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Evening star., 1944-01-25
Worship Captain Ready to Fight
On Shore for Rome Beochheod

he said, we're going to get those
soldiers on shore. That's the Mays S
job. You got to remember that a
soldier on the water is just like a
baby"
A sailor grinned. Another turned
his head and Uttered, the breath
kissing in his teeth. Suddenly the
tension broke. Deep laughter rum
bled around the circle.
Yes" said the captain, and an
unwilling smile came over his rugged
features. Hes just as helpless as
you'd be If you were on shore in a
tank"
The men doubled over with laugh
ter, and the captain let them rock
for moment.
Would Even Fight on Shore.
Then he said, Maybe you'll see
what l mean pretty soon, because
III tell you what I'm going to
do"
The captain lives in Houlton, Me.
but he was born in South Carolina.
and all the South came out in his
voice. If we get hit so bad that we
can't stay af1oat, I'm going to beach
the ship and fight her from there, -
he said. And when she can't fight
any more from there I'm going to
take us ashore and ask them to give
us rifles"
His words hung on the clear morn
ing air for a moment
A sailor said You mean what's
left Of us, captain"
That's right" said the captain.
Whats left of us. That's all. We're
pulling anchor in IS minutes"
Evening star., 1944-01-25
Senators Recommend
|35-MiIIion Fund 10
Recruit Farm Labor
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Expansion OF the Governments s
program Of farm labor recruitment,
including the importation OF foreign
workers, was recommended yester-
day by a Senate appropriations sub
committee which voted to boost a
House-approyed $27, 900, 900 recruit
ing appropriation for 1914 to $685.
600 900.
Members OF the subcommittee said
they were told the larger fund would
make possible the importation of
approximately 10000 farm laborers
this year, or approximately $4,000
more than the number brought into
the United States in l943 from Mex
leo, Jamaica and the Bahamas.
Consolidation Disapproved.
In. addition the Senate group
struck out Of the House bill a pro-
vision under which the ONCE of
Extension Of the Agriculture De.
partment would have administered
both the domestic and foreign inn
portation phases of the recruiting
system. The American Farm Bu-
reau Federation advocated the con-
solidation of control.
Substituted were provisions leav-
ing administration of the local re-
cruitinE Of farm labor within the
States to the Agricultural Extension
Services and also continuing the
War Food Administration in con-
troll of the foreign importation of
laborers and transporting Of work.
ers between the States.
Authorized for ALLEGATION to the
States for intrastate recruitment
was $1S,50O 900, or $1,000, 900 more
than provided by the House bill.
Bill Abolishes Seven Offices.
Chairman McKellar OF the SUBJ
committee said the revised bill
would, however, compel the aboli-
ton Of seven regional Offices of the
WA at Atlanta, Upper Darby, Pa;
indianapolis. Denver, Dallas, Port
land, Greg, and San Francisco.
The regional Offices were not con-
templated by the 1943 appropriate ton
act, Senator McKellar said, adding
that the subcommittee decided they
were mot essential to the program.
In its executive session the sub
committee approved an amendment
by Senator Hayden, Democrat, of
Arizona earmarking $3.50 200 for
the importation of alien lumber
camp workers to help meet man.
power shortages in the lumber in
dustry in the Northwest States.
Evening star., 1944-01-25
Suit Opens in Deaths
Of Is in Lake Storm
BIZ thx Assoeiated Press.

