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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31
Hitler Talks GIoomiIy

London, Jan. 31-(UP)- Adolf Hitler started his 18th year in pow CT today after 8 gloom-filled anni- versary speech which offered his battered people no more hope than the crash of bombs over Berlin.
 There was little of the old-time thunder in his voice, as he harped repeatedly on the possibility of de- feat, and warned that it would mean extermination for the German peo- pie.
 His words showed the effect of the Russian onslaught upon German morale.
 ''In this struggle there can be only one victor, and that will be ei- ther Germany or Soviet Russia" he said. German victory means the preservation of Europe, Russian victory its destruction"
 He warned that "if bolshevism Is victorious, the sorry remains of Eu- rope will hardly be ready to continue the struggle against the European Asiatic Soviet colossus under Eng lands leadership"
 Britain's military chances in such struggle, Hitler said, must be considered hopeless"
 Germany alone can preserve ''Eu- ropean civilization" against "this new invasion of Huns," he said. Either Germany will be victorious on behalf of the whole of Europe or Soviet Russia will be the victor
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31
TWIN AIR BLOWS BLAST BERLIN
 Powerful U. s. Force Eaters MarShaIIs
Jap M d Islands Target For
 Concerted Attack

Pacific Fleet Headquarters, Pearl Harbor, January 31. = (UP) = A powerful task fleet of big U. s. aircraft car riers and surface warships steamed boldly into the Japanese-mandated Marshall Islands to shell and bomb the Kwajalein, Maloelap and Wotie atolls heavily in a pos sible preinvasion attack, it was announced today.
 (The Japanese Domei agency quoted an imperial headquarters communique early today announc- ing that Japanese army and navy units have intercepted powerful en- emy units which have been attack ing the Marshall group since the morning of Jan. 30 and fierce fight ing is now going on.'' The Domei wireless dispatch, transmitted to North America in English, was re- corded by U. S. government moni- tors)
 The concentration of American carriers, cruisers, destroyers and possibly battleships gave the three enemy island rings one of the most devastating poundings of the Pa- cific war yesterday in smashing follow up to aerial attacks against the same targets Saturday, Adm. Chester A. Nirnitz disclosed.
 Indicating the size of the attack ing naval forces, some carrier units split of and swung westward to strike Eniwetok, important Japan csc anchorage and staging base on the flank of the Caroline island chain, Nimitz' communiQue said. Eniwetok, westernmost target to date for land-based Navy planes, never before had been hit by car- rier- -baSed aircraft.
 The size of the U. s. fleet, which apparently was of invasion-like di- mansions, and the fact that the at- tacks climaxed 25 consecutive days of assaults on the strategic Mar shalls indicated a direct challenge to Japanese naval forces and an immediate landing threat to the major defense triangle formed by the Kwajalein, Wotje, Maloelap and Ja1uit atolls.
 Nimitz' communique, terse in ob- servance of a rigid radio silence, said the U. E. task force swept into the Marshalls Saturday and naval planes delivered a heavy assault on Taroa island in the Maloelap atoll and on Wotje and Kwajalein. No surface attack was mentioned.
 Maneuvers
 Then, instead of retiring as the enemy evidently expected, the fleet maneuvered into position for yes- terday's attacks, in which Krajalein and Roi islands in the huge Kwaja- Iein atoll and Wotje and Maloelap were blasted by dive-bombers and torpedo planes and then hammered by the big guns of the fleet.
 Naval circles pointed out that
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31

and they believe they have Guffey transfixed finally in their sights.
 Gtffey, frequent White House spokesman, first offended some of his senate colleagues on Aug. 20, 1897 when he said that Democrats who refused to support the court bill were "ingrates" who, by implication, had no place in the Democratic party. In session of stormy protest, Sen. Joseph c. OMahoney, D., Wyo.. and others who had opposed the court bill, denounced Guffey in the senate and demanded that he be re- moved as chairman of the democra- tic senatorial campaign committee.
 On last Dec. T Guffey again re- buked his colleagues. Speaking in behalf of the administrators sol- dier vote bill which provided that men in the armed services should have a federal ballot, Guffey charg- e6 that northern Republicans had joined southern Democrats under leadership of Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D.. Va, in a conspiracy to deprive the armed services of the right to vote. Byrd and others aSsailed Guffey in reply to his charges, and again
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31
Echo OfSupren,e Court Bill Heard In Guffey;s Ren1ouai

