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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-04
Explosion Predicted
In Congress Over
Allied Food Setup
BY the Associated Press.

Senator Bushfield, Republican,
South Dakota, predicted today that
Congress will explode" when it
learns the proposed United States
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-04
Administration Seeks
To Discourage Service
Vote, Bridges Says

Senator Bridges, Republican, Of
New Hampshire charged last night
that the administration, losing its
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-04

Wanted: Waste kitchen fats to
make explosives for our guns! Save
yours. Take them to your meat
dealer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-04

Grease makes gunpowder! Save
waste kitchen fats. Take them to
your meat dealer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-19
Bombers Sink IS Jop Ships In Convoy

Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pacific, Feb. 19. (UP)-Allied bomb CTS sank 15 enemy ships attempting to supply and reinforce the big Japanese bases at Rabaul and Kavieng, in a mast-height. three day running attack that was be- lieved today to have destroyed the entire convoy.
 A communique, which said enemy casualties were heavy, listed the sunken ships as: a destroyer, two corvettes; an 8,000-ton tanker, a 7,50O-ton tanker, a 6,000-ton trans port, five cargo ships of 2,000 tons each, three 1,500-ton cargo vessels and a 50O-ton freighter.
 "This is believed to have com- prised practically the entire con- voy," the announcement said.
 Allied medium bombers inter cepted the convoy on Tuesday off Mussau island, north of New Ire land, after a long Liberator spotted the supply ships steaming toward the haraSsed Japanese bases in the Bismarck archipelago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-19
Fother, Son Fight In ItoIy

Anzio Beachhead, Italy, Feb. IS -CUP) - Grey-haired and stub whiskered, Cpl. Roderick Loop, as- sistant driver of the American tank "Aragon," is 49 and that's older than any fighting non-comnis- stoned officer on this beachhead," he said proudly.
 When I asked him what he was doing out in the midst of battle on this beachhead, he pointed across the field. where shells were whist ling by, to group of tanks behind slight rise in the ground.
 T kind of like to be near him" he said wistfully. You see that's my son over there. Walters his name. He is only 20 and still needs some looking after, although he won't admit it."
 Then he smiled, and added:
 T don't like to brag, but guess we are the only father and son fighters on this beachhead-certain- ly in tanks"
 He looked up defiantly but when I didn't challenge him, he contin- ued.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-19
Heavy Casualties
 In British Capital

London, Feb. 19-(UP)-A force of German planes estimated unof- ficially at 50 to 60 bombers crossed the British coast early today and larger proportion than usual pene- trated Londons strong defenses to inflict what were believed the heaviest casualties and damage of any raid since the blitz.
 The attack, however, could not be compared with any of the big as saults of 1940-41, in which 250 to 400 bombers participated, climaxed by the devastating bombing of May 5, 1941. that killed 1,436 persons.
 Coming in from several directions in three waves, the German force of heavy bombers and fighter-bom- bers penetrated one of the heaviest anti-aircraft barrages ever thrown up around the metropolis.
 Searchlights illuminated the sky as the Nazi raiders dropped then bombs mad incendiarieS, starting ex-
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NAz| TROOPS SAID TO BE IN
 FULL RETREAT

Moscow, February 19. = German forces below Lake linen appeared to be in full retreat toward the Baltic states today in an attempt to escape a new Soviet trap threatening the railway junc- tiOnS of PSkov and Ono.
 Yielding the fortress of Staraya Russa and Shimsk, 28 miles to the northwest, the Germans fell back westward along the railway and highway to Pskov as Societ armies cut deeper into their northern flank and endangered their route of re- treat.
 Front reports indicated the enemy also would abandon DINO, junction of the Pskov-Staraya Russa and Leningrad-VitebSk railways, and fall back to new line based on Pskov and Polotsk, only a few miles east of the Latvian border.
 Gen. Leonid A. Govorov's Lenin- grad armies, smashing through dis organized enemy resistance in the woods and swampS east of Lake Pei pus and South of Luga, drove to within 30 miles north of DINO and 35 miles north of Pskov, killing up- wards of 1000 Germans.
 Landing out in a coordinated of- fensive, Russian forces below Lake linen captured ancient Staraya Russa, which had resisted all Soviet assaults for two years. Svyatoo- gorsha, 12 miles to the southwest, and 40 other towns in advances of up to IS miles that rapidly were melting away the westermost NaI bulge on the northwestern front.
 At Svyatogorsha, the Russians were within 45 miles due east of DINO.
 Gen. Kyril A. Meretskovs Nov gorod forces simultaneously .cap- tured Shimsk, at the southwestern corner of Lake Ilmen 28 miles north fest of Staraya RuSsa, and pushed on to Vyeshka, 35 miles northeast of DINO. More than 2,000 Germans were killed at Shimsk.
 In the Ukraine, the Russians completed the annihilation of enemy stragglers who had hidden in the ravines and woods south of Korsun following the smashing of the en- circled German Eighth Army in the Cherkasi pocket.
 Many groups of frozen Germans surrendered without resistance, the Soviet high command reported in its mnight communique.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-19
Ran1irez h Argentina
 Not Sure Nolv or Stand