~ tHe AsbOcfateC freSs.
\ CLEVELAND, Jan. 25.-Attor-
neys for the families of Is men
who perished in a Lake Erie storm
on the oil barge Cleveco and the
tug Admiral challenged the sea-
worthiness of the vessels as trial
of the suit to collect $4,000, 900 dam
ages opened yesterday in Federal
District Court. The vessels sank
In December, 1912.
Counsel for the owners OF the
vessels countered by saying the tug
was certified by the Federal Govern
ment' as seaworthy and the barge
had been inspected regularly by
Federal officers.
The plaintiffs claim owners of the
boats are subject to a 1885 Federal
statute under which shipping COM
panies are required to establish in
surance funds covering personnel of
most types of craft on a basis of
$50 for each ton vessel displaces.
Evening star., 1944-01-25

Back the attack-and give the
squander bug = stab In the back
with an extra Fourth War Loan
Bond
Evening star., 1944-01-25

force, tanks, weapons and all things
necessary"
The coast OF Cape Anzio. where
landings were made, is low, with
few noticeable landmarks. Wooded
areas recede from the beach and
IA miles inland across the coastal
shelf mountains rise.
Anzio's outer harbor is usable
only in good weather. Its inner
harbor, though good, is small. Net
tuno's villas begin where Anzio'S
town limits end.
Southeast of Nettuno is the Pom
tine Marsh area, which once was
swamps, but now is fine farmland
criss-crossed by canals created by
the big reclamation project which
was begun before the World War
and was continued by the Fascists
Large parts of this area now are
reported to be flooded as the Ger
mans turned off the pumps OF the
drainage system.
Evening star., 1944-01-25
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Evening star., 1944-01-25
Italy
From First pape)

forces from Northern Italy to tn
Rome area.
Alexander Directed Landing.
Headquarters disclosed that Gen
Sir Harold Alexander, commando
of Allied forces in Italy, had per
sonally directed the landing opera
tions at Nettuno and then LANDED
himself to supervise the early op
erations ashore.
(The Morocco radio, quoting
unverified German reports, said
Littorio had been captured. This
apparently referred to the town
IL miles due east of Nettuno.
tToday'S German communique
SAID Allied attacks had been re-
pulsed in Southern Italy and that
three Allied destroyers and one
merchantmen had been sunk off
Anzio, with three other vessels
probably destroyed and IL trans
ports damaged)
Lost 50 Per Cent Of Strength.
~ 10 ilOW kIlOWIl JIldG INC 9UJfl
Panzer Grenadiers were thrown into
the Garigliano sector to support the
German Gath Infantry Division
which took the brunt of the original
British assault across the river and
then charged in counterblows. The
gath is estimated to have lost at least
80 per cent of its combat strength in
these battles.
Patrols were active on the 9th
Army front and there was consider
able mortar fire in the Adriatic
coastal area. Numerous explosions
were heard behind the Nazi lines
believed to be blastings to build new
Notifications.
Weather curtailed some of the
Allies air operations in Italy yes
terday, so heavy bombers struck
into the Balkans, pounding the rail-
way yards at Vrattsa, near the Bull
Evening star., 1944-01-25
that afternoon against several Allied

that afternoon against several Allied
points along canal.
The dispatch asserted that lively
fighting resulted in which infantry,
tanks and artillery were used as
both sides attempted to hold bridges.
The skirmishes were still going on
Sunday night, said the dispatch,
which did not identify the AREA In
which the action developed.
The account OF the fighting served
to underline Gen. Sir Henry Matt
land Wilson's warning yesterday
that the Germans might still be
able to counterattack with great
ferocity against the amphibious
forces.
Nearer to Air Cover.
Although declaring that "it is
more than possible that you will
see a repetition of Salerno," the
Allied commander in chief for the
Mediterranean said the present
beachheads were much nearer to air
cover and to the main Allied forces
than were those at Salerno. He
added that the Germans might try
to form new line of hedgehog"
Notifications behind their present
line in the south to prevent a
breakthrough at their rear, as an
alternative to communicating on
the beaches.
Describing the design OF Satur-
days invasion as classical" Gen.
Wilson said the purpose was to draw
and fix the enemys main force and
at the same time to strike his rear
when he has sufficiently withdrawn.
1T looks as II that has been
brought about" he declared.
Gen. Wilson said the Allies "have
superiority at the new beachhead
and given reasonable weather now
one hopes we may be able to use
this superiority Of materias-air
Evening star., 1944-01-25
garian capital of Sofia, and hitting
Skoplje in Yugoslavia.

