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.Jops Have
 Murdered 'Over25,0OO

New York, Jan. 28-UP)-Amer- ican and Filippino prisoners of war who have been murdered by Jap anese total more than 25,000, Pal mer Hoyt, former OWI Domestic Branch Director, declared today in a signed magazine article, in which he criticized government censorship practices.
 The article, to be published next week in the American magazine. censureS military authorities for holding up the release of much vital war news, usually on the con tention that secrecy is necessary for reasons of security. The account was cleared by the office of cen- sorship, headed by Byron Price, which, he says, has taken a "cor1- mon sense" attitude.
 Hoyt's account was released only 8 few hours after the joint war and Navy department announcement that 7,700 Americans had been tor tured and murdered in Japanese atrocities.
 Aside from marching prisoners through deadly heat and killing them through thirst and exhaustion, the Japanese crushed thousands of American and Filipino captives by running trucks through their col umns, Hoyt said.
 We haven't known" Hoyt wrote, flor two years that the Japanese brutalIy murdered most of the 50,OO0 prisoners taken at Bataan. They marched them through deadly heat without water, although they had thousands of available vehicles, and they crushed the the thousands of men who did not die from exhaus- tion and thirst by running trucks through their columns"
 Hoyt revealed that military auth critics last December withheld for two weeks the story of the at tack of German bombers no the Italian port of Bari, in which IT Allied ships were sunk and 1000 men were killed or wounded.
 When the Aleutians were seized by the Japanese" Hoyt continued, there was no hint of the awful danger of our position. Much of our military and naval activities in those regions had to remain mili- tary secrets, but there could have been no justification for completely drawing the curtain.
 That kind of censorship lulls us into indifference and may, if
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MIGHTY AIR n BLOW BLASTS
 NAz| CAPITAL.

London, January 28. = (UP) = Hundreds of British four-engined bombers hit Berlin again last night with 1,5OO tons or more of black busters and fire bombs in a mighty blow that carried almost to the two-thirds mark the RATS campaign to knock out the Nazi capital.
 A great force of Allied bombers and fighters crossed the Straits ot Dover early today, apparently re- suming the daylight bombardment of the French invasion coast.
 The night attack on Berlin was the 18th major assault on that city since the British raiders began theiI |-otlihea 0n offensive last Nove1n- Der IS, and unofficial estimates said well over half the capitals sprawl ing factories now have been reduced to empty shells and -black- ened rubble.
 Speedy RAF Mosquito planes raced in over the blazing city about an hour after the giant bombers had completed their mission and found big fires raging through a vast area of Berlin.
 Stockholm dispatches quoted pri- vate advices from Berlin as saying that the RAF hit the city between 8:30 and 800 D. m, concentrating their blockbusters on the industrial outskirts.
 The raid lifted to between 18,OoO and 19,000 tons the weight of ex- plosives heaped on Berlin in the past two months, against the 3O,- 000-ton figure which air experts have predicted would wipe out the city as 8 functioning industrial and administrative center.
 Given a break in the weather, observers said, the RAF may be able to complete the knockout within the next six weeks.
 34 Planes Lost
 Thirty-four planes were lost in the night operations, which includ- ed diversionary raids on Helgoland, western Germany and northern France, and mine-laying in enemy waters.
 The big bombers thundered out around nightfall in two formations, each hundred strong, and con- verged over the battered German capital after sweeping wide in two different directions to throw of the enemy fighter opposition.
 Radio Berlin said the bombers made terror attack" on the Ger man capital after feinting at Hell goland Bay, apparently in an att tempt to confuse the Nazi de- lenses. The broadcast said night fighters and anti-aircraft batteries
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Argentina
 Plans Break

Buenos Aires, Jan. 28.-(UP)-Ar- gentina prepared today to break of commercial relations with Germany and Japan and stamp out all in- ternal traces of Nazism as a sequel to the severance of diplomatic ties with the Axis.
 Reports circulated that three cab met ministers and Mayor Gen. Basilio Pertine of Buenos Aires had resigned, presumably in protest against the break with the Axis, but spokesman for the press secre- tariat said therew as nothing so far official" on the resignations.
 The three cabinet members who were said to have quit were Home Minister Gen. Luis Cesar Perlinger, Agriculture Minister Gen. Diego I. Mason and Justice Minister Gustavo Marines zuviria.
 President Gen. Pedro Ramirez re- yealed at press conference last night that q decree already had been prepared terminating all corn- mercial activity between Argentina
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-28
Angry Congress Vows Retribution To Foe