Sabattiid, leader of the radical party new exiled in Uruguay, as vice. president
 Tomorrow is tke day when new presidential administration would have taken office under normal con- stitutional conditions, but Ramirez's revolutionary regime has suspended the election procedure.
 High Navy officials, who had sup ported the June 4 revolt led by the "colonels' clique" of the Army, were reported to have brought the poll tical crisis to 6 head, telling Ra- mirez that he must step down as z result of this weeks internectne
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-19

Montevideo, Uruguay, Feb. 19.- (UP)-Gen. Pedro Pablo Ramirez. who seized the Argentine presidency in the army revolution of last June, may resign tomorrow and turning the office over to Chief Justice Nic- olas Repetto of the supreme court, BuenoS Aires reports said today.
 The political situation in the Ar- genuine capital remain extremely confused and momentous events may be imminent, these reports said.
 One report said that if Dr. Rep- peto became president he would ini- nnedi8taly call national election with the intention of returning Ramirez who might be the only candidate Ito office, perhaps with Amadec
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-19
Baruch Tells Views
 On Post War Situation

Washington, February 19. - (UP) z President Roose- welt and war mobilization Director James F. Byrnes were expected today to act promptly on recommends tions of the Baruch report for speeding victory, all Ameri- cans getting "back to work in peacetime enterprises, " and taking the government out of business"
 The report = a blueprint for tightening up war production and an elaborate plan fol demobiliza- ton and reconversion was pre- pared to the end that, 'once victory is won, we can close the books on the war as quickly as possible
 Submitted to Byrnes last night, it breathed confidence that the gigantic job of redirecting the na- tion's industry and manpower back into the pursuits of peace-admit-. tedly more difficult than the con- version from peace to war-can be accomplished through advance preparation without economic col lapse, depression and unemploy- ment.
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Legion Mon
 BIomes Army

Cambridge, Mass. Feb. 19 - U. P) - State Commander John L. Delay of the American Legion charges the Army with disinterest in the case of discharged veterans such as Edward Devine, 20, who was committed to Westboro State (mentaD hospital yesterday after staying his 7-month-old nephew.
 This case typifies the lack of care and interest by the United States Army in the soldier" said Delay. The Army is attempting to deny responsibility for hospitaliza- tion and is returning men of thus type to their families and the com- munity-men who commit serious crimes"
 Devine, who received a medical
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-19
Atty. DisIikes Rep. Curley

Boston, Feb. 19-(UP)-Former Mayor Frederick w. Mansfield of Boston, who frequently has served as legal representative for William Cardinal O'Connell, has testified as first defense witness in the retrial of the $5OO,000 libel suit brought by U. s. Rep. James M. Curley, D., Mass, against the Curtis Publishing Co.
 During cross-examination, Mans field acknowledged yesterday that he "did not like Curley" and added that he never haG liked the man." He also testified that he and the congressman had been political rivals for IS years.
 Mansfield discussed the case of Boston City Treasurer Edmund l.. Dolan who had been charged with
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German Soldiers Turn Machine Guns On 2,O0O Italian Civilians

