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victims in it unhappily are numer- ous." The broadcast did not iden- tify the raiders but said the Vati- can "has not failed to express its remonstrance to those concerned"
 GA Rome dispatch of the German Transocean News Agency said today that 500 persons were killed by bombs dropped yesterday on Castel Gandolfo, site of the Papal summer villa south of Rome.
 The broadcast Transocean dis patch, lacking confirmation in any authoritative quarter, said that 400 bodies already had been recovered at Castel Gandolfo.
 Allied spokesmen at Algiers de- clined to comment officials on the bombing.
 Radio Rome reported that the Vati- can paper Osservatore Romano pub lished a protest against the Fascist violation of St. Paul'S, but the broad cast charged that the paper twas unable to find justification for the presence in the Vatican territory of men who don't belong to the church and who despite this were found dressed as priests.
 The newspaper Regime Fascista was reported to have called for the arrest and trial of those Vatican officials who offered shelter to the traitors" Conviction on treason charges, it was pointed out, ordi- narily carry the death sentence in Italy. Besides the executed officers, 82 persons, including 2S Jews, were forcibly removed from the Basilica by the Fascist police.
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there was no letdown in the fury ot their attacks.
 The new German drive followed an abortive offensive which got un- der way against the northern sec- tor of the AnSlo-American beach, head Monday night.
 United Press war correspondent Reynolds PackarI reported that that attack was smashed early Wednes- day by one of the most murderous artillery concentrations in military history.
 Combining their fire with flaw less precision, American. and Brit ish heavy guns delivered a shatter- ing success of timed crashes in which hundreds of shells were rained on a single enemy target with 8 pe- riod of two minutes" Packard wrote.
 Situation Grave
 Allied headquarters spokesman &C., knowledged that the 5th Army situ- ation on the Anzio beachhead was grave, although they issued only meager details on the fighting and apparently still believed that the American and British people at home must be shielded from un- pleasant news.
 While there was no indication that the Allied troops faced an evacua- ton from their beachhead, they de- finitely had lost the initiative and were fighting & defensive battle against top-notch German pilots. armored forces and infantry.
 A pooled dispatch from Kenneth L. Dixon on the beachhead front said Adolf Hitler had ordered his troops to drive the Allies into the sea in order to "hand the punch drunk German people a dramatic victory
 Fight Desperately
 As the battle of the beachhead thundered toward Its climax, Amer ican units on the main 5th army front 50 miles to the south fought desperately to break the Germany hold on Casino and the inland road to Rome.
 The communique said the Ameri- cans made further progress yester- day in their house-to-house battle to clear the Nazis from Casino and that fierce street fighting IS continu- ing in the town today.
 At another unidentified point on the southern front, ''very strong enemy counter-attack was repulsed, the conmunique said.
 Rain and snow continued to bog down the British 8th army forces on the Adriatic coastal front and &C., tiyity in that area yesterday was limited to patrolling.
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Continued from Page D plane or survivors. Other parties searched through the countryside
 The crash occurred in a particu- larly swift current of the river rum ming between Cow Island and the Arkansas side of the river. Another disaster occurred here on May 2, 1925, when the government steahi- CT M. E. Norman suddenly capstzed and went down, with a loss of 2S lives.
 The cause of the crash was nys- tery. The plane was flying under weather conditions described as having scattered, broken clouds" and the ceiling was about $500 feet, air line officials said.
 The plane also was close to a beacon-light marker along the river, flying true to it's course, the officials said.
 The big Douglas DC-S commercial airliner left Dallas at TAO p. rn.. made stop at Little Rcck. Ark, and departed at 10:46 p. m. It was an hour overdue when 1t radioed the Memphis field at 1i:30 p. m.. reporting 1t was 10 minutes out of that city. The plane was due in New York at 7!O a. m. EWT.
 The plane was pnoted by Capt. Dale Francis, 80, of Arlington. Tex, who has been with the airline Hcrh- pany since March, 1936, and has 13,00C flying hours to his credit.
 Memphis, Tenn, Feb. 1l-(UP)- (UP)-The passenger and crew lisl of the airliner which crashed ii the Mississippi River mead here fol- lows:
 J-J. Ryan, 2s, woodhavsn. N. Y,
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tions crossed the English Channel at extreme altitude, leaving vapor trails, and Q few minutes later watchers on the southeast coast heard explosions from the direc- tion of northern France.
