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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-17

(Continued from Page D and pointed out that tour assunnp- tion that Saipan would be strongly held because of its strategic location ln the Japanese defense system has been proved correct"
 The Pacific fleet commanded In chief, in another communique, also announced a that Q big American carrier task force struck within SIS miles of Tokyo "wednesday to bomb the Bonin and Volcano islands, midway to the Marianas, in support of the invasion forces.
 2 ships Sunk
 Swarms of carrier-borne planes sank two Japanese ships, damaged 10 others, destroyed 41 aircraft and probably two additional in the raids. centered on Chichl lima and Haha Juma in the Bonins and Two Jima in the Volcanos. The Americans lost four planes and five men.
 The communique on the Saipan fighting revealed that the troops which landed around Agingan Point, on the southwestern tip of the s- land two miles below Craran Kanoa, withdrew Q short distance toward the beach wednesday and Wednes- day night under heavy mortar and trtillery fire from the Japanese.
 During the night, however, big guns of American warships offshore laid down 0 fierce bombardment Of the enemy strong points and the U. s. trops consolidated their lines preparatory to Q new drive.
 Approximately 1000 troops bate tered their way through the Japan csc resistance to make an advance of nearly Q half-mile in the south- ern sector, and the communiQue said lesser gains were made in other sectors.
 Advances
 Tn two days of fighting over the bloody, shell-torn cainfields that dot the southwestern sector, the Americans have made advances up to two miles from their initial landings on either side of Charan Kanoa.
 Indicative of the enemy resistance on the strategic island, c keystone in Japan's outer defense perimeter, was Nimitz's opening statement in the communique:
 united States assault troops are engaged in bitter fighting against the defending forces on Saipan Is- land"
 (While the size of the U. S. forces on Saipan has been guarded closely. @ Tokyo broadcast yesterday said the Americans had landed about division. approximately i5,- 900 troops, in the early operations, although there have been no fur ther reports)
 Heavier Fire
 Johnston, who was aboard the expeditionary flagship, said the troops landed along Q two-mile' front on Saipan under the heaviest Japanes fire encountered since Tar ava. Although heavy pre-invas- ion bombardment by warships and planes knocked out virtually all the enemy's coastal batteries, the Japan csc showered the troops with long range mortar and artillery fire from the hills rising toward l,600-foot Mount Potchau on the left flank of the beachhead.
 Casualties on Saipan were not expected to equal the Tarawa losses, Johnston said, although the U. 8. forces suffered material losses and the Japanese were still throwing mortar shells-their favorite weapon into the beachhead area. Nimitz only announcement thus far of American casualties was made yes- terday when he said the losses in the early fighting were moderate"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-17
EARTHQUAKE REPORTEn

Weson, Mass. June 17-(UP)-A strong" earthquake lasting about two hours occurred 33S0 miles from Boston at 5:68 p. m. (Ewt) yester- day. the Rev. Daniel Linehan, s. J., Weston College seismologist, report ed today.
 Father Linehan said the quake probably occurred in the vicinity of Alaska.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-17

NOOLllIlueQ ITOn rage U
 ling, the circus this wear is ultra modern, yet "circuSy" to the core. Robert Ringing. president of the Big Show. who staged the gigantic 1914 performance, looked to the fu- ture in blending the whole pattern into gleeful fun-feast. brilliantly bedecked in flamboyan colors and enhanced by richly-toned new all- brass Wonder Band.
 Pageantry at it's best is presented in "Panto's Paradise, the new su- psr-spectacle, starring Emmett Kel- ly. world-famous pantomimist. A host of other allurements in the arena and in the air are highlight- ed by the sensational new Cloud Ballet" and the stirring new version of "The Changing of the Guard.
 To permit leisurely inspection of the mammoth new menagerie, the doors will open at and p. m. For the convenience of the public. tick cts may be secured at Miller and Peck Go. Circus Days.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-17

to the days of RorabackisEn in Con- necticut, but it remained for the local COP to drag them forth this past week The position of vice. chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee is still moot point among the women members.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-17

