral Edward b. C0ehTane, ehlef Of the BurueR Of Ships, The ma. chine, which can Rdd or subtract iD O.9 seconds and solve intricate problems lb t0 so times as fast as the most modern office equipment, viii be used by the hayy f0V duFa' ton,
 0If ! hadn't bitten Of more than ! could eheW when ] picked out 2 problem for my masters degree, ' probably never would have thought Of the ealeulat0r," Aiken acknowl- edged ia an interview, "But being essentially lazy, ! figured lt would he easier 10 work out a solution on . machine than on paper, couldn't And any machine capable of nano'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-07
Confusion
 StcIks Nozis

First U. s. Army Headquarters in France, Aug. 6.-tUP)-Complete and utter confusion exists in the German army as it retreats eastward from Brittany, pursued by American tanks and infantry and harassed by Allied Air Forces.
 The American forces have been moving so fast the last few days that the army's map section has bene working overtime to supply front line requirements.
 A command post had lost track Of the advance elements of one in- faDtFy division until it herad a New York radio broadcaster announce a certain town had fallen. Since this had been the infantry,s 0bjee- tive, the announcement, based on war correspondent reports, served to pinpoint the outfit which had not had time to report to its command post,
 The pace of the enemy retreat has been so rapid main German ele- ments have been well out in front sometimes l4 hours ahead Of the American advance patrols and mos tOrized cavalry.
 The conquest Of Brittany has been much easier than exected with only meager opposition,
 This drive has sklrted Q ygtu, ally ppp-existent German left flank, The enemy will have to maneuver
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-07
Non,Mathen1aticianInU InUents Greatest Robot Calculator

ling the pF0biem-s0 ! simply mad to invent one"
 The machine is bl feet long, eight feet high and one foot in depth, It comprises 800 miles of wire, E. coo GOO wire connections and 72 add- Ing machines. yet Is so finely geared that it makes no more noise than a few typewTiters, It will do virtually any type Of problem iD higher mathematics, and Aiken himself believes t will find widespread use in postwar industry despite It's cost -e2s0. 900,
 A typical problem solved by the machine ln 70 hours formerly took four expert caleulatOrs three weeks using ordinary office machines,
 Aiken's caleulatOr operates on . 2l-h0uF basis and can be run by anyone after g few instructions, Problems are coded for the caleula- tor by . skilled mathematician using Alkenis text hook, The operator then presents the problem to the sequence control in coded tape form, similar t0 that used ln a teletype machine, The calculator VIII eAFry out solutions accurate t0 23 hlgnls llcant figures, consulting l0gnFlshmle and functional tables within the machine.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-07
Automen Quit Strike

Detroit, Aug. ' -(UP)- Seven thousand employees returned to their jobs at five General Motors war plants today, having voted to end an ll day strike in which they re- peatedly defied the War Labor board and international officials of their union, and United Automobile Workers lCIO).
 Walter P. Reuther, JAW vice. president, said following a stormy three e-h0ur meeting that recalcitrant local 235 agreed to comply with WLB directiyes pending settlement of their grievances through estab- lisIhed channels of negotiation.
 The local had refused to comply with WLB and JAW orders to terminate the strike until six dis. charged employees were reinstated and grievances over a stepped up production schedule negotiated.
 At yesterdays meeting Reuther repeated the international Organi- zation's position that the strike was unauthorized and "in violation of the unions no-strike pledge and the unions contract with General Mo- tors"
 Nestor B. Dessy. president. who with q other officers of local 23b, were busted by the international board when they encouraged the defiance. recommended that the men return,
 Production Of Pratt-Whitney air- craft engines and other machine parts had been halted at Ave chey- r0let gear and axle plants since July 26
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-07
Pole Patriots Make Gains

