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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-01
Robots Hit Britoin Again

London, July 1. (UP)-German robot bombs hit Southern England during the night and the attacks carried into the daylight hours to- day with the Nazis now sending over two types of the pilotless planes.
 The second model is believed to have square cut wink tips, with an l8-foot span and a maximum speed of about $50 miles an hour.
 While it is slower than the other robot, the new type is believed able to glide farther after the engine stops, eliminating the l5-second ad- vance warning between the motor cut and the explosion.
 Unofficial observers in Southern England head explosions yesterday, through the night and this morn- ing without the ominous warning from the weird. outhoard engine and the rush of jet propulsions in the wind.
 Some damage was done last night when a robot was brought down by gun fire and blew out the fronts of business houses and severely damaged private dwellings. There were no fatalities, but a number of casualties due to flying glass.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-01
Nozis Quit
 DodeconeseS

London, July 1-(UP)-The Turk ish newspaper Tan said today that the Germans have begun evacuating the Dodecanese Islands guarding the Aegean invasion route to the Bal kanS.
 Troops were being taken off the islands by enemy ships passed through the Bosporus and the Dar- danelles from the Black Sea by Turkish control authorities, the Exchange Telegraph Agency quoted Tan as saying.
 The Turks satisfied themselves that the vessels were commercial in character before permitting them to enter the Aegean, Tan said.
 Germany took over the Italian owned Dodecanese. the largest of which is Rhodes, following Italy's surrender last year and defeated British forces who won temporary footholds on Coo and Lero, as well as on the Greek Island of Eamos farther north.
 British planes and submarines have sunk scores of German ships plying Aegean waters in recent months and made the garrisoning of the Dodecanese a costly opera. ton.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-01
Carl D. Olsen Former City
 Official May Be Paroled

Carl D. Olsen, former Waterbury banker, who was sentenced to serve 2 to 12 years in states prison in the famous conspiracy trial, may be re- leased from confinement next month, 1t was learned by the Denl- ocrat today.
 The former prominent banker, who was allegedly a 'key-man" in the conspiracy, will appear before the state parole board Aug. 2, it was reported today by Warden Ralph Walker at the Wethersfield prison. With time of for good be- havior Olsen's minimum sentence will draw to a close in August and he will be eligible for immediate re- lease.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-01
M. Tobe Airport Reopens Today

Waterbury airport at Mt. Tobe, closed for nearly two years along with other airports in the vital de- fense area, reopened this morning under regulations far less rigid than prevailed when it was closed and operations ceased by govern ment order. The site, considered ideal from many points of view, has been leased by Marshall Allaban, and the reopening is permitted un- der the gradual relaxation of de- fense regulations affecting the east coast.
 Word was received this morning that Bristol airport may be re- opened soon under regulations simi- lar to those that will prevail at Mt. Tobe. Authorities involved in the reopening of the airports are the First Fighter Command, the First Corps area, the Civil Aeronautics Authority and a coordtnating agency.
 Regulations governing reopening of the airport, in which several bi-motored planes have landed in cluding Army and Navy ships, will be far less rigid than those pre- vailing when the airport was closed almost two years ago with many privileges which will permit train ing and instructional flights.
 The airport's open area will be within two-mile radius of the field, permitting ample room for proper approach regardless of wind conditions or heavy air traffic. Ex- tending in a northwesterly direction will be corridor" three miles wide. Insofar as the windings of the Naugatuck river permit, it em- braces a section about a mile and & half each side of the center line of the stream, making it easy to keep within the required air space.
 Unlimited cross-country flying will be possible for pilots as soon as they pass out of the vital defense zone at a point near Campville. a village. In addition, three maneuv-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-01
Stolf TriaLPostponed Until Next Autumn

Trial of Michael Stolfi, former city selectman, who was bound over to superior. court On charges of frau dulent voting, has been postponed until fall by order of Superior Court Judge Edward J. Quinlan.
 The case has been scheduled tc follow the bus truck collision trial but since the civil action did not end until yesterday afternoon, the last day of the court year, the as- signment was held over until fall.
 An alternative to a postponement would have been extension of the court term into next week, but be- cause doubt was expressed that the criminal trial could be terminated in one week, the court hesitated to extend the term far into July. No extensions beyond June have been taken here in many years.
 It is believed defense counsel in the case will press for an early Sep- tember trial, since the prominent defendant has indicated anxiety in disposing of the charges.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-01
MoyArrest4 4 In Murder

