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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-03
Bombers BIitz Plane Plants

London, Aug. 3.-(UPl-A huge striking force of some 750 Italian- based American heavy bombers smashed at the Nazi aircraft manu- facturing center of Friedriehshafen on the German Swiss frontier today and ripped up enemy eommunlca- ti0ns lines funnelling into the Bren- ner Pass from northern Italy.
 Preliminary accounts Of the Friedriehshalen raid gave no de- tails on the damage inflicted on the cltys giant aircraft engine and as- sembly plants, but Zurich dispatches said the thunder of violent ex- pl0sions rocked Swiss frontier towns for fully 25 minutes,
 Part of the big task force yeered off to the east to lay their block. busters across the network ol bridges and railway lines running thr0ugh the Alps into Germany, ln- eluding 8 railway Yladuet on ule BTenner Pass rohlr' ..
 The daylight raid came after 2s hour period during which Allied alF' craft ranged from Belgium 10 lhe Bay of Riseay, smashing rail ana highway transport, ammunition ana fuel dumps, enemy shipping ana flying bomb launching installations, and providing close support 10
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Turkey Arms Against Any Nozi Attack

London. Aug. 3-fBUP)-rurkey rushed defense preparations today as a precaution against a German attack in retaliation for the rup- ture of their relations.
 Ankara dispatches said 100 or more German intelligence agents had been rounded up by Turkish authorities and told of batteries of anti-aireraft guns being hauled through the streets of the capital.
 The National assembly, after ap- proving the rupture yesterday pushed through to the committee stage a bill providing for the evacua- ton of women and children from large cities in the event of air raids or other attacks.
 German foreign office circles warned soon after Turkey announe- cd the break in diplomatic and economic relations that a continua- ton of the new Turkish policy will of necessity lead to the war with Germany
 The assembly took immediate
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Dewey States Principles
 On6Out or l4 Questions

seven of the issues raised ne'oF' lnneheon- a.....
 Republican, National pommlllsf Ghalrman Herbert BToNnell, JFp has arrived to discuss eampalgh plhlls with the governors He cited recent n0lls showing . Republican lfthN and on his own calculations said V was continuing, and that he was confident the Republican Amshl would win, ,n
 Representative Charles A, Hailsrk R., Indiana, phalImaD 0l me NA, llonal Republican eongFesslolla' CampaigN Committee, who ls se, pAmnanylng the Dewey parry, salo the COP would win the Whhff House and congressional eoniEol next November Halleek added lhal guheFnatnrial collaboration was eFe1 atlng a powerful and hagmohlohs eampaign 0Tganigalion'
 Seven Of the ls domestic polleS committees named yesterday were expected 10 report early today h the full eoMmiiiee pn the following subjects,
 Public Works, National Guard Highways, ReeOnYersi0n Rnd Post waV Jobs, Puhlie Lands, Insurance and Unemployment Compensation
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WOrsow Poles Bottle Nozis

London, Aug, 3.--(UPl Polish Tlflemen of 2 secret underground army swaTmed through the streets Of burning Warsaw today, shooting down Nazl troopers in Q desperate bid to aid the Rnssian armies batv tling in the clty's suburbs on the east bank Of the VisllIla river
 4 dramatic radio message flashed t0 the Polish high command In L0D5 don from the underground bead' quarters inside Warsaw shortly afv LeV noon today said the patriot troops had launched heavy attack against the enemy rear and that hard fighting was raging iD l0uT districts of the city,
 The ill-eqnipped Poles were re- ported sAIping at Naig soldiers from hundreds of buildings and eneae' lng enemy units lD savage handstos hand flghtlns,
 4 eommnniQle issued by the Pos llsh high command here gave no immediate details On the slEe Of the attacking patriot force, but | was indicated that the fifth column" was striking lD considerable strength,
 lThe kagl-eontF0lled Scandinavian Telegraph Bureau lD Stockholm said in . Berlin dispatch that German RiFalegle reserves ha dbeen moved from the Reich 10 p0lD the battle fOr WaFsaw, rsll0ving the lnp0rts anee the German hlgh command ls attaching 10 the defense 0f the Pos
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BYRNES LEADS. IN RAGE FOR NOMINATION

