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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-12
NAZI TRANSPORT
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Lowlands, pounding eight other vi
tai centers as well as military
Installations along the invasion
coast.
The widespread attack against
railroad centers certainly were the
heaviest ever launched against the
enemy's communica atoms system,
ard as reports of the days oper-
atoms continued to flow from air
headquarters there were indica-
tons that this might prove to have
been the biggest day of the war
for aircraft based in Britain.
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Normal gasoline mileage in low
gear ranges between three and
nine miles per gallon; in second
gear between 4 and II.
ty for an intelligent citizenry and
qualified leaders for IN e recon-
StrI1ction of peace"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-22
36 Arroiened In Job Racket

Baltimore, Mar. 9. (UP)-Thirty- six employees of the Bethlehem Steel company's Sparrows Point shipyard were arraigned otday on charges of operating a $l,00Oo00-a year extra work" racket and were held in $l,- 900 bail each.
 Authorities were seeking two ad- ditional employees also accused of defrauding the government ill con- nection with the alleged falsifica- ton of work recc-6E.
 Director J. Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation said the racket was the most extensive uncovered since the war began. He said hundreds of workers were in- Volved.
 Hoover said those arrested were leaders in a conspiracy whereby pro- duction tabulators arranged with piecework welders to report more work than was actually done on ships built under maritime commis- sion contracts.
 The welders received as high as $l0 and $15 day per man for the "extra work" thus falsely reported, Hoover said. and the welders paid the tabulators part of the graft
 The accused are charged with presenting false claims to the gov ernment, for which the miximum penalty on conviction is ten years Imprisonment or $l0,000 fine or both. Hoover said many of the others inc volved may face federal prosecution later.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-22

Boston, March p - (U.P0 - h. ventor John Hays Hammond, Jr., of Gloucester was quoted in copy lighted article in the Boston Traveller today as saying that Ger many purchased from the U. 5. Patent Office at 10 cents per patent the secrets of radio control for the operation of flying bombs.
 The article. passed by the Othce of Censorship, contended the Uni ted Nations might have had eX-- elusive use of the radio controlled flying bombs, new weapon or World War II, had the discoveries and patents of John Hays Ham mond, Jr., been safeguarded. In- stead, the Hammond patents were
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-22
Head Of EGG Makes Denial

Washington, Mrach 22- (UP)- Chairman James L. Fly of the Fed eral Communications Commission challenged Rep. Louis E. Miller, R.. Mo, today to prove his "irrespon- sible" statement that bungling by the EGG Radio Monitor service caused a U. s. task force to be trapped by the Japanese in Alaskan waters.
 Miller said yesterday at hear ing of the House Committee inves- tigating the EGG that he hoped to produce as witnesses "one or two boys on that task force." one of wrom, he said, was wound er in the encounter.
 The Navy refused to comment on Miller'S charge, but Fly accused the Congressman of throwing sneak punch' and asserted his charges
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-22
Sub Scorpion 
BY SANDOR s. KLEIN

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Washington, March 22-(UP-The Navy today announced tn. loss of the 1925 ton submarine Scorpion. presumably in the Pacific where the greatly expanded U. s. underseas fleet is blasting serious gaps in Jap- ans communication and supply sys. tenn.
 The Scorpion, which was com. manded by Cmdr, Maximilian c. Schmidt, of Annapolis, Md, carried a normal complement of about 75 men, disclosure if the loss of the Scorpion, the 23rd U. S. submarine to be lost in this war, followed by a day the Nays announcement that Is more Japanese merchant ships had been sunk by our underseaa fighters. The U. s. submarine score :ss the Pacific is 642 enemy Vessess sunk, probably sunk ani damaged.
 Of the g submarines lost. % have been lost by enemy action. two by accident and one was destroyed to prevent capture.
 The Scorpion was the seventh ra- ported lost since the first of this year, indicating both an improve ment in enemy counter measures and an increase in the number of U. S. submarines operating in the Pacific. A total of 148 U. s. Naval vessels of all types have been lost since the beginnin gof the war.
 The Scorpion was launched at the Portsmouth, N. H., nary y&& in July, 1942, and commissioned tha1 October. It was 307 feet long, 0ers ried one three inch anti-atrcTaA gun, two anti-aircraft machine guns and 10 2l-inch torpedo tubes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-22
Reds Within
 Twenty Miles Of River Prut
(NEA Telephoto)
BY HARRISON SALISBURY