Scituate, Mass, July l. (UP) - Four men, three of them prominent Scituate residents, may be arrested as material witnesses today as po- lice seek to solve the Sex-slaying of l0-year -old Frances McGrath whose body was found in a Norwell wood patch June 16.
 Dist. Atty. Edmund R. Dewing said last night that the four men might be seized after he confers with investigators this morning. The conference, he announced, would seek to clear up conflicting medical evidence doctors have said the child apparently was killed 36-hours be- fore she was found, while police evidence points to the theory that she was killed shortly after she dis appeared June 10.
 Two of the suspects who may be arrested already have been question: ed. The third was described as a former convict and the fourth q Norwell man.
 Meanwhile, police revealed that Edith L. Cameron. IS, of Norweli had been missing since Thursday when she boarded a bus for Man. tasket. Police, however. believed her disappearance had no connection with the McGrath case.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-01
.BLOODIEST BATTLE OF
 PACIFIC RACES
BY WILLIAM F. THREE United Press War COrrespOndent)

Dx WAALAEANk Es NEE United Press War Correspondent
 Pearl Harbor, July l. - (UP) - U. s. Marines and Army troops drove steadily northward today against fierce and increasing enemy resistance on Saipan, where the bloodiest battle of the Pacific has cost the lives of 1,474 Americans and at least 4,951 Japanese.
 With only half the island conquered, the U. s. casual ties in two weeks of fighting on Saipan already were more than three times greater than those suffered on Tarawa.
 From the day of the invasion on June IA up to June %, the total American casualties were 9,752 of which 1,40O were wounded and S78 missing. The Marines suffered the biggest losses, with 1,289 killed, G. 377 wounded and 827 missing.
 Admiral Chester w.. Nimitz, in disclosing hte U. s. losses on Sai- pan, said the figure for the Japenese was the number buried by the Americans and explained that en- emy troops had tken with them many more of their dead and wounded.
 The battle of Saipan was nearly half as costly in dead and wounded as the fighting in France, where B. O82 Americans were killed and 13,- 121 wounded in the first two weeks of the invasion.
 Since the invasion of the Marian as,- on Japan's central Pacific de- fense line, the Marines and army troops have cut Saipan in two and now command positions overlooking the entire Japanese defenses in the northern half of the island. Nimitz said the ground forces made new gains in the center of the line, occupying high ground near Charan Danshii, and also along the eastern coast north of Magicienne Bay.
 On the west coast, air and naval forces bombarded enemy strong points in the Tanapag harbor area, toward which the troops were driv- ing from north of embattled Cara pan.
 Tinian Island, across a narrow Strait south of Saipan, was being subjected to a continuing lombard ment by planes and warships, the communique said, adding that car rier- based planes attacked Rota Is- land, in the southern Marianas, Wednesday without aerial opposi- tion.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-01
Guom Attack Is Reported
(By United Press)

A German news broadcast of a Tokyo dispatch today reported a new American attack on Guam as U. s. forces drove slowly north on Saipan against increasing resistance and an Allied conlmunique said Liberators shot down eight of 20 Japan fighter planes in a raid on Yap Island in the Western Caro- lines
 The German broadcast said three U. s. cruisers or large destroyers and 80 planes shelled and bombed Guam yesterday. There was no conrmation from Allied sources.
 The fighting on Saipan, described as the bloodiest battle of the Pacific, has cost the lives of i,474 Americans and 4,951 Japanese, Admiral Ches- ter w. Nimitz disclosed.
 With only half the island con- quered, the American casualties since the invasion of the Marianas June IA already are three times ss heavy as those suffered in the Tarawa campaign.
 The total American casualties up to June 29 were 9,752 of which 7,400 were wounded and S78 are missing. The Marines suffered the heaviest losses with i,289 killed, 6,377 wounded and 827 missing.
 Long range bombers of the Far Eastern Air Force, hitting Yap Island for the fourth straight day. dropped 6S tons of bombs on the airdrome. The conamuniQue said pillars of smoke rose 2.000 feet from
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-01
Red Pincers
 Harry Minsk
Force photo from NEA Telephoto)
BY M. S. HANDLER
Limited Press staff COrrespOnde

