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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-24
Tokyo Given First
 Taste Of US. Bombs
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mand was commanded in its first operation by Brigadier General H. s. Hansell, Jr., 41-year-old native of Fort Monroe, Va, who first gained fame ten years ago as member of the Aviation Acrobatic Team, Three Men on a Flying Trapeze''.
 It. Gen. Willard F. Harmon, com- manding general of Army Air Forces in the Pacific and Arnold's deputy commander of the 20th Air Force, issued his own statement promising that the two-pronged air offensive against Japan was des- tined to grow in other directions.
 "The time is not far now when Japan will be subjected to the com- bined efforts of units based from Alaska through the Philippines and over into China-a ring of air effort focused on the Imperial Empire, !" Harmon said.
 Kuriles Target
 Tn addition to the mounting American threat from the air, Japan is faced with ever-bolder operations by units of the mighty Pacific fleet. The Navy revealed last night that task force had struck Tuesday at the Kuriles at the northern tip of the Japanese Is- lands, bombarding Matsuwa and starting large fires and explosions. Japanese guns did not reply and no American ship was damaged.
 For the United States, the Tokyo raid brought additional retribution for Japan's execution of an un- known number of Doolittles first Tokyo raiders forced down on oc- cupied areas of the Japanese main- land. The execution of those flers, who staged their attack from the decks of the now sunk Carrier Hor- net, brought from President Roose- welt a pledge that they would be avenged.
 Arnold accompanied his an- nouncement with dramatic state ment, beginning with these words: "The 20th Air Force today rocked the heart of Japan with bombs from a mighty new task force of BPS aircraft based on Saipan."
 The mission" he continued, 'fwas accomplished by Brig. Gen Haywood Hansell's Fist bomber command. Its vigor should be con- vincing proof that these far Pa- cific Islands. captured by our army and Navy at great cost in men and material, have been put to the greatest possible use. Tokyo'S war industries have been badly hurt by blow made possible by the Ameri- cans who fought and died for the Marianas.
 "Now, as our American factories feed the voracious appetite of our B-29'S with replacements and bombs, we will pound Japan's war machine out of existence.
 Japan has sowed the wind, now let 1t reap the whirlwind.'
 Harmon said in his statement that with the passing of B-29,s in the Marianas, mo part of the home land of Japan is now safe from land-based air attacks"
 Although warning that air at- Jacks alone cannot win victory, he said the Tokyo raid marked the start of new phase of the air war against Japan which, in its various aspects, will steadily unfold.
 The War Department disclosed in an accompanying statement that the Fist bomber command was &C.,
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Japanese empire targets.
 ''The systematic demolition of Ja- pans war production, begun six months ago from China bases, henceforth will be carried out with decisive vigor, softening up the Jananese heart for the ultimate in- vasion by combined United Nations land, sea and air forces" Arnold told MT. Roosevelt.
 Arnold did not disclose the exact number of B-29's in the attack ing force, saying only that it was "sizeable"-a term that in the past has meant 100 or more.
 Neither did he identify the ex- act targets, although Tokyo is the site of some of the most vital Jap anese war industries. These include the giant MitSubish and Ishikawa- jima shipyards, the Mitsubishi heavy industries and numerous air plane, and ammunition factories, oil refineries and machine tool, electri- cal, radio and precision instrument works
 The Tokyo radio, which gave the world the first, although hysterical, account of the Doolittle raid, was silent for several hours after today's attack and then bloSSomed forth with its usual report = that the B-29's had failed to attain any tangible results" due to effective interruptions.
 Hospital Hit
 The broadcast said the bombers came over the city in "ten-of1 groups" of several bombers each. The only damage admitted was in residential sections, including one hospital"