Washington, Jan. 28-(UP)-Con- gressmen read with horror today the official Army Navy account of Jap aneSo atrocities against American prisoners and described the acts as "throwback to barbarism".
 Denouncing the Japanese for ''un- civilized butchery," angry Senators and representatives vowed retribu- tion when the war is over.
 Sen. Claude Pepper, D., Fla. hoped such indecency will arouse acute awareness in the American pecple and make them resolve to ctand more solidIy behind the war effort. Thus we can speed the day of victory and just and righteous xetribution against the JapS."
 Other comment:
 Sen. W. Lee O'Daniel, D., Tex, T am infavor of the Army and Navy doing everything they can now to stop this kind of butchery and mis- treatment to spare others from this horrible fate"
 House Republican leader Joseph w. Martin, Jr.: CMass) ''T1ae out rages will arouse the American peo- pie to an even stronger determine ton to prosecute this war more vig- orously and make the Japs pay for their bartarity."
 Sen. Carl A. Hathc, D., N. M.: Nothing demonstrates so complete ly the Japanese lack of civilized practices and the throwback to bar barianism as this report.
 Sen. Theodore F. Green, D., R. r.: My reaction is that of every Amer ican-horror. and shock. But I am not surprised. The Japs will not stop at anything and it is weakness in us to be surprised at what they do when we consider Jap actions in the past"
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''The March Of Death" As Related By Escaped Colonel
Washington, January 28.

Washington, January 28. (UP) = On April 10, 1922, several thousands of Ameri- can and Filipino prisoners, captured by the Japanese when Bataan surrendered, began marching northward off the peninsula in what came to be known among survivors as "the march of death".
 The story of that tragic march was revealed today by the Army and Navy in their annollsl efnalit of atroc- ities eg py the Japan ese Iii prisk captured on
 k and rfegidor. It Was based on 2 sworn state ment bylIst. cel. (then cap tain) Wil1iEif E. Dyess, of Albany, Texas, who subse- quently escaped and was killed when his fighter plane crashed at Burbank, Calif.
 .sThe March of Deathn began when the prisoners were herded to- lcontlnned on rate 41
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In connection with those executions, President RooSe- velt sent a stern warning to Japan. He said that if s'Such acts of barbarity and mani- festations Of depravity" were continued, "the American gOv- ernment will hold personally and officially responsible for those deliberate crimes all of those officers of the Japanese government who have par-' ticipated in their commits ment and will in due course bring these officers to justice"
 The Report < The report disclosed these facts: At Camp O'Donnell, about 2.2O0 American prisoners from Bataan died during April and May of 1922. The death rate among Filipino pris Soners was higher. By October, an- other 5000 Americans had died at Camp Cabanatuan and 2,5O0 others were in such condition that Ameri- can doctors were certain all would die.
 For full week after the .Ameri. can defenders of Corregidor had sur. rendered, they were denied food Then they received meager portions of rice and sardines.
 Many technical men--at least 400 and possibly 1000 others--were shEp- ped off to Japan for slave labor in factories in complete defiance of the Geneva convention on prisoner treatment to which Japan claims she is abiding.
 At least three Americans and three Filipinos were buried alive. Others were beheaded. Many were given the sun treat ment, form of torture in which they were forced to remain under the bliste-ing sun with no covering.
 A nightmariSh memory to the men who escaped was what the prisoners called the march of death's. With no food, water or shelter from the sun, they were forced to make a 12- day march for 85 miles to work in labor battalions.
 Beaten And Whipped Those who fell screaming in agony of approaching death were beaten with sticks, whipped or shot if they dared ask for food or water. Some were run over by Japanese trucks deliberately.
 Men who once weighed 200 pounds shrank to 90, became human szEele~ tons, and died by the hundreds. Di- arrhea and dysentary almost wua@ universal, as was Beri- -Bert.
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No More U. s. Relief
 To Jap-Held Captives