garlan capltal OF soma, ana hitting
Skoplje in Yugoslavia.
Out of Gun Range.
BY driving inland II miles, the
Allies have put the Nettuno- -Anzio
bridgehead out of effective German
artillery range. A few enemy shells
believed to be from German 170-mm
guns firing IS miles, landed on the
beach at Anzio yesterday.
(BBC said the bridgehead Is
about IS miles wide.)
A headquarters officer declared that
Hitler, desperately needing a tri-
umph, may decide to throw great
forces into Italy and tell his gen.
erals they must produce victory
at any cost"
Despite bad weather, fighters and
fighter -bombers maintained a cover
over conveys and the invasion
beaches in Italy as well as roads be-
hind the German lines.
A number of Nazi bombers attack.
ing Allied shipping were shot down.
Fifteen enemy planes were de-
stroyed during the day, and IL Allied
aircraft were lost.
The violent counterblows against
French, American and British
Troops on the Casino front were
unleashed by the Germans along a
3O-mile line extending from SAINT
Ella, 4 miles northeast of Casino,
to the sea.
GA Berlin broadcast said that
after unsuccessful new attempts
to force the Rapido River near
SAINT Angelo. southwest Of Cas-
Sino, strong American forces be-
gan crossing On wide front
of the Carl rivulet, small
stream farther to the southeast.
The report was unconfirmed.)
The first account of German
countermeasures against some of
the 5th Army forces which landed
virtually unopposed Saturday along
the coast south of Rome came in
a field dispatch written Sunday
which said the Nazis had struck
Evening star., 1944-01-25
Bulgarian Police Setup
Indicates Widespread
Unrest in Country
BY WADE WERNER,

Associated Press Foreisn Correspondent.
LISBON, Jan. 25.-German dis
patches announcing creation OF
a Bulgarian state gendarmerie
embracing infantry, cavalry and
motorized units equipped to COM
bat "terrorists," were viewed
here today as an admission that
unrest In Bulgaria is too wide
spread to be held in check by
German garrisons primarily oc-
cupied with the threat of an AL
lied invasion.
The fact that the new police, al
though organized along military
lines, will be under the Minister OF
the Interior, seems to corroborate
previous reports that the Bulgarian
Army is honeycombed with discon-
tent and has become indispensable.
1t checks with information re-
Gently brought back from Sofia by
neutral traveller, who said that
neither civilians nor soldiers in Bull
earia are showing any willingness
to participate in any German de-
fense of the Balkans.
Resigned to Early End of War.
This source added that not only
the Bulgarians, but also many Ger
mans in Bulgaria, are gloomingly
resigned to an early end to the war
The traveller said it was particu-
larly significant that the Sofia gov
ernment has been unable to per-
suade Bulgarians to establish homes
in Greek and Yugoslav territories
given to Bulgaria by Germany. He
added that extremely few are will
ing to invest money and effort in
areas from which they firmly ex-
pect to be expelled after the war.
All this, of course, is contrary to
German reports of Bulgarian mo-
rale. 1t is significant, however, that
German newspapers, which have
been notoriouSly reluctant to dis,
close what goes on inside Germany
itself, have been frankly reporting
the hardships and dislocation of
daily life in Bulgaria as a result of
Allied bombings.
The suggestion that "terrorists"-
or, In other words, rebellious
groups-may be getting out of hand
in some sections of Bulgaria is par
ticularly interesting to any one ia
miliar with peacetime life there
during the heyday of the Inner
Macedonia Revolutionary Organiza-
ton, 'Imro."
DimitrOv May Emerge as Leader.
ShootingS in the streets of Sofia
were more or less normal during the
early l930s. Against such a back
ground of casual killings in peace
time, it is not difficult to imagine
what serious situation might face
the Germans if discontented groups
OF pro-Russian peasants and other
anti-Axis elements really decided to
start something in the mountainous
interior.
II such a movement really de-
velops some observers of the Bull
garian scene would not be surprised
If Georgi Dimitrov should suddenly
emerge as leader of the Partisans. |
Dimitrov, who barely escaped from
Bulgaria with his life in 1923 when
the government ruthlessly sup
pressed the Leftist workers union"
OF which he was the leader, later
achieved international attention
when he defied Hermann Wilhelm
Goering at the Reichstag fire trial
He was welcomed to Moscow with |
great acclaim and became secretary
general of the Comintern. Dimi-
trov has issued several appeals to
his countrymen7 to get out of the
war as an Axis partner.
Evening star., 1944-01-25
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-06
Navy Will Need Men