VCOuLIuueu IrOIn FaBe 1J Francis Sullivan formerly of the street department.
 MT. Slavin w1ao was deputy regis trar since 1910 retired this past week and was granted a pension of $l 500 following last nights meeting of the city retirement board. It is understood that i'll health has prompted MT. Slavin's retirement.
 Also retired by the board last night James Connelley a school janitor for more than 30 years. MT. Connelley has been granted a pen- sion of $l,063 to begin July 1st while MT. Slavin's pension is fe- trocative to June lst.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-17
FUNERALS

The funeral of William s. Strong, 79, of Candee Hill road, Watertown, formerly of Waterbury, will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Clark funeral home, 20 State stIeet, to the Advent Christian church, Cherry street, at 2:30. Rev Joseph P. c. Johnson, pastor of the church, will officiate. Burial will be in Riverside cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home today and tomorrow from 2 to Q p. m.
 The funeral of Mrs. Victoria Rug giers, wife of J. Kenneth Ruggiers, 4 Grove street, will be held Monday at 8:l5 a. m. from the Mulville funeral home, 270 West Main street, to St. Thomas church at 9. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home today and tomorrow from 2 to 10 p. m.
 The funeral of Charles Daniel Saunders, Prospect, will be held at the Alderson funeral home, 70 Central avenue, today at D. n1., Rev. Dr. John Snavely. First Methodist church, officiating. Burial will be in Robbins cemetery, Volun- town.
 The funeral of Mrs. Hetem Sali, 260 North Main street, will be held today at 3 p. m. from the Bergin funeral home, 29o East Main street. Burial will be in new Pine Grove cemetery.
 The funeral of Peter Dovidaitis was held today at e:30 a. m. from the Stokes funeral home, 694 River side street, to St. Joseph's church at g. Burial was in Calvary cene- terv.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-17

transport center 28 miles above Ter nj. On the Adriatic side the advance continued steadily and the commit nique noted that Allied troops made contact with Italian partisans around Teramo, 35 miles northwest of Pescara. The Italian shad taken possession of Teramo and preserved bridges fro mdestruction to aid the advancing Allies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-17

The other Fairfield County in- cidents were the public announce ment of candidacy of Brien Me- Mahon of Stamford, . former As- sistant U. S, Attorney General, for the senatorial nomination on the Democratic ticket and his purchase of the South NOrwalk Sentinel from x-cOngressman Lee Roy Downs. MT. Downs had work cd his way up from reporter to owner and publisher of the paper in a 2O-year period. Now he pre- fers to devote his time to directing the War Manpower Commission work in southern Connecticut. Fortified by q newspaper MT. Me Mahon can do a lot of work In his own behalf; but even without one his candidacy certainly could not be regarded lightly by responsible party leaders.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-17
MASS

COUGHLIN "A first anniversary
 mass of requiem will be celebrated
 Monday morning, at 7:30 o'clock, at the St. Francis Xavier Church. for the repose of the soul of the late Mrs. Thomas Coughlin. 2t
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-17

GILMARTIN-In this city, June 17th, 1944. Theady Gilmartin, of IS Lounsbury Street.
 Funeral Tuesday morning, from the residence, 13 Lounsbury street, to St. Francis Xavier Church, time to be announced. Burial in old St. Jo- seph's cemetery.
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NELsON-ln Middiebury, June l7th, Yale Avenue, Middlebury. Funeral Monday afternoon, at 2:30 o'clock, from the Swedish Luther an Church, Portland, Conn. Burial in Swedish Lutheran cemetery, Portland, Conn.
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Twenty-Five years ago Wednesday, June IA, Homer s. Cummings was chairman of the Democratic Na-
 tional Committee Clare Boothe Luce would like to do Q play this summer, write one not act in one Massachusetts summer theaters, please noteD. If she can steal three weeks away from her legislative and other responsibilities she'll transfer Co script form an idea she's had for some time |. It's been long time since Rspublicans chose to delve in
Evening star., 1944-06-11
Reactions Of Wounded Stand Out as Writer
Spends 1Triphibious Day on Beochheod

The cigarette was one I had given
him previously.
But now he was standing indo-
lently and impassively, sickening
sight, and I looked away from him
across the open deck, where brown
|stretchers and brown -blauketed
wounded lay in silent rows.
The Let was shuddering violently
under the impact of explosions from
shore. A German medical corps man
was standing among our wounded,
giving blood plasma to an American
paratrooper. He was watching care
fully small bubbling in an in
verted bottle he held, and he did
not lift his eyes to look at the
explosion.
I don't know why but this sight
made me even sicker than the
rather ludicrous spectacle of the
Nazi superman posing. 1t made the
whole world seem even more insane,
and I turned with a feeling of
running away to a 28-year-old curly
headed, pink checked blond from
Breslau who had told me before
he had been in Paris eight days ago.
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Wafer Waste Elimination
Urqed 10 Save Labor

