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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-17
Bong Scores Re porter
BY FRANCIS L. MCCARTHY

United Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 An Advanced Allied Base, New Guinea, April 16. - (UP) - With my knees propped up around by chin and my heart in my throat, I rode "piggy back" today in the P-38 "Iron Steed" for AS unfor- getable minutes behind Major Rich ard I. Bong, Americas new air ace.
 Bong, the Poplar. Wis, tow-head who has destroyed 27 Japanese fighters and bombers in aerial com- bat, zoomed his twin -engined fighter into the cloudfree sky with on sim pie set of instructions-hang on to your teeth"
 I hunk on with every square inch of skin while Bong pointed the planes nose upward in steep climb and then whipped her into 8 dive as he made simulated attack on a previously selected target.
 We went up. We went down. We executed iInmelmans without num- Der, slow rolls by the score and then for good measure did dozen or so reverse verticals and barrel rolls and one or two old fashioned loop the loops.
 The air speed indicator banged up against the 400 MPH mark most of the time and never once dropped below four miles a minute as the major put the iron Steed" through her paces, sometimes with only 20 feet of Sunlit sky between us and the menacing jungle.
 Between the roar of the two en- zines and the occasional chattering of the 50 caliber machine guns there was little room for conversa- tion as Bong chased mythical Zeros around the sky.
 At intervals he'd glance impishly around at me and advise me what was coming up next. Once, to prove the airworthineSS of the Lockheed
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8 Points In Peace PIon

London, April 17-(UP) - The Daily Mails Istanbul correspondent. Noel Monks, reported today that a neutral diplomat told him the Ger man minister to Romania, Baron Won Killinger, handed him an eight point peace proposal last Decem- Der for submission to Washington and London in an attempt to drive wedge between Russia and her western Allies.
 Monk recalled that in December Marshal Fritz Erich Mannstein had stabilized temporarily the southern front while the Allied bombardmGnt of Berlin was at it's height in [ strategy apparently designed to per suade the Allies to suspend th ,ornbing offensive and call off tn nvasion at a time when the Rus iian front also was relatively quiet
 The correspondent suggested tha a distorted version of Killinger's ac.
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Russians Drive On To
 Bastion Of Sevastopol
BY HARRISON SALISBURY Limited Press Staff Correspondent

(Un1ted Press Starr COrreSpOnUent)
 Moscow, April 17. = (UP) = Russian shock troops were battering their way into Sevastopol today while Soviet dive bombers and ar tillery rained destruction on troop-laden transports trying to evacuate the burning Black Sea naval base.
 sevastopol North Bay and naval anchorage were described in front dispatches as a graveyard of sunken transports and power barges," many of them sunk with the cargoes of hundreds of German and Romanian soldiers as they struggled to put out from the fiame-splashed waterfront.
 Military ol S,rvers predlcted the fall of Sevastopol. and with it the virtual completion of the Crimean campaign, within 48 hours.
 General Feodor L. Tolbukhin's Fourth Army of the Ukraine, smashing into Savastopol from the north and northeast, had seized the city's main air fields, destroy ing Axis planes on the ground. and Soviet fighters shot down 10 planes evidently trying to evacuate key personnel by air.
 The mountainous section of the south coast beachhead was almost liquidated. General Andrewi Yere- menko's independent maritime
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5th Army Hits Hard At Anzi0 Beachhead
(NEA Telephoto)
By REYNOLDS PACKARD

United Press War COrrespOndent)
 Allied Headquarters, Naples, April 17.-(UP)-Allied 5th Army patrols, knifing deep into the German lines for the second time in 24 hours, de- stroyed Nazi ammunition dump on the Anzio beachhead front, a com munique announced today.
 The coinmunique revealed that Allied skirmishers were on the at- tack on all three major Italian bat tlefronts yesterday, probing into the enemy's forward positions and knocking out isolated strongpoints in a possible prelude to new of- fenSive.
 One combat patrol broke into the NaI lines two miles southwest of Cisterna, on the eastern flank of the Anzio beachhead, and blew up big munitions dump after driv- ing off the German defenders in a short hard fight.
 The communique gave no further details on the action, but it was indi- cated the raiders had withdrawn to their own lines.
 The raid followed dawn attack Saturday in which tank Jed Ameri- can troops smashed two German strongpoints in and near Cerreto Alto, on the southern flank of the beachhead about two miles from the SeacoaSt.
 Allied patrols were active on the main 5th Army front to the south, battling German units on the north western slopes of Monastery Hill, just above Casino. and in the hills further north. Both sides ex- changed heavy artillery and mortar fire throughout the Cassino area.
 Similar patrol activity and artil-
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R. R. YARDS
 TARGET FOR
 DESTRUCTION
BY PHIL AULT United Press War Correspondent