Limited Press Stakt COrreSpOMOentI
 Moscow, July 1-(UP)-Russian armies were enveloping Minsk from north and south today, closing in from northward positions last re- ported only 25 miles distant as the battle for the White Russian capi- tai approached its decisive phase.
 (The National Broadcasting com- pany quoted the London radio as saying that the Russians "have sur- rounded Minsk. have taken possess sion of the leading rail and road routes leading directly to Warsaw" The report lacked immediate Sub- stantiation in any other quarter.)
 The Nazi command threw local re- serves into futile attempts to check the jaws of giant Rcd army pine CTS being clamped on Minsk while the vanguard of the Soviet force striking due west toward the an- cient fortress city moved up almost within sight of its goal.
 Front dispatches said the German center seemed to have been shat tered completely in the battle along the Berezina. Russian troops who crossed the river north of by-passed Borisov, where bitter street fight ing ragged, were encountering little resistance.
 Military quarters believed how ever, that the battle-groggy Ger mans might undertake a desperate stand immediately outside Minsk in an attempt to block the time-honor- ed invasion route westward to War; saw and Berlin.
 liar dDecisiOn
 The Germans faced a hard deci- sion. Failure to throw in whatever local reserves can be mustered will result in Minsk falling almost with out a blow, observers believed. On the other hand, an attempt to check the frontal push from the east would mean sending precious re- serves into the jaws of the Soviet pincers.
 The Germans threw fresh and security troops into battle in an llth hour attempt to stem the So- viet avalanche. but the ist and 3rd White Russian armies smashed through them and raced on at a pace that threatened to bring Minsk under siege and perhaps topple it within the next few days.
 Gen. Ivan D. Cheniakhovsky's Sd army completed the rupture of Minsk's outer defenses yesterday by stOrming across the Besezina, last natural obstacle before the city, on a wide front above Borisov on the Moscow Minsky Warsaw railway and pushed on another i9 miles to the west. Street fighting ragged fin B0risov itself.
 The list army under Marshal
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' 0f Red Cross Staff Missing

Alexandria, Va, July l, (UP)- The casualty branch Of the War De- pertinent has notified the American Red Cross that seven members of the Red Cross overseas staff have been missing in an airplane flight between Italy and sarinia since June "A.
 The stan members consisted of one man and six women. The next of kin were notified today by the National Headquparters of the Red Gross.
 The missing included: Mrs. Mar garet 0iIlum. 37. lI3le Bridge st. DFacut, Mass.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-01
l,4OO TANKS. S4,OOO MEN
 FAIL IN TRY
BY VIRGIL PrNKLEY

BY VIRGIL PINkLEY
 United Press War Correspondent)
 Allied Supreme Headquar- ters, London, July l. - (UP) -- Elements of seven German Panxer divisions - 1,4OO tanks and S4,OOO men at full strength = smashed repeat edIy, but futiIely, at the Brit ish wedge southwest of Caen today and front dispatches suggested that Marshal. Err win ROmlneI may have taken over personal command of the enemy forces.
 It. Gen. Christopher Demp- Sey's Second British Army hurled back at least three sharp enemy thrustS, the last admittedly with difficult ty, in daylight yesterday and beat off still other increas- ingly heavy counter-attacks last night and this morning, a spokesman revealed.
 More than 250 British Lancaster and Halifax four-engined bombers, making one of their rare daylight raids, almost obliterated an enemy armored force concentrated near Villers- Bocage, B miles southwest of 0Aen, at 6 D. m. yesterday with more than HOO tons of bombs.
 Roaring over the massed tanks in a 12-minute procession less than 4,OOO feet from the ground, the RATS heavyweights dropped their entiSe weight of explosives, presum- ably including block busters, on an area no larger than football field --an average of one ton of explo- sives for every five square yards.
 Visibility was excellent and return ing crews reported they "got what we wanted" Front dispatches re- ported the road junction of Villers Bocage itself, a pottleneck of five roads over which the Germans have been reinforcing their lines, also flattened by bombers with fires vis- ible for miles.
 Headquarters spokesnen disclosed that the Germans had massed ele- ments of at least seven Panzer di- visions, including some of their fin- est SS and Panzer grenadier units from North Africa, Sicily, Italy and even Russia, between Caumont and Caen for an attempt to nip off the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-01
New Moscow Church Council