With the Fifth Army Before cas- sino, Italy, February 19. Y (UP)- German soldiers, using machine guns, prevented 1000 civilians from fleeing the Benedictine monastery on Mount Casino when American planes and guns destroyed 1t, sur vivors who reached Allied lines said to day. E
 The Germans refused a request by Don Gregorio, the abbot, to per- init men, women and children terri fled by Allied warning leaflets to leave the abbey the, day before the bombardment started the survivors said.
 The Germans were said to have set up two machine guns at 5 a. m. last Tuesday, pointed directly at the monastery's main gate, behind which hundreds of Italian civilians were huddled, awaiting the German reply.
 Four and half hours later the first wave of Flying Fortresses droned high over the abbey and dropped their bombs, the first ones destroying the monastery church.
 Wave after wave or Fortresses, then Mitchells and Marauders, fol- lowed the initial attackers Tuesday. On Wednesday and Thursday, dive bombers completed the destruction.
 The German guards fled in the midst of the bambardment - too late, however, to save many of the civilians trapped inside.
 Survivors, trickling through the Allied lines, were bruised and wounded and their clothing was in tatters.
 Their anger was against the Ger mans who had held them prisoners.
 Mario, young Italian workman who escaped with seven women and children after the first bomb salvo told the story.
 Mario's 1e-year r-old wife. was among the group. The others inc cluded his sisters, Antoinetta, IS and Maria, 3, Filomela, a dishev- (Ccntinued on Page O
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-19
Deod Named
 In Plane Wreck

Williams Field, Ariz.. Feb. 19- (UP-Army officers today disclosed names of crewmen killed yesterday in the crash when two four -motored bombers in formation locked wings and went down in flames near Mesa. Ariz.
 One B-4 Liberator carried 10 crew members and the other T. Both were from Davis-Monthan Field, Tucson, Ariz.
 Dead and next of kin included:
 2nd. It. Robert P. Perry, "A, CO., pilot; wife, Mrs. Mary K. Perry, 49l Pleasant street, Worcester, Mass
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-19
Women Gives School Money
NEA Telephoto.

Boston, Feb. 19-(UP)-The Bos- ton Globe said today that a wealthy Boston woman, whose identity was a mystery, had contributed a sum believed to be at least $500,OO0 to. ward the founding of co-educa- tional "university-type" school in Indianapolis, Ind. The Globe said a group of Greater Boston men was behind the project.
 George J. Houtain, director of the Vocational Guidance Institute ot Dedham, and William F. Carlson head of the Mount Ida college for girls. were mentioned by the Globe as members of the group identified with the plans.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-19
300, 900 Bucks Is Quite A Sum For Liquor Buying

Washington. Feb. 19-OP)- House debate on the $231 ,3O4, zoo state justice and commerce depart ments appropriations bill, passed yesterday, was pretty dry stuff until the members came to a $300, 900 item obscurely entitled representation allowances"
 The item, compared with the whole, was a mere drop in the bucket, but Rep. Edward H. Rees, R., Kan, insisted that 1t was a drop with a big kick in it.
 The $3OO,OOO, asked by the State Department, was earmarked for the purchase of liquor by party throwing American diplomats in sundry world capitals, Rees declared.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-19
Destroyer To Be Launched "Wednesday

Boston, Feb. 19-(UP)-A de- stroyer-escort named for the late Walter B. Cobb, U. s. Navy cox swan from Corbin, Ky, will DC launched at the Bethlehem Hing ham shipyard Wednesday. Cobb's mother, Mrs. Huey Cobb, will spon. sor the craft.
 Cobb, who was officially declared dead last Aug. 10. has been awarded the Silver Star medal posthumously for conspicuous gallantry.
 On Friday, two landing craft will pe launched at Boston Navy yard. Bf.h Mrs. Charles E. schofield of 2Hincy and Mrs. Charles J. Dvna- hue of South Weymouth, wives of yard oficials. as sponsors
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-19

