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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-14
Food Problem In Florence
BY ELEANOR PACKARD Efniiah prass War Hnrnagnnnhaa


 Rome Aug, i4 (UPl-Fnemy sniplng and street fighting between partisans and Faseists in Florence dwindled sufficiently today for Allied military government officials to be- gin organizing a flow of food, water and medical supplies to the nearly starving inhabitants,
 snipers had been cleaned out Of Empoli, IS miles southwest of Flor enee where New Zealand troops of the British Eighth Army were in firm control Except for the caps ture of the village of fr0ntone, 27 miles inland from the Adriantie on the North South Urhin0-F 0-FabrlanO railway, the balance of the Italian front was comparatively quiet, with activity limited to patrols,
 Amg officials were striving today t0 restore normal life tO Florence, which fell Into Allied hands satuF. day when the Germans completed the withdrawal nf their main forces n0rthWard to new positions along . canal on the out fringe Of the city Their main problem was to set food, water and essential services into Florence, which had a pre,waF population of approximately s00,. O00, although front dispatches said only about 100000 remained
 Work also was started on clearing the streets of debris, Although the first hasty check after the British moved Into the northern half of the city showed that the most inr portant of the old buildings had been spared there was considerable
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 The first Offieial word Of R pres conference exchange Of ideas bee tween Washington, London and Moscow was given by Sir Alexander CedOgaD, BTltain's permanent llDE der6ecTetaTy 0f state for foreign alfeiTg who arrived here oyer the Week,eDd to head the British dele' gati0il,
 The documents exchanged by the lhFee governments sill form tbe basis for the discussion, which begin next week, Because Rllksla ls not at war with Japan, chlnp WilI confer later with the United States and Britain,
 Tine talks originally were 10 have siaFied today. the third anniversary Of the signing Of the Atlantic char ter, but were postponed . week when the Soviet Onion requested
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Civilization
 Doomed -CBS
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London. Aug. ls-(UPl-- George Bernard Shaw believes that ciyiiiz- ati0n ig headed for Q crackup and that the only way to check the de, cline is to establish a basic income gith certain reservations for genius which costs more than illiteracy."
 Writing in the Sunday Observer ss an absentee landlord, capitalist center Of ability and by conviction . Communist" shay warned that all civilizations would be wrecked by a division Of society into financial classes battling for the bulk of na- tional income.
 He recommended tha. plough men and dairy maids be raised to- yard the financial level enjoyed by geniuseg rather than dragging gent- uses down to their level
 ITO begin with Shaw said, "a basic Income of e3.200 q year would be enough, This is scientifically organized society would command handsomeF lift than ele000 does now"
 Civilization. Shay said. would not be assured necessarily Of stability and security when the state Of equality reached the point where the royal astronomer aD dbis house maid got the same income,
 with the spread Of culture there eertsiply Will be competition for the post Of royal astronomer and, a growing objection to the drudgeTies Of b0usemaidipg,' he said,
 "But when the astronomers son can marry the house maid without tlle slightest misallianee, the trick will he done as far as lew or police eap or need do it."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-14
See Success
 Round Corner

British Forward Headquarters, France, Aug. is-(UP)-The British striking from their bTidgehead be- yond the Orne, feel success is around the corner and have high hopes for what this week will bring.
 Some sectors Of the trapped Ger man army are in a state of near chaos. Turmoil, confusion and some times panic reign. German pFis- Oners tell Of it,
 "A later dispatch from GorTeu datellned U s. First Army head. quarters ana filed at 3;l5 D, m.~- more than three hours after the first dispatoh-said he could not reveal that the column penetrated northwaTd from Le Mans through Aleneon, taking the German by sur. prise when they thought the Amer jeans were headed eastward for Paris, The object of this change would be 10 trap the Germans be- tween the advancing U, s, armoF and hte Briish'canadlan advance beyond caenl
 A high officer on Gen, Sir heTs AANAA AF' NAhAfhNRfstNFF Nf"fe ""FW V. was not ligely that the haFassed Germans would be able 10 break 0ut of their present difficult position.
 The desnpraiion Of the German high comm md was evidenced 0y frequent enhnges 70 plans wAlen caused one astonishing spectacle m NaEi troops going east and supplies going west, Risklng imminent dls- aster, the 6ermans were sending cooks, drivers, clerks and 0theT corps troops in te be massaeFed 6 an attempt to eF.-,s the nFiilsl, advance and permit me retreat ef other clements, The Germans aps pareDtly were prepared 10 saeFliiee poor quality divisions tn order 70 squeeze out their crack panzeF, lnr faDtTy and 66 divisions,
 The enemy position was made all the more dInioult by savage, murs deT0us attacks by British nehtefs b0mbeFs which leave tFails of dseth
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French Happy
 AsYOnksWin
By HENRY T, GORRELL