London, Aug. 7.-(UP)-Polish underground forces. aided by i2- year old boys who attacked German tanks with Molotoy cocktails, have recaptured the zoliborz district in northern Warsaw and are continu- ing bitter fighting to the south. Gen. B0r, leader of the partisan army, re- ported in communique to London today.
 The Polish forces occupied the Zoliborz district during the first two days of the battle of Warsaw. were forced to aslandon it under heavy German pressure. After be- ing pushed out of the area the Ger mans took mp new positions just south Of Zoliborz using homes as blockhouses ana Actresses.
 These houses, Bor reported, were being attacked with grenades. rifles. machine guns and some captured German tank guns. He paid trib- ute to the young boys who, he said, darted from behind houses to throw makeshift bombs at the tanks with out regard fo, German rifle and machine gun fire.
 The Germans hege thrown in strong forces of fighters and bOmb- CTS which are strating and bomb- ing the area occupied by the Par. tisan forces. Dor said. and are using tanks in great strength, Fires con tinued to rage throughout the city as the Germans set fire t0 homes and other buildings and forbade clyv ilians from lighting the flames. he added.
 Bor said the Germans had burned the national museum, the Red Gross hospital, the Antheneum theater and blocks of flats in Jerusalem ave- nue and near P0niatoyski Ridge on the Vistula river,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-07
Dies Demonds
 Prosecution Of OfficioIs

Washington, Aug. 7-UP)-The Justice Department today received from the House committee on un- American activities a formal de- mand for the prosecution of certain government officials for political collision with what it termed the political arm of the New Deal'- the CIO political action committee.
 The request was made by Chair man Martin Dies. D.. Tex, who charged in a letter to Attorney General Francis Riddle that the federal officials had used lesser employees and government funds to carry out PAC direetiyes in violation of the Hatch "clean politics act
 Dies reviewed a report by his chief investigator, Robert E. Strip ling, who arrested that arr govern ment officials have been in "fre- quent communication" with the PAc and that the evidence showed the committee lis not so much a labor committee as the political arm of the New Deal administration"
 The report listed some 100 tele- phone calls and telegrams allegedly exchanged by persons high in the administration and PAC officials, among them Mrs. Franklin D.. Roosevelt and two of the Presi- dents special assistants, David K Niles and Jonathan Daniels.
 Dies emphasized that his com mittee had not tapped any tele- phone" to secure its information but had compiled the lists after subpenaing the records of the New York Telephone Co. and Western Union Telegraph Co,
 The Chairman said he would give Riddle three weeks to begin prose- eutiOns because a political cam- paign is now in progress and will be oyer in 8 few months, Otherwise
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-07
Bottle Roses
 In Suburbs Of Florence
BY ELEANOR PACKARD Limited Press War Correspondent

Rome, Aug. 7-(UP) - Eighth Army patrols on scouting missions in German-heid sections of Flor ence reported today that the enemy had withdrawn from the city except for machine-gun nests along the north bank of the Arno River.
 It appeared that the battle for mastery of the ancient center of the Italian renaissance will be decided in it's east and west suburbs, where bitter fighting was in progress.
 British patrols made no attempt to remain in North Florence, wish ing to avoid provoking street fight ing which would damage some Of the famous buildings in the city.
 The opposing armies seemed to have tacitly agreed to fight 1t out east and west of Florence, where the Germans haS made it clear by the nature of their defensive positions that they intended opposing Brit ish efforts to cross the Arno and take the city by encirclemept.
 Although the Germans were smelling parts Of Florence south of the Arno. the smelling thus far has been confined to residential areas containing comparatively modern buildings. Front reports reaching Rome indicate that no building of historic or artistic importance has yet been hit.
 The Eighth Army is refraining from shelling the German-held see- tiop Of the city.
 South Bank Cleared
 The Eighth Army has cleared the south bank of the ATno from three miles east of the city limits to Mon telupo, l2 miles west Of Florence. with the exception of small enemy
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-07
Occupation Of fSonsopor
 Is Completed