Elimination of water waste by
District residents was urged today
by the District Subcommittee on
Water Conservation as a means OF
conserving manpower and critical
materials used in the publication
treatment of water.
There is no immediate danger Of
a shortage of water, the committee
pointed out, but unnecessary use or
neglect of leaky spigots increases the
average daily consumption and re-
quire additional work and materials
to make up for the loss.
Water dripping from a leaky faucet
at the rate Of go drops minute will
waste 1872 gallons of water month,
the committee explained, and q
spigot left partly open can waste as
much as 10000 gallons q month. /.
Evening star., 1944-06-11
$4,000 Air-BorneM Men
lied Allied Invasion,
Army DiscIoses
BY NELSON SHEPARD.

| A striking force of about "a 900
air-borne troops-two full divisions
-spearheaded the Allied invasion of
France and constituted the greatest
employment of air-borne forces ever
known" the War Department dis
closed yesterday.
More than 1000 CAT transport
planes and an undisclosed number
of gliders, landed their human
cargoes in the Ste. Mere Eglise area,
near Cherbourg, early last Tuesday.
Immediately the men moved into ac-
tion to seize airdromes, landing strips
and other objectives. The German
air-borne landings in Crete were
called a 'piker" in comparison.
Early reports indicated less than
2 per cent of the aircraft employed
in the operation were lost, the War
Department said. This figure was
much less than had been expected
| in view of the magnitude of the
operation and the opposition en-
countered," the statement said.
The War Department was only
slightly guarded in it's disclosure of
the number of planes and men en-
ployed in the D-day airborne OPP
Grafton. The air fleet numbered
more than three times the total
of transport planes operated by
commercial airlines In the United
States before the war;" it was
stated. Reporters were told they
could make pretty accurate esti-
mates of the number of men on that
| basis.
Plane Carries "a Men.
Records gave the number of pre-
war transport planes as 352. The
CAT transport. the War Depart
ment said, is ''the Army version OF
the DC-3, standard commercial air.
liner. This plane is capable of car
rying "a soldiers fully armed and
equipped.
Officials pointed out that the es-
innate of $4,000 men may not be
exact because some planes carried
only special equipment.
These troop carriers are designed
for speed and maneuverability, two
essentials for the dangerous mis-
sions carried out. Armor protection
is sacrificed in order to achieve
maximum loading capacity. They
have neither guns nor self-sealing
gasoline tanks.
The force of more than 1000
transports was led to their objec-
tives by 20 Pathfinderer planes.
Among these objectives were Is
enemy landing fields.
The American transport and
glider pilots and technicians re-
ceived their advance training I'm
der Brig. Gen. Paul L. Williams
of Detroit, commander of the 9th
Air Force Troop Carrier Command
in England, mentioned in dispatches
as directing the airborne invasion.
He is q veteran of such operations
in Sicily and Italy. They were given
initial training for the invasion in
one of the 10 fields operated by the
1st Troop Carrier Command, young
est of the AAF's major branches.
Took OFF in Dark.
Wnen Cne OuenSlVe opened, the
fleet of transports had to take off
in the dark from a number Of diff
ferent airflelds in England. They
dropped the paratroopers and dis
engaged to gliders at attitudes vary
ing from 400 to 800 feet.
The invasion -coverage has re-
suited in the coming of new mill
tary term-"ten-tenths," meaning
complete, or 100 per cent coyerage
for the ground forces.
Each Local beachhead command,
it was said, was covered by S to 7
air sQuadrons operating at low, me-
dunn and high levels.
Evening star., 1944-06-11
Dennis Made Science
Arts Head al American j

Prof. Earl A. Dennis, chairman oil
the department of biology at Amer
ican University, has been elected
dean Of the college Of arts and
sciences, it was announced yester-
day.
He will succeed DR.. George B
Woods, dean since 1925. DR.. Woods
who has reached the retirement age
for administrative officers, will con-
tinue as chairman OF the English
department.
DR.. Dennis, a specialist in en-
bryology, is Al. He was educated at
Wooster College and took his doc
tors degree at the University OF
Chicago.
Evening star., 1944-06-11
By IRA WOLFERT,
Foreign Correspondent of The Star and
North American Newspaper Alliance.