No compromise candidate for the Democratic nomina- ton in the Fifth Congress sional District will be pro- posed from Waterbury, party leaders here stated today.
 These same authorities to- day declared that such a Sug- gestion is tout of the pie ture" and could result only in complete confusion among the districts delegates and workers and among those candidates in the field.
 The 'rumor' that such compromise might be effected has stemmed, ac- cording to local party leaders. from an attempt to inject a strong meas ure of confusing elements" into the Democratic race.
 Supporters of W. Harry Byrnes, Watertown candidate today declar- ed. that they would not support any such compromise candidate primar- fly because such a move would create a natmosphere of bewider- ment among delegates within the district already pledged to MT. Byrnes.
 To date Byrnes would appear to have a marginal majority of the strength need to grasp the con- gressional nomination. The majority of the delegates from the 32nd district at a recent meeting in Watertown went on record indorsing Byrnes. Endorsement has come from the towns of Thomaston, Terryviile, Watertown, Woodbury. Bethlehem Morris. Roxbury and Warren. The town of New Milford would appear to be the only town not indorsing the Watertogn man, at this date. Majority For ByFnes
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-03
' Divisions Destroyed

Washington, Aug. 3-luP(-hee' retary of War Henry L. 6tinlson said today that U, s. Forces in France have occupied the key trans portation center of Rennes ip thelg drive to seize the Brittany Peninsu' Ia.
 Stimson said the Americans ip a IO-day advance Of 60 miles have destroyed the bulk Of seven Ger man divisions, captured more than 10000 prisoners, and liberated more than 1000 square miles Of French territory,
 Nov" he told his news eopfer- enne, We have pushed beyond Pop' iOTOson and s0uthYard on to Rep- mes, which has been occupied"
 The American drive, stiinsop said, has resulted iD destruction Of large numbers of 0eI1ap tanks Rns guns
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PhiIc. Strike In 3rd Dcy

Philadelphia, Aug, awtuP)-P P0r lice heavily guarded ear barns and potential trouble areas today as Q paraly2lng transportation strike went into it's third day amid egnee- iations of an order from Washing ton for the federal government 10 take over,
 SeleetiYe Service headquarters announced that local boards were heginnlng the reelassi llnalion of all strikers and would place those eligible n IA,
 An effort hy z ieg hundred ems pl0yes to break the strike, seriously Curialling vital war production Jailed last night after q few subway trains had been in operation about three hours
 The strike which started when the company began training eight negroes as tram and subway 0pefs atOrs was unauthorized by the Transit Workers Union lcE0l, which sponsored last nights aboT- tive attempt to end h, But a ma. i0rlty 0f the $500 strikers involved, all members of the union, refused to ba drawn back 10 their Jobs
 Russell Disehar0n, assistant com. pany superintendent, said groups Of strikers met the volunteer subway crews at ths stops and by means of threats and persuasion induced
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'NAzIS FATAL HOUR IS FAST APPROACHING"

Moscow, August 3. - (UPl ~- Russian artillery shelled the German soil of East Prussia today from a range of eight miles or less, and the newspaper Pravda pro- claimed that the Red Army ''is crashing the gates of Hitler's inner fortress, and Germany's fatal hour is ap- preaching"
 Gen. Ivan D. Cherniakhov- sky's army was smashing to- ward the East Prussian bor- der on a broad arc at a pace which, if maintained, well might carry it into the Ger man Fatherland today.
 Front line dispatches said the tattered German units were reel- ing back in confusion before Cher niaknoyskys drive through strong points eight to ii miles from East Prussia. and some had lost contact with their command and were strug- gling Co escape in the German for- ests.
 CThe Transcean News Agency said reinforced Russian assault units were czerting themselves to the ut- most Co reach the east Prilssian frontier The broadcast perhaps vas designed to ease the impact on the German home front that the Soyiets now were on reich sOilD
 The German high command claimed that 3.908 Russian tanks were knocked out in July by Nazi land nerees and another 250 by air attacks. The Soyiets lost 1929 planes ln the same period, a Ber- lin cnmrnunique saidD
 Soviet newspapers published an Opcrafional map depicting the re- suits Of the first 70 days of the Red Army offensive. It showed that Russians had reached the Baltic west of Riga. entered the War saw area, and were battling along 20c-Injle Vistula front south of warsaw.
 AIl Roads Cut
 In an editorial accompanying the map. Prayda said:
 ''rhe Red Army has cut all roads leading from the Baltic area to East Prussia. and is within touch of the East Prussian border.
 Tt is crashing the gates of Hit- ler's inner fortress and ready to
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Find Women Dead In Bed
 Several Doys
Rennes has been occupied }