(The Rome radio said hard fighting continued along the 7 beachhead front during the night with numerous Ger. man spearheads probing into Allied defense pOsitiOns.)
 Four crack German diviS- ions, attacking with unpar- alIeled ferocity, forced the AnglO-American troops to withdraw a short distance in the Aprilia area of the Anzio- Rome road, official reports said.
 Allied tanks and infantry counter-attacked and were making progress, a spokes- man said, but added that the four-day-old German assault could now be described as "the fullest scale effort to drive us back to the sea"
 While invasion forces battled to save their beachhead, New Zealand and Indian troops joined other allied : forces on the main Fifth Army front some 50 miles to the south in a powerful offensive designed to break the CassiIlo staletnate.
 The initial assault Thursday night, preceded by a heavy artillery bar rage, carried across the Rapido river on wide front and resulted in the almost complete encirclement Cf embattled Casino. Two important heights west of Mount Casino were captured.
 GA BEG broadcast said the Gas. sino railway station was 'in Allieo hands.'0
 The heaviest fighting below Rome since the Fifth Army first estab- lished its beachhead four weeks ago today ragged in the sandy quagmire of the reclaimed Pontine marSh- lands.
 Reynolds Packard, United Press War Correspondent at the beach, head, said both sides were using more tanks than ever before in the fighting in Italy, with the Germans hurling groups of their giant 60' ton Tigers at the Allied lines,
 The four enemy divisions attack ing the Aprilia area were identified as the 65th infantry. 114th and T15th motorized, and the 3rd ParHr Grenadiers.
 Allied artillery, arti-tank and machine-guns were reported taking a heavy toll of enemy infantry and armor, and the daily communique reported that many attacks were repulsed. However, the Germans, if anything appeared to have intensi-. fled their assault.
 Grounded by torrential downpours, Allied air forces were unable to air their beleaguered ground forces, but front reports said air crews were waiting throughout Italy Hike Q tight spring to take the air again.
 While the four newly arrived Ger man divisions made the main att tack south of Aprilia. other Nazi forces exerted pressure all around the perimeter of the beachheaG
 Front dispatches said the f6fR new divisions were brought down from Genoa especially for the as- Sault.
 German destroyers or minelayers attempting to cut the Allied supply line to the peachhead were inter cepted by American torpedo patrol boats Thursday night north of Ca praia, but the results of their tor pedo attacks were not observed.
 Other Allied warships continued to support the beachhead with a bonn bardment from the sea.
 Before the rains began yesterday Allied planes flew 300 Sorties, in- cluding attacks by light bnmbeTs cp Aprilia and Sezze. the latter q com. munications center 50 miles south~ east of Rome. Medium bombeEB mss
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He demanded that the item be re- duced by $75.0O0.
 Chairman Louis c. Rabaut, D.. Mich, of the appropriations sub committee which approved the bill, insisted that nowhere did the meas ure say anything about liquor. But Rep. John Jennings, Jr., R., Tenn. was not deceived. Entering the de- bate with arms waving. Jennings shouted:
 This is a cold-blooded proposi- ton. I know we are an easy mark. When we are feeding, cloth ing and paying wages to foreigners who have never earned such money Continued on Page D
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-19
Invasion
 Troo ps Push 

