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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-29
Bombers Hit
Central Reich
By WALTER CRONKITE

UNITED Press War Correspondent
London. March 29.-(UP)-Amer-
lean Flying Fortresses up to $50
strong struck deep into central Ger
many today, and Berlin said Nazi
fighters engaged them in a violent
running battle for hundreds of miles
over the Reich.
The fortress feet was one Of
smallest formations Of United States
heavy bombers sent over Germany
in months. It's size prompted specu-
lation that 1t. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz
was Haunting lure to draw the
German air force into combat.
While the forts hit Germany In
the first daylight attack since Fri
day, LiberatorS of the Eighth Air
Force in comparable or lesser
strength bombed the Pas De Calais
strip of the French invasion coast.
Medium sized force Of $50 to 500
u. S. Mustang, Lightning and
Thunderbolt fighters few with the
Liberators on the long trip to I'M
identified targets in Central Ger
many. The Liberators had Thun-
derbolt escort.
The heavy bomber swing back to
Germany followed two days of at
tacks on Nazi air fields in France
where the enemy offered no serious
opposition.
Liberator crewmen dropped their
bombs through holes in broken
clouds which obscured results. Again
they bombed without challenge by
the German air force, but encount-
cred scattered bursts Of anti-air-
craft fire.
First To Report
The Berlin radio, first to report
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Dies GROUP
RoDsC.I.O.
By DOROTHY WILLIAMS

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
Washington, March 20 - (U.P0
The Dies committee investigating
American activities charged to-
day that the Political Action Com
mittee Of the CLIO represents q
"subversive Communist campaign to
subvert the congress of the United
States to its totalitarian program"
In 215-page special report on
the CLIO committee, the Dies group
also charged that:
/. Sidney Hillman, chairman Of
the Political Action COMMITTEES,
rather than Earl Browder, is now
'1n effect" the political leader Of
Communists in this country since
the political views and philosophy
of the Communist party and Of the
CLIO Political Action Committee
coincide in every detail"
2. Eighteen members Of the %
man CLIO executive board, who are
also leaders Of the Political Action
Committee, are Communists, and 81
affiiated CLIO unions have strong
ly entrenched'' Communist leadaEs
ship. Another 115 CLIO leaders nAvo
been affiliated with Commuz
front organizations.
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defensive
VICTORY now
SEALED BY FOE
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD

BY REYNOLDS PACKARD
UNITED Press War Correspondent
Allied He a d quarters,
Naples, March 20. = (UP) =
German troops have sealed
their defensive victory" in
the Casino area by regain
ing control of the upper
slopes of Mount Casino, it
was disclosed today, as the
Allied Air Force announced
that it's bOmberS have cut all
railroad communications be-
tween the Nazi armies in
southern Italy and their
northern supply centers.
Air Force headquarters as
serted fatty that bridge
busting Marauders, Mitch
ellis, invaders and Bostons
have smashed bottleneck
points on every railroad line
leading down from northern
Italy to the embattled Ger
mans on the Anzio beach,
head, at Casino and on the
Adriatic 'front.'
There was no immediate
explanation as to how that
disclosure jibed with the
stubborn stand of the appar-
emily well-supplied Germans
at Casino. Spokesman at
Air Force headquarters, how
ever, said reconnaissance
photographs showed that
four key bridges and a tun-
mel had been destroyed or
damaged beyond immediate
repair.
As that statement was being is
sued, army spokesman revealed that
two advanced units Of Allied troops
who fought their way high up the
slopes of Mount Casino more than
a week ago had been withdrawn,
apparently ending the 5th army's
costly attempt to drive the Nazis
from their defenses astride the in
land road to Rome.
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-29
Rab Retuken
ByGermans

London, March 29.-(UP)-Strong
German forces, supported by planes,
reoccupied the island of Rab, off
the northwestern coast of Jugo-
slavia, in a lightning amphibious
operation against small partisan
garrison, it was announced today
by Jugoslav partisan headquarters.
The loss Of Rab, only 40 miles
south of Fiume on the Italo-Jugo-
slav frontier, seriously threatened
partisan garrisons on other nearby
islands which have been held by
Marshal Josip (Tito) Brozovich's
forces more than two months.
Announcement of the German
seizure of Rab came shortly after
the disclosure that Allied units had
captured Hvar near the seaport of
Split on the Dalmatian coast, to cut
the Nazi Adriatic sea communica-
tons.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-29
Army Backs
Droft ATS
rWor Plan
BY ID. w. DITTMER
United Press Staff Correspondent