An unclaimed gas bill. left for four days in a mail box at 57 East Liberty street, led to the discovery at 9:30 this morning of the badly decomposed body of Mrs. Gerard CVilitisl Doucette, a tenant who had occupied two small rooms in the rear of the house since May.
 Miss Edith Genovese, first floor tenant, became suspicious about the hill, since Mrs. Doucette had never failed to pick mp her mail. 4 strong odor from the rear of the house caused Miss Genoyese to summon Lieutenant William Foley and Pa- trolman Raymond Grady of the To- cal Detective Bureau, who entered the flat through a window with the brother of the deceased, Joseph Vil- itis, Jr. The body was found lying on a bed in a condition of decay, An autopsy has been ordered by Harold P Merrill, assistant medical examiner.
 Mrs. DOueette, who was employed at the U, s. Time Corporation in Middlebury. was rarely seen by neighbors since she worked on a night shift. She had been married Q year and two months to Sergeant Gerard Doueette of the U, S, Army who spent furlough here last week, leaving for an undisclosed Port Of Authorization on Friday, The Dou- eette family has sent telegram to Sergeant Doueette, informing him of his wife's death,
 According to Miss Ellen vilitis, sister of Mrs, Doneette, the de- ceased had been receiving inSulln treatments for s diahetie eondi- ton. She was subject to spells and suffered one six months ago tn Q local theater, which resulted in c
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American forces met increasing resistance today in drive to pocket Japanese on the northern tip of Guam while on New Guinea other U. s. troops inflicted heavy casu- alties in advancing an annihilation drive against l5O00 trapped enemy soldiers.
 The Americans on Guam slugged through mud and dense under growth for more than a mile yes- terday to capture Tiyan airstrip. the sixth plane base taken during the Marianas campaign. All Of the bases are within bomber range of Japan's inner defenGes.
 Admiral Chester W. Nimltg an- nOunced in communique that 7,Al0 enemy dead had been counted on Guam while on Tinian, where Marines were hopping up last isolated straggleT, 3.O75 enemy dead were buried.
 American losses on Guam through Tuesday were set at 1922 dead, l.esl wounded and 305 missing. On Tinian the U. s. losses were an- nouneed at 208 dead, l.l2l wounded and 32 missing,
 Almost daily aerial attacks cons tlnue against Truk, NauTu and in the Marshalls. Nimlts said.
 On British New Guinea American forces cleared coastal sector a mile east of the Drinlumor river and advanced on 2 two and a half mile front against the eneircled Japanese 18th eTlny,
 A eommunlque by Gen, Douglas MaeATthnT said an undetermined number Of Japanese were killed when they attempted to turp the American flank in the area below Aitape,
 MaeAFthuT reported that a navy Catalina bomber sank q 5000 ton enemy vessel in the 60ela Islands
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Robot Planes Cause Heavy Night Damage