Washington, Jan. 31- (UP) An angry echo of the battle over Presi- dent Roosevelt's 1887 supreme court reorganization bill sounded in the Senate today as Sen. Joseph F. Guf- fey, D., Pa, charged that he had been removed" as chairman of the Democratic senatorial campaign committee.
 Guffey was notable figure in the 1939-40 pre- convention campaign which assured 8 third term nomina- tion for MT. Roosevelt. He was the earliest and has been the most in- sistent senate advocate of a fourth term. His removal" from 8 position of only moderate prestige at most may be viewed by many persons as conservative democratic protest against an accomplished third term and projected fourth.
 But congressional veterans ex- plained that there was little if any anti-fourth term fuel in the senate fire blazing around Guffey today. Southern senators may not be noisily enthusiastic about MT. Roosevelt's renoEnination, but they will go along with it, They have proclaimed open season. however, on some of MT. zoosevelt's spokegnlens and assoclatel
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31
Beotmon Is In "A Hospital

Fort Devens, Mass, January 31. - (UP) = Captain Philip w. Beat man, 27, of New York City, who left his intended bride waiting at the church in Newburyport nine days ago, was under observation at Lowell General Hospital here today.
 Beatman was brought here Satur- day from the hospital at Fort Banks in winthrop.
 The officers honeymoon" fur tough, granted him so he could wed Miss Helen M. Olson, "A, Newbury- port war worker, expires tomorrow. It was not known whether he would return to his Salisbury beach coast artillery unit at that time.
 Meanwhile, Miss Olson remained as the guest Of Beatman's step mother in New York
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31
Two Sought In Murder

Berlin, N. H., Jan. 31-CUP)-An itinerant painter and a woman were the objects of an eightstate police search today in connection with the fatal bludgeoning and robbery of Caile Perry, 53, crippled Berlin storekeeper.
 Murder warrants have been issued against George Blackwell, 36, and Rhoda McLain, 53, both of Boston who disappeared simultaneously from their rooming house here after Perry's battered body was found Saturday. They were seen last boarding Boston bound train, hav- ing told their landlady the thought "they could make good money in de- fense work in Connecticut"
 According to police, Blackwell ar- rived in Berlin about four months ago and hired a room near Perrys store. He spent his spare time wait ing on customers and helping the cripple, residents reported. Black well was seen displaying large sum of money prior to his departure, po- lice said.
 Between $400 and $500 was re- ported missing from Perry's store.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31
Report 'Heovy Fight In s. Pacific

Japanese broadcastS said today that powerful American forces have launched a large scale assault on the Marshall Islands guarding the eastern invasion route to Japan and hinted that ground troops already may have landed in the strategic archipelago.
 Soon after U. s. Pacific fleet headquarters at Pearl Harbor an- nounced that a big task force in- cluding aircraft carriers and possibly battleships shelled and bombed the Marshalls Saturday and Sunday, radio Tokyo began series of broad casts reporting fierce and heavy" fighting in the area.
 Speculation that American inva- sion troops may have landed on one or more of the atolls was touched off by Tokyo's varied references to Japanese army units or army troops joining naval forces in engaging the enemy.
 It was possible, however, that the Japanese were fishing for informa- ton as to the task forces ultimate objective. The Pearl Harbor an- nouncement told only smelling and bombing attacks Kwajalein, Malie- lap and Wotje atolls over the week end and did not disclose whether the naval armada still was in the Mar Shalls waters.
 A London broadcast said that American warships were pumping thousands of shells into Japanese installations in the Marshalls from less than 10 miles offshore.
 The first Tokyo broadcast refer ring to the fighting was communi- que from imperial headquarters transmitted in English by Domei and reporting that Japanese army and navy units have intercepted powerful enemy units which have been attacking the Marshall group since Jan. 30 and fierce fighting is now going on.'
 A Tokyo broadcast in German qquoted the communique as saying that troops of the Japanese army and navy" stationed in the Mar shalls had engaged enemy forces in fighting" This version was recorded by the United Press in London.s
 Tokyo Broadcast
 Several hours later, Tokyo broadcast in Italian to Italy said the American forces had begun an
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Red Armies Close In On KingisepP