CAAAtCU 1ICSS OOdAA correspondent
Washington, March 20 -(UP)-
Undersecretary of War Robert P.
Patterson today put the ar1ny's sup
pert behind proposals to draft ATS
and other men for essential war
work.
Testifying before House military
affairs subcommittee, Patterson said
he was firmly convinced" that the
manpower problem is Of a critical
character" and the time has come
for each to do his share.
He recommended that Congress
pass either the Austin Wadsworth
National Service Act, amended to
include only registrants from ID to
81, or the limited service proposal
of Rep. Glare Roothe Luce, r.,
Conn. The EaarlOil1 provides for a
labor forcee Of $4,000 to 100000
men, drawn from 4-FS, discharged
servicemen and childless men SO to
As.
another method would be by ex-
tension of the present selective serv-
ice mechanism" Patterson said.
1.-The ATS in war activity or other
essential activity would be given oc-
cupational defermentS and would
remain as before.
1.-The 4-F's not in war activity or
other essential activity and found by
the local boards to be qualified for
such activity would be indicted and
placed in the enlisted reserve"
From the enlisted reserve, they
would eb subject to assignment by
the army to industrial or farm work.
Selective service Director Lewis B.
Hershey yesterday said he was going
to recommend that the army and
navy create work battalions."
Patterson recommended that local
draft boards be authorized to order
4-Fs into essential civilian employ
ment. Those who refused would be
called by the army to active military
service and used in special labor
units" doing civilian war. work, he
added. He estimated the number not
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Grim Word
To2 Lands

Moscow, March 20 - (U.P0 The
government newspaper 1zvestia
warned Bulgaria and Rumania to-
day to make an immediate choice
between breaking with the Nazis
and joining the Allies or "becon1-
ing a battlefield and sharing the
fate of Germany"
Directed primarily to Ruman1a
and Bulgaria, the official organ also
mentioned Finland as among the
Nazi satellites on which time is
running out. Peace negotiations be-
tween Russia and Finland collapsed
recently, and that was believed to
have been closed issue.
thine will not watt, Izvestia
said editorially, there is little time
left for long bargaining. That is
what events in Hungary (recently
occupied by the GermanS) show
such countries as Finland, Rumania
and Bulgaria. The example Of Hun
gary shows the satellites that they
have less time to make up their
minds than they thought
Bulgaria alone Of the Nazi Satel-
lites named by Izvestia is not at
war with Russia.
Rumania has IS divisions and
Bulgaria 20, Izvestia said, adding:
THE question stands before the
two countries as follows: Either to
be completely occupied by the Ger
mans, with the inevitable prospect
of their territory becoming an area
Of military hostilitieS, and in the
final analysis sharing the fate OF
Germany, or to break with Ger
many, join the Allies, and firmly
and decisively rise In defense OF
their sovereignty and in defense of
their very state existence"
Izvestia said Germany mo longer
possesses sufficient forces to break
the resistance Of any satellite coun-
try which decides to defend its ex-
istence with arms"
'F7itler will not stop after occupy
ing Hungary" the offlcial organ
said. "The inevitable turn of Ru-
mania and Bulgaria comes next.
These countries have a full posi-
bility Of offering resistance to the
German occupation forces"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-29
Dems. Win
State
BY LYLE C. WILSON

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
Washington. March 29.-(UP)-
The border state by-election which
Republicans confidently had ex-
pected would check democratic en-
thusiasm for a fourth term came up
today with an administration tri-
umph.
William G. Stigler, Democrat, OPP
posing E. o. Clark, Republican,
won House seat in Oklahoma's
second district by a margin of near
ly 1000 votes after campaign in
which the administration dared to
make the polling popularity con-
test in a doubtful constituency.
The last previous check of Senti-
ment in that district gave:
Clark 21,273.
Jack Nichols democrat incum-
bent) 1851.
That was in November, 1912
Nichols, elected by such a small
margin resigned last year to take
position with American Air Lines
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Stephen Leocock
Author Is Dead