Moscow, July 1. (UP)-The coun- cil of peoples commissars announced today the establishment of a coun- cil on church affairs to maintain Liaison between religious groups and the government and handle prob lens requiring governmental deci- sions.
 The council, headed by I. V. Pol yansky, will deal with the following churches-Armenian, Gregorian, Old Believers, Roman Catholic, Greek Catholic, Lutheran, Moslem, Jewish, Buddhist and other sectarian or ganizations.
 The body is the second church council established here, the first being the council on affairs of the Russian Orthodox church.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-01
NY ELMER q. WALZRR United Press Financial Editor

Breton Woods, M. F.. July - (UP) )-~@eyeral hundred delegates Of ~ nations containing e8 per cent of the worlds population, met in this New Hampshire vaeatl0nland today to try for a solution 0f internation- aI money problems vexing govern lnents since World War ! ended.
 Meeting in the United Nations monetary and financial conference called by the United states, the daIagabes worked from the tentative draft of a plan designed Co promote monetary cooperation aHaQne ne- ilonr, to facilitate iEs1s. cod e he'p
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-01
Hire Control Starts Todoy
NEA Telephoto.
Bv PAUL HARRTSON

Limited Press Staff C0rrespondent)
 Washington, July 1.-(UP)-The War Manpower Commissions long heralded extension of hiring con- trols took nationwide effect today, prefaced by stern warnings from military and production chieftains that war workers must stay on their jobs or delay victory.
 The United States Employment Service now has nominal employ ment jurisdiction over all males and in certain areas over women in the non-agricultural labor force. Actually, however, its authority will be delegated widely and the strict ness of its regulations broadly in- terpreted.
 Because of the varying nature of manpower problems from area to area, it is impossible to describe except in general terms how the program will work. In some areas where labor particularly is tight, local manpower committees may give USES sole authority to refer all job-seekers to openings-men
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-01
Strike Of 10000 Truck Drivers Off

Indianapolis, July l-(UP)-Tht strike of 10000 midwestern truck drivers. scheduled for midnight last night. has been postponed pending a war labor board hearing July 6.
 The threatened walkout, which would have affected shipments of war materials in Wisconsin, Minre- sota, Iowa, Missouri. the Dakotas, Nebraska and Kansas, was called off last night by Thomas E. Flynn, acting president of the AFL Team gteg' Union.
 The drivers had voted to halt all inter-city shipments until ii2 mem bers of the midwest Operators As- socIation complied with a WLB or der granting them a i2 per cent wage increase.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-01
Report Minsk Surrounded
BX UNITED PRESS

The National BEbadcasting Com- pany reported today without imme- diate confirmation in any other source that tine British Radio said the Russians had surrounded Mlnsk and taken possession of the leading rail and road routes leading dlrect- Iy to Warsaw"
 The only comparable report by the London radio as recorded by the United Press up to that time was the assertion. in comment on the new Soviet offensive along the Pri- pet River i20 miles south Of Minsk. that "they stand on either side of the trunk railway to Dregt-KftoEsk and Warsaw"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-01
ALLIES OVERWHELM LM GERMAN POSITIONS Huge Counter Blows At Caen RepuIsed
DRIVE AHEAD
 ON ENTIRE
 ITALIAN FRONT'
BY CLINTON B. CONGER United Press War Correspondent

BY CLINTON B. CONGER United Press War COrrespOndentN
 Rome, July l. = (UP) ~ Allied armies have Over~ wheImed the delaying pOsi- tiOns of routed German forces in Italy and again are sweeping forward on the whole front from the Adrf- atic to the Tyrrherian Sea- General Sir Harold R. L. G. AIexander's headquarters re- ported today.
 American troops of It. Gen. Mark w. Clark's Fifth Army were converging on Siena, big transport center B miles south of Florence, and it's fall was reported inl- minent. Delayed advices we'll behind the events said the United States vanguard was six miles from Siena.
 Other American forces pushing uu the west coast reached the out~ skirts of Cecina, 20 miles below Livorno, and plunged in force across the Cecina river three miles east of the outflanked town.
 Along the east shore of Lake, Trasimeno, around which the Nazial fought their toughest delaying ac- tion north of Rome, the British Eighth Army cleared out a strong point in the area of Magione, nine miles northwest of Perugia.
 The final segments of Marshall Albert Kesselring's positions anch-V ared around the central lakes were being uprooted with the Nazis reels ing back toward the sa-Florence~a Rimini line.
 Swift Pace
 On the Adriatic coast, the Eight1| Army was pursuing the fleeing Ger-l mans across the Chienti riveEl toward the Musone river, only l0l miles from Ancona. Forward ele.j ments reached the town of Civat a-l nova, 22 miles south of Ancona, Erie day afternoon, and if the pace were maintained probably were ap-l preaching 9ncona by now.
 Allied armies in Italy nave given, the enemy no respite and continua| to force him to withdraw all alonnl the front" the daily war communist que said.
 The Germans counter attacked Thursday night around Cecina, try., ing t disengage their main forcess| but the thrusts were repulsed and] the American troops moved on into|
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Bombers Hit Oil Factory,
BY WALTER CRONKITE