Allied Headuarters, Southwest Pacific, Aug. 2 - UP) - Allied troops. successfully completing the occupation of Eansapor at the west ern end of Dutch New Guinea. were firmly entrenched today within 600 miles of the Philippines.
 General Douglas Macarthur, in announcing completion of the inya- sion started a week ago, said the operation was carried out with few casualties by a comparatively small American force.
 The low losses were attributed to the use of surprise and maneuyer which by-passed the main enemy forces and left the Japanese forces in the Sansapor area dislocated and demoralized, with their main coastal communications cut.
 MacArthurs communique said prisoners and natives told of confu- sion in the rear areas of the second JaflHtiebe hiihy hAbti htC fAHfIh tS@sN landed at Sansapor in their final "leap-frog" movement up the New Guinea coast.
 In the Aitape-We sector of British New Guinea, American jungle troops continued their advances south ard inland to point two miles east of Driniumor where they cut the Afua- -Harech river trail, the
 An additional 526 Japanese Were killed in the Aitape sector, raising their known dead in that area to B. e35. It was estimated that Japanese losses of dead and wounded around Aitape were between 5000 and l2.- GOO.
 Allied bombers continued their widespread attacks, hitting Yap in the carolinas with 73 tons of bombs. sinking two coastal vessels near Halmahera and damaging a i,500- ton freighter-transport of Amboina in the Dutch East Indies,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-07
Republican  Set To Go

Local Republican delegates to the c. O. P. state nominating conven- ton scheduled to open at Bushnell Memorial tonight will leave for Hartford this afternoon, prepared to cast their votes for renomina- ton of the incumbent party ticket.
 Harmony of an unusual calibre for state Republicans is expected to prevail throughout the two day af- fair to such an extent that one prominent state Republican today declared to the Democrat that it would be 'easier and cheaper for the delegates to stay home and send penny-postcards to Hartford"
 Members of the convention will tonight hear the keynote address of Gov. Dwight Griswold Of Nebraska and tomorrow will renominate Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin: U. S. Sena- tor John A. Danaher and Congress man-at-large Bofeslaus J. Monkie- wicz as well as to endorse the en- tire lower officers of the state tic- ket.
 Tomorrow will likewise see a new state chairman of the central com- mittee in the person of Harold F.. Mitchell. West Hartford. speaker Of the house who will succeed J. Ken- meth Bradley who resigned a week ago following considerable pressure brought by Baldwin supporters favoring such a move. Bradley holds the position of national com mittman. Mitchell had been the choice of Gov. Baldwin for the gub- ernatorial post in the event the lat- ter had not run again.
 Waterbury will have eight dele- gates and eight alternates to the convention who are as follows:
 Town Chairman Vernon l.. Hall. Sen. Frank 6umma, Lillian Pres colt, Albert 6chiavone. City Court Pros. Frederick ". Palomba, car- Oline Rowland, Gertrude BOwes. Flora Allan. The alternates are: Yale Matzkin, Edward Wells, Nel- lie Dews. Edna Pepin. Anne Van Valkenburg, Helen Hitchcock, caF- mine Calo and Mary Christian.
 The harmony prevailing among state Republicans at this time is solely 8 matter of political expedi- ency, 1t has been so defined by pol- itical observers. based on the urg- ency of retaining control of state
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-07
38 Jop Ships Sunk Or Hit

Pearl Harbor, Aug. 7-(UP)-- American land, air and sea forces were revealed today to have bat- tered the Japanese along an sO0- mile front at the doorway to Japan proper in three days of assaults that destroyed or damaged 38 ships. wiped out a town and pushed the U. s. lines to within five miles of the northwestern tip of Guam.
 The heaviest blow was struck by planes and warships of . fast eip- rier task force which steamed to within 600 miles Of Tokyo Thursday and Friday and virtually destroyed a Japanese convoy while hammering installations on five islands in the Boniils and Volcanos.
 The attacks were announced by Admiral Chester ". Nimitz who also disclosed that the marines on Guam occupied two villages 6atuT- day in two-mile advance that brought the western anchor of their line to just below Haputo point, approximately five miles from the northern tip of the island.
 Nimitg further revealed that 7th Army Ali force Mitchell bombers and single Navy Liberator at- tackled Wake Island, former Ameri- can base, Friday for tbe first time since May 30. The planes met mod crate aptl-aireraft fire, but all re- turned.
 Jp the strikes into the Ronln and VOlcaDOS, planes and WaTsbips def- inltely sank q vessels, including one large destroyer and three destroy CTS or destroyer escorts, and dams aged 27 others, including a light cruiser. At least nine baFges, two Of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-07
Bombers BIifz Fuel Plants

