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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-05
BY Reynolds and Eleanor Packard
UNITED Press War Correspondence

By Reynolds and Eleanor Packard
UNITED Press War Correspondence
Rome, June 4. - (UP) = just 20
minutes after the last enemy tai <
had rolled past, we reached the
center Of Rome tonight and found
that the Germans had left the city
IS per cent intact.
A few fires set by the Germans
still wer burning and railway yarc7
were in ruins as result Of Allied
raids. but Rome as a whole was
surprisingly little changed from tho
time we left 1t for an internmens
comp two years and Is days ago fol-
lowing the United States entry inE0
the war.
Our jeep was fourth In line iy
the first Allied column enterine
Rome ut $3.50 p. m. The three tanks
ahead Of us sped off In pursuit Of
eight German Mark Nv tanks whila
we headed for the bar at the Grand
Hotel for O drink Of Italian Coenac.
The Italians at the bar at fits1
thought we were Germans aad
would not drink with us. but when
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EnemyLeoves
Rome Intact

Editors Note: Hugh Baillies
president of the United Press
during his tour of battlefr0nts in
1913 assigned Reynolds Packard.
veteran war correspondent and
manager Of the former Rome
Bureau of the United Press. 70
reopen the bureau at the first
opportunity. Packard, with his
wife and assistant. Eleanor Pack
ard, one Of the few women re-
pOrters covering an active battle
front, arrived In Rome to carry
out that assignment last night
while fighting stiIl was continuing
In the city.
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-13
States S Surplus
Hits New Peak

SACRAMENTO, Dec. 13. (UPD--
The states cash surplus climbed
last month Ky $l4323,602 to a No.
vember so total OF S82.747 ,476, Har-
ry B. Riley, state controller, report
cd Wednesday.
3 General fund revenues since July
/ totaled $l07, ,360,305, an increase of
S329,2 compared with the first
five months of the fiscal year start
ing July l, l943, Riley said.
Expenditures so far during the
present fiscal year have been $780,
076,404. an increase of $88, ,l12, ,489,
over year ago, but they included
$75,0000C0 transferred to The post
war employment reserve fund and
$33,000000 to the teachers retire
nlent fund, Riley said.
Actual expenditure increases in
cluded $l,230,670 more apportioned
to counties for elementary schools
and $213,101 more for aid to needy
children.
Apportionments to counties for
high schools decreased $338,319 and
fer junior colleges $194,886, Riley
said. Aid TO needy aged declined
$193,275 during the five-month Pc
liod.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-13

SACRAMENTO, Dee 13. CUP)--
President Roosevelt received 1,989,-
564 votes in California in the No
vember 7 election to l,512,966 for
Governor Dewey, official returns
announced by Secretary of State
Frank NJ. Jordan showed Wednes-
Gay.
Claude Watson. prohibition, the
only othe: candidate listed on the
California ballot. received 14,770
votes. Norman Thomas, Socialist,
received 2515 reported Write-in votes.
There were 2051 other scattered
Write-in yotes.
The total vote of 3.566,734 was
86.13 per cent CT the 4,141, ,331 regis
tesed voters, the highest in Califor-
mia history. Jordan said. Included
in the total were 209,258 absentee
votes OF which 80 per cent we're
war ballots" from members of the
armed services. An additional 14,021
war ballots were received.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-13
Farm Center Sets
Election Meeiinq

Jasper fam center members will
hold their annual election of officers
at the school at p. m. Friday, Joe
Guidotti, director, announced We'd
nesday.
Blaine Konkright CT the uniyer-
sity extension service will discuss
vegetable Diseases" A bunko card
party will take place for the pur-
pose Of raising funds for the school
cafeteria. Refreshments Will be
served.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-13
Passengers Help
Soldier Dad

los ANGELES, Dec. 13. CUP)-
Obliging train passengers Wednes-
day helped Private Tony Rodriguez,
81, care for his 4-month-old travel
ing companion as he speeded to-
ward San Antonio, Texas.
The soldier is ia king his baby
his daughter, Mary, to his parents
home in Texas because the child S
mother will be in G Stockton, Cali
fornia, hospital for several months
Rodriguez is stationed at Stockton
Although he processes to know
little about three-cornered pants
and formulas, Rodriguez, pausing
here en- route to Texas, said: "Shes
no trouble. Everybody on the train
offers to help"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-13
VETERAN OF 3 AIR FORCES