lUniled Press War Correspondent
 With U. s, Armored Column n France, Aug. l4,-n2 noonl-iuP) In the past 2l hours I've seen this column ripping the crack sS Das Reich Division and the dl- vision named for Adolf Hitler him- self to sbreds AS 1t carried out an important secret mission
 The nature of that mission is a military secret but ! am able to reveal that these fast rolling Van kee soldiers boWled the enemy over gltb an impact that shattered his morale and left him broken into dis0Fganiaed pockets in herds ai the roadside, covering and waiting t0 be herded into the prisoner pens
 Riding at the forefront Of the column, ] saw 20 French villages and towns liberated
 French women, some earrylng babies ip their arms, rushed out 70 shake hands with tank crews and truck -borne dougbboys while bulE Let's still ghistled througD the streets and Germans were burned
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V0n P0uLulS Urges
 Troops To ReUOLt

Moscow, Aug. lG.-tUP)-Field Marshal Friederich Won Paulus. Germany's Hero of the stalingrad" and the highest ranking military leader to fall into Russian hands. ended ie months of sullen silence with a dramatic admission that the Reich has lost the war. and joined with 70 other Naza officers today in an appeal 10 the Wehr- marht to overthrow Adolf Hitler and lay down their arms.
 Won Panlus had stubhornly re- fused to abandon hope in a Ger man victory since February. l0s3. when he and 2i other generals were captured with the remnants of the Maxi 9th Army in ruined Etalingrad. His unexpected about face Threatened to have far-reach- ing effects in the alrcady-shaken Wehrmacht.
 The Nazi Field Marshal was taken prisoner in his headquarters in the cellar of a StalinRrad department store nt the end of that disastrous camEmign that cost the German army more than 800 GOO lives and turned the tide Of the war.
 Correspondents who witnessed his surrender reported that the Field Marshal was extremely sullen and hostile and refused to answer even the most formal questions put tc him by his Soviet captors.
 His top aides. including Gen. Wai- ter Won Seydlitz who became pres bdent of the EOyiet-sponsored union of Free German officers. conceded almost immediately that the game was up and began broadcasting peace appeals to their former com-
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Good News Comes ln Time At Party
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New York. Aug. ls.-(UPD-When Frederick J. Naporano was growing up in Brooklyn, his mother. Mrs. May Lapadura t265 9th avenue. Brooklynl promised she would give him a big party on his Fist birth day.
 That vas long before the irfamy Of Pearl Harbor and neither knew that when that day arrived he would be a soldier with two years experience fighting in Italy.
 A few weeks ago Freddy wrote his mother and reminded her of the promise and asked her to go ahead and have the party anyway. placing a chair at the table for him just as though he were there.
 Invite all the kids. Have wine. singing and dancing like you prom ised, MoEn." he said.
 Mrs. Lapadura invited 100 persons. But a week or so before the date. n messenger boy came with one of those fatefui War Department tele- grams. Freddy was missing. His stepfather. Joseph Lapadura took it. He didn't want to spoil the party
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Waterbury Safety Council
 To Be Reorganized Soon
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waterbury's Safety Council will be reorganized soon to function in cooperation with the Connecticut Highway Commission 1t was re- yealed today. Purpose of the new committee will be to participate actively in organizing and maintain ing a comprehensive and workable general safety program for Water bury to combat traffic problems and hazards as well as to aid in estab- fishing a safety educational pro- gram for the citys residents.
 At present the personnel of the new committee is being organized under the supervision of Mayor John s. Monagan. Deputy Superin- tendent Fred Hickey and Officer James Little,
 Immediate reorganization of the Safety Council is being undertaken in preparation for meeting the eom- plex and multiple traffic problems expected to arise following the close of the current war at which time the lifting of gasoline restrictions and the manufacturing of new ears is expected to create a heavy traf- fic demand of Waterbury's streets
 The Safety Council was first or ganized in 1885 and at the time re- suited in the creation of the acci' dent prevention bureau of the 10, cal police department, Subsequently it became assimilated within the Defense Council when the latter was set-up by the late Mayor Vim cent 4, Seully at the wars out break.
 The new committee is to he com prlsed of three principal branches namely, educational, enforcement and engineering, which likely will be aided by subcommittee,
 Duties of the educational branch Of the committee will be to inform
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Hect Wave Still Sticks