Moscow. Jan. 31. -(UP)-Red Army assault forces were reported closing in from two directions to- day on Kingisepp, which spearheads already were probing within F miles of the frontier.
 Dispatches from the northern front said that with all the Ger man defenseS broken in great depth and breadth. the Russians were sweeping toward Estonia at an ac- celerated pace in race to plug the Narva bottleneck above Lake Pei puS.
 Coupled with another Soviet drive up from the Lake linen sector to the southeast, the Estonia push threatened to pocket the remainder of an estimated 250,000 Germans in the narrowing salient below Len ingrad.
 Gen. Leonid A. Govorov moppe6 up the whole area north of the Leningrad- railroad and broadened his front considerably be- l low it, while directing his main thrust straight westward toward | NarVa.
 Advancing against little more than token German rear guard resistance the Russians struck through Viem- arn, eight miles east of Kingisepp and wheeled another column down against the town from the north. At the same time Gen. Kyrill A. Meretskov's army was driving rapidly northwestward from the Novgorod area above Lake linen toward historic Lake Peipus, the scene of Prince Alexander NevSky'S 18th century rout of the Teutonic knights.
 Trapped If the two Russian armies are \
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31
FDR Attends Own Party

Washington, Jan. 31-CUP)-Pres- ident Roosevelt, whose 62nd birth day anniversary was celebrated at balls all over the country Saturday night, had his own party at the White House yesterday and raised another $240,O0O for the Infantile Paralysis Fund.
 A $240,O00 check was presented to MT. Roosevelt by British members of Hollywood's film colony who poin- ed other stars, prominent public figures and friends and members of the Roosevelt family in celebrating the anniversary.
 Screen celebrities present included Brian Donlevy, Joan Fontaine, Brian Ahearn, Mary Pickford, Red Skelton. Lucille Ball, Jinx Falkenburg. Guy Lombardo. Jose Iturbi, John Gar field, Mary Martin and Martha Scott.
 Mrs. Roosevelt took them on tour of the executive mansion and Miss Fontaine, for one, declared it was amazing how the president and Mrs. Roosevelt manage to make the White House such folksy place"
 The Roosevelt's oldest son, James a marine corps Colonel, was at the White House but was unable to join the party. He is recovering from siege of malaria.
 Other family members present were Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt, Anna Roosevelt Boettiger and her husband Maj. John Boettiger. Visitors were amazed to see that Eleanor Boet- tiger had almost outgrown her name of "sistie'' and now was 8 grown-ur and poised young lady of 15. Hel brother, "buzzie," also enjoyed his grandfather's party.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31
TANKS PIERCE GUSTAvL|NE
 IN ITALY
Allied Headquarters,

Allied Headquarters, AL giers, January 31. - CUP) = American tanks and infantry men have smashed through the Germans Gustav Line north of Casino in one of the bloodiest battles of the Italian campaign, hurling the Nazis from two mountain heights overlooking the Rapido River valley and the inland high way to Rome, a communique disclosed today.
 Simultaneously, other 5th Army forces, powerfully reinforced by fresh troops, tanks and heavy artil- lery, drove inland from their invasion beachheads below Rome and beat down savage German counter-at- tacks within 20 miles of the eternal city.
 CThe German Transocean News Agency said in a Berlin broadcast that the Allies launched their first major attack from the new Beach head within the past "A hours Transocean said the thrusts were repelled and that 300 Allied troops were captured.)
 In the air, American and British fliers handed the Luftwaffe anoth- CT beating yesterday, shooting down 62 enemy planes and destroying many others on the ground in a ser- ies of attacks ranging deep into northeastern Italy.
 6 Planes Lost
 Only six Allied planes were lost in the days operations, which ran the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31
Nozis Fake News Of Bomber Raids

London. Jan. 31. (UP)-DNB re- ports indicate the Nazis are seeking to create the impression among their own people that the Luftwaffe is carrying out heavy reprisals for the smashing allied air blows against the Reich.
 For home consumption, DINE has announced that London was raided January 21 and Janulary 29, with about 600 German bombers partici- pating. Responsible authorities here said that although the number par ticipating in the January 29 raid has not been announced, the DINE dgrre us about 1000 per cent ex- aggeratiou.'
 The DINE announcement said s25 German bonbefs we're lost in the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31
Dual Attack 1st Of Kind By RAF On Nazi City:
 1900 ons of Bombs Fall