Foreign Correspondent of The Star and
North American Newspaper Alliance. Z
WITH UNITED STATES NAVAL
FORCES AT WESTERN BEACH
HEAD, France, June 8 (Deiayed -
This is the end of a day that began
for me more than 30 hours ago.
spent the day touring our beach
head here, starting from far out
in the Bay of Seine, going ashore
and up toward the front and back
down again to the currently sin
lister sea. That is where am now
writing this.
The 30-hour day was a typical
beachhead day. There ought to be
special name for such day. Per-
haps "triphibious" would do. It's
an eighth day of the week peculiar
to our times.
You cannot spend a day like II
anywhere in the world There has
never been such a day except on a
beachhead at the moment it is be-
ing established.
The thing I remember most clear
ly about this particular triphibious
day just ending for me was a par
ticular moment In its twilight. 1t
is like a picture in my mind and
it is frozen there the way a scream
sometimes seems frozen in air.
I was aboard an Let. Ensign
r. E. Meinken, Philadelphia, was
in command
Moving Wounded From Beach.
The craft was moving both Amer
ican and German wounded from the
murderous beach. The Huns aboard
lay silently and sat slumped side by
side with the silent Americans.
We were a few hundred yards
offshore. There had just been an
air raid. low swoop by German
fighter bombers. One Hun plane
had come close enough for me to
feel its desperate heat hit like a
bundle of fists against my face.
1 had seen the first of its stick
of bombs drop into the churned
dust and colored water at the edge
of the beach. Then I had thrown
myself against the iron deck and
had seen nothing more except the
irridescent oil smear, bright as a
peacock's tail, in which my face
had landed.
But now I remember clearest of
all the moment was standing try
ing to discover what damage had
been done by the raiders.
Very few of the men aboard STIR
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other two were completed by mid
afternoon Thursday.
One strip was used promptly by
British End Tactical Command
fighters. One Raj and one Bel
gian squadron patrolled the beach
area until fuel ran low, landed at
the emergency strip, refueled and
set off on offensive patrol behind
the battle zone.
Flying with the first evacuation
unit were flight surgeon, five
nurses and six medical technicians.
Mustangs escorted the CATS but
met no German planes.
The 9th Air Force even estab-
lished advance headquarters in
France to speed the operation of
fighter bases from which Allied
planes can give close support to
ground forces without returning to
Britain.
500 Heavy BOmbers Active.
British fighters also were over
Normandy in strength and some of
them used, for the first time, a
landing strip just completed by
Raj servicing Commands. They
refueled and returned to battle
without having to return to home
bases.
Up to 500 Flying Fortresses and
Liberators pounded German air.
fields and gun positions behind the
battle area following up similar
Friday night blows by the RAF,
while light and medium bombers
by the hundreds bombed as close as
mile to the battle lines and over
15-mile stretch behind.
Railroads highways, heavy gun
positions and a concentration of
troops and tanks were attacked.
1t was disclosed at headquarters
that from Tuesday morning through
Friday night the 9th Air Force
threw hundreds of fighters and
f1ghter-bombers against 784 targets
in Normandy.
so Bridges Blasted.
Fifty bridges were damaged or de-
stroyed, rail lines were smashed at
SO points, nine locomotives were
blown up, 125 freight cars bombed
and strafed and gun positions. field
batteries, troop columns, vehicles
and two enemy military head
quarters were attacked
Fighter bombers unloaded 1858
tons of bombs in flying 5,13l sorties
at cost OF Al planes.
In their third operation yester-
day, Marauders bombed road iunc-
tons, bridges and supply depots be-
hind the battle lines, then dropped
to 200 feet-an almost unheard OF
level for medium bombers-to ma
chine-gun bivouac areas and inte-
rior positions.
Some mediums, after hitting the
road intersection at Falaise. 20 miles
southeast of Caen, went down so low
that one pilot said the crews were
able to motion French civilians to
get out of the way while they strafed
German cars in the streets.
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|red. Most of them were immersed
in the apathy that seizes man
when he knows he has done all he
can and can do no more. Two al
ready had died and one was living
his last moments.
Soldiers Face Tight With Fear
A wounded American at my feet
had raised himself from his
stretcher on one elbow. His face
was tight with fear. He had drawn
his lips back from his teeth, and
his teeth were grinding together.
He said something, but I could
not hear 1t because of the explos-
ions. I put one ear close to his
mouth, but I could not make out
his words for the grinding of his
teeth. His teeth were chewing his
words to pieces.
ITS all right" I said. He lay
down helplessly then, and I went
back to watching.
A boy told me later that what
he had been asking for in his fear
was a cigarette to calm himself.
A large sooty cloud of smoke
sprang up from the beach as abrupt
ly as If prodded. The Let began
to tremble all over. There was
debris in the cloud, big black torn
chunks.
Sitting on top of the cloud, poised
delicately there for moment many
feet in the air, was the body of
truck-intact.
1t was silhouetted so sharply in
the twilight that I could make out
the wheels of it. Then the vast,
blasting sound of an explosion came
clapping like a hand against my
ears.
I turned my sickened eyes from
the scene and saw a German in
fantry officer standing against the
rail, watching. There were two
pieces of sharpnel in his side, but
at the beginning of the raid he
had clamped down on the emotions
in him and on the pain in him and
had stood up to show that Ger
mans are not afraid.
This Nazi superman was wearing
boots with brightly polished spurs
I hadn't asked him what an in
fantryman was doing with spurs be-
cause 1 couldn't remember the Ger
man word for them.
He was posing himself indolently
against the rail, smoking a cigarette
in the careful, graceful, stiffhanded
way of man posing before a
mantle. His face was impassive.
Evening star., 1944-06-11
Texos Adopts War Heroes