London, Aug. 3-eUP1-A mur- derUus barrnge Of Nazi robot bombs rocked London and parts of south- ern England throughout last right and the early morning hours today, striking seven hospitals, among other targets. and piling up a heavy toll of killed and wounded civilians.
 Apparently trying to swamp the British defenses. the Germans pushed of big salyoes Of their deadly flying bombs at frequent intervals, using an unusually large proportion of glider" robots that dropped silently from the skies to bury their victims with scarcely a moments warning.
 At one stricken hospital where damage was estimated at s6O0.O0O, two patients were buried alive under tons of debris and little hope was held for their rescue.
 An hour later, while sweating rescue squads still were digging frantically through the debris tn search of the victims, two babies were born in another wing of the building. Doctors and nurses stayed at their posts to take care of a stream of injured men, Women and children pouring in from wrecked homes in the neighb0Th0od.
 Ten patients were killed in an- other hospital when Q blind bomb crashed directly into ward crowded with aged people and chronic in- yalids. About 200 patients were in the building at the time, ard 1t was feared that the toll Of wounded would be heavy,
 New GlideT" Bombs
 Ofleial sources, meanwhile, reg yealed that the new "gls;sr" bombs being used by the Germans have q wing span of about 23 feet and 30-f00t fuselage, compared with the l6-foot wlngspan and 25rf0ot fuse- lage Of the original robots, Both
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Another United States mobile column raced west ward through Brittany to- ward Brest. A United Press dispatch from the front said it reached the area of Dol De Bretagne, l4 miles southwest of St. Malo and the British radio said it had sped on to Dinan, rail and highway center IS miles be- yond.
 "A crisis for the Germans seems to have arrived" United Press War Core spondent Henry T. Gorrell reported from It. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's First Army headquarters where the thrust into Rennes was announced.
 The American sprearhead prob ing into Rennes. which commands most of the highway. railroad and waterway system ofg Brittany. en- countered virtually no German re- sistance, Gorrell said. All signs in- dicated that the Nazis were unable or unwilling to undertake a strong defense Of Brittany. the jutting finger of Western France which would be Topped of by a push to the Bay of Biscay.
 AS the American forces shredded the dangling German flank in spec- tacular thrusts, the British End Army to the northeast capitallzed on its iT-Tnile break-fhrough from Caumont and was reported 10 bc swinging the main weight of the attack eastward for q probable drive below the German forfihca- tions south Of Caen directly toward Paris.
 Counter Attack
 A German counter-attaek led by SO tanks in the Noireau river area east of Wire was described as more annoying than dangerous, since it could hold up the British advance only temporarily. It. Gen. Sir Miles 0. Dempsey, 2nd Army commander. made a dawn tour of the front and afterward eyinced satisfaction with the situation.
 Informed sources here said there was not the slightest indication Of Q showdown in the American armored fan-out through Brittany. The double thrust to Rennes and westward in the coastal area was regarded as ending the first phase of Brittany.
 Aside from road blocks and aati- tank screens the Germans might throw up in the rolling Breton countryside dotted with little gray stone villages, there seemed to be nothing on hand or in prospect to delay Bradley's tanks,
 IL was regarded as likely that the Germans already were eyaeuat- ing their U-boats and technical per- sonel from such big bases as St.
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Dr. EnaeIke Left $2I4,O36

An estate of s2i4.036 has been left by the late pr. Charles Engelke according to an inventory filed at the office of Probate Judge Patrick Healey. pr. Engelke. one of Wa terbury's most prominent physi" cians died May 22. l944,
 Appraisers of the estate were John P. Fitzmaurice and William H. Feeter.
 A summary Of the total estate reveals holdings of the late physi- elan as follows: real estate. s5,A3s; bonds, ss.e07; stocks, sies.47T; cash e5,Al6; and miscellaneous, Sio'Aol'
 Real estate owned by Dr. Engelke consisted of property at 7s Bueklng- ham street in the value of s5.sss'
 Stock holdings in amount or slas,a77 consisted of the following larger bloes and some local hold. ings: IT shares Of American Tel & Tel. Co. sis.573; ls0 shares East' man Kodak Co. s2i,l4l; 600 shares of General Motors, Inc, s2S.bOO' 500 shares of North American CO., ei05T5; a32 shares of Patent But ton co, ela,440; 100 shares of West" ingh0use, Inc. s9,90O,
 Also, 600 shares of LuE Clock Co., ss, 100; 2l6 shares of Plat Bros Inc. sT.56O; SO shares of Plume ~ Atwood, Inc. si.800; 100 shares ol Re0yill Mfg. Co. s3.OS0; and oD shares of Waterbury FaFFel F0hnaFy & Machine Go, el,3O0' =,
 Considerable holdings Of lesser blocs of stock comprised the total Of elasAf7, ..
 Cash holdings Of the deceased consisted of s2ts6 in the Colonial Trust CO, el,s7e iH the Waterbury Trust Co, e6lB in the Waterbury Savings Bank; s5ll ID coloHNal Trust, and sl7s 0n hand
 Miscellaneous h0ldlngs were lh' vent0rled in amount of slO,sol,
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le Listed Missing ov Deed ln Plone Wreck

Washington, Aug. 3, luPl-Nlnes teen persons were listed by the Navy today as missing or dead in the Pacific theRter plane crash which cost the life Of Rear Admiral Charles P ceelln ninth slag 0iiaceF t0 be killed ln this war
 ceells death was announced Tuesday,
 Among the missing gas Engineer Edward F. Palmap leie R0sedale Stl Lewiston, Me
 The plane, a naval transport operated under contract by Pan' American aifways, crashed in a take-od from an unidentified Paeiise base. Nc other details have been revealed.
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Trun,Gn Quits Pvober Post