 The attack on Tokyo came just 24 hours after Japan had observed its Thanksgiving Day-the Minamati Festival-in which Emperor Hirohito had offered newly harvested grain to his gods. Even as the festival was in progress, the Japanese witnessed hamburger of things to come when single B-29, according to Tokyo reports, flew over the Nagoya area some PTS miles west-southwest ot Tokyo.
 Other reconnaissance flights by B-29's over the Island of Honshu, on which Tokyo is located, had steadily increased Japanese fears of coming raid on their capital and thousands of children, women and older residents had been ordered out as precaution.
 Arnold gave no indication whether the B-29 bombing crews had been given special instructions to avoid Hirohito's palace, which Doolittle's fiers spared despite an excellent opportunity to hit 1t.
 ] Arnold said the Fist Bomber Com
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Corporal Robert Dobrick, ilus- band of the former Constance Warner of IT Cossett street, has completed Q furlough here and has returned to Camp Polk, La, where he is stationed with an engineers maintenance corpany.
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Lend-Leuse
 Should End
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supplies and equipment that had to come from the United States"
 Reverse lend-lease from Austra- lla, New Zealand and India, he add ed, provided increased quantities of supplies including $500 landing craft to Americans in the Pacific during the six months in which they pre- pared for the invasion of the Philip pines.
 ''The vast lend-lease program" MT. Roosevelt said, "haS brought and will bring" final victory months closer, he said, but lend-leaSe and reverse lend lease "are a system of combined war supply they should end with the war"
 The British document said the following "modifications" had been made in the original stand taken in the basic position of the British del- egations:
 1. Acceptance of the fifth free dom of the air-'"The right to pick LID and set down traffic to and from destinations not in the the country of origin of the air craft" 7" Britain previously had wanted this freedom subject to negotiations be- tween countries but now would ac- cept its conclusion in a new air convention.
 2. Limitation of the functions of the international authority tc those of advice and recommended tion.
 3. Inclusion of provision to en- sure that efficient operator is able to expand his activities in propor- ton to the traffic which he attracts. ] This means acceptance of the esca- { lator clause for passing increased services on pay load rather than in sisting on a national traffic quota system.
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 said to have been floated out into the Danube and sunk.
 The Russian communique claimed only slight progress in the Hatvan sector and around Miskolo, 80 miles northeast of Budapest, but it re- ported the capture of another 2 500 Germans and Hungarians yesterday, running the bag for the past l5 days to 14,470 prisoners.
 Far to the northeast, General Ivan I. Petrov's Fourth Ukrainian Army swung down on 30-mile front against the flank of the Axis forces facing Ma1inovsky, advancing as much as nine miles and seizing more than 30 towns and villages.
 Petrov's troops cleared the Ger mans from virtually all of Ruthenia, the eastern Czechoslovak Province claimed by Hungary, and pushed on three miles into Slavakia proper to capture Pavloce, 10 miles west of Ungvar, Cicarovca, 13 miles south west of Ungvar, and Cop, II miles 4c1 OlAC1 OO O1AC OOuJA1CcOOs 4AAC 4dObC4 advance carried Petrov's spearheads within 42 miles of Malinovsky's units in the captured Hungarian town of Tokaj and 67 miles from Miskolc.
 The new offensive apparently was aimed at Kosice, 36 miles vest northwest of Cicarovca, control point on the railway lines supplying the Germans at Miskolc.
 On the Baltic front, units of the Soviet Leningrad Army compressed die-hard German garrison into a tiny pocket three miles deep on the southern tip of Saare Island, com- manding the entrance to the Gulf of Riga. Soviet artillery and naval guns pounded the enemy remnants mercilessly and the complete con- quest of the island seems imminent.
 Berlin admitted that other Rus sian forces in western Latvia gained some ground yesterday in their bat tie to clear the survivors of 30 trap. ped German divisions from the Courland Peninsula.
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News Of Men In The Service