NOAAGCu GEcSS war OVEACSPVMuCA|
 London, April IF. = (UP) = RAF Wellingtons from Italy hit railway yards at Budapest, capital of Hun gary, early today to cap a series weekend aerial blows at key communications cent CTS along a 500-mile arc through the Balkans in sup port of the Red Army.
 The British night bombers struck fin the wake of hundreds of Amer1- can Flying Fortresses and Libera- tors that raided the main airport at Belgrade, capital of Jugoslavia, the Danubian bottleneck town of Turnuseverin, 20 miles southeast of the iron gate, and Brasov, Ro- manian railway junction in the Transylvanian Alps.
 The Nazi-controlled Paris radio said Allied planes also raided the Romauian port of Constanta yester- day "ln the course of 8 series Of terror attacks against cities in southeastern Europe" However, the raid was not confirmed by any American or British source and 1t was possible the planes were from the Red air froce, which also bombed Constanta last week.
 The Germans have been using Constanta as base from which to attempt to eyacuate German and Romanian troops through Soviet sea aud air blockade from Sevasto- pol in the Crimea, 25O miles to the east.
 Indictment weather grounded American and British bombers based in Britain for the third straight day and night yesterday, but radio AL giers broadcast repeated warnings to France and Belgium that the bombing of their factories and rail- WAY centers would be intensified in the coming weeks in preparation for the opening of a western front.
 "The enemy's means for concen- trating troops and materials must be dislocated," the broadcasts said.
 The night-raiding Wellingtons from Italy concentrated their block busters early today on subsidiary railway yards at Budapest handling production from the Manfred Weiss armament factory.
 Haze obscured the ground, but the target was seen to be well covered with heavy bombs and incendiarieS. At least one fire was started in an oil storage warehouse and other fires spread through nearby install lations.
 Other waves of Wellingtons at- tackled the Italian west coast ports of Livorno GehorD, Piombino and San Stefano for the second time in three days in an attempt to prevent the Germans from moving supplies by sea following the dislocation of their railway traffic.
 Hour Attack
 The attacks lasted over seven hours with the WellingtonS roaring
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 Sentenced To35 Years

New York, April 17-CUP) - Wayne T. Lonergan, cafe society playboy and former RCAF aircraft man, was sentenced to term of 35 years to life imprisonment today for the murder of his heiress wife, Pa- tricia Burton Lonergan last October "A.
 The sentencing by General Ses- sions Judge James G. Wallace re- quired barely 8 minute.
 Lonergan, immediately dressed, his hair slickly combed, was brought into the courtroom by two attendants who held his arms. Facing the bench, his face showed no emotion.
 "What have you to say as to why judgement should not be passed on you for your crime?" the court clerk asked.
 Edward V. Broderick, Lonergan's attorney, then moved that the ver- dict of second degree murder re- turne by 8 blue ribbon jury on E=arch 31 be set aside on the grounds of insufficient evidence.
 Motion overruled," Wallace ruled.
 "The defendant is ready for sem tence," Broderick said.
 '"The defendant is sentenced to state prison for term of not less than 35 years and not more than his natural life," Wallace ordered.
 Lonergan stood quietly as sen- tence was pronounced.
 Immediately after the sentencing. Broderick announced that he in- tended to appeal the conviction.
 The 27-year r-old convicted slayer turned abruptly and walked from the courtroom flanked by atten- dants. He did not look at or speak to his attorney.
 Eligible for Parole Under the second degree murder conviction, Wallace could have sen- terced Lonergan to any term of not less than 20 years up to life. Lon- (Coutinued on Page 4)
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Police Stop Publication
 or 4 Australian Papers