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Moscow, March 22-(UP)-Soviet VanguardS drove nearly half way across Bessarabia to within 20 miles of the Prut river border of Rumania today after splitting fleeing German armies with thrust across the Balti-Cernauti railroad.
 Front reports said Marshal Ivan S. Konev's 2nd Ukranian army forces were rolling across the Bes- sarabian plains at pace that gave promise of carrying the into the Prut within a matter of days.
 German hopes of a stand forth of the Rumanian border faded as the Russians smashed back new full strength enemy units rushed to Bessarabia in a futile attempt to re- store the Nazi line, which has ceased to exist at many points.
 In old Poland, the 1st Ukranian army broke into Lwow Province and pushed down the dy-Tarnopol highway to within 35 miles of the big highway and railway junction of LWow itself. The defense outpost of Brody, 55 miles East Northeast of Lwow, was outflanked completely and expected to fall soon.
 The 3rd Ukranian army at the eastern end of the front wedged into began a battle for the railway june Odessa Province from the east and ton of Voznesensk, 75 miles north east of the Black Sea Port of Odes- Sa.
 Konev's forces captured 50 towns and villages in his full-dresS drive toward the Prut yesterday and at
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-22
Bombs Score On London
By ROBERT DOWSON

Unlte0 Press war correspondent
 London, March 9. UP)-German night raiders attacked London early today, killing number of persons when one high-eXploSive bomb hit crowded vehicle and an- other landed outside the building of publishing firm.
 A canister of explosive incendi- aries set 12 fires in one street, set- ting garage ablaze and touching off a gasline blast. Many people were evacuated as the fires spread to big block of workers apart ments adn smaller houses.
 Nine of the raiders were shot down. The German force was esti- mated at more than the approxi- mately 100 which last week gave the British capital its biggest fire raid since the 1940-41 blitz. The German DNB news agency de- scribed the attack as another big raid" by fairly strong formations of heavy bombers."
 The rail was comparatively short duration. Anti-aircraft guns started firing in the distance shortly after the alert was sounded as the first bombers, following the Thames, swept toward the city from the northeast, sprinkling incendiaries and chandelier flares. A deafening ack-ack barrage opened up to chal- lenge every plane with rockets and sheilbursts lighting up wide ex' panse of sky as more raiders ap- peared from the south.
 As the Germans famed out over
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-22
curron Rops
 Fire Squeeze

Boston, March 22-(UP)--The Rev. Edward Lodge Curran of Brooklyn, N. Y, president of the International Cath o ic society, charges that Fire is being prepared as a "scape-goat" in the event that the invasion of western Europe should fail.
 Father Curran told all audience of more than 700 persons at a tes- timonial banquet here last night that the U. s. State department IS being used as "stooge' of the British government in giving an ul- timatum to Prime Minister Ramon De Valera.
 Attacking the State Departments request that Axis consulates in Fire be closed, Father Curran declared that "Communistic Russia is Leu tral nj our war with Japan, and we haven't asked her to close the Jep- anese embassy"
 Uniformed and plainclothes po- lice remained in the crowded nan throughout the program as tnF speaker assailed Great Britain : foreign policy toward both Fire ana the United States, and declared tha' Russia should not benefit one ioto from its participation in the war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-22
D. A. Charges Lonerq0n
By RICHARD C. HARRIS