Washington, Sept. 6 - CUP0 - Whatever happens in the war against Germany the Navy will continue to expand until 1t reached an authorized strength of 3,3el 900 officers and enlisted personnel next July because, Secretary James For. restal said today, "the Navy cannot demobiliEe until Japan is defeated"
 The Navy has c demobilisation plan, similar in principle to tho Armys individual priority system, Forrestai told preGs conference, but the collapse ot Germany instead of easing the Navy's burden will present it with new tasks"
 Predicting that the war In the Far East will be long and hard one" Forrestal said one of the NaYy's new jobs when Germany collapSes will be transporting men and material freed from the European theater in- to the Pacific In order to deliver heavier blows against Japan"
 The figure of 3,3oi 900 was supplied by vice.Admiral Randall Jacobs, chief of the Bureau of Personnel, who participated in the press con- ference.
 The Nays previous authorized strenkth was 5,00e, 900, which now has been exceeded. Jacobs said another i8e,000 enlisted men will be ac. quired by June 90, i04S-the end of the fiscal year-in addition to tho ie4,000 to be added to the S,006,O 600 total by the end of iel4. Two thou sand additional officers will produce the total of 3,30i 900.
 Jacobs said the Coast Guard and Marine Corps have reached peak strength.
 Forrestal said eventual demobllis Zation will depend on what kind Of postwar Navy the country will have, c question now being studied.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-06
American Troops
 Invade Germany
CcOntlnued from Page l0

A terse announcement from Pat. tons headquarters also disclosed the penetration of German soil on the Srd army front. Mobile patrols frontier triangle above MetS-and the Luxembourg France Germany crossed tho border-presumably In returned safely into France after 0 quick reconnaissance.
 Patton's scouts were the first Americans officially disclosed Go have reached German soil, although unconfirmed reports broadcast by the Paris and Swiss radios said American troops had capturedAach. en, just across the southeastern border of the Netherlands, and saar. brucken, 38 miles east of Metz.
 Neither report had official back. ing, and the seizure of Saarbrucken seemed highly improbable in view of the admittedly stiff fighting in progress along the Moselle between Metz and Nancy.
 The German TranSocean News Agensy said counter attacking Nazi troops recaptured Audun, l2 miles west of the Hoselle and 2l miles northwest of Metz.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-06