RAcOrd-breakipg temperatures VII continue bere today and tomorrow the weather bureau forecasts, put some let up may be expected Weoy nesday, when mass 0f cool hiF moving from the nabid-west IS due 10 hit the East Coast, altbough Wltp most of it's ylg0r already spent,
 ThundersbOwers are predicted GoF this afternoon and tomorrow aItef' noon but are not expected 10 pros vide more than temporary relleL ;.
 The all time temperature hlgp el lO2 degrees for August, set August ,, 1917. was eauailed here saturday before tbundeT showers brought 2 slight drop iD temperature
 During the storm, hghts vent opt tllrOugllOut the entire city for ebouf a minute when ligbtning hit 2 trans mission line between Waterbury end Devon,
 Yesterday the temperature rose 10 ae degrees to break q ftyseieht year old record for the day, The nleFlno meter stood at 7s degrees at [ z, m, this morning, but rose steadily to 70 Rt 1 D, m
 Two heat exhaustion eases were reported iD the city 0ll Saturday, Mss Rose HlRmnia, 20, 22s Chase avenue, collapsed at the 'lkh0t From the Sky" show and Mahl0p FFlehs ard, l29 Hamilton avenue, was stricken at home Mss VlanlInla was treated at 6t. MaFys hospital and MT, PFiebard at Waterbury hospital,
 Hartford, Conn, Aug, l4 v pPo A fourth day Of Fee0fdsbFeaklng hest was predicted for today by the Weather Bureau, AS the Connecticut state Department Of Health advised precautions be taken to conserve town water supplies to avoid Q ser. iOllg water shortage,
 The Weather Bureau predicted 2
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Cpl. MovtineIli
 Killed In Cvcsh

Cpl, Nicholas c, Martlnelli, 20, of 258 Walnut street extension, was killed yesterday afternoon in an aiF- plane accident at Hunters Field, Ga, He had been in the service since December {, l942,
 Surviving are his parents, D0m- enieo and Rose i0alliechio( Mar tinelll, four brothers, Prank, An gelO, Vito and Vincent Martinellii nine sisters, Mary, Angelina, Mar garet, Philomena M.ehellna, Asr sunta, Elizabeth, carmella and In- eoTanta MaTtineli, all of Waterbury,
 The funeral win be held from the Colasanto funeral home, DS2 Bank street, time and other arrangements to be announced,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-14
3rd Big Fire Hits N. Y. C.

Fort Lee. N. J.. Aug. ii-(UP)- Damage done by a fire yesterday at tine Palisades Amusement Park, the third huge blaze in the New York City Metropolitan area in three days, was estimated today at s5000O0.
 More than half of the Sprawling Park on the Palisades across the Hudson river from New York was destroyed. and 100 other persons, half of them firemen, were overcome by smoke. Some 100 automobiles were burned.
 Friday night. fire destroyed pier { in Hoboken. a few miles down the river from here, at a. loss Of be- tween s2,5O0.000 to s4.O00.000.
 Half the con6 assions were destroy ed Saturday in a s500.000 fire at Luna Park. coney Island
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M. ?. ExoneTcted
 In Soldier Killing