Toronto, Ont, March 29.-(UP)-
Stephen Leacock, IA, Canadian hui
lmorist, author and economist, dieo
In hospital last night following an
operation.
Leacock began his writing career
before the first World War. His
humorous books included Nonsense
Novels" and "Frenzied Fiction.
Late in life he turned to more
serious works. His books included
THE Elements of Political Science
and 1.-THE Voyages Of Jacques Car
tier" His last book was q history
of Montreal.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-29
Drink-Pockin.'
Names May
Be Curbed

Boston, March 29.-(UP)-
Boston cafe proprietOrs were
asked by the city licensing
vznrd today to:
1.-Cease serving liquor to
women with babies in their
arms.
2.-Discourage the practice
Of some mothers Of bringing
their children to cafes while
the mothers drink.
S.-DiscOurage the practice OF
parking baby carriages outside
side such establishments.
Commented Chairman Mary
Z. DriscOlI Of the licensing
board:
some Boston drinking
places look like faby clinics In
the afternoon, 50 many car.
riages ara parked outside.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-29
BY JAMES E. ROPER

UNITED Press War Correspondent
Outside Casino, March 27.-UP)
The Gurkas came down off Hang
mans Hill tonight, thirsty and half
starved but still full of fighting
spirit of midas famous warriors.
They'd taken terrible punishment
from the Germans-isolated on the
exposed hilltop that juts like a snub
nose from the side Of Mount Cas-
sina. For IL days and nights they
had taken it. they had lived on
rainwater and what supplies could
be dropped from low-flying fighter
planes. They had taken their OBJ
jective; someone else had failed to
bring off his share Of the assault
on the German fortress in the ruins
of Monte Casino Abbey.
Now they were eating. drinking
and resting and already talking
about taking another crack att he
Germans.
The Gurkas came down off Mount
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-29
Faces Rebel Commons
On Domestic Issue OF
Equal Pay For Teachers
BY JOSEPH w. GRIGG
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent


for and women teachers 80
of the Churchill said the issue
his admir- isratiOn WeetO be aimed.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-29
Secretary
For Baldwin

Hartford, Conn.,, March 29.-(UP)
Gov. Baldwin today announced he
had appointed Rep. Henry B. Strong,
r., Salisbury, to the $4,000 year
position as his executive secretary.
Strong succeeds Carl A. Lundgren,
Ansonia, who enters the army next
month.
Strong is A, a member Of the
legislative council and served in the
Navy during the last war. He Is
a graduate Of Yale, where he was
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Learn To Typewrlte Evenings. Enroll
Any Monday Evening. Post Junior
College Of Commerce.
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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-12
H. Goodman
Dies in Action
Chesterfield
Mons Son Killed

Pfc. Herman Goodman, 49,
year old son of Ora Goodman,
Chesterfield township merchant,
was killed in action somewhere
in France on Sept. 10, his father
was informed today by the War
Department.
Pvt. Goodman, who had been
in the army for three years had
spent two years Of that period on
overseas service. He was unmar-
ried.
The soldier, an infantryman,
is survived by his father, by his
step-mothcr, by two sisters, Mrs.
James Price, Of Terre Haute,
Ind, Mrs. G. d. Stewart, of De-
troit, with whom he had made
his home prior to his entry into
the army, one brother, w. W., of
Detroit, and by two step-broth-
ers, Wayne BovenSchen, now
serving with the SeaBees in the
Southwest Pacific theatre Of war
and Keith, at home.
Prior TO entering military
service Pvt. Goodman was en-
ployed by a Detroit creamery
company.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-12
Seek Warrant
in kidnap Case
Bowling Satisfied
Solution Complete

DETROIT, Oct. IL - (P) -
Terming the Bobby King Abb
duction case closed with the
complete, full and detailed
confession of Mrs. Eleanor
Smith, Prosecutor William f.
Bowling said today he would
recommend a warrant Friday
charging the 33-year-old Negro
nurse maid with kidnapping.
Bowling did not disclose the
text Of the woman's statement,
but indicated it would be
brought out in court. He said a
pSychiatric examination of Mrs
Smith would be asked as soon
as a warrant has been issued.
Her confession is Of such ma
turc that l feel | cannot give the
complete story at present be-
cause / have been taken into
her confidence" the Prosecutor
said, adding that she had given
as her motive mother urge and
love Of a child"
Mrs. Smiths husband, Eu-
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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-12
MILITARY VOTE SEEN AS DECISIVE
G.I. Joes May Decide Election