London, Aug. Forces of American bombers estimated at nearly 1000 strong attacked fuel tanks and depots, bridges and rail- road functions over a wide area of France today as a fleet of nearly 800 other bombers roared up from Italy to hit two synthetic oil plants at Blechhamer in German Silesia, 75 miles southeast of Breslau.
 The two-way daylight assault agains Germanys inner fortress came less than 24 hours after eighth air force heavy bombers based in England attacked the Ger man aircraft plant at Rahmel, 20 miles northwest of the Baltic Port of Gydnia, and went on to land safely at American bases in Rus sia.
 The fleet of nearly 1000 flying fortresses and Liberators, accomp- anied by some 800 fighters, split in- to small task forces of few squad rons each and plastered fuel dumps hidden in forests, and bridges and rail functions east ard northeast Of Paris, southeast Of Bordeaux and iN the Amiens region,
 Some of the attacking sqnadrons found clouds over their ObjeetiveS and returned without dropping their bombs.
 The Italy-based Liberators that raided oil plants at BleehhameT en- eounlered intense flax, but only a fe < enemy aircraft, some of which were shot down by the b0mbers and thelr eseoIting fighters,
 Crew members reported good re- suits were obtained in the bombing of the two oil plants at Blechhamer, which were only four miles apart The south plan Is the third largest synthetic 0il plant still in opefalioD
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-07
Troops Push Across Orne River; Nazis Battle To Hold Red Line
NOW ONLY 1SO MILES FROM CAPITAL CITY

Supreme H e a d quaretrs, AEF, Aug. 7-(UP)-Power- full American and British armies opened the battle for Paris today in a coordinated offensive that burst through the German Orne and May enne river lines less than l30. miles from the French capital while U. s. columns drove for a quick conquest of the great Breton ports after killing or capturing almost 17,000 of the 25,OO0 Nazi troops de- lending the peninsula.
 (Unconfirmed reports broadcast by the London radio said the Nads were removing their administrative headquarters from Paris to Nancy. near the Franco-German frontierD
 Both ends of the German battle line before Paris were buckling under the impact Of the Anglo American drive as veteran British units punched across the Orne rive- below Caen, and Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradleys rough-riding American tanks swept beyond the Mayenne river in great strength and plunged on toward the big com munications center of Le Mans, li2 miles southwest of the capital
 The British Tommies surged across the Orne two miles north Of Thury Harcourt last night and pushed on almost two miles to cut the Thury-Caen highway.
 The sudden thrust was described officially as posing a major threat" to the German hinge positions south of Caen, where the entire Canadian list Army was disclosed to have gone into the lines.
 Front reports said the British had moved strong anti-tank support across the Orne to meet the threat of a German counter attack and that the entire right flank of the Na1 lines guarding Paris was en- dangered.
 The bitterly contested German stronghold of Wire. 2l miles south- west of the new breakthrough, also fell to the fast-driying Allied forces.
 At the opposite end of the battle line, the Americans turned the main weight of thei armor eastward from Brittany in a siy-pronged as- sault that front dispatches said was rapidly cutting the German left flank to shreds.
 Bradley's tank columns were on the march along a 50-mile front, giving the battered. weary Nazis no chance to reorganize for A major stand.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-07
GERMANS IN
 DO-OR-DIE"
 BIG STRUGGLE