By NACHAkD u. HANh1S United Press Staff Correspondent
 New York March 22-(UP)- Outlining his murder case against Wayne Lonergan, Assistant District Attorney Jacob Grumet demanded a first degree conviction-the elec- trio chair-today and indicated he would be able to prove that the RAF cadet premeditated the staying of his pretty wife, Patricia.
 Grumet indicat that the premed- itation-a necessary factor in first degree mLrder-would be proved by showing that the defendant had walked away from his wife in the bedroom of the Beekman Hill apart ment where she was killed last Oc- tober and returned with the heavy antique candlestick which he is al- legged to have used to beat her to death.
 Grumet called William H. Lough- ran, engineer attached to the dis trict attorneys office who had made a diagram of the murder scene as the first witness and ques- tioned him as to distances from the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-22
BOLSTER EAST DEFENSELMES
 AGAINST REDS
BY JOHN A. PARRIS United Press Staff Correspondent

BY JOHN A. RAkkAS
 United Press Staff COrrespOndsntN
 London, March 9. = WP1 - German troops, hastening to bolster their eastern de- lenses against the approacl- ing Red Army, were reported Seizing key points through- out Rumania and Bulgaria today only 24 hours after occupying Hungary.
 GA Swedish broadcast recorded by U. s. Government monitors said fighting was continuing between Hungarian and Rumanian troops along their common frontier, espe- cially in Arad and Nagy-Vara6 where the RumanianS tried to cross the boundary. The Swiss news paper Gazette De Lausanne, in Q dispatch reported to the Office ok War Information, predicted Nazt occupation of Slovakia on the basis of a German statement that the German minority there needed pro- lection from a hostile populatton.0
 With Soviet tanks and infantry already IS miles inside Bessarabia and within 20 miles from the Prut River boundary of Rumania, Adolf Hitler appeared to have decided to take over full control of his shaky Balkan satellites, all of whom have been reported extending peace feel% CTS to the Allies.
 Occupation of the Balkans also would protect Hungarian and Rue manian railroads on which German forces on the southern front in RlIs- sia must depend for supplies, rein~ forcementS and escape since the Soviets cut their Odessa-Lwow line.
 GU. s. Government monitors said the Nazi-controlled Budapest radio went off the air twice during the night. After the first suspension the station reported that nuisance raiders were over various Hungar- ian localities.)
 Reports reaching supposedly well- informed quarters in Ankara said one German infantry and four pan= ger divisions had arrived in Ru- mania from Hungary, probably foreshadowing complete German occupation of Rumania.
 Madrid heard that German army attachments methodically were seizing Rumanian railroads, while elite SS storm troopers and Gesta- DO agents rounded up leaders of peace movements.
 Occupied Country"
 Diplomatic circles in Madrid were quoted as saying that Ruman- ia, like Hungary, now could be con- sidered just an occupied country with an enemy garrison" but there was no confirmation that the occu- patton of Rumania had yet been completed.
 A London Daily Mail dispatch from Ankara said Vice Premier and
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-22
GERMANS SEIZE KEY POINTS IN BALKANS
Bismarck Islands Entirely EncircLed By Q. s. Forces
BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press War COrrespOndent)

bx WILLIAM b. DACAANSUN United Press War COrrespOndent)
 Allied H e a d q uar t e r S, Southwest Pacific, March 9. - (UP) - U. s. Marines completed the encirclement of the Bismarck Archipelago by seizing two islands in the St. Matthias group, and American battleshipS imme- diately opened a frontal at- tack on the 90,000 Japanese trapped in the isolated area by firing 1000 tons of shells into Kavieng, New Ireland, it was announced today.
 The Marines occupied the islands of Elnirau and Elmusao Monday morning in the northern most pene- tration of the Southwest Pacific, bringing Allied Forces only 580 miles south of the big Japanese base at Truk in the Carolines.
 The landing, effected almost with out opposition, was carried out about the same time U. s. battle ships stood offshore at Kavient, 84 miles to the south, and delivered probably the heaviest naval bom- bardment of this theater.
 A communique from General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters said the naval units from the Solo, mons bombarded Kavieng for three and a half hours, pouring approXi- mately 1000 tons of shells into the targets.
 Whole sections of the town were completely destroyed, ammunition dumps exploded and shore batteries were silenced," the communique said. we had no losses"
 Seizure of the St. Mat Hias 1S- lands completed the Allied ring around New Britain and New 1re- land and left the battered Japanese garrisons facing either death or surrender.
 Supply lines or evacuation routes were blocked by Allied possession of
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-22
JAP FORCES INVADE INDIA
 IN NEW DRIVE