Marine BafTackS, hlAnlabn EalkS, Ore. Marine Platoon Sergeant AL bert Grella, 27, of 126 Congress ave- nue, Waterbury, Cnn., is recovering from a tropical ailmelg here.
 A son of Lewis M. Grella of Wa terbury, the New Eng and Leather neck saw action on Gua6alcanal and Cape Glouceste!' and was sta- tioned for a while in Cuba, Aus tralia and New Guinea befU"e he came back to the Untied States.
 Prior to his enlistment in Sep tember, 1940, Grella was employed by the American Brass O., of Wa terbury and attended Leavenworth high school there.
 He has two brothers in the ser- vice, Carmen, in the Army and John, a Seaman First Class in the Navy. He was home on furlough re- gently.
 Flight Officer Albert E. Sheldon of 288 Dwight street and Second Lieut.. William H. Hill of 75 Con- Lieut.. William H. Hill of 75 Con- iston avenue recently completed ad- vanced pilot training at Eagle Pass Army Air Field, Texas, and were awarded the silver wings of Army Air Force pilots.
 John Ennis, son of MT. and Mrs. John c. Ennis of Oakville, has com- pleted a leave at his home. He re- gently returned from Italy following a second trip across with a destroy CT escort. He is a pharmaclsts mate, thrid class, in the Navy. He reported for duty today at Boston.
 Somewhere in the Pacific-Mar- inc Private First Class Stanley J. Horzepa, son of MT. and Mrs. Jo- seph Horzepa, 134 Hill street, Wa terbury, Conn.,, was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received during the battle of Saipan last June. The award made by Major General Clifton B. Gates, of Tipton- vile, Tenn, commanding General of the Fourth Marine Division, dur ing recent ceremonies at this base.
 q wish you many more medals, but no more Purple Hearts," Gener- al Gates said in making the award. The Purple Heart is the oldest American military decoration, hav- ing been conceived by our first Com mander- in Chief, President George Washington.
 The 23-year-old Marine, mem ber of an Engineer Battalion, has fully recovered from his wounds and returned to active duty.
 Pfc. John F. Clary, son of MT. and Mrs. John Clary, IA Catherine av- enue, Waterbury, Conn.,, is stationed at the Eastern Personnel Reassign- ment Center, Camp Butner, N. C., and is assigned to Personnel Branch.
 Pfc. Clary was recently returned after IA months overseas in the European theater of operations where he served as clerk with the Medical Corps. He holds the Good Conduct Medal.
 John Iannucci of 151 Geddes Ter race has completed recruit training at the Naval Station at Sampson, N. Y, and is spending a leave here.
 Private First Class Edmund F. Bryk of 345 Cooke street, has re- turned to this country on hospital ship and is now receiving treatment at the Stark General hospital, Charleston, s. c. He served in the European war theater for 16 months.
 Richard M. Lewis of 978 South Main strete has been appointed a flight officer at Harlingen Field, Texas. He is the son fo MT. anud Mrs. George H. Lewis.
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tivated last March 8. It was set up at first at Smoky Hill army. base, Salina, Kan, but headquarters were moved in June to Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, Colo, with Brig. Gen. Roger M. Ramey as acting commander, Ramey is now chief of staff to Hansell, who took command to the Fist last August 29
 The B-29's first were sent into action against Japan's war making potential early in June in a shake down" raid on Bangkok, Siam. In all, counting the Toklo raid, they have carried out 18 missions against industrial targets in the Japanese homeland and in occupied regions in China, Malaga and the Dutch East Indies.
 In October, while the Navy was striking at Formosa and northern Luzon in preparation for the Philip pines invasion, the B-29's joined in with three heavy raids on targets on FormoSa.
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Second lieutenant Richard C.. Spellman of Prospect has been awarded an Oak Leaf Cluster to his Sir Medal at his Eight Air Force base in England. The son of MT. and Mrs. Carl c. Spellman, he is co-pilot on a B-17 Flying For tress. Before entering the Army Air Force in November, 1942, he was student at the University of Connecticut. He received his pilots wings in March at Victoria, Texas.
 Joseph Melio, son of MT. and Mrs Anthony Melio of 486 North Main street, is spending a 30-day leave here after serving for IT months with Naval ground crew in Eng land. He is an aviation machinist's mate, second class.
 With U. s. Army Forces in the South Pacific-First Sergeant Fred die Veillette, formerly employed by the Waterbury Evening Democrat has been on duty with an infan- try unit for thirty three months in the South Pacific.
 The son of MT. Fred Veillette of 106 South street, Waterbury, Con- necticut. First Sergeant Veillette attended Crosby high school. He enlisted in the Connecticut Nation al Guard in May 1885. He entered active service in February 1944 with the 102nd Infantry and left for Camp Blanding in March. During the same year he went through in- tensive training maneuverS in Louisiana and the CarolinaS. He left the states for overseas Serv- ice in January 1922.