 German planes were active over coastal districts of northeast Scot land last night, but no bombs were reported dropped.
 Announcement Expected Meantime, new announcement was expected from U. s. Army headquarters raising from 84 the number of German planes shot down in yesterdays heavy Amer ican raid on the German aircraft center of Brunswick, 120 miles west of Berlin. and a subsidiary attack on the Gilze-Rijen airfield in oc- cupied Holland.
 Preliminary reports showed that at least 29 German planes were shot down by the heavy bonbers, most of them by Flying Fortresses in terrific air battle over Central Germany, but the sorting out of other conflicting claims was ex- pected to increase this figure con- siderab1y.
 Escorting fighters accounted for the other 55 enemy planes shot down, a new record for the fighters. during the January 30 raids on Their best previous bag was 42 Brunswick and Hanover. Twenty-nine heavy American bombers and eight fighters were lost in yesterdays twin raids. The Marauders, escorted and cov- cred by British, Canadian and AL lied fighters, carried out attacks on Pas De Calais targets without loss, a joint Anglo-American announce ment said. Crewmen reported they were not challenged by German fighters, and anti aircraft fire was moderate.
 First Lieutenant Richard Nj. Young of Savannah, Ga, a Marau- der pilot, said the frequency of the medium bomber attacks should give Hitler a good preview of the shape of things to come"
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Battle Of Destruction
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 Nikolai F. Vatutin's forces to the south advanced steadily westward from ApoStolovo across the southern approaches to Krivoi Rog, big min- ing center virtually invested from three sides.
 Red armies also reported new gains on the approaches to the iron center of Krivoi Rog deep in the Dnieper bulge and on the north western front, where Soviet forces pushed to within seven miles of Luga, key point on the Leningrad- Pskov railway, in an encirclement drive
 Gen. Nikolai F. Vatutin's 1st Uk- ranian army stormed to within 10 miles north of Korsrln Shevchenkov- ski, center of resistance in the Cher kasi pocket, with the capture of Yakhnov, while Ge, Ivan s. Konev's End Ukranian army seized Valyava and Mleyev, all 10 miles south and southeast of the stronghold.
 Front dispatches said the Ger mans, ordered to resist to the end without hope or rescue or reinforce ment, were digging in their self propelled guns for a last stand. Clerks, chauffeurs, medical orderlies and bakers were ordered into the front lines.
 Red air force pilots yesterday shot down 10 three -engined Junkers 52 transport planes attempting to par achute supplies to the beleaguered forces and also destroyed four es- corting enemy fighters.
 How many Germans of the orig inal 100000 still survived was not known definitely, but the Soviet high command announced that thousands were being killed daily with the toll likely to increase as the battle of extermination hears its in- evitable end.
 No further German counter -at- tacks against the Soviet ring of en- circlement from the south were re- ported, an indication that the Nazi command has given up all hope of extricating the trapped men.
 Several additional towns and vil- lages on the approaches to Krivoi Rog, northeastern prop of the Ger mans Dnieper bulge, were captured yesterday, but none was identified. and it was likely that the Soviets had come up against the inner ring of defenses in the suburbs of the city.
 On the northwestern front, the Russians captured Ploskoe, seven miles northeast of Luga; zheltsy, eight miles northeast; Tolmachevo, nine miles north, and zaozerye, 10 miles. southeast,
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assistant manager aircraft arma- ment sales, Sperry Gyroscope Co., Garden City, N. Y. on confidential war work from Little Rock, Ark. Randel c. Matthews, 24, Forest Hill, N. r., project engineer, re- search laboratories, Sperry Gyro- scope Co.,, graduate of University of Kansas, on confidential war work.
 D. s. Pensyl, 27, Garden City, N. Y, project engineer. research la boratories, Sperry Gyroscope Co.,, graruate of Haverford University, Haverford, Pa.
 It. Victor L. Ramsey, fifth ferry command, Dallas, Tex.
 It. Charles s. Brunfield, Evans vile, Ind.
 It. Herbert s. sudmeir, 2oth Ferrying group. Long Beach, Cal. It. Howard L. Hallo, 20th ferry ing group, Long Beach, Cal.
 It. Linton M. Seifert, engineering school, Camp Young, Cal.