Pearl Harbor, Feb. 19 - (UP) - Meager official reports indicated today that powerful U. s. Marine and army invasion forces rapidly were extending their initial beach, heads on Eniwetok Atoll, 750 miles northeast of bomb battered Truk, with complete conquest perhaps al ready in sight.
 While 16-inch-gun American bat tleships joined cruisers, destroyers and planes in pulverizing bomb ardment to cover the advances on Eniwetok, other elements of the Pac- fife fleet apparently were retiring from the Carolines after subjecting the bastion of Truk to smashing carrier-ba air assault.
 (Radio Tokyo last night again told the Japanese people of fierce fight ing" at Truk and warned that the American attack was part of an of fensive pattern whose ultimate ain was an assault on Tokyo. The broad cast added no fresh details to yes terday's Japanese communique which said Japanese army and navy forces had intercepted the American unitS)
 GA Japanese domei dispatch from a central Pacific base sad American warShips had shelled and carrier based planes bombed Taroa Island in Maloelap Atoll, east of Kwajalein, Wednesday and Thursday causing slight damage" Fifteen planes at- tackled Wednesday and 16 Thursday the dispatch said)
 The 22nd Marine division and ele- ments of the 106th army infantry di- vision (probably total of at least 10000 men) pushed ashore on En- iwetok under a drumfire air-sea bombardment Thursday and suc- cessfully established beachheads, Adm. Chester w. Nimitz, command CT of the Pacific fleet, announced in a communique shortly after noon (6 p. m. EWT) yesterday.
 Optimism
 Though no further bulletins have been issued by NiInitz's headquart- CTS, the fact that the invasion forces were able to consolidate their beach, heads-the toughest phase of any amphibiouS aSSault-tended to jus tify optimism that Eniwetok might be occupied as quickly as was Kwa- jalein, 355 miles to the southeast, which fell after an eight day battle.
 The communique gave no hint as to the extent of the opposition en- countered, but it seemed probable that the terrific preliminary and accompanying bombardment had razed most of the enemy's long prepared pillboxes and artillery em- placements.
 Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, invasion commander, was expected to follow the Kwajalein pattern of sweeping rapidly across the invaded islands to smash all or ganized resistance with the aid of tanks, artillery and flame -throwers, then mop-up the scattered rem nantS.
 Though Nimitz did not identify the site of the initial landings in the 21-by-17-mile circular Atoll at the northwestern corner of the Mar shalls, the main objectives were be- lieved to be Engebi Island, 2,000 yards long and 1,500 yards wide at the northern end, and Eniwetok, narrow heavily-wooded island about 4.000 yards long at the southern end.
 Anchorage
 Possession of Eniwetok Atoll would give the United States one of the finest fleet anchorages in the
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The War On Many yFronts
BY LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War EditOr)

American Land, Sea and Air Forces were engaged today in flank ing Truk. keystone of Japan's Pa cific defenses, in the Wake of the initial heavy assault on the big naval base itself.
 The beachheads established on Eniwetok, in the outermost Marshalls 750 miles northeast of Truk, were being extended rapidly, it was be- lieved at Pearl Harbor in the ao- sence of official announcement since the first communique of Ad- miral Chester w. Nimitz. On the other main world battle fronts, the Russians appeared to have the Germans in full retreat toward the Baltic states, and in Italy the heaviest fighting since the Allied landing was reported in pro- gress at the Anzio beachhead. The invasion of Eniwetok, like that of Kwajalein, apparently was carried out with overwhelming force, the landing of Marines and soldiers being covered by battle ships, carriers, cruisers, destroyers and swarms of bombers and fight CTS.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-19
2 Woterburions
 Die In Cor Crosh

Two men, identified as Ar thur s. Robinson, 30, 151 Bank street, and Ted PittO, 2S, 154 Railroad Hill street, Waterbury, were killed early this morning when their automobile crashed into a tree in New Haven.
 Robinson was killed instantly, and PittO died of injuries at St. Raphael's hospital several hours later.
 Waterbury police were asked by the New Haven department to notify survivors.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-19
WORKERS PICK UNION

Adams, Mass. Feb. 19-UP)- Some 270 workers of the Bridge water Paper Co. have selected as their bargaining agent the United Mine Workers of America (CIO) in preference to the independent union which formerly represented them The election yesterday was super vised by the National Labor Rela- tons board.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-19
Enemy Puts Up Biggest Effort To Drive Allies Into Another Dunkirk
BY ROBERT VERMILLION United Press Staff Correspondent

Allied Headquarters, Naples, February 19 = (UP) = American and British troops deprived of air support by heavy rains have fallen back slightly the beachhead below Rome under what described officially today for the first time the strongest enemy attempt yet to throw the Allies back into the sea-
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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-09-23
Visiting Pastor At
Ebenezer Sunday

In the absence Of Bishop George
w. Baber. Sunday morning, whose
religious duties called him TO the
Chicago District conference in ses-
sion in Chicago. the pulpit was
occupied by Rev. Frank f Church
i'll. pastor OF ST. John AME church,
Montgomery Ala.
A congregation af several thou
sand persons heard the veteran Ala
bama minister preach wonderful
sermon from the subject Stop The
Chariot" from Acts 1871.
At $50 pm. the Laymen OF the
church called a meeting-to put into
operation plans 10 purchase bus
for the purpose OF giving aged
members free transportation to and
from service. Also a library is TO
be established for the young people
OF the church.
Two new members joined at the
morning service. Isaac Jones is
the church reporter.