 Sergeant Veilette wears the Good Conduct Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Medal, American Defense Medal and has to his credit six Foreign Service Bars.
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 Fred W. Herr of Scott road is sepending leave here after serving overseas for ten months A cox swain in the Coast Guard, he en- tered the service thre years ago and is & veteran of action in Africa, Italy and France. He is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Herr.
 Corporal Sydney D. Stocking of 75 Lydia street is now serving in the personnel branch at Camp But ner, N. c. The son of MT. and Mrs. Louis H. Stocking. he returned to this country recently after 29 months of service as machine gum ner in the Southwest Pacific area. He is holder of the Good Conduct Medal, the Distinguished Unit Badge, and three battle stars.
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18th AAF In Italy-S-Sgt. Arthur R. Seidel, 19, son of MT. and Mrs. Frederick F. Seidel, 192 Monmouth avenue, Waterbury, Conn, has been awarded the Air Medal for "meri- torious achievement in aerial flight" Sgt. Seidel, already veteran of the air war took part in the recent aerial campaigns that struck at Nazi supply and communicable lines in northern Italy. His group, long active in the Mediterranean theater, flew the famed Ploesti at tacks and bombed pre-invesion gun installations in southern France. A graduate of Crosby High school, Seidel, B-24 Liberator gunner, en- tered the Air Forces in October 1943, he flies with a group commanded by It. Col. John P. Tomhave, Mon- tevideo, Minnesota.
 Staff Sergeant Archie Aitcheson of IS Wilson street has been miss ing in action in the Yugoslavia area since Nov. 2, according to War Department telegram received by his parents, MT. and Mrs. Archie Aitcheson, ST. A radio gunner on Flying Fortress, he wrote Nov. 4 that he had completed his 18th mission over Austria.
 A former employe of the U. s. Time Corp, ne entered the serv- ice Sept. l, l942 and went over seas in June.
 Edward MacKirnon of Cottage Place left today to start recruit training at the Naval Station at Sampson, N. Y. He had been em- ployed as office boy by the Demo- crat. He attended Salem Academy, N. Y, and lived at the Boys club here.
 Corporal Robert Dobrick, hus- band of the former Constance Warner of IT CosSett street, haa completed Q furlough here and has returned to Camp Polk, La, where he is stationed with an engineers maintenance company.
 Flight Officer Arthur J. Rabin- owitz, son of MT. and Mrs. Bene- dict M. Rabinowitz of 660 Cooke street, returned today to Hunter Field. Savannah, Ga, after visit here. His fiancee, Miss Frederick Shore of Philadelphia, accompan- jed him here.
 Corporal Frank c. Nathanson Of 18 Wentworth street has arrived in India with an Army Air Force unit. according to word received by his parents, MT. and Mrs. Albert s. NathanSon
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Staff Sergeant Henry Poulter, son of MT. and Mrs. Nelson Poul- ter of 38 Platt street, is at an Army hospital in England for treatment of wounds sustained in action in France October 8. Off, cial notification of the injuries has been received by his family from the War Department, and letters fro mthe wounded soldier also have arrived here recently.
 Sergeant Poulter, the husband of the former Jean Kasica ot Derby, served with the 318th In- fantry Division. He entered the service August 3, 1942, and was sent overseas in June.
 The serviceman, woh sustained arm and leg wounds from art1l- 1ery shrapnel, is expected to be confined to hospital for several months. His letters here have been dictated at the hospital.
 Corporal William B. Cow of 1899 South Main street, who is serving as an assault gunner with 8 tank battalion in France, has been award ed the Bronze Star and has been cited for meritorious achievement in combat. He also has been award- ed the Purple Heart for wounds re- ceived in action Sept. 25 near Cha teau-Saline. Tn the Army since Feb. 19, 1942, he has been overseas a year with the Fourth Armored Di- vision.
 Coast Guardsman Paul DeRito of 50 Tracy avenue served with unit which helped to establish a first aid station during the landing at Leyte Island in the Philippine in- vaSion, according to headquarters release received here. He is the son of Mrs. Mary DeRito.
 Private Martin A. Serlise, son of MT. and Mrs. Frank Serlise of 199 Orange street, was killed in action in the European area June g, according to a War Department telegram received by his parents. Previously he had been reported missing since that day.
 In the service since Nov. IF, 1941, he was sent overseas in April, 1942. Before starting combat duty he was with an ordnance unit in England.
 Corporal Thomas F. Donahue of Willow street is spending the Thanksgiving holiday here with his parents. He has been stationed at a combat swimming instructur at the Marine Aviation School at Cherry Point, N. c.
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Full Weather Report