 It. Charles s. Spring, engineer ing school, Camp Young, Cal.
 It. Elizabeth MacGuire, WAC, father: A. J. Bonner, Little Rock, Ark.
 E. c. Miller, Consolidated Steel, Ltd, Wilmington, Cal, home: (246 s. Comstock). Whittier, Cal.
 Capt. Edgar F. zarr, Dallas, Tex. Dr. O. L. Roberts, Philadelphia, Pa.
 Capt. Samuel c. Rosenfeld, Eva cuation Hospital, Los Angeles.
 Frank A. Kennedy, Los Angeles, and Morrison -Knudson O., Boise, Idaho.
 Sam Santonissimo, Walsh Kaiser O., San Francisco; home: u65 Sessions Street.. Providence, R. I. L. B. O'Connor. war production board, Arlington, Va.
 It. I. Bohrer, replacement depot basic training center, Fresno, Cal. Ensing - Baker, Yuma, Ariz.. Evacuation Hospital, Los Angeles, Cal.
 It. Rasmussen, Luke Field, Phoenix. Ariz.
 Ensing-Malloy, Buffalo, N. Y
 Crew
 Capt. Dale France, 39, Arlington. Tex.
 1st Officer Ray R. Majors, 26. Springfield, III.
 Stewardress Dovie May Holybee Fort Worth and Austin, Tex.
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that Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Finnish com mander in chief, had returned to Heisinki from the front to join in important discussions" in the capi- tai.
 All Finnish morning newspapers except the Nazi-supporting Alan Suunta generally forecast that the government would examine realisti- caly and exploit all prospects of needing U. s. Secretary of State Cordell HulPs suggestion that Fin land quit the war.
 The Finnish radio broadcast a Washington dispatch appearing ill the Stockholm Dagens Nybcter to the effect that the United States was willing to aid Finland in any negotiations with Russia providing the Films would take the first step.
 The evacuation of Finnish chil- dren to Sweden was continuing. Authorities have closed all schools except the high schools in Hell sinH and several other towns on the south coast of Finland.
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 The commentator first spoke of German counter attacks against the beachhead. The connotation was that the Allies had been at- tacking and that the Germans had thrown in a counter offensive.
 That was not true. The Allies had made only one attack, achieving small success and improving their positions.
 The commentator then acknow- ledged, under questioning, that the Allies were on the defensive and the so-called German counter -at- tacks in reality were plain, ordin- ary attacks.
 Additional details of the extent of the German threat to the beach, head came in a dispatch from Ken meth L. Dixon, one of the corre- spondents representing the com bined United States press at the beachhead.
 "If this beachhead is held and extended" he said, "it will be only because a veteran crew of fifty army troops is able to withstand everything Adolf Hitler can throw against them from southern France, Germany and northern Italy, "after feeding them an 18 months diet of defeat, the Fuehrer obviously thinks he has chance to hand the punch drunk German people 8 radmatic victory - and he is doing everything in his power to make that chance materialize. Whether or not, he succeeds re- mains to be seen.
 'He has called topnotch pilots from other theaters to knock out the Allied threat to Rome. He has Inassed pan1er strength unparal- leled in this theater for an attempt to pouiice on the beachhead from the north, hoping to cut of it's only route to the sea.
 He has pulled all available power from northern Italy, plus some from northern France and Germany. into the lines facing the Tonmies and Doughboys who are manning the sefni-circle front.
 ''As clearly as if blared by a oudspeaker, the order of the day rom Berlin to Marshal Kesselring aas become apparent to all points of the front: Knock cut the bea0hhead. We aust .sAve a vic
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Full Weather Report

. Boston. Feb II (UP)-Weather forecasts
 MASSACHUSETTS, and CON. NECTICUT-CIOud with mOder. ate to heavy snow tonight ending Saturday morning except chang Ing to snow huFrjeS in the BeFk- shires. Not soc old tonight be- coming much colder Saturday. Strong winds tonight and satur- day.
 RHODE ISLAND Cloudy with moderate to heavy snow tonight ending Saturday morning follow ed by clearing Saturday after noon. Not cold tonight and Sat- urday night.
 Boston. Feb. H. (UP) - The Weather Bureaus extended fOfe- cast for New Hngland.
