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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-06-16


Washington, June le,wURl The
United Nations today glndlAd thf
globe witb offensive HaF,
Within q bloody fortnight tbe
battie picture has changed N tie
10Th month 81 tie flffb yeas d
conflict, 0ffieiela0m eollHseled eau,
tioF, waFnea against 0veTsoptimtsm
but there has not been = previous
n days IKE tbls ~ the ae0niEed
story ~ World War II,
RQale fhll on June T. hitlers Besi
wall was pnnetnfe1 twO days later
Aild only yesterday Japan wa
brought under bomb fire and tIaf
Aarianas Were invaded,
Premier Sasef stains legl0ns weTf
gathering IN TIE east. ife promised
8 mighty offensive 70 supplement
ne giosAmeT1ean lnvAAiop 81
western Europe,
General Douglas MaeAFthuFsi
troops were pressing north all1
west faFoNah isle Pacific falaDaf
toward ne Philippines. ~ On
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-06-16
Bog RAIDS WRECK JAPS' FACTORIES
Tons Of Bombs Rained On Steel Plants;
PiIotIess Bombers Blast Southern ENGLAND
British Officials
Admit Gravity Of
Surprise Weapon
BY WALTER CRONKITE
UNITED Press War Correspondent


UNITED Press War Correspondent
London, June is. - (UP)
"A fantastic stream Of
piIotlesS Naxi bOmbers rained
fire and explosives across
southern England all last
night and through the morn
ing hours today, and radio
Berlin said the robot fleet
had smashed at London it.
self i'm ''the beginning Of
vengeance" for the Allied at
tackS on Germany.
Adolf Hitler finally had launched
his boasted secret weapon against
Britain and the mighty invasion ar
senal piled up on the island, and
British official sources made no ef-
fort TO minimize the gravity Of the
attack.
All southern England was alerted.
and Home Secretary Herbert Nor
rison confirmed the existence Of
the robot raiders and promised Inn
mediate counter action In q state
nsent 70 commons.
A German high command COM
munique said south England and
the London city area were bombed
last night with new type ex-
plosiVes OF very heavy caliber," and
Bertha military commentators boast
ed thAt the mysterious raiders were
"A new anti-invasion weapon Of the
greatest effect"
The new weapon used against
England Is the beginning Of ven
geance' for the Barbara" Allied
bnnhang Of the Maj homeland, one
enemy commentator said.
Reports from eye witnesses who
watched the Wellsian parade swOosh
across southern England during the
night poured into ofticiai London to-
day, including one account that told
Of automatic machine guns rakins
the countryside.
Flashing across the night skies
like q string Of fiery comets, the
mysterious proyectiles whooshed
down on scores OF unidentified dis
iricts Ia southern England, expiod-
ing into gigantic balls OF fire.
Eyewitness accounts OF the raid
varied, but all reports indicated that
the missiles were either rocket
bombs or Tadio-eoptrolled planes
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-06-16
JAPS CAN NOW
ANTICIPATE
RUHR BLITzS
BY WALTER RUMBLE
UNITED Press War Correspondent

United Press War Correspondent
Advance Echelon, goth
U. S. Bomber Command,
Western China, June 16. =
CUP - A powerful force of
B-29 super-fortresses - fly
ing history's longest afraid
-plaStered tons of deStruc-
ton Thursday on the steel
plants of Yawata, 1.-THE Pitts
burgh of Japan. Returning
crew members today jubi-
lantly described the raid as
most successful.
The crewmen said the raid served
notice on the japanese that the in
dustrial heart Of their empire is
marked for the same type OF sys-
tematic destruction that was heaped
on the Ruhr.
Our super-fortresses set ablaze the
Imperial Iron and Steel Mills larg-
est IN the Empire, whose blast fur
naces and coke ovens produce one
fifth Of Japans steel.
Troy Porter. representing the
combined American networks on the
flight. said in a broadcast recorded
by CHS at New York that many
planes We're damaged to various ex.
tents on returning TO other bases.
This plane would come In per-
haps with one rudder missing and
that plane came In with a huge hole
in one wing, but flying proudly, al
though somewhat disabld perhaps"
Porter saidD
1T looked like we knocked he'll
out OF the place It. Robert Whit
ers, Wichita, Kan. one of the re-
(Gontinnad m, poua o.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-06-16
BouIogne
Is BIifzed