Boston, Aug ll,-lUPl Two mill- taTy policemen were eg0pereted by D district judge today ip eopneeLoip with the death several hours earlier Of Q 22-yesr old RoSbuFy soldier, Eeportedly AW0L, from Camp Pies kett, Va, who wsg shot following Rp argumept oyer bis credentials,
 District Judge James 4, Daley Of ROSbuFy denied lnanSlaugbter com plsiptS against the two MPis. 6st, Arthur DescOteallg and Pvt. Frank Cunnlngh9m following the death 0t Pyt, Peter Murray from . bullet wound ln the head, Pvt MurFay, whose nl0theJ is employed as a lallndTe6S Rt City hospital where ils died, was talking % Miss Msr- gaFet wilson, . 22-yeaT old ls0kbnFy waitress, within sight 0f bis It0ks bllTy home just before he was shot,
 Dese0teauy acknowledged that he fired the shots,
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STAGE SETFOR FINAL ASSAULT
 ON WARSAW

Moscow, August l4.-(UP) - Russian shock troops smashed to within 10 miles northeast of Warsaw today, setting the stage for the final assault on the Polish capital, while other Soviet forces swept over the approaches to a corridor through the Man. surian Lakes into the heart of East Prussia.
 Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky's lst White Rus sian Army frightened its siege arc around Warsaw's eastern borough of Praga with a drive through MoStowka, II miles northeast, almost to the fringes of a great artll- lery proving ground stretch ing for miles east of the cap- ital.
 German radio broadcasts ac- knowledged that NaA forces had withdrawn ''east and north" of War saw" in order to shorten our lines.D
 German tanks and infantry counter-attacked several times m an attempt to re-capture MostoWka. but were repulsed. leaving 300 members Of the Hermann Goering SS Division dead on the battie- field. Four tanks and l6 field guns were captured.
 ROkossovsky,s tanks, troops and guns also advanced along the east and west banks of the Bug river on A 60-mile front northeast of Mos towka to within one 10 four miles Of the BialystOk-Warsaw railway. backbone of the enemy's defenses above the capital.
 The 2nd White Russian Army under Gen. GeOrgi ZakhaT0v seized the highway junction. Genondx, and pushed on toward OragevO, lB miles tc the northwest and saTfgthart entrance to the land corridor be- tween the Mansurian Lakes. histori" cal barrier to invasion Of East Prlis" sia from the south.
 ZakharOv's powerful drive north west from Bialystok appeared on the point of pushing the Germans back s,,,s,, alao AaaneatrfaFl lakes themselves where they would be forced to split into smaller groups to filter m be- tween the lakes in a retreat into Central East Prussia.
 Tine advance also was threatening to outfiank other German forces defending the eastern approaches With their backs against the border.
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Mon,entous Days Lie
 Ahead For The Allies

Supreme Headquarters. AEF. Aug. l4-fUP)-Gen. Dwight D. Eiseil- hover. supreme Allied commander, told his forces in France iTl an order ct the day today tiiat they have created a "leeting, but definite op- portunity for a major Allied vic. tory"
 Realization of this victory, he said, Twill mean notable progress for the final downfall of our enemy"
 If all resolutely fulfill their tasks he said, i've can make this week a m0mentous one tn the history of this war-a brilliant and fruitful week for us and a fateful one for the ambitions of the Nazi tyrants." Eisenhower issued his order Of the day from his advanced eom- mand post in Normandy yesterday.
 The text of the order:
 Al soldiers, sailors and airmen:
 "Through your combined skill, yalor and foFtitude, you have cree ated in France 8 fieettng but definite opportunity for Q major Allied VIC. tory, one whose realization VII mean notable progress toyrad the final downfall of our enemy.
 Tn the past. ! have in moments Of unusual significance made special appeals to the Allied forces t has been my honor to command, With out exception, the response has been unstinted and the result beyond by expectations.
 AI0st UFgept
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Women Spy Gets 10 Yeors