London, January 31. CUP) = British bombers attacked Berlin twice last night in swift development of the knockout campaign against the capital and American planes revealed today to have dropped $500 tons of bombs on Europe in the 48 hour weekend
 The massive weight of the unprecedented aerial offensive was reflected in an American headquarters that planes of the United States strategic Air Force in Europe had destroyed 255 German planes in air battles and wrecked than 54 aircraft aground in ItalV
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31

Against those enemy losses in two days were 54 American bomberS and 21 fighters. The targets of the attacks from British and Ital- ian bases were Frankfurt, Brunswick, Hanover, and air fields in northern Italy.
 More than 1,700 planes of the United States Eighth Air Force took part in the Sum- day raids on Brunswick and Hanover, the official sum mary of weekend operations revealed.
 Big formations of Allied planes swept against the continent tOdays keeping the offensive on nonstop basis. Two forces were heard crossS ing the southeast coast in the di2 rection of France early this aftepS noon.
 Hundreds of four -engined bomberS dropped some 1,500 tons of explo% sives and incendiaries into tho heart of Berlin only few hours after dusk in the nights main as- sault and twi1=engined Mosquitoes roared in over billowing seas Of flame several hours later for D follow through attack.
 ! The twin attacks first ever made by the RAF on a German city in a single night-carried the most intensive Anglo-American aerial Of- bensive against Axis Europe of the war past its 18th hour and boosted the weight of bombs dropped to 5000 l tons, 800 tons more than that dropped by the Luftwaffe during it's entire 11-month blitz against Lon- | don in 1940-41.
 Thirty-three bombers were lost in the two raids on Berlin and in sub- sidiary attacks on unspecified ob- l jectives in central and eastern Ger many. Allied intruder aircraft were credited with destroying two enemy planes on patrol.
 Large Fires
 
 The air ministry announced that Mosquito pilots who went in over the capital after the main attack saw the glow of large confiagra- tions and smoke rising to a great height"
 Reconnaissance photographs and reports seeping out through strict German censorship to Sweden ill- dicated that the RAF already was wit,Iin sight of its goal of knocking ct Berlin as the nerve center of ! the Axis war effort with the col- lapse likely within the next 25 days. if not sooner.
 Telephone communication be- tween Berlin and the outside world went dead just after the start of last nights attack and was not restored until Il a. m. Berlin time 6 a. m. EWT), Stockholm dis patches said.
 Even then, the controlled Scandinavian telegraph bureau was permitted only to confirm that last nights assault was ''heayy" with destruction spread through several 1 (ContinIIed on Page A
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31
Pistol Pockin'
 Momo Sought | In HoId-Ups

Boston, Jan. 31.-(UP)- A pistol packin' mama was hunt ed by police here today after she and two men cOnfederates staged 9 series of holdups of taxicab drivers. Three hOldups by the trio yesterday in Med- ford, Revere and Belmont net ted $95. The, gun woman was described as an attractive bru- nette.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31
Allied Convoy
 Under Attack
BY UNITED PRESS

German submarines are attack ing another Allied convoy en route to Murmansk, according to broad cast of the German News Agency DINE and recorded by Government monitors.
 DNB said five merchantmen to- talling 32,000 tons, and 10 destroy CTS had been sunk. Total Allied loss for the past two days. the agen- cy said totaled 12 merchantmen and IA destroyers or escort vessels.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31
ENGINEER IS DEAD

Lewiston, Me, Jan. 31. (UP)- Paul L. Bean, 61, of Lewiston, ar agent for the Union Water Power CO, who aided in the construction of the Manhattan bridge in New York city, died unexpectedly hert yesterday. He formerly was an aSso' ciate professor of engineering at tht University of Maine.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31

Bookkeeping Accounting. Might Classes Begin Jan. 3I to Feb. .. Pest IT. Ccnege of CsnAmeres.
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-06
CosteIIos Will
Leave El Centre