(Unites Press Wag CerFesDeDaent)
London, June 10 - fuP.D-Large
forces Of RAP heavy bombeTs bat
tered the Boulogne haFboF glth SIX
ton supeT-blockbusters last night ~
the second straight night attack on
Concentrations Of small German
boats threatening the Allied com
Dlliniestions line 70 the Normandy
beaehheadE.
unfay0Fable weather, however,
apparently restricted aerial opera
tons over The battie6elGs aBd coast
al observers reported sar less aes
tlyity than 10 recent days, ~ noon
there gere only limited reports o.
daylight operations.
The raid on Boul0gpe. with az
Rsselnblage Of + and hsboats ana
MinesgeepeFk, was eompaFeble 70
the attack the previous night by
more than 800 RAP h0nbers on the
g-boet and toFpaaoEboat nests -
~ HayTe,
The Evening Standard estimated
that between 800 ana 1900 tons u
bombs gsTs dropped 90 bouiogns
10 DE raid 90 Le HavFe, tbs
hOInhers uIlloaded shout 200 tons
d explosives starting 8 udel wsye,
which Knocked out whatever Was
lelt after direct bomb hits,
EfaannnalhsgllGs ph0toeFRpb q
taken 0yef the area late yesterday
showed no trace NJ 10 kTDosls aDe
three f0Fpeaorb0ats wlsch earlier
pictures showed weFe tied w ~ Le
HAVE, AND authorities wefe coils
hdept the enemy vessels we're pvt
out Of action,
Other RAJ A,ombers last night
Faneed over France ~ stack the
FaM nenteFs ~ vaieneleppes end
lens, and fuel dumps a chetfllss
Faln aild EoullaTd,
qaae az ministry ANNOUNCED that
places from the bomber command
attackod 0btectiyes ~ western Ger
many during the night, although
hle EaFeeis beFe not specified,
DITst reports kaia ~ RAJ bAatt
h0mbers we're missing, bfltieD W.
Nueer patrols destroyed -four enemy
planes ~ raids 90 German aifs
aF0fnes ~ France,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-06-16
sOgOlEa KIIAED

Santa ross, Caly June ~ - ~,
~ ~ PRIVATE Roger q, Cole, ~.
Fall River, Mass, baS Killed Wed
nesdsg ellep ulf tuck N1ieb ~
vas diving overturned, eallfa iiktkf
Army Az Base ofileieie reported -
dsy, Cote e snFgiyee ~ DIS father,
Laon Cots, " pah higeF.
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Crew Members Describe
Raid: Most Successful;
Only Two Bombers Lost
BY FRED SCHERFF
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

Washington June 16 - (UP) - u. S. Super.
FOrreSSeS from China inauguraed their of destruc
ton against the japanese homeland with precision bomb
of targets at the steel center of Yawata which off
Large fires and explosions" the War Department.
announced today in cOmmunque which listed American
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26
Trench Warfare Coming Back:

are just about as safe as foxholes
and dugouts and infinitely more
practical.
But artillery already is whiting
down buildings along semistatit
sectors of the combat line and il
is easy to see that soon most Of
them will be untenable if the in
tensity of big gun bursts in
creases. Then it will BE a dugou1
war again.
Doughboys who fought sat Anzie
know how to make dugouts firm.
strong and bulwarked overhead
with logs, earth and stones. New.
corners are learning fast. Some
dugouts even now are well fur.
nished, equipped and heated-bu'
most of them are not because
neither time, equipment nor enc.
my action permit it.
But they already are needing
what protection they can get from
the elements alone. The heights in
the Vosges are bit by wet winds
carrying frostbite as well as driv-
ing rains now and then tinged with
snow. AS yet the frozen crust atop
knee deep mud will not hold a
mans weight in the morning but
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26
The Literary Guidepost