Boston, Nov. 24- (UP) - New England weather forecast:
 CONNECTICUT and RHODE ISLAND-Partly cloudy and cOn- tinued cold tonight and tomorrow. MASSACHUSETTS-MOstly cloudy and continued cold this afternoon and tonight with scattered snow furries ending this evening. To- morrow cloudy and continued cold with snow flurrieS in Berkshires.
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Reds Storm Danube Isle

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Corporal Frank c. Nathanson of 18 Wentworth street has arrived in India with an Army Air Force unit. according to word received by his parents, MT. and Mrs. Albert s. NathanSon.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-05-26
RALPH MCDONALD for GOVERNOR

The best informed Man in North Carolina State Finances
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Arkansas State press., 1944-07-14

state designed to smash white
supremacy.
Officers OF the Citizens Demo
cratic club of Fulton county who
presented themselves at polling
places were greeted cordially at
the doors, given application for
ballot forms on which to place
their addresses and signatures
and then told that their names
were not on the lists as secured
from the county registrars. The
lists sent to the polling places had
the names Of only white electors.
There was no disturbance from
the attempts to vote all over the
state, although flood of rumors
that riots would result kept po-
lice and even state guard units in
a state of emergency should yio-
lence break out. 1t had been
clearly stated in the press and
over the radio that only restrict
cd vote would be attempted and
masses of Negro voters who had
rushed to qualify themselves aft
or the Texas decision were advis-
See GEORGIA--paue 4
Arkansas State press., 1944-07-14
Gen. Eisenhower
Praises Negro
In Normandy

Chicago. In a greeting read
to the NAACP Wartime Confer
ence at its opening session here
July IL, General Dwight d. Eisen-
hover, supreme commander of
the Allied Invasion Forces. prais-
ed the work Of Negro troops dur
ing the invasion.
The message, transmitted to
Walter White through the War
Department Bureau Of Public Re
lations in Washington. stated:
Negro troops did their duty OK
collently under fire on Norman
dy's beaches in a zone OF heavy
combat and suffered substantial
casualties. You may well be
proud of the accomplishments Of
Negro troops. In conjunction
with all our forces In the Europ-
can liberation campaign they have
made their full contribution to
the initial success.
Dwight y. Eisenhower,
Supreme Commander"
Arkansas State press., 1944-07-14
NAACP SendsTwo
Delegates To
Chi Meeting

w. Marcus Taylor. president OF
the local Branch National Asso-
citation for the Advancement of
Colored People and Attorney ].
Il, Booker, chairman of the Leg
al Redress Committee, left this
week for Chicago to attend the
National meeting of the NAACP
which meeting will be held there
this week. DR.. Taylor and At
torney Booker are delegates rep
resenting the local branch.
The NAACP has scored q great
triumph in the Famous Teachers
Salary case, and is watching with
great interest the outcome In the
state the Supreme Court decision
in the Texas vote case and has
gone on record as ready to step in,
If and when Arkay defies the
courts ruling.
Arkansas State press., 1944-07-14
s. C. Governor Blasts Dewey For
Attending Negro Cocktail Party

Anderson, S. c. - (ANP) -
White South Carollnians were
warned last week to remain with
the Democratic party when Gov.
Olin D. Johnson criticized Gov.
Thomas f, Dewey. Republican
Presidential candidate, in a radio
address here about attending the
recent Negro Newspaper Publish
ers cocktail party in New York.
The cocktail party in question,
which Tas photographed by Life
magazine, was held at a New York
City hotel durin gthe Negro
Newspaper Publishers conven-
ton. Johnson, who is widely
known as a race batter, termed
the affair "a Negro drinking
party"
IF additional proof is needed
that South Carolinians should re
main Democratic, look at the Re-
Arkansas State press., 1944-07-14
NEGRO War Plant
Makes Garments

Cleveland ~ (ANP) - The
American Enterprises association
Inc, one of the few Negro-owned
and operated war plants, produces
military garments under United
States army and lend-lease con-
tracts.
Tucked away on the second
floor of the Hart building, the
five month-old plant employs 1876
skilled, unskilled and clerical
workers Of all races and creeds,
resembling a miniature united ma
tions.
The room Is alive with the
constant droning of 10 power
driven sewing machines, button
holders and feed-off-arm mach
ines operated by Negro, Italian,
and Spanish women.
A Polish foreman moved from
worker to worker giving assist
ance wherever needed.
From its initial contract of
$4,000 completed garments the
plant has graduated to a contract
calling for 10000 garments,
Olander J. Smith, president, said
this week.