Washington Jan. 28-(UP)-The American government, outraged by Japanese eXtermination of at least 7,70O American war prisoners, has given up hope of getting relief sup plies to surviving prisoners of war in Japanese hands, the White House said today.
 The documented account of Jap anese brutality toward war prison CTS in the Philippines was publish ed by the army and navy last night. Today White House Secretary Stephen T. Early explained the timing of the release.
 'The time has come", he said, ito release factual, carefully au- thenticated reports on Japanese atrocities. The government can no longer expect to get further relief to American prisoners of war in the hands of the Japanese.
 The army-navy report. based on sworn statements of two army of- ficerS and a navy officer who es- capped from Davao after 361 days of suffering, dealt only with Jap anese treatment of prisoners cap- tured at Bataan and Corregidor. It was story of deliberate starvation, torture and murder. Early's state- ment appeared to indicate that ad- ditional reports detailing similar horrors in other areas might be forthcoming later.
 Early's statement, which followed congressional demands for ultim- ate vengeance against the Japanese, also caused speculation that there may be no further exchanges of civilian internees between this country and Japan.
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 It was pointed out that in the past supplies of medicine, clothing, and food for war prisoners twice were sent to Japan aboard the ex- change ship Gripsholm. This ave-
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.NewYorkSun Head Is Deod

New York, Jan. 28-(UP)-Wii- liam T. Dewart, 68, president and publisher of the New York Sun, died at his Park avenue home last night.
 Dewart, general manager of the newspaper since 1903, bought the Sun in 1926 for a reported SIS, ,0O0,- 900 from the residuary legatee un- der the will of Frank A. Munsey, the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
 Dewart became associated with Munsey, manufacturer, merchant and publisher, at the latterIs de- partment store and hotel in New London, Conn, when he was 9.
 Later he was transferred to New York and rose to the position of chief executive of the Munsey inter eStS.
 Valhalla, N. Y., Jan. 28-(UP)- Owen Oliver, 77, feature editor of the New York Sun, died yesterday at Grasslands hospitals following an illness of two years.
 A widower, Oliver is survived by g son, Frederick L. Oliver. of Win- chester Mass.
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Police Seek BroncotoCIue

New Haven, Conn, Jan. 28-(UP) Police renewed their search of the city dump today, hopeful of discov- ering some connecting evidence to bear out the alleged confession of Walter William Law that he killed Miss Rose M. Brancato, 28-years-old society reporter last July and cre- mated her body in the furnace of 8 downtown office building where he worked as superintendent.
 Meantime, his attorney, Albert A. Toscano, retained a week ago to de- fend him against charges of theft and embezzlemei1t- 1t--on which he is still being held-- planned to apply in superior court for his release on, q writ of habeaS corpus.
 Toscona contended that Law was being illegally detained, that he was being held inconlniunicado at some unspecified ,plaCe, and that no charge had been placed against him in connection with the murder.
 Authorities refused to comment on reports that Law was being held at some nearby town, pending the sum- (Cnuffnued on Page 1
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Germans Run Before Reds