Moscow, Aug. 7-CUP)- The bloodiest battles of the Soviet summer offensive ragged on the approaches to East Prussia, Warsaw and Krakow today as the Ger mans hurled substantial" re- Inducements of mechanized forces, infantry and aircraft into an all-out effort to pro- tect their eastern borders.
 Front dispatches indicated the Germans had drained off a major portion of their strategic reserves from the Reich itself for a ''do-or- die" stand before their easternmost province and the two largest Polish cities still barring the way to Ber- lin.
 (The semi-officiai German Na- tional Socialist party correspondence said that hundreds of thousands of East Prussian men ana boys in- CtuutuB SO.OUU ktltlcE yOubtis, HCAC digging frontir Qualifications along the East Prussian border. Within the first 24 hours. the publication said, "the first continuous line hum dreds of kilometers long was ready on the frontier.'D
 Soviet gains on the immediate ap- breaches to East Prussia now were being measured in hundreds and sometimes thousands of yards inc stead of by miles. and the path of advance was filtered with the bodies of thousands of German dead, the wreckage of enemy Panzers and rubble of villages shelled and bombed to destruction.
 Reports the Russians alreday had crossed the frontier appeared with' out foundation and Soviet sources indicated the Red Army men still were five to 10 miles from the bor- der.
 WarsaW Battle
 The battle for Warsaw apparent ly had resolved into a toe-to-toe
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-07
Ssh! Tommy
 To Wed No. 8

Greenwich, Conn, Aug. !. IUPD Tommy Mapyille, the asbestos helr. whose seventh marriage Q year ago lasted about 35 minutes, is go- ing to step back into his familiar role as bridegroom against Aug. i3,
 Justice of the Peace John J, O'Brien. who has tied the knot for Manyille on several previous 0eca. siOns, said today that Tommy will be here Tuesday, to obtain a license and submitt to the compulsory blood test,
 The bride will be c0ulette Francis, 20-yeaF-Old former show girl, whom ManylDle says he has known for Is years,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-07
ALLIES OPEN BIG DRIVE TOWARD PARIS
W. H. BYRNES. RATED HIGHEST. OF CONTENDEUS

w. Harry Byrnes of Water town, Democratic candidate for congressman from the fifth district today appeared to be the strongest contender among the four aspiring can didates whose names will be placed before the convention scheduled for 6 o'clock to- night at TOrrington.
 Waterbury's 46 delegates to the convention as yet unpledged to any one candidate seemed favorably in- cllned toward support of Byrnes acc cordlng Co a summary poll. It seemed certain at press time today tkat no support would be given by the local group to the efforts of candidate Atty. Michael F. BlanS- field.
 The local delegation whose vote will be called for fourth on the bale loting list tonight, is expected to await a display of the strength shown by any one candidate before final commitment.
 Meanwhile John ]. Driscoll exc cutive secretary of the local c. I. O. today issued a statement in behalf of the unions candidate Peter Hig- gins of Torrington and stated that he hoped that the Waterbury del- egates will see fit to support Hig- gins in tonight's balloting."
 Mir. Driscoll's statement in sup port of MT. Higgins is as follows: since the recent statement of Mayor Monagan indicates that the local Democratic organization is backing no congressional candidate of it's own. the vote of the Water bury delegation at TOrrington to- night will clearly demonstrate their attitude toward the progressive and liberal forces backing Peter Higgins for Congress. hope that the Wa terblwy delegates will see fit to support Higgins tonight balloting".
 Slight Support
 It seemed imprObaDle that any support of Higgins would be shown by the Waterbury delegation in view of the fact that Torrington pledged its support of Robert A. Hurley for governor at last Satur- days state convention in opposi- ton to Waterbury's choice of Atty. Leo V. Gaffney.
 It did seem likely however that the c. I. o. supporters of Higgins would support the candidacy of Byrnes if their man was found to be out Of the race once the bal- loting begins.
 The candidacy of Rep. Edward Clancy of Ansonia seemed without too much support although no final determination could be arrived at
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