FORT WAYNE, Ind, Dec. 13.
(UP)-Sergeant George A. Furste,
who recently retuln ned home with
lis English wife, has been in the
service fer three years and in that
time has been soldier for three
different nations. In 1941, Sergeant
FurSte joined the Royal Canadian
Air Force, and 10 months later asked
to be transferred to the British
Royal Air Force. In June, l943, he
donned the A. A. F. uniform.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-13
Gasoline Used
TO Douse Fire

los ANGELES. Dec. l3. up
L. P. Working. cf Van Nuys. drove
his car into a parking lot and called
for help Tuesday when his battery
was sparkling
A bucket of liquid-supposedly
water-was doused over the battery
The liquid turned out to be gasoline
Fire damage: 5000
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-13
Masonic Group
Names Leaders
hlU. S. Nauu Photo from NEAl

John l.. House has been elected
master of Ell Centro lodge No
384, FRAN, at the annual elec-
ton at the Masonic temple in Ell
Centro.
Raymond C. Reeder was elected
senior warden; Lester league, jun
ior warden: John w. Tyler, treas
urer; END. Hatch, secretary; and
Judge Elmer Heald, Outgoing mas
Ter, trustee for three years. APP
pointive officers will be announced
later.
The election was held following
fish dinner served to 60 members
and Sojourning Masons by B. E.
Lemons and his committee.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-13
Blaze Destroys
SO Tons of Hay

A lire SET tC destroy weeds then
left unattended, Tuesday afternoon
destroyed so tons of baled hay and
the tEree-room houfe occupied by
E. w. Gaddis on the Central Valley
highway, about two miles from Ell
Centre, according to FL Centre fire
men. The ranch property is owned
by William Bathe
Firemen Clyde Lott and William
Gathright, who responded in the
state forestry division truck. said
Gaddis told them the burned hay
represented his income fer the en-
tire season. The fire truck was
forced to make a half-miIe run to
refill its water tanks.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-13
SMOKES BOOM BUSINESS

CHICAGO, Dec. l3 CUPD-Some-
thing new has been added to the
menu of Mrs. Lou Clarke's coffee
shop. And shes doing a land-office
business. MIS- Clarke's success Sc
cret is the precious cigarette. She
gives away one smoke with each
meal.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-13
ORANGES FOR GIs

LOS ANGELES, Dec. l3 up
An orange in every overseas serv-
icemans Christmas stocking was as
suied by an order from the Califor-
mia Fruit Growers Exchange that
shipments to military camps take
top priority.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-13
BOTH WEAR WELL

GLOUCESTER, Mass, Dec. 13.
CUP)-Mr and Mrs. Fred Smith
celebrated their golden wedding an
niversary in a house which once
stood in Boston, but which was
moved 80 miles to Gloucester aboard
lighter some 80 years ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-13

The air cargces brought from
overseas by air into he United
States in the first half of 1914 total
ed 22C00,000 pounds valued at S79.-
000,OO0, establishing new all-time
record
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-13
California CO st
Largest Vote

Jordan said that it would be near
ly two weeks before official returns
for other contests in the election
could be complied.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-11-08

t1eID>--Bry t,h Nore'
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-02-11
fIathead Coca-c Cola Bottling Co.
Urges Return Of Empties

During February the Flathead
Coca. Cola Bottling Company of
Kalispell will stress through an
advertisement appearing in its
second insertion this week need
of returning empty bottles to re.
tail dealers.
obviously. if beverage users
are negligent in returning the
empties the result can react az
to hamper the bottling company.
Thus. the consumer supply would
be curtailed.
For a considerable time unil
the Kalispell firm began distrib.
utipg there was a limited supply
of Coca Cola in Browning and
now with it being ample the
seeming small detail of q ne.
elected empty" should not be
permitted to accumulate a. to
hamper q maximum retail sup.
ply. Return the empty" and
there'll be no pause In the pause
that refreshes.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-02-11
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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-02-11
MARSHALL POTENTIALITIES