Moscow, Jan. 28-(UP)-Tens oi thousands of Germans were report ed fleeing for their lives toward Es- to1ia and Latvia today in 8 frantic effort to escape converging Soviet armies that already have cut or were threatening all their major railway Hfelines.
 Red Army spearheads slashing in- to the northern and southern Hanks of the shrinking German salient below Leningrad severed the Len- ingrad-T -Tallinn escape rialroad with 39 miles of the Estonian border and, 30 miles to the southeast, drove to within striking distance of the only two other lines out of the Nazi bulge.
 Official reports told of German units retretaing in disorder, aban- doning large quantities of arms and ammunition. In some sectors, pri- soners were rounded up in whole sale lots as Soviet shock troops drove deep into the enemy rear and cut off paths of retreat.
 Gen. Leonid A. Govorov's Van- guards, outracing German units seeking to board trains for escape to the west, swept 25 miles from Krasnogvardeisk along the Lenin- grad -Tallinn railway to capture the junction town of VoloSovo, 39 miles east of EStonia.
 VoloSovo also controls spur rail- way connecting with the Leningrad- Pskov double-trunk escape line, on which the Germans were believed pinning their main hope of extri- eating possibly 250,000 troops from the Soviet trap.
 Forty other towns west, southwest and south of Krasnogvardeisk also were captured in the fast-breaking offensive. including zakornovo, q miles northwest of Volosovo. Three thousand Germans were killed.
 On the southern flank of the German bulge, General Kyril A. Meteretskov's Volkhov forces drove 30 miles west from Novgorod and captured Koitskce on the south bank of the Luga River, only six miles east of the Leningrad- VitebSk es- cape line and 30 miles east of the Leningrad- PSkov trunk railway.
 Unless the Germans can pull out
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-28
Atrocities Bring Death To
 Thousands Of Allied Captives In Camp
Nipp0nese Violate AM Cur0ns sOfCiuilizuti0n

statement parallelling U. s. Army-Navy charges that the Axis eastern partner was responsible for the deaths of more than 7,700 American war prisoners.
 Even the strongest British repre- sentations through the protecting power have brought only "evasive, cynical or otherwise unsatisfactory" replies from Japan, Eden said.
 '"The (British) government feels, and the Allies and Dominions feel that there is nothing left for us but to make the facts public and hope, perhaps, that actions at long
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bAOAAdA CACCblO11S tI11S yCdTs
 Hartford, Conn, Jan. 28-(UP)- The war-emergency session of the General Assembly drew near ad- journment today, with the House scheduled to take completing action on a soldier ballot bill, and on a resolution memorializing the pres ident and Congress to remove re- strictions which now prevent high CT incomes for Connecticut dairy men.
 Both measures were passed by the Senate yesterday, the resolu- tion by vote of 20 to IA after Democrats argued unsuccessfully that solution of the milk problem rested in subsidy program.
 The milk resolution was headed for a stormy discussion in the House, where the farm element has its greatest strength.
 In disposing of the absentee bal lot bill and milk resolution, the Sen- ate cleared it's calendar, and sat back today to hear a Democratic attack on the new governors man. sion, led by Sen. John L. Sullivan, New Britain, who planned to take issue with report of the gover- nor's home commission which de- tended the $170,00O project.
 Sullivan is endeavoring to have the legislature appoint & bipartisan committee ito examine all circum- stances" connected with the pur- chase, remodeling and furnishing of the executive home, which the com- mission has contended represented sound investment"
 Meantime, in disposing of the absentee ballot bill, the Senate re- jected an amendment offered by Sen. Cornelius Mulvihill, Jr., D., Bridgeport, providing for the auto matic registration of servicemen who become of voting age April IS, 1944. A second proposal by Mulvi- hill to extend the time for receiving absentee ballots until Dec. IS, 1944, also was turned down.
 In its present form, the bill stip- ulates that on August IS lists of candidates selected at nominating conventions before that date, shall be sent to all absentee voters re- questing the ballot. The state is authorized to use federal transmits sion systems to facilitate dispatch and return receipt of the ballots
 
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,ondon, January 28.

London, January 28. = (UP) - Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden charged in Commons today that the Japanese had killed thou sands of British Empire war prisoners by torture, starva- tion or refusal of medical at- tention.
 "The Japanese violated not only the principles of Inter- national Law, but all the canor1s of decent civilized conduct, Eden said in a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-28
Fulton Lewis, , Jr. Fined For Libel

Boston, Jan. 28.--(UP)-Louis G. Balsam of Cambridge, a former OPA official, has been awarded $4500 by a federal jury in his $100,- 900 libel suit against Radio Com- Ilentator Fulton Lewis Jr.
 The juryS verdict was returned to federal Judge Charles E. Wyxan- ski Jr. last night after six and . half hours deliberation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-28
Woterburions Jap Prisoners