Sydney, April 17.-UP)-The federal supreme court, entering a censorship dispute that had halted publication of all four Sydney daily newspapers, tonight enjoined the government from further interfer- cree witht he newspapers, subject to certain undertakings and pend- ing further hearing.
 The court issued an interim in- junction after police had seized all copies of morning and afternoon newspapers in Sydney. Australia s largest city, or grounds they had violated censorship regulations.
 A ministry of information spokes- man emphasized thatt he dispute vas purely an internal affair and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-17
MacArthur WiH Accept
 Nomination F Drafted

can political situation.
 My sole ambition is to assist our beloved country to win this vital struggle by the fulhIlment of such duty as has been or may be assigned to me-" MacArthur said.
 Observers said the generals dis claimer of seeking the presidency appeared even less definitive than that which he issued in 1922, when he said that he was mot candt- date" Today iie said, in effect, that anybody could be drafted for the presidency and went on to express l1is readiness to ftilnU any task that may beasgigned him.
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Nozi Loss: 5000 Planes
By EDWARD w. BEATTIE

United Press Staff Correspondent)
 London, April 17.-(UP)-Amer- ican air attacks have cost Ger many's defensive fighter force more than 5000 planes since last Nov. l, accord f1g to up-to- date, reliable es- inmates today.
 Something approaching 5000 of the 5000 were fighters which Ger man factories would have turned out under an intensified production program had it not been for deva- stating United States raids. Te re- mainder were shot down in aerial combat.
 Since the turn of the year, Amer ican heavy bombers and their fight CT escort, together with medium bombers and other fighters, have claimed total of 3,56O German fighters destroyed in battle.
 The significance of the Nazi loss es was evident when set against the fact that the German air forces front line strength, bombers and fighters combined, probbaly ran around 1000 planes at the start of the war.
 In those days the Germans prob ably had 100 per cent replacements in reserve. Today, in the case of fighters, they probably must draw on their pipeline to the factories and on current output.
 Experienced observers believed the destruction of the last three months already had created a dangerous "airlock" in the Nazi pipeline, and replacement will become increas- ingly difficult.
 Challenge
 That was expected to be true es- pecially when big land operations begin and the Germans are faced
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PuSHENEMY BACK DEEP
 INTO HILLS
BY HAROLD GUARD United Press War Correspondent

Advanced Allied Head quarters, Ceylon, April IT, (UP) - British Imperial troops, opening twin coun- ter-attacks against tn e Japanese around Imphal, were clearing the road to Kohima today after pushing the enemy deep into the hills beyond Imphal plain with the capture of an important position northeast of the cap- ital of India'S Manipur state.
 Although a communique from Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten'S new headquarters did not identify the position, the Japanese in the northeast sector last were reported on Pungshigun Peak, 10 miles from Imphal.
 The communique, which denied Japanese claims of having pene- trated the Imphal plain, said the enemy's hill position was taken by the Imperials after battle that lasted several days.
 At the same time, other units from the city's garrison attacked the Japanese holding blocks on the road to Kohima, 60 miles north of Imphal, and the operations were said to be progressing success fully"
 The Allied advances relieved the pressure around Imphal, which the Japanese almost had isolated with a three-way drive that had cut the Kohima highway, the Tiddim road and the jungle trail between Bis henpose and Silchar.
 There were no new reports of &C., tivities near Bishenpore, where AL lied troops on Saturday were said to to be beating back enemy thrusts on the road, leading to spur of the main Assam Bengal railway.
 (The German-controlled Vichy radio said that Mountbatten had arrived at Imphal to organize the city'S defenSeS. Vichy did not give the time of Mountbatten's trip, and may have misconstrued recent an- nouncements that the Admiral had visited Imphal the day before EaSter.)
 Resistance
 GA German DNB news agency broadcast of a Tokyo dispatch said that British resistance had stiffened increasingly on the Imphal front after the arrival of air-borne re- Inducements from Calcutta and Chittagong, on the Bay of BengalO
 In Central Burma, British-In- dian guerrillas trained under the late Major General O. c. Wingate,
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Hoover PIon Killed Early