The American attack on the
Marshall Islands may easily de-
velop into something considerably
more than just the forcible
seizure of additional isolated JAP
anese outposts.
These operations 1000 miles
east of Truk have been linked
closely to date with operations
500 miles south of Truk. 1t will
not be surprising if American
forces presently move in on Ra-
baul both to mix up the plays
and to take advantage of the pro-
longed mauling already dealt that
base.
1t is clear that occupation of
Robaul and the MarshalIs would
not only put Truk in the center
of the nippers, but would also
drastically alter the whole char
acter of that bastion in that it
would be subject to more or less
continuous reconnaissance remov-
ing its advantages of secrecy, and
simultaneously bringing it within
range of the big bombers.
1t may be that to the Japanese
strategist these potential changes
in the status of Truk warrant ex-
IRENE defensive measures.
1t has been clear for some time
that American naval a n d air
power was growing at pace
much faster than japanese indus
try could hope to match. A year
ago, after a series of engage
ments, Americans were vaguely
aware their aircraft carrier force
had dwindled alarmingly. Today
dispatches hint of upwards of un-
precedented number of 300 planes
operating from carriers in the
Marshall attack. OF er dis.
patches speak of 1000. 900 tons of
shipping in the operation. the
greatest fleet in history"
To meet this, Japan, obviously.
would have to send the major
part of its naval and naval air
forces. It's great risk for Tok-
vo, but will the odds be eve n
more favorable? On the answer
to that depends whether the cur
rent Marshall Islands fray devel-
ops in to decisive engagement.
American strategy in centering
the attack on Kwajalein, atolI,
by-passing ring defenses. appears
to be a good way to concentrate
fire power and minimize losses.
At Tarawa there was some criti-
cism that pretending lombard
ment had not sufficiently soften
ed resistance. The ng thy!
pounding by guns. and the thick
air cover at Kwajalein suggest
Tarawa's lessons are being ap-
piled.
The should be known in a few
days. In the meantime, Ameri-
cans might steel themselves for |
the usual "annihilation" of their
fleet by Tokyo radio.-Christian |
Science Monitor
Evening star., 1944-10-30
Bronx Boy, a, StrongIed
In Game of Commands
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. 3O.-Deputy
Chief Inspector John j. O'Connor
said today that a too-realistic game
of commandos led to the strangula-
ton death of 4-year-old William
Drach yesterday.
The boy was found by his father,
John Drach, Bronx apartment
house superintendent, bound and
gagged in the dumb-waiter shaft
of the building.
Inspector OConnor said an older
brother, Robert, 8, tied a clothesline
about Williams neck, secured, his
hands behind his back, tied his
feet and roped the boys arms and
legs together. Two handkerchiefs
were wrapped around Williams face.
Although police yesterday tempo
rarily listed the case as homicide,
Inspector O'Connor and Assistant
District Attorney Arthur Carney
said today they believed the death
was accidental.
Evening star., 1944-10-30
Daily Periods Of Truce
Al St. Nazaire End
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, Oct. 30.-Regularly sched-
uled truces over a five-day period
ending on Saturday permitted the
evacuation of 5000 civilians by rail-
road from the besieged city of
st. Nazaire on the French west
coast, the Army newspaper Stars
and Stripes said yesterday in dis
patch from Nantes.
American, French and German
officers conferred together, the
paper said, and decided that rail
transport was the best manner of
handling the evacuation. Allied en-
gineers repaired tracks in their Sec
ton and the Nazis repaired theirs
For five days firing ceased from
Y am. to 9 am. as trains entered
the German bastion. Firing again
ceased in the afternoon from 3 tc
7 pm. as the loaded cars pulled out
The evacuation was carried out
at the request of the French Red
Cross to relieve an acute food
shortage in the area where the Nazis
still are holding out.
Evening star., 1944-10-30
10Th Division Helped Smash
Through Siegfried Defenses
Unit Fought Its Way Into Germany and
Assisted in Blocking Aochen Escape Route

Aachen. the 29th. commanded by
Maj. Gen. Charles Hunter Gerhardt,
one of the Army's most aggressive
generals, fought its way south, and
on October II helped the 30th Diyi-
sion close the Aachen gap by con-
tacting the 1st Division This cut
off the escape route for Germans on
the main road to the north from
Aachen.
The colorful Blue and Gray Divi-
sion now has been fighting with
hardly pause for the doughboys-
ever since they hit the Normandy
beaches D day.
Veterans of st. Lo, Isigny. Vier-
vile and Wire. the 29th Division
troops, scored a signal triumph by
whipping the crack troops of the
I'd German Parachute Division and
breaking through their extremely
heavy defensive positions in the
northern sector of Brest. They cap
tured 1900 prisoners and seized
(See 2ofh DIVISION PAGE Az
Evening star., 1944-10-30
1O0,000U. 5. Workers
Yet 10 Be Solicited
In War Fund Drive
6l% of Federal Offices
Quote Collected; TotuI
Now Stands at 53.7oo