New Delhi, March 9. - (UP) - Japanese forces have invaded India at several points along the Indo- Burmese frontier in a drive toward the British-held road and supply center of Imphal, a communique disclosed to- day.
 Striking westward across the Chindwin River, the Japanese were slogging through the wild and noun tainous district of the Somra hills tract fringing the east ern border of India.
 At some points the enemy units were in contact with advanced AL lied patrols, the communique said.
 The Japanese thrust apparently was part of multi-pronged drive into India along front extending for more than 100 miles from the Chin hills sector north of Tiddim to the upper reaches of the Chind- win river.
 British Imperial forces attacked one wing of the Japanese offensive line in the Chin hills near Falam while other patrols harassed enemy columns further to the north, pre- sumably near the frontier.
 The communique gave no indica. ton of the size of the Japanese forces, describing them as "raiding columns" engaged in 8 counter offensive"
 l(BBc said Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck, British commander-in- chief in India, had issued state ment to the Indian parliament on the frontier situation, asserting the Japanese were attacking in "consid- erable strength" in an effort to force the British to pull back their advanced columns now operating in north central Burma.
 (The BEG broadcast, heard by the United Press in New York, said the wild terrain made continuous defense line along the border im- possible and that hundreds of In- dian frontier villages were organ izing volunteer defense units to meet the Japanese thrusts)
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-22
Mon Waits 34 Yeors To File
 Alienation Suit

Bridgeport, Conn, March 22 (UP)-A $5O,OOO alienation of affections suit against 8O- years-O old John H. Hill, Shell ton, former speaker of the State House of Representatives, was thrown off the Superior Court docket today with 9 character izatiOn by Judge William II. COmley that the allegation was "prepOSterous
 The suit was brought by Paul ZanOwiak, 60, Union City, N. l., factory worker who charged that Hills alleged fa- miliarity with Mrs. ZanOwiak occurred in 1911 and resulted in the breaking up of his home.
 Mrs. ZanOwiak and two of her daughters testified for the defense.
 Judge COmIey told ZanOw- iak's counsel that 1t seems to me that the story is so prepOs- terOus. You ask me to believe this home which he describes in his complaint as being hap py. was broken up by conduct which would move T man to deep resentment. and yet he waited nearly S4 years before he did anything. That Is too much for me to accept
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-22
CenterOf
 Noziism Hit In New Roid
BY WALTER CRONKITE

United Press War COrrespOndent)
 London, March 22-(UP)-An ar- mada of nearly 1,500 American war; planes smashed through Adolf Hit ler's most powerful air defenses to Berlin today and blasted war and induatrial targets in the first day. light attack on the capital since March g.
 The first returning fighter pilots reported no air battles were fought over the Berlin district so far as they knew.
 United States Army Headquar- ters announced that strong forces of liberators and flying fortresses, es- corted by thunderbolts, mustangs and lightnings in ''very great strength" renewed the American daylight bombing campaign against the heart of the Reich.
 The striking force included be- tween 500 and 750 heavy bombers of the Eighth Air Force. With them flew one of the strongest fighter fleets eve resnt over Germany.
 United States Army Air Forces last bombed Berlin two weeks ago tomorrow, in a follow up to the greatest fire raid in history they made on the capital the day be- fore, which in turn followed by only two days the first mass daylight at tack of the war on the city. A light force of U. s. bombers hit Berlin tor the first time on March 4.
 The bombers were of the Eighth Air Force while fighters of both the Eighth and Ninth Air Forces shep- herded them into the core of Ger many's defenses.
 BOmberS Lost
 Another strong force of fortresses
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-22
3 New Towns Menoced By Mt. Vesuvius
(NEA Telephoto)
BY ELEANOR PACKARD