Waterbury area servicemen who have been reported i'm termed as prisoners of war by the Japanese include: John MartinO of 63S Congress ave- nue, chief torpedOman in the Navy; Technical Sergeant Ray mOnd Sternberg of North Main street; Stanley Fiske of Naug- atuck, merchant seaman; Ma rine Staff Sergeant Henry F. Laser of TerryvilIe; Henry J. Ashton of TerryviIle; Henry J. the Navy; Private First Class Benjamin Ferrina of 1O5l North Main street; Rev. William R. Mccarthy, MaryknOII mission ary; and William H. Keefe of g Melbourne terrace, rndioman second class in the Navy.
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last will bring Japanese authorities to an understanding of their re- responsibilities" he declared.
 Among the cases of brutality cited by Eden were these:
 In Burma - Indian soldiers roped together were bayonetted from be- hind.
 In the Philippines = three British civilian internees who attempted to escape were flogged and shot.
 In Shanghai = an officer of the municipal police was tortured until he was practically out of his mind. He died a day or two later.
 In Thailand = prisoners were on
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New Glasses. Shorthand, BoOkkeep-
 Ing. Review. Begins Jan. 31 to Fob. & RP TT Collsss ee Commerce.
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War Session Neors End
BULLETIN

Hartford, Conn.,, Jan. 2S-(UP) The House today passed unani- mOusly, the Senate-apprOved ab- sentee ballot bill which will make it possible for soldiers the world over to vote in the state and na- tiOnal elections this year.
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WORLD WAR II
A YEAR AGO
JAN. "a, 1943
(By United Press

u. s. troops repel q German at
tack southwark on the Ousseltia
area Of Central Tunisia.
In the SOlomOns, u. s. bombers
raid japanese air bases at Munda.
Russian forces capture NOvO
Mikhailovskoe In the North eau
casus; In the Ukraine, Russians
occupy StarObyelSk, 125 miles
southeast Of KharkOv.
British bOmbers raid German
submarine base at L0rient, on the
French coast.
British Admiralty announces
sinking Of millionth ton Of Axis
shipping in the Mediterranean by
= British submarine.
Fighting French announce Occu-
patton Of Mizda on Jan. FL In COM
munique broadcast by Brazzaville
radio.
Evening star., 1944-05-27
Sound Movies
Soon to Teach
Bosic EnoIish

Basic English soon will be taught
by means Of sound movies, making
the learning task much easier, DR..
I. A. Richards. director Of the
Commission on English Language
Studies at Harvard, revealed last
night.
The language. which contains
only $50 head words. has been
used chiefly to teach difficult stu
dents how to read. he said at a
press conference at the Statler Ho-
tel.
DIR. Richards explained Basic Eng
lish has been used for almost 20
years and was taught successfully
in 80 different countries before the
war. He said an ambitious person
could acquire a command of basic
in fortnight, where 1t would take
several months to learn regular
English in comparable manner.
A Pocket Book OF Basic Eng
lish" will be published in the fall,
enabling all persons to learn the
common second language" he re-
ported.
Evening star., 1944-05-27
ID. {. Democrats Want
Party Pledge Of Vote
For Capital Residents

The Democratic National Conven-
ton, meeting in Chicago July 10,
win be asked to renew the declara-
ton in favor Of District suffrage it
wrote into It's 1910 platform.
The Democratic Central Com
mittee for the District voted last
night to give this instruction to
the IL local delegates and three
alternates who will be elected in a
primary June Is.
The committee also adopted a
resolution indorsing a fourth term
for President Roosevelt.
Meeting in the Evans Building
with Chairman Russell Balderson
presiding, the committee set June
3 as the deadline for filing nomi-
nations for delegates. In addition
to the delegates, q national COM
mitteeman and committeewoman
will be chosen. These posts are now
held by Malcolm s. McConihe and
Mrs. J. Borden Hartman.
Melvin Hildreth, vice chairman
OF the committee, was on the Plat.
form Committee at the 1910 con-
vention when the local delegates
won their fight for inclusion Of 8
District suffrage plank for the first
time. The plank read as follows:
I'VE favor the extension of the
right Of suffrage to the people Of
the District Of Columbia"
The resolution adopted last nigh
directs this years delegation tt
urge the readoption of the same
declaration.
Mrs. Almira r. BramhaH wa.
chosen secretary Of the committee