NEW YORK, Oct. PIP
The soldier vote may decide the
election in at least IL states
including the five with the larg-
est number of electoral votes.
1t may be the margin of vic
tory in New York, Pennsylvania,
Illinois, California and Ohio,
which cast a combined vote of
100 in the electoral college, as
we'll as in Colorado, Kentucky,
Maryland, Minnesota, Oregon
and Rhode Island. The last six
have total of 46 electoral votes.
Thus G.. /. Joe and his sisters
in arms, an Associated Press sur
vey indicates, already are cast
ing the ballots which may de-
termine whether 2O6 of the 53l
electoral votes will so 10 PreSi-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-12

Members of the Mount Glenn
ems city commission today were
studying details of US. Health
Service survey of sanitation and
general health control measures
in the community.
Already the commission had,
as a result Of the surveys find
ingS, ordered Health Officer DR..
w. j. Kane and Joseph Miller,
municipal health inspector, TO
prepare reports covering the
problems listed in the govern
mental report.
The surveys findings, filed
with DR.. William DeKleine,
State Health Commissioner, re-
veal:
]. A need for ordinances en-
bracing health regulation, food
inspection and physical cXami-
nation Of food handlers.
2. A garbage disposal and col
lection program.
3. An urgent need for an or
ganized health department UNI
der a trained health officer.
4. That, because Of the lack Of
adequate standards, inspection
and proper enforcement a large
quantity of sub-standard and
loW-grade milk is being used in
the city.
5. The need for a municipal
intercepting sewer and sewage
treatment plant.
6. The lack of a U. S. Public
Health Service ordinance and
code.
The survey quotes DR.. Kane as
saying, that no additional per-
sonnet or quarters for a health
unit are desired or needed.
The survey sets forth, how
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-12
Navy Mothers
Sponsor Display

In preparation for a public
display Of Mount Clemens Navy,
Coast Guard and Marine service
men, the Navy Mothers Club
will sponsor a Photographic dis
play at the 'Westendorf Drug
Store, Macomb street, during the
latter part of October.
Pictures for use in the display
should be brought to the drug
store by Oct. 10. The name of
the serviceman and name and
address of his mother should be
written on the back of the phot-
ograph.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-12
EIGHT UNDER INVESTIGATION
Probe Juvenile Cana

ST. CLAIR SHORES - Two
members of a juvenile gang,
one Of whom has already
con essed l3 glaries
and one automobile theft, were
held in the Macomb county Jail
today while their six compan-
ions, among whom are three
girls, were being questioned by
Prosecutor Wilbur F. Held and
St Clair Shores police officers
concerning the ramifications Of
their suspected adventures into
crime.
Held in Mount Clemens, on
CHARGE Of unlawfully driving
away an automobile, is Robert
Clough, 10, of 1922 Mack ave-
nue., Crosse Pointe, alleged driv-
er Of car stolen on the night
of Oct. I from Frederick Sopfe,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-12
Wage(eiIings
10 Be Retained
No Prediction
Boosts Seen
BY JOSEPH A. LOTUS
Associated Press Labor Writer

WASHINGTON, Oct. II An
official in the first circle Of adj
miniStration advisers said today
the Little Steel Formula would
be held where it is until victory
in Europe or at least until mill
tary experts can safely name
that day.
This is not considered as Of
today TO be a prediction posi-
bility. d i sclosure of w h t
amounts TO settled policy came
as the result of a request for
comment on yesterdays War
Labor Board decision TO omit
e concentrations from tn e
forth coming WLB report on
wages and living costs.
The official, declining to be
identified by name, expressed
no surprise at the WLB action
and said it was expected and
was the sensible position TO
take.
DELICATE BALANCE
He said, in effect, that the adj
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.HoII-North
Safeguards
Are Ordered