The Government division of
81, $50 900 Community War Fund
drive went into action today to
solicit the 100000 of Washing
tons 100000 Federal workers
who have not yet contributed.
A total of s1,475,131-61 per cent
of Governments quota - has
been collected. Total for the
entire campaign stands at ST.
GOT, ,171-53.7 per cent of the
goal.
The most we can do is not
enough" Brig. Gen. Philip B. Flem-
ing, Federal Works administrator
and chairman of Government solicit
tors, said.
Gen. Fleming, who returned re-
Gently from mission to Russia and
the European and Mediterranean
war theaters, said the sight of Amer
lean servicemen's gallantry and the
suffering of the civilians in Russia
and Europe would convince any
Government employe of the need for
success of the war fund. The fund
combines $50 agencies, including
USO clubs. United Nations relief
and local relief agencies.
Il wish you could all see what ]
mean," Gen. Fleming said. Those
who have not given would be
ashamed. Those who have given
would increase their contributions. y
The estimate of 100000 Govern
ment workers as yet not having
given to the war fund was made
by Gen. Fleming on the basis of
reports from his key workers. Some
offices. he added, have more than
done their share, however. The
United Nations Relief and Rehabili-
tation Administration, for example
oversubscribed their quota 80 per
cent.
Coleman Jennings, campaign
chairman, urged all solicitors to dc
their best before the next report
meeting Thursday.
Little that we have done can
really be called sacrifice" he said
Our fighting men have enabled us
by their sacrifices and their ac-
ceptance of responsibility to keep us
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Evening star., 1944-10-30
j. ). 10 Talk 10 Reds
On Aviation Despite
Boycott Of Farley
Stettinius Regrets Refusal,
Blamed on Inclusion of
Anti-Soviet States

Acting Secretary of State Stet-
tinius today expressed regret
that Soviet Russia had refused
to take part in the forthcoming
conference on civil aviation in
Chicago, but said this country
would continue bilaterial CONVEX
sations with Moscow on the or
ganization of postwar aviation.
The secretary revealed that the
Russian Embassy here had presented
him memorandum in which it re-
fused to take part in the conference
which opens Wednesday in Chicago.
This document, he added, followed
the line of the Tass tSoviet news
agency report giving Moscow's rea-
son as the fact that Switzerland.
Portugal and Spain, which were re-
garded as anti-Soviet states, would
be represented.
Bilateral talks on aviation be-
tween the United States and Soviet
Russia were begun last summer,
when a Russian delegation visited
Washington. It was these to which
Mr.. Stettinius referred when he said
that questions of mutual interest
to the two countries in the field of
aviation would be continued
Asked if he thought the Russian
position forecast refusal to take part
in a postwar security conference
where Switzerland, Portugal or
Spain might be represented, Mr..
Stettinius said that he hoped not.
Berle Temporary President.
Meanwhile, President Roosevelt
today named Assistant Secretary of
State Adolf A. Berle, jr., to serve as
temporary president of the aviation
conference. The conference will
elect its own permanent president,
who may be Mr.. Berle, since he is
chief of the American delegation
which is host.
Russia's last-minute change of
mind left Washington guessing.
The Moscow radio announced last
night the Soviet government would
not be represented at the conference
because countries like Switzerland
Portugal and Spain, which for many
years have conducted a pro-Fascist
policy hostile to the Soviet Union
also have been invited.
Observers wondered If this ex-
/ planation gave the full reasons for
the Russian decision, however, since
the list of nations invited to Chi
cago was published more than a
month ago and the Soviet govern
ment had indicated its acceptance
Officials En- Route to U. S.
The last-minute nature of the
Russian boycott was indicated by
the fact that five Russian officers
and government official already
were in North America en- route to
Chicago for the aviation talks. The
Associated Press reported this group
arrived by plane at Edmonton, AL
berta, OH october Is and was be-
heved to have left the next day for
the United States.
Officials here said the Soviet with
drawal would not modify plans for
the conference, to which representa-
tives of SIS nations were invited to
(See AVIATION PAGE A-4l
Evening star., 1944-10-30
MocArthur's Control of Leyte
Liberotes 100000 Fi|ipinos
Jops Try to Escape by Barge or Hide;
Yonk Renforcements Reported Sighted