May | will mark the departure
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. C. Costello
from El Centre to Riverside where
Costello was transferred by the
labor department of the War Food
Administration.
The Costellos came to Ell Centro
in 1922. AT that time Costello was
publisher of the Imperial Valley
Press. He has been in the VITA
office since it opened in November
of 1912.
Mrs. Costello will remain in Ell
Centre until they dispose of their
property.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Costello have
been prominent in Ell Centro
throughout their residence. Mrs.
Costello is a member of the Ell
Centro school board, of the FL
Centro ration board, and the city
library board. She has been active
in the Women's Ten Thousand club
and in civic affairs of all kinds.
Costello is a member Of the XII
wants club and has been wioely
interested in community develop
ment and civic events.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-06
Council Orders
Sewer Survey

Exploration of the outfall sewer
line and its condition since the
break last December will be started
this week by City Engineer E. Paul
Ford.
Ford was granted authority We'd
nesday evening at the city council
meeting TO make the survey and
study a problem presented by the
break. He proposes to excavate a
section OF the broken line, study
possibilities of de-watering the line
area, and the possibilities of reno
waiting the line or rebuilding through
the same area.
In a letter to the council Ford
estimated that cost of the rebuild
in gof this outfall sewer from
manhole to manhole 8, covering
sections where failures have oc-
Cured, might amount to something
like $4,000"
Charles A. Bratton, sewer COM
missioner, contended that approval
of any survey was unnecessary since
the council gave approval last De-
cemberr to any expenditure that
might be needed when the emer-
gency arose.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-06
&c. WOMAN FINED $500
ON PALMISTRY COUNT

Ruby Hummingbird Cleary, 754
Commercial, was fined $500 in police
court Thursday morning for prac-
ticing palmistry without a license in
violation of the city ordinance No.
So. w. d. Jackson, %, Ell Centro
tractor driver, was sentenced to 10
days in the city jail for creating a
disturbance in a Broadway cafe.
l.. M. Milnor, 43, Filipino l99 State
street, who had been fined $3.50
Wednesday morning on an intoxi-
cation charge. was greeted with a
Sl2 fine Thursday morning on the
same charge. Virginia WilkerSon,
%, Roberta hotel, en- route to Texas,
was given 30-day suspended sen-
tence on a vagrancy charge. She
was ordered to leave the city by
noon Thursday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-06
Germans Open
New Drive
In Italy Area

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in an American hospital there
Tuesday for the second time in "a
hours, causing one casualty.
on the British Sth armys Adri-
attic front, allied troops broke up a
small enemy attack northeast OF
Orsosna, while the Germans raked
the Orsogna-Ortona highway with
mortar and shell fire.
FLYING LIMITED
Bad weather limited aerial oper-
ations over Italy. but allied fight
er-bombers maintained their Of
fensive against enemy communica-
tions and front line areas.
The low-flying attack planes
hammered the railway stations at
Colleferro, Frosinone and Terra
Gina. on the west coast, and gun
emplacements, bivouac areas and
supply dumps along the 5th army
front. Tuesday night, other fighter
bomber formations raide6 enemy
shipping off the west coast Piom-
bino and Civitavecchia.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-06
Victory Gardens
Gas Allowed--If

Victory gardeners again will be
granted special gasoline rations up
to 300 miles to travel to and from
plots this summer, the OPA an
nounced Thursday.
Several conditions are set up.
however. which include: Applicant
must be cultivating regularly an
area of at least $500 square feet
devoted to production of vegetables
and his labor must be necessary
to its cultivation. He must make
a share -the-ride arrangement with
others with plots in the same vicin-
ity. He must show no other alterna-
tive means of transportation is
available. The garden must be visit
ed at least twice a week from plant
ing to harvesting time.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-06
Lindberq May
Go on Mission

NEW YORK, April 6. (UP)-Re-
ports persfsted Thursday that
Charles A. Lindbergh had received
fever immunization injections at
the marine hospital here, prepara-
tory for a mission outside the coun-
try.
The hospital, the navy, and Linz
bergh's associates refused to confirm
the reports. and the former flier
himself could not be reached.
Recently, Lindberg has divided
his time between Detroit, where he
has offices in the Ford Motor COM
pany plant. and East Hartford,
Conn. where he has been conduct
ing experiments at the United Air
craft corporations plant.