Acting to reduce hazards at
the North avenue-Hall road in
tersection which have recently
claimed two lives and resulted
in injuries to several others, the
Michigan State Highway de-
partment today painted glaring
new stop-lines at the intersec-
ton as well as new stop signs
on the pavement itself.
The hitherto inadequate warn
ing to motorists, who, because
of long familiarity with the now
hooded traffic signal at the cor
ner, had plunged through into
the path Of oncoming traffic will
be further offset soon by the
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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-12
Court Again
Rules Against
BondhoIders

The Michigan Supreme Court
on Tuesday drove another le-
gal spike into the path of bond
holders who for many years
have sought TO recover invest
ments in Macomb county drain
bonds when it ruled that hold
ers Of similar bonds on Oakland
county drains have no recourse
because of the illegality of the
bonds themselves.
The decision set forth, how
ever. that bondholders, do have
a claim on drainage district
funds collected from the public
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Foot-SoIdiers
Hack Pathway
Into Suburbs
Western Fronts
Greatest Bottle
Hits Peck Feroeity
BY DON WHITEHEAD

OUTSIDE AACHEN, Oct. IL
- up - American In antry
fought into the factory district
on the outskirts of Aachen late
today while to the north foot
troops and armor beat off q day.
long counter-attack by the Ger
mans who were supported by 20
to 25 tanks.
The Germans have thrown
one of their finest divisions into
the battle in desperate but 20
far abortive, attempt to relieve
or reinforce the Aachen garri-
son. German troops inside the
wrecked and burning city were
being battered from the land
and air.
Every counterthrust has been
beaten back under a barrage Of
heavy artillery.
HOLD NET TIGHT
The corridor in the American
arc about the city still in about
mile wide and il is under Or.
tillery and small arms firms.
Nothing has come through
that corridor in any size in any
direction" a high ranking Of
ficer said. Certainly the Ger.
mans have not, and are not evac-
uating Aaachen. Try and tell
that to the boys up there who
are doing the fighting for Aach.
en-, and give them laugh"
Inside the pomb-pocked city,
the defenders still were fighting
to hold onto their positions. Or
dered by Hitler to fight to the
death, they ignored an ultima
tum which gave them the choice
OF surrender or destruction.
And now the attack Is under
way to destroy them.
MOP-UP SUBURB
The Americans are not in the
main part of Aachen. They are
methodically cleaning up the
outlying factory district, build
ing by building, and getting into
position for an assault on the
main part of the town.
The Germans daylong coun-
terattack was in the Bardenburg
area, six miles north Of Aachen,
which has been the scene Of
some of the heaviest fighting in
side Germany. There the foe has
thrown in attack after attack In
a frantic effort to shatter the
force of the advance which
broke through the Siegfried line
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Russians Slab
Toward Meme
Feroeity Of Siege
Grows Hourly

LONDON, Oct. II - (P) -
Russian troops battled within
five miles Of the Prussian port
Of Mcneil today in siege of
growing ferocity after invading
what Hitler considers German
soil by occupying the town of
PliSki inside the Memel metro
politan area, acquired by Ger
many in the Spring Of 1889
In the South, the Moscow ra-
dio said, other Russians broke
into Debrecen, third largest city
of 122,517, on the Orient rail-
road 116 miles East of menaced
Budapest. The Germans said
their tanks had thrown a 20
mile-wide ring around strong
Soviet armored forces in this
area and had beaten back relief
columns moving up from Ora
dea, in Romania, and Karcag, in
Hungary. The German COM
munique acknowledged the loss
of Cluj, capital Of Pennsylvania.
All along the frontiers Of East
Prussia, the Germans reported
violent battle.
The Germans said the Red Ar
my had renewed its assault on
Riga, capital of Latvia, with
fresh divisions and materiel. The
Russians have been at the edge
of the port for weeks.
The enemy said Russian fore
es which reached the fourth larg-
est city of Hungary, Heckimet,
so miles Southeast of Budapest,
had been pushed back by Ger
man-Hungarian counterattack.
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tually will vote range up to
100000. Even Democrats most
critical of New York's soldier
vote system, which does not pro-
vide for the federal ballot, agree
that we'll over 100000 G.. /.
votes will be cast. Nearly 1877
900 had been returned a month
before election day.
Roosevelts New York state
plurality in 1910 was 224,440.
Herbert Hoover's in 1928 was
1903, 481. The margins run as
close as Grover Clcveland'S
l,149 in 1884. And as late as
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