ing enemy garrisons on Leyte and
Samar were isolated and helpless
Reinforcements Reported Sighted.
They can be destroyed at will,
he said.
Can unconfirmed Tokyo broad
cast heard in Melbourne said 40
American transports conveyed by
cruisers and destroyers were
sighted yesterday heading for
Leyte, and added, The battle for
the Philippines is about to begin
in earnest.'o
American 1st Cavalry troops, BY
seizing Carigara on Carigara Bay
have eliminated the enemy's only
effective point of reinforcement fol-
the Leyte Valley, which has beer
bottled up by the Yanks with bril-
liant guerrilla aid.
All organized resistance In the
valley appeared to have ceased after
last ditch stands last night al
Cavite bridge and the Dagami road
(See PHILIPPINES. Page A-4)
Evening star., 1944-10-30
Order Apparently Aimed
At Communists Who DEFY
Governments Authority
By the Associated Press.


PARIS, Oct. 30.-Predictions
of nationwide demonstrations
today accented an incipient
crisis precipitated by the De
Gaulle governments action in
forbidding every one except the
regular army and police to bear
arms.
The order, apparently directed at
Communist partisan elements who
have defied the governments au-
thority, particularly in Southern
France, met instant opposition from
the influential National Resistance
Council, brains of the French under
ground during the German occupa-
ton.
The council declared that the Pa
triotic Milice (militia)-an anti
Vichy guerrilla organization largely
Communistic-should be given legal
status, and questioned the govern
ment's right to decide the future of
the militia without consulting the
council.
Firm Stand Expected.
At conference with a delegation
from the council, Gen. de Gaulle
said the government would insist
that the decree be respected.
While friends of the National Re-
sistance Council predicted mani
festations throughout France against
the governments order, Gen. de
Gaulle drew the councils attention
to the importance and urgency of
the rapid settlement of this prob
lem in view of the necessity of
maintaining law and order and in
view of Frances international posi-
ton"
Gen. de Gaulle's Office issued a
statement asserting "the govern
ment has the strict duty to insure
that henceforth no armed group
should remain in liberated territory
outside the army or police" The
government paid full tribute to "the
fighting contributions by the militia
during the liberation
Alternative Offered.
The decree offers the alternative
of appearing for military training
and eventual incorporation into the
regular French Army. The De Gaulle
statement said that members of or
ganizations such as the militia would
receive military training to enable
them in conformity with their own
wishes to help in the defense of ma
tional territory"
The order presumably does not
effect the French Forces of the In
terror, which have been integrated
at least in theory-into the French
Army.
In some cities of Southern France
Communist Party headquarters have
been acting as recruiting centers for
the militia.
The Communist newspaper HUI
mantle asserted the armed bands
were directing their energies against
pro-Greman elements still commit
ting acts of terrorism in Southern
France.
Evening star., 1944-10-30
Three Jap Prisoners Killed
By Guards in Uprising Attempt

on his head, but the attempt failed
when guards found them in time
and they were treated by physicians.
All three we're tuberculosis pa
tients.
The dead:
Chief Gunner's Mate Kuzuhori
Mankind, Warrant Officer Saburo
Nakagawa and Pfc. Sadamu Okada.
Although the Army would issue
no statement Immediately, available
information indicated this Is what
occurred:
Two of the Japanese, together in
a ward room. demanded some milk.
When a bottle was passed in to
them, 1t was hurled back through
(See PRISONERS. Page AL
Evening star., 1944-10-30

By the Associated Press
WITH THE UNITED STATES
10th INFANTRY DIVISION ON
THE WESTERN FRONT, Oct.
30.-Scarcely pausing to catch
its breath after the battle for
Brest, the 29th Infantry Division
shuttled more than 500 miles to
the northeast in time to help the
I'd Armored and the 30th In
fantry Divisions smash through
the Siegfried Line October 2, it
was disclosed yesterday.
(The 29th Division. composed
largely of men from the District,
Maryland and Virginia, first
went into combat during the
early days of the Normandy in
vasion. The present division was
built around a former National
Guard outfit which recruited its
members from this area
After its breakthrough into Ger
many about II miles north of