Footner's readers will, have-one
of exploration. The Eastern Shore
is a flat region, in the main, whose
charm is certainly not from dra
matte scenery. Mr.. Footner thinks
the country, together with the pe
culiar variety of its original set
tiers, have produced a particular
culture. Because the Eastern
Shore is lucky enough not to lie
between two great cities, or in any
other location where trunk high.
ways and billboards deface t h G
land, more of the culture remains
than would be true of any similar
district in the East.
River by river, Mr.. Footner ex.
plores the Shore. started out to
count the old houses he considers
worth exploration, and gave it up,
for there are hundreds. People still
live on most of them, but these
concern Mr.. F'ootner rarely: he
brings back the men and women
who built the great houses, an d
lived a truly wonderful life in them.
There are st i | whole towns such
as Chestertown and Denton worth
study, and the hundreds of miles
of riverfront and bay shore can
be read almost like a book by a
man who knows the language. This
Mr.. Footner does know.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26

lit will soon-and will stay frozen
all day long.
The extensive barbed wire be.
comes an additional problem to in
evitable patrols. Doughboys with
bangalore torpedoes and other de-
vices are clearing pathways of such
distractions. This is okay when
they have them, but patrols are
supposed to be fairly stealthy
things unannounced by loud explo-
sions. Hence, they have to slip
through and around entanglements
as best they can.
Meanwhile the artillery of both
sides gradually is zeroing in the
others approximate positions. Out
in no-man's land, the thick layer
of rich, fertile sod which covers
the bodies, rusty barbed wir e,
chunks Of shrapnel and shellholes
of a generation ago are being torn
and pitted and populated again
with the dead.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26

ed program providing for its financing and
attracting to it competent personnel which
were well paid for their work, city officials
say the results are gratifying. Only one play
ground supervisor left the staff this summer
as compared to 10 who left during the same
period last year.
This year two more play areas were opened
to the public as well as numerous tennis
courts throughout the city. City officials have
recommended that Toledo expand this proven
tive program for juvenile delinquency and pro-
vide additional funds for this purpose.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26
Daily Prayer
FOR PRISONERS OF WAR

Our own blood kin are prisoners
of war in a far distant land, suf.
fering under the inhuman treat
ment of pagan foe. This sorrow
which sends our prayers wingine
constantly to Thee for succor, is
shared by thousands of families in
our land. Lord, have mercy! We
know that Thy Son came to sci
at liberty the captives: Almighty
God, stretch forth Thine omnipo'
tent hand to deliver our dear ones,
Ameliorate their bitter lot, and for.
tify their souls. Speed, we beseech
Thee, the day of deliverance by
victory. In their sufferings, may all
prisoners find a new kinship and
sympathy with the Saviour who
was once prisoner. May their
spirits remain free, and their con.
fidence in US who love them never
fade. Hasten, we entreat Thee, the
day of liberty for all the world
Amen.-W. T. E.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26
TOP o. THE MORNING
God never yet forsook at need
The soul that trusted Him indeed.
F, E. HOWLEY JAMES.
Rainbow Chasers

Cities and towns throughout the nation are
striving to attract new industries of per-
manent nature to fill the gap when the in
evitable day of curtailed war production ar
rives in deadly earnest. The objective of the
average community seems to be to hold fast
to wartime peaks. Many are going to be dis
appointed, if they pin their hopes too strongly
on the dreams Of rainbow chasers to the
exclusion of cold facts
Now is the time for all communities to
look with new appreciation upon the old-es-
tablished industries that helped them prosper
in peacetime. After the illusions of the rain
bow chasers evaporate, these industries will
still be with us, paying taxes and working
to build payrolls and enlarge markets.
The railroads are an example of such an
Industry. A few decades ago a successful ef-
fort to secure a railroad through town was
the ultimate victory for any community. Today
most communities have railroad service. Rail-
ployers. Their tax payments, local and ma
tional, are among the largest. They are a
gnet for other industries. Wherever they
reach, commerce expands. Their personal
needs are great They require a wide variety
OF items including ice, laundry, food, fuel,
and heavy equipment the production of which
helps maintain countless local industries The
railroad is almost literally community's life
Insurance.
And the best part is that the railroads are
nc dream They are as real as the laundering
lot omotves that have worked overtime for
many long months hauling the hell of war
t. the Axis, When again the battlefelds are
quiet, they will become the lifeblood of peace.
No community no nation can afford to neg
lect its railroads in planning for the future.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26
High Voltage Wire Kills
Ry. Track Supervisor