 Temperatures during the next Ave days will average 2 ta 2 60- grees below normal in southes= and 5 to 10 degrees below nOrmas in Northern New England. Th@ trend will be- from cold Ut begin. ntng to warmer during middle and colder again latter part 0f period. Precipitation will total heavy. over two-thirds inch. in southern and near the e0sst Of Northern New England and will Otai moderate, between One.thiPd and tw0-thirda inch. in interior of New England. Precipitation will occur as general an0yv at begin hing and again during latter part of period.
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Mrs. c. Wolff 0reonist Dies
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 choir became one of the most effi- cient and most popular in the dlo- cese. Names of many of Waterbury s prominent citizens, some now ot be- loved memory, were linked with the choir's activities and the various musical enterprises arranged for the benefit of the parish and directed by Mrs. Wolff.
 From that association of talented singers developed many fine, nfe- long friendships in which the name, the graciousness and admira ole qualities of Mrs. Georgianna Wolff played no small part. To the re- gret of her many friends and the parishioners of Sacred Heart church Mrs. Wolff relinquished her duties a.; organist and as choir director in 1881. Her interest in the choir and parish activities ended only with her widely mourned death today. In the years that followed he1 resignation Mrs. Wolff'S home of- ten became the gathering place oi her former choir members. On var ious occasions, especially during the holidays, she was the recipient o1 personal greetings and best messages from all sections of the city, all re- flecting the affection in which she was held. As to her splendid char acter, her talents, hospitality and kindnesSeS she leaves a legion o1 friends and admirers to write or speak befitting eulogies-al mer1teo by a remarkable woman Of excep" tional personality, charm and at- tainmentS.
 The deceased was an honorary member of the Mattatuck Musical Art Society, very active member of the Queens Daughters and charter member of the Altar and Scapular society of the Sacred Heart Church.
 She Is survived by six sons, Clar- ence A. and Jerome F. of Water bury; Harold G. of Naugatuck Adrian P. of Washington, D. O.. Adolph R. of Tarriffville, Conn, and Rev. Edmond J. Wolff. s. J. of Weston College, Weston, Mass; one daughter, Miss Qeorgianna O. Wolff /: one brother, Clarence Adams of West Englewood, N. J.; four grand children and one great grandchild.
 The funeral will be held Monday morning at 9:15 o'clock from the Bergin Funeral Home, 290 East Main street, to the Sacred Heart church, where @ solemn high Mass of requiem will be celebrated at 10 o'clock. Burial will be In new St. Joseph's cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home Saturday and Sunday afternoon and evening from 2 to 10 p. m.
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Next Few Days May
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Rome over which the Germans might rush additional reinforce mentS to the battlefront.
 Against that concentration of air. power - the Allied forces flew some $50 Sorties yesterday the Ger mans sent only 30 planes over the beachhead. Three NaN planes were destroyed at cost of six Allied aircraft.
 5O.OOO Men
 Elements of five German divi- sions, plus hand picked Nazi elite guards possibly 5000 men - opened the main offensive yesterday behind spearhead of armor and curtain of artillery fire.
 They attacked with fanatical fury that bore out reports that Adolf Hitler had ordered the AL lied invaders driven into the sea at all costs.
 Official reports revealed that the brunt of the enemy attack centered on British units in the Aprilia sec tor and Americans west and south west of Cisterna. Savage fight ing ragged all along the beachhead perimeter. however, and it was ad- mitted that the battle had reached the touch-and-go stage where a major Nal break-through might mean disaster.
 A British officer who had just come out of the Aprilia line said the Germans were 14Eowing their main attack against that point and described the assault as the most furious he had ever seen.
 "They come into us like pack of wolves" he said. I've mow them down the first ones but others fol- low. They assault out outposts, leaving their dead and wounded where they lie"
 Tank Destr0yerS
 American tank destroyers backed up threatened areas of the Allied front, racing from point to point to head off the attacking German armor, this thrust continually at the Anglo American lines in an effort to force a through.
 Front reports said the Germans were suffering heavy casualties greater than the Allied losses - but
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saitis, (R).
 The revaluation committee as re- gently appointed by Mayor Mona. gan for the purpose of formulating some program for the revaluation of all real and personal property in Waterbury and to make adjust rnents in the operations of the To- cal assessors office has already held two meetings which were attended by local and out-of-town appraisers who offered various suggestions as to the requirements of such pro. gram.