Limited Press War Correspondent
 London. July 1. = (UP) = Mos- Quitoes hit the synthetic oil works near zarmborn in Germany's Rhur valley last night while heavy RAF bombers struck the important rail center at Vierzon, south of Orleans in France.
 UnfayorabIe weather continued over the Channel today and 1t ap- peared that areial support Of the Normandy operations would be re- stFicted to only limited patrols.
 The last large scale effort in sup port of the troops was made by more than 250 British Lancasters and Halifaxes last evening when they dropped over HOO tons of bombs on an enemy concentration Of men and tanks at Villers Bocage.
 Supreme headquarters announced that Allied planes carried out con- stant attacks on enemy supply lines leading to the immediate battle area yesterday, while heavy bombers raided five airfieids in France and Belgium.
 The aerial operations were de- signed to isolate the German troops from supply ranks in the rear and were revealed to have affected serl- Ously transport in the triangle bounded by the Seine, Loire and the sea. Tn that area. nine-tenths 9f all transport has been pushed off railways onto highways since D. Day.
 The air ministry disclosed that well over TS0 sorties were flown alone by tactical airf0rce planes from Britain. mostly on etraff57lE missions behind the German lines and covering bombeFs over the Pas dc Calais area.
 Weather apparently halted further attacks during the night on the northern France coast, from which the Germans continued to launch robot bombs Into southern England through the night and into the day. light hours today,
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BY KIRTLAND I. KING -.sAA1 D~asa Gkaff nnwraaRAnms1Al

Aboard Dewey Train. En Route Te Albany, July 1. - (UP) - Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. Republican pres idential candidate, was en route home today confident that harmony prevailed in the ranks of the party in its campaign to dislodge one man rule from the White House.
 Accompanying Dewey was Herbert Brownell. Jr.. new Republican Na- tional chairman. who planned to 60 to New York immediately to open headquarters at the Roosevelt Hotel and get the campaign underway. Ale so aboard the train with Gov. and tfrs. Dewey and neWgpapeg report
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-01
Delegates From, A Nations Meet At Brett0n Woods

backward nations pay Tor imported goods,
 World trade relations involve such complicated problems as inteTna- tional monetary exchanges, man. aged currencies, and a world bank. that the meetings are expected to last two or three weeks.
 In April, technical experts of 3e nations. including the United States, drew up the tentative plan which superseded one devised by the U. 8, Treasury Department year ego. It makes no pgoglslon for 6 rev eliEr Fency. The first plan set ID 6 mon-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-01
Devey Confident OfUnited
 Party To Dust NelU Deal

CTS were J. Russel sprague. New York National committeeman. and New York State Chairman Edwin F. Jaeckle. Dewey conferred with all three en route.
 Before Dewey left Chicago, scene of the Republican convention and his greatest political triumph. he met with the members of the Na- tional Republican Committee and was assured that the party wae united for the forthcoming cani- paign.
 we viii all make a gigantic ef- fort to do our best to save the Re- public and yin the war;" he said. (oontinusd on Rass 9 .--
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-01

Warden Walker said Olsen has fine record" and expressed praise for the prisoners behavior. It was indicated a recommendation will be made for his release as soon as the minimum sentence expires.
 Olsen was transferred from the state prison to the prison farm Jan. IS, l940. He started his sentence Oct. IS, 1899. Inmates of the farm are allowed more time of for good behavior than are the regular pris- Oners.
 Release of Olsen from prison in
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