. OXFORD, Oct. 25.-tR)-Clintor
G. Harris, 81, Of Stovall. was ki11ee
late yesterday by contact with 8
high voltage wire, Coroner w. D
Bryan said today.
Harris and W. 2. Wood, %, South
ern Railway track supervisor,
were measuring the clearance be
tween the track and the powe,
company lines when Harris tossed
a cloth tape measure over the
wire. Wood was knocked uncons.
cious as he sought to rescue Har,
ris, Coroner Bryan said.
The coroner said the tape meas.
ure was lined with three tiny cop
per wires which served as con.
duit for the current.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26
BY JOHN SELBY
drivers of The Eastern
Shore" by Hubert Footner
(Farrar & Rinehart; $3.50.

(Farrar & Rinehart; $3.50.
The Eastern Shore of Maryland
has almost too much history, and
almost too many historical places,
for successful reproduction in a
book. But not quite, when the Sc
lection is done as intelligently as
it has been by Hubert Footner in
his Rivers of the Eastern Shore, ="
This is the latest of the now-famous
"Rivers Series" begun some years
ago by the late Constance Lind
say Skinner, and edited now by
Hervey Allen. %
There are seventeen rivers and
hundreds of creeks and tidal in
lets on the Eastern Shore. On the
south, they begin with the POGO
moke, which runs northeast into
Maryland, just above the Virginia
line. At the north, the list closes
with the Bohemia. the Elk and the
Northeast rivers. The last two Mr..
Footner onits, as being uncharac-
teristic of the Eastern Shore: the
Bohemia, named by Bohemian
named Herman for his native land.
is the last river to be explored,
That is exactly the sense Mr..
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26
By KENNETH L. DIXON

WITH THE AEF IN FRANCE,
Oct. 19.-(Delayed) -R-To an av.
erage Observers eye-unenlighten
ed by any views of the big pic
ture''-the situation in the Vosges
heights shows every sign of de-
veloping into winter trench war
fare reminiscent of that m &
struggle the doughboys' fathers
fought in this same terrain a quar-.
ter century ago.
Already in some sectors where
vicious artillery and mortar duels
have shredded trees into gaunt
blackened skeletons, foxholes are
giving way to zigzag trenches.
The Germans are resorting more
and more to barbed wire entangle.
ments. In this war they have beer
adding little modern, scientific
novelty to the entanglements-in-
tricate BOBBY traps.
Constantly increasing casualties
from tree bursting artillery shells
in these sectors long since have
forced soldiers to transform their
foxholes into dugouts wherever
possible. In some instances they
use the buddy SYSTEM famed
from the San Pietro battle. There
two men shared each foxhole and
those holes extended back into I'm.
derground tunnels where on e
doughboy rested and slept if he
could while the other fought.
Now when tree bursts come, if
unaccompanied by infantry attacks
both soldiers get into the tunnel.
If any one position remains sta
tic even few days, it becomes
natural that the soldiers are going
to work out some contact system
WI III does not expose them to
enemy fire.
Trenches are the obvious answer.
The same applies to dugouts.
This includes such positions as
command posts, forward observa-
ton posts (dugouts for off duty
protection in the latter case) ard
all front line duties which do
not require personnel to keep their
heads above ground.
Naturally, houses still hold top
preference as command posts-A
development of last winters Ital-
ian fighting, commanding officers
avoided houses, according to mill
tary copybook maxims. But time
taught them that many buildings
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26
Won KLUCE TELLS
CAUSE OF DEFEAT