Washington, April 17-UP)-
 State Department papers revealed
 today that British Prime Minister
 Ramsay Mcdonald, at the last minute of his 1929 conference with President Herbert Hoover, eliminat-
 ed from the final announcement
 the latter's proposal to divide the
 world into two hemiSphereS for pur- poses of naval base limitation.
 Macdonald became troubled about public opinion" at home and
 frightened" about possible roper cuSsions of the naval base proposal
 which would have pledged the United States not to build new bases in the Far East and Great Britain not to build any in the Western Hemisphere.
 He also eliminated all reference to another Hoover proposal design ed to eliminate starvation of civil ian populations by naval blockade as a weapon of war. Mir. Hoover wanted to grandt food ships in war time the same immunity from at- tack as hospital ships.
 These hitherto unpublished pro- posaIS were made public by the state department in two volumes Of papers on D. s. foreign relations for 1929, each year the department
 publishes papers that are IS years old.
 The documents showed that in 1929 the United States had few Jap anese problems. but was involved in major controversies with China and indirectly with Soviet Russia, and was plagued with a Mexican iElStlr- rectiOn and problems created by the use of U. s. Marines in Mica
 ragua to suppress the bandit ac- tiVities of Gen. AugI1stO Sandino.
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that none of the news stories al- lesedly involved in censorship vio- lations was concerned with the United States, President Roosevelt or General Macarthur.
 Meanwhile, 1t was learned that the press ban had spread to Mel bourne, where authorities today halted printing of the final edition of The Herald, conservative even- ing newspaper with a wide circula- tion.
 No newspapers were distributed in Sydney today, save for a few thousand copies of the Daily Hirror and Sun which were sold by news
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Tornudo Kills 39
By MARIE SCOTT


 United Press Staff COrrespOndent) Rcysson, Ga, April IT - (UP) . Emergency crews worked to provide shelter and relief today for scores made homeless by tornado which hit Georgia and South Carolina with lightning swiftness before dawn yesterday and left at least 39 dead and more than 300 injured.
 Twenty-one were killed in Gerigia and 18 in South Carolina. Property damage by the twiSter, which cut a 1OO-mile path. was expected to ex- ceed hundreds of thousands of dol lars.
 Food was provided for homeless families from field kitchens, and emergency shelters were set up in churches, schools and other public buildings by the Red Cross.
 Gordon Stone, assistant director of the National Disaster Service of
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-17
By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON

United Press Stan C0FTespOndeDt)
 Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pacic, April IT, UP)-Gen. Doug las MacArthur said in 8 formal statement today that he does not seek" the Republican nomination for president of the United States, but implied strongly that he would accept 1t if drafted.
 The electoral processes involved in the choice of a president ~are of 90 imposing 6 nature as to be be- yOnd the sphere of any individuals coercion or q deci$lOn," he said in commenting on publication Of his correspondence with Rep. A. |. Mil- Ter, R., Neby regarding the Aineri-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-17
GREEK CHURCH LISTS LOSS

Springfield, Mass, April 17-UP) A three-century-old communion set and several valuable paintings were listed today among the losses in a $5O,00O fire which swept St. Georges Greek Orthodox church Sunday.
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PREMIER BAD0GL|0'S CABINET RESIGNS British Open Twin Attacks At |nphaI
 italy Based Planes B0mbard BudapeS1
Revere's Light To Shine Aqoin

Boston, April 17.-(UP)-Paul Revere'S lanterns-"One if by land and two if by sea"-wiIl gleam from the belfry of old North Church tomorrow mid- night in a revival of a cere- mony which had to be omitted last year due to dimOut restric- tiOns.
 First hung there on the night of April IS, 1775, the lanterns signalIed Paul Revere, across the Charles River in Charles town, to start his famous ride to Lexington to warn farmers that the British were coming.
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MAN FALLS TO DEATH

Boston, April 17. - CUP) - Ed- ward A. Brown, 52. of Minneapolis. Minn.. engineer on a collier tied vp at the City Fuel Company wharf here, slipped yesterday and plunged 50 feet to his death into the ahip1 empty hold.
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