New York. Aug. ls - fUP) - Mrs. Velyalee Dickinson. 50. former doli store proprietor, was sentenced to i0 years in Imprisonment and fined ei0.000 by Federal Judge Shackleford Miller today for viola tion Of the censorship regulations.
 Mrs. Dickinson, who was accused Of conspiring to supply military inc formation to the Japanese before Pearl Harbor, pleaded teartuliy tor postponement of her sentence for a month on the ground that sine was aiding the Federal Bureau of Inyes- tigation.
 U. s. Attorney James B. M. Me- Naliy, however, denied that Mrs. Dickinson gave FBI agents valuable information. He said the agents had discovered their ogD evidence.
 Mehaiiy charged that Mrs. Dick insop eonspired to send naval in. formation to Japan, via South America. and that i0 days before the Japanese attack on Pearl Har- b0r she was paid money and given a code for transmission Of such tp- formation,
 The conspiracy was perfected n August. i9si, by Kanaglle Wakasuei, minister and counselor to the last Japanese ambassador at Washington Admiral Kichisabure N0mura, Me- Nally said. He added that Mrs. Dickinson had known Admiral NoS mura for i6 years, and charged that she received s60000 for furnishing naval information,
 Ege charged that Mrs, Dickinson made several trips to the vest coast between January and June, 1922, and subsequently, sent five letters addressed to Epez Lopez AGolipsrt, BueHos Aires, containing inf0rmav ton about Amerieap vessels on the coast, The letters, however, were nndellyered due to g postal accident.
 i'What this defendant did was up- speakably folll,p MeNally said, "tt Is SO horrible that ] find t hard 10
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Q. S. Soldier Shet FateIIy By M.P.

Boston August la, tUPl ~ A U 8, soldier was shot and killed in R0ghuFy early t0day when he allegedly failed to hear a military p0lieeman's command 10 halt,
 Police said that Pvt, Peter Murray, ahout 90, 0f Camp Pickett, VaY was talking to a glFl when asked 70 show his pass by the Military policeman,
 After presenting his pass, Murray is said 10 have holled and run, mheedlng there ineffective shots fired into the air by the military officer 4 fourth shot entered ms tsull
 However. the Military Policeman lsplsd aiming At the fleeing soldier and said the fatal bullet must have Fleocheted off . building.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-14
Heovy Planes Bomb Reich And ItoIy

London, Aug. l4.-tUP)- More than 750 American heavy bombers attacked industrial targets in South- ern Germany today, while another fleet of similar size from Italy pounded enemy military installa- tions in southern France as Allied warplanes entered the third consec- utive day of the wars greatest aer- ial support operation
 The U. s. Second Tactical Air Force reported the raid from Eng land on southern Germany today, and listed the targets as including the I. c. Farben Chemical plant at Ludwigshafen, an electrical equip ment plant at Mannheim and an enemy air force station near Stutt- gart.
 The Second Tactical Air Force al- so announced that another fleet Of Fortresses and Liberators. perhaps 75O strong, attacked German air dromes in northeastern and east crn France. railway yards in south western France, and bridges north- east of Paris.
 The raid from Italy was the third consecutive attack by Liberators and Flying Fortresses of the 18th Air Force on German pillboxes gun batteries, bridges and other anti-invasion installations along the southern French eoastline. Some oi the fleet also struck enemy targets in northwestern Italy.
 RAF Lancaster bombers. mean- while, struck enemy shipping al BreSt as Allied aircraft roamec virtually unopposed over Europe ir the continuing aerial offensive which was listed as one of th' greatest since D-Day.
 Along the immediate battlefron area in northwestern France. Eightl and Ninth Air Force fighters spread and deepened the area of devastf ton. leaving new piles of German transport equipment smoking and blazing behind them.
 Terrific Toll
 During the morning, Eighth Air Force fighters had added 30i rail way ears. 20 locomotives. and g military vehicles to some 600 loeo- motives, 5000 railroad cars and 900 military vehicles bombed and shot mp in the previous two days.
 Second Lieutenant Gerald ?. De- cine of Ludington. Mich. Eighth Air Force pilot who erashlanded. said the roads immediately southwest of
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