WASHINGTON, Oct. Is IT.
Captured records of telephone con Co
versations between Field Marsha
Won Kluge, German commander
chief in the West, and three Hs al
field generals were made puollc y. "
night by the War department wn u,
said they showed what Drou I.s
about the defeat of the German
Seventh Army in northern tran''
In the conversations, which 1000
place July 81, Won Kluge cum !.'
planned repeatedly of heavy lo o y.
from the operations Of allied llSa'
er-bomber planes. AS many az -. =,
600 were thrown against the ens u,
at one time during the N0lin'D''
fighting.
To the chief of staff OF one S'N'
group, Won Kluge SAID;
"The enemy has reached Avt ~.
ches. Our 957th infantry fesli. y,
of 363rd infantry division H 'ai.. ~
parently not moved owing 10 t :.t.tr
to unprecedented enemy lisD d.
bonnie ractivity. Enemy tanh nj i,
vances on Granville and AVfa l. 1
were preceded by an um m, ..,i,
enemy fighter-bcmbers' I mn. IN N.
movement almost imposslole,, ,, ID
troops have suffered higher l lU',f
in men and equipment by s a.S,,
air activity, and morale mas S'
ly suffered a,o Gs
To the chief of staff OF 'H'
man 7th army: ...6 vii
Yesterdays heavy 1l8H'lnGi b.
successful for the enemy oil t,,r.
cause he paralyzed all our h t'r
ments by employing fignfes,.JIs"
ers on an unprecedented S 5aatif,
To General Warlimont' loea ..ti,,
as Hitler's personal repfestd .
in the West, Won Kluge saw ;., (,
1.-THE enemy air supe[io s4 even
terrific and smothers alnoS' rrer
one of our movements: .',er,.
movement of the enemy, now W. n
is prepared and protected |" a..
air force. Losses in lhen -
equipment are extraordlhalJ,., mi
The War Department exp .orl,!l
these conversations were isert,,,
in a top secret enemy te 81 M y
journal, which was captule0 "
Western front.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26
Recreation Helps

Though we hold that juvenile delinquency
SEEMS in largest measure from parental in
ertia we are impressed with the success OF
recreation ventures AS means of curling it
where the home influence has failed
Wilmington's recreation program has achiev-
ed notable improvement in the situation of
youngsters whose waywardness has sprung
c. 'efly from lack of something wholesome
tn do in idle hours
Because of Wilnngtons h &c m n t
through directed recreation, it will prove in
teresting to this papers readers well as
the city's recreation leadership to learn what
is being DONE and what the accomplishment,
in another city-Toledo, Ohio.
Juvenile delinquency is on the downward
trend in Toledo. This reduction resulted in
a large measure from the city's new recrea-
ton program.
During 1913 most complaints. against juve-
niles were made during the summer months
responding period this year. The municipal
crime prevention bureau adjusted 172 juvenile
cases in July, 1913. In July this year the
number was 30.
before the recreation program for 1914 was
set up, inquiries were made by city officials.
and facts and opinions from citizens were
secured as to the best ways and means to
cope with the problem of juveniles. Usually
there was less planned activity for youths
during the summer than at other times during
the year in Toledo. So the city recreation de-
partment intensified it's program during the
Summer months this year.
Records show that attendance at recreation
areas increased this year over previous wears
in spite Of the fact that more boys and girls
are employed now than ever before.
On every play area competent well-trained
staff OF supervisors is in charge to conduct
activities, During ls4S the main difficulty was
TIE lack OF available trained leaders. resulting.
in many instances, in TIE doubtful practice
Of placing high school youths in charge of
pay xreas.
This year, by the promotion OF well-round-
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26
Dewey Adds Address
To New York Schedule

NEW YORK, Oct. 25.-(R-Re.
publicans added today an address
in Syracuse, N. Y, on Saturday
afternoon to Republican presiden-
tial nominee Thomas E. Dewey's
upstate itinerary.
State Chairman Edwin F. Jaec.
kle announced Dewey would de.
liver at Syracuse the farm speech
he intended to make at Minneapo-
lis last night but withheld in favor
of his foreign policy address. The
address will be broadcast.