kAcking official information, it Was believed the American frontier crossing was made somewhere In the area of Thlonville, just south of Luxembourg,
 ny forcing the Moselle the Americans hurdled tho last river hArfiod west of the German fron- tlefa Ahead of them was no major obstacle Go interfere with Q full dress push Into Germany and the SlegfTied defense zone.
 Far behind the fighting front, the German garrisons of Brest and Le Havre Still were holding out despite heavy bombing, Another ultimatum was delivered to the Le Have garrison today after Royal Air Force heavy bombers saturated the force of some 5000 diehards with more than l,200 tons of bombs late yesterday.
 About 300 Marauders and Havocs of the U. 8. Ninth Air Force hit Brest again today, attacking in l6 waves for an hour. The bombers hit gun positions, strong points, and ammunition dumps in the fifth strike ct the base since Sept. l.
 Canadians
 The Canadians reached the out skirts of Boulogne after an ad- vance in the face of artillery fire An estimated 5000 Germans were manning the Boulogne defenses,
 At the same time other Canadian clements swung inland around Houlokne and reached the coast on each side of Calais, It was possible that the column east of Calais would continue along the last miles or the coast road to Dunkerque.
 Headquarters revealed that the Inopup of a big pocket southwest of Mons had yielded l4,0OO prisoners and the total might go considerably higher, The cleanup of the pocket was essential to the advance of the U. s, First Army, since 1t was too biz to leave indefinitely. The Third Army was reported to have taken Te,0O0 prisoners and killed l9,oOO Germans.
 The Naxis appeared to be trying a major stand in defense Of the Fatheriand along the Moselle river line, which runs into the reich at the Luxembourg border and curves away to Q distance of about 40 miles in the area east of Nancy.
 Pont-A- -MOussOn
 The location of the bridgehead was not revealed, but it apparently was in the Pont-a-Mousson area iS i.2 miles north of Nancy and About the same distance below Metz
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-06

(Contlnued from Page D
 "Use every opportunity to gather information of value to the Allied armies, in particular information concerning the movement of Ger man troops, identity of German units, and positions of mine fields. Watch carefully the behavior of the Germans and be ready to supply evidence of any atrocities you may see committed.
 If you are unable to escape to the country, do everything in your power to prevent the destruction of communication and industrial in- stallations. As far as possible see that they are in good order when they fall into the hands of the AL lies.
 "On the arrival of the Allied troops, obey precisely the instruc- tions which are given to you by tho Allied military authorities"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-06

NCVHViuuSu kIOkH EHke ~
 Yugoslav border below the historic Danubian iron gates in record time
 The armored columns raced 7e miles in one day through Romania to the big railway junction of Craiova, ll2 miles west of Buchaa rest and only 48 miles from Yugo- slavia.
 Malinovsky's forces were spread along e 200-mile arc from northwest to southwest of Bucharest and gained control of every important rail junction in Wallachia with the capture of Pitesti and Rosiorii De Vede, 66 miles west and southwest of the Romanian capital.
 With the imminent junction oi the Ukrainian troops and Tito's patriots, the campaign in Wallachia virtually was concluded and almost all of Romania, excepting Transyl- yania, was in Soviet hands.
 The thrust toward Yugoslavia practically closed Q trap on German armies in Bulgaria. At CraioVa, Malinovsky's troops were only ii0 miles north of Sofia, while the 3rd Ukrainian army held firmly Q IA miles section of the Romanian-Bul- garian frontier from the Black Sea to the Danube ferry crossing ct Giurgiu.
 Break Through
 Tn the break through north of Warsaw, Ten. Georsi zakharoV'S End White Russian army and Mar. shal Konstantin RokoSsovsky's lst White Russians joined on the Bug river in flanking drive that threatened to split the German forces between East Prussia and the Polish capital.
 Almost the entire territory be- tween the Bug and Narew rivers wal cleared by zakharovs troops and was expected to open the way for c frontal assault on Warsaw by the armored forces under RokoSSovsky
 The lst White Russian army last was reported at Cegielne, nine miles northeast of Praga, Q heavily forti. fled bastion protecting the eastern approaches to Warsaw.
 All along the front north of the Polish capital, the Germans were fighting fiercely and suffered severe losses in the desperate but futile at- temps to stem the Soviet advances.
 More than l,400 Germans were killed aR Zakharov's troops marched le miles from Nova Wies to the Narew at Poplawy, 28 miles due north of Warsaw.
 Another salient swept through Wysykow, killing additional hun dredS of enemy, and continued i2 miles farther to Popowo KoScielne, is miles north of Praga.
 At the northern end of the 63. mile front, Red Army troops fan- ned out in two directions, with one force approaching the outksirtS of Ostroleka, on the east bank of the Narew, only 3ll miles from Berlin.