 No formal bids were submitted by any of the appraisers or their firms to undertake the job of setting up a revaluation program and at pYes- ent the committee is still receiving suggestions and bids relative to the matter.
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Union Seeks
 Prisoner Dues
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dues personally from the Nazis.

dues personally from the Nazis.
 AS result of these difficulties, the union said, the organizations legal department was studying the possibility of having the company deduct the dues from the prisoners earnings before they are turned over to the Army.
 It could not be learned, however, whether the Treasury department would agree to the plan, which would involve either payment of the dues out of the Treasury's share or out of the prisoners small earnings.
 Officials of the company, which operates the largest produce farm in the United States were not available for comment on the un- ions demands. The prisoners had volunteered for the farm work.
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NEW YORK NEwsREEL

INEW 4OAAA NEW 0AeAAAAAN
 The theater at 2Srd Street and Bth Avenue built by the fabulous Jim Ffske To display the tal- ents of his adored one, Josie Mans field Her adjacent mansion was connected to the playhouse by an underground massage "The Great White Way" nickname for Broadway-coined-they say-by O. J. Gude, the billboard advertising man =. The Roxy Theater's foyer which accommodates about 5000 people The swanky private park for Tudor City residents (42nd St. and East River), once the hideaway for the towns most desperate crim- inals Historic Fraunces Tavern (where Gen. Washington used to imbibe and where he prepared his farewell address), now one of New York'S better restaurants Such is Fame: Tom Paine, the most elo- uuent voice of the Revolution, has a dusty tablet on a Grove Street house-because he died there.
 Harlem's three square miles, in which nearly 500000 people are packed like sardines The church for muteS, where the pastors ser mon is delivered with his fingers and where the choir sings" with their hands . The luxury of the Radio City Music Hall-the lobby ceiling is made of gold leaf |. The Grand Central Deppo, where the number of people who pass through 1t in one year approximates the population of the nation |. The Sixth Avenue subway-five stories down The maiu build ing at New York University--but of stones cut by convicts at Sing Sing MacDouglas Alley in Greenwich Village-a privately owned street-lit by gas lamps :. The residential belt between Sth and 10th) from the POS through to the 50s-the rotting core Of the towns shameful slumS.
 The Hillman periodical bldg. in Times Square where tn eelevator starter signals with caStanetS |. The tattered old lady around mid town wearing a diamond bracelet A tender reminder of her only love killed in an accident 40 years ago .. The modern Tower Of Babel the Overseas Division of the O. w. I, on 57th Street-whree hnguists speak every lingo from Arabic to Mende The wind at the corner of Madison and 42nd Street reveal ing more undraped cuticle than any of the Broadway girlshows
 The loneliness of Bryant Park (near the Library) on a rainy day. As Sorrowful as an unused wedding gown The place where you can see how you got that way-the Mu- seus of Natural History on Central Park West.
 The Greenwich Village delicates- sen with a Sensayuma Its sign reads: Our pickles are dill-icious" :. The Chinese laundryman on 181 Street with the sassiest name of all: Trip Want" |. . The elegant doorInan of a midtown night club who Ooftly says to passerSby: Good evening. Seen our show lately?" :. The high-toned Madison Ave- nue grocery which features fnacy dog food with Sniff Appeal" . The closed employment agency--be- cause it couldn't get any help . The 55th Street eatry which bur- 1eSks restaurants that name sand wiches after celebs. It names sand wiches after chorines who dine there The coffee joynt on Lex 1ngton in the sos where the latest headline Gin cinnamon prinO comes with your rice pudding.
 The monument maker or the
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forcementS to consolidate their gains, Allied officers told me.
 Wave after wave of German sol- diers and tanks were thrown into the enemy push before 1t petered out in the face of the Allied artil- lery fire.
 Although the Anglo American de- fensive positions were improved to- day, officers were inclined to be- lieve the German repulse was only temporary. The feeling was that the enemy was prepared to launch new thrust momentarily and the Allied defenses were ping aligned accordingly.
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thing is & hawker's hole-in-the-wall The powerful-appearing Soviet sailors-never before permitted to wear their uniforms on shore leave here until a few months ago The charming cafe in the Museum of Modern Art garden The melodrama and misery in The Fam fly Court on E. 57th Stiff you think you have troubles.