DALLAS, Tex, June 10 (P).-
Sergt, Charles E. Commando
Kelly of Pittsburgh, and 1t. Ernest
Childers, Greek Indian from Broken
Arrow, Okla, who won Congress
sional medals in Italy were adopted
as honorary citizens of Texas by
Gov. Coke r. Stevenson today as
Dallas laid plans for its $75,000, 900
Fifth War Loan Campaign.
Evening star., 1944-06-11

WAR REPORTER INJURED.
Hurt while covering the in
vasion, Henry B. jameson,
Associated Press war corre-
spondent, smiles after board
ing the u. S. s. Arkansas. He
was injured aboard a Rhino
ferry which spent IA hours,
frequently under heavy Ger
man fire, attempting to land
on the French coast on D-day.
A. R. Wrephoto via Radio.
Evening star., 1944-02-06

ing its methods to their own underground OF
the future
All this seems clear from the reports that
come to me, but to check it asked the opin-
ion of DR.. N. Hermann Rauschning, former
President of the Danzig Senate whose revela-
tons about Hitlers most intimate plans have
brought him recognition as the leading
authority outside of Germany on the inner
Nazi circle He said: Il feel certain that the
Nazi party has prepared plan to conspre
again from the underground The Nazis SCI
dom leave anything to improvisation, and
TW-7-S-A
Evening star., 1944-02-06

the actual task of carrying on the Nazi battle
in postwar. Europe, they are training un-
knowns young people, "mnocents" not now
marked as war criminals.
For some time, there has been depart
ment in Berlin studying the methods of the
various anti-Nazi underground movements
In occupied countries. Just as they took over
the tank and dive bomber and other foreign
military inventions. they are now carefully
filing away the tricks of the anti-Nazi under
ground for future use themselves Even as
they combat the underground, they are teach
Evening star., 1944-02-06

YNM HIS Munich be1-hall speech last Novem-
ber, Adolf Hitler said: 1--WE shall not give
= in at the eleventh hour. We shall go on
fighting even after twelve O'Clock"
Twelve O'Clock. -" The deadline. The
end. The defeat
I'VE shah go on fighting after we are de-
feated. That is what Hitler was really saying.
And he meant it.
For many years it has been my job to
keep posted on things beneath the surface in
Nazi Germany = the little things that add
up to big things In recent weeks they have
been adding up = in German newspapers, in
dispatches to neutral countries. in informa-
ton from many secret listening posts = to
what amounts to complete Nazi blueprint
for defeat.
Sureptitiously. but unmistakably, they
are taking the steps that show what they in
tend to do when the war ends. They are pre-