WashiDgtQn, Aug, 3--lUPl-~SeD' Harry g, Truman, D., Mo, pem0' cratic vice presidential nominee, re- signed today as chairman of the Senate war lnVestlgaiing committee,
 Truman refused pleas by commit tee members that be remain as chairman saying v am Of the 0plnT lon that any statement, bearing or report for which ! would be Ves sp0nsIble would be considered by many to have been m0tlvated by political considerations"
 Truman sent bis resignation 40 Vlef presndent Henry 4, Wallace, President Of the Senate,
 Hush Fulton, who has been ehleG committee counsel under appoint ment from Truman, also slhmltted hls resignation, But Truman sald the committee would meet again t0F morrow and probably would request Fulton te remain,
 Sen. Harley ", Kile0Te, D. ", w. had led 2 move Co persuade Truman 10 keep the ehaiTmanship,
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Ain's Love Jwst Too scswtiGoolg

Chicago Aug, 8 ~- luPP9Zibou shalt not hit thy wife, oT eall heF names,
 Thou shalt give kisses and alfee' ti0n to thy wife, These were the basic lal4s at lv eOnlmandnents which Mrs, 4lldEza Doyle lald down in superior e0GfE Cor her husband to keep lf she was t0 return to him,
 There really were le eoQmailds ments in all, 20 laid down by MI, dred, 2e, and six pF0Wulgafea pS heT husband, Daniel,
 They appeared before Judge gos seph Rabath yesterday when Mfs' Doyly asked for temporary allmony 10 support thelg three children llntlD her pending divorce suit was settled, Mrs, Doyla's attorney, Victor Pr0hlleh, told the Judge hls client would hs willing t0 return io het husband, f he would abide by "0 simple rules for tranquil living"
 sounds good" said the Judge OWhal are they2"
 Ff0hlIeh presented 2 typewFltten llst as f0llows'
 l. [ am to run the home
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LA POGGIONA HEIGHTS FALL
 TO BRITISH
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD Limited Press War Correspondent

Limited Press War COrrespOndenD
 Rome, August 3. - (UP) troops stormed and captured the heights of Mount La Poggiona over looking Florence from the southwest, it was disclosed today, while other 8th Army Forces hammered out small gains in furious fighting on the western and southern approaches to the city.
 Everywhere along the 2l- mile siege arc below Flor ence the Germans were bat tling tenaciously to hold their remaining hill positions against a British squeeze" attack pressing them slowly into a narrowing triangular pocket based on the south bank of the Arno river.
 German self propelled guns and heavy artillery thundered into action from dangerously-exposed positions south of Florence, adding their support to the storm of ma chine gun and mortar fire being hurled against the advancing British.
 Mount It Poggiona fell to New Zealand armored units yesterday after a savage battle in the hills above san Michele. putting the New Zealanders little more than four miles from the outskirts of Florence.
 At the same time. British Indian troops on their left flank burst across the Pesa river on broad front below Montelupo and pushed on more than a mile to within nine miles west of Florence.
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st. Louis, Aug, 2 " luPl - Ihe Republican, governors conference under the leadership of Governor Thomas E, Dewey, COP pleslaehllal candidate today made public agreed prlnelples on six nf the lS questions 10 has been considering, MelNallle Tae0nyersl0n and postwar Jobs
 The agreed principles were stated ln general terms n connection Nllh Tee0nyerslan and postwar lopf They called for "a proper hDa friendly relall0nshlp' between goVS eFnment, labor and industry
 Other points 0n the agenda nnon which agreement was announced tp' day are public works, hlehways, national gnaFd and organized Fe' serves, veterans, and pnDlle lailas'
 St, Louis, Mo, Aug, 2 - tu,F1 - plans t0 send Governor Thomas " Dewey, Republican presidential eall' didale, on a coast ri0seaakt eampalgn t0 challenge Roosevelt adMlnlstFP' ton domestic policies were develop Ing here today ai the COP g0yeF' n0Is' conference,
 The eAniefeea were rapidly lnQps tng toward agreement on their v, n0lnt domestic front agenda and probably Will be able to dispose 0l
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AN|E R|cAN NS CRASH INTO RE IFS REDS SHELL GERMAN EAST PRUSSIAN SOIL
Breton Capital, Key Transport
 Hub, Falls In Swift Yank Drive

Supreme Hdquarters AEF Aug 3-Pl-America aOed force: hub half peninsula after 3OmiI from the POntOvsOn sprinsbOd which promised the speedy of all Brittany.
 GU War Smson told Washington conference Rennes has been occupiedo
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KlNn fRNR0R IR IIOAlE

A0ndoll, Aiig, ', " tuFl -T Aihg George VI returned by plane to LoAs don today from . tour Of Italian battleflelds,
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