On the slopes of Mount Vesuvius, March 22- (UP) - Three Italian coastal towns harboring 86,000 people were menaced today by shift in the lava flow from erupting Mount Vesuvius, and experts warn- ed that the volcanic cone might burst at any moment and bury the countryside under tons of molten rock.
 Five days after the start of its worst outbreak in modern times, the great volcano has stopped acting according to form and has gone completely cratic.
 The main lava flow now has shifted from the northwest to the west slopes and is moving down like 8 fiery snake on the coastal towns of Tore del Greco, Tore Annun- ziata and Resina, site of the an- cient town of Herculanuem which was buried in the great eruption of 79A.D.
 Allied military authorities were understood to be preparing to GNdCudOC CLlC kC0ASlCAlNo VI VkAV VAAACV towns if the lava flow continues.
 Meanwhile, the Seething cone of the volcano glowed with such in tensity that Italian experts warned it may break suddenly and send a terrific overflow of lava in all di- rections.
 No Lives Lost
 Not a single life has been lost thus far, largely because of the prompt measures taken by the Army to remove reluctant civilians from their homes, but millions of dollars worth of property have been ruined and some of the finest vine- yards in Italy have been partially wiped out, including the famous Lacrima Cristi vineyards.
 It was estimated that cultivation on the lava-wasted soil would be impossible for least century.
 The villages of San Sebastiano and Masso di Somma were all but obliterated yesterday by the lava wall moving down the northwest
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-22
Choplin Maps His Defense
By FREDERICK c. OTHMAN United Press Hollywood COrre-
 SpOndent)

United Press Hollywood COrre-
 spOndent)
 Hollywood, March 9 - (U.P)- Charlie Chaplin, whose public has discovered he is an elderly-looking platinum blonde in horn-rimmed eyeglasses, mapped a defense today of white slavery charges that promised plenty of revelations.
 While Federal Judge J. F. T.. O'Connor prepared for his second day of questioning prospective jurors and red-haired Joan Barry waited to be called as the chief prosecution witness, J. Paul Getty, the multi-millionaire Oklahoma oil operator, showed up as something more than an interested spectator.
 He was expected to tell for the defense what he knew about Miss Barry before she ever met the White-haired comic. Such testimony would lead inevitably to an eX- plantation of what Miss Barry was doing in Mexico City couple of years ago.
 It was in Mexico City that friends of Betty introduced the girl from Brooklyn to Tim Durant, the movie producer who still has not produced a movie. Durant later in troduced her to Chaplin, who put her on his payroll, studied Shake Speare with her and - according to her - called her pet names in baby talk before he had her arrested as vagrant. In three separate court actions Miss Barry has charged the comic with being the father of her
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-22
Reinforced Nozis Stand At Cossino
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD

United Press War Correspondent)
 Allied Headquarters, Naples, Mar. 22.-(UP)-The Green Devils" of the Nazi 1st paratroop division trad cd blow for blow with New Zealand infantrymen in the streets of Cas- sino today while scores of German field guns and mortarS raked, the Allied lines heavily from command ing positions along the lower slopes of Mount Cassino.
 Front reports said German reSist- ance inside the devastated town and in the surrounding hills had strengthened measurably as the NaZiS Shuttled endorsements through Q maze of tunnels and ra- vines connecting their various strong points.
 (BBC Correspondent Michael Rey- holds reported that fierce fighting has flared up again in the vest ern part of Casino, indicating that the Germans had managed to filter back into sections previously occu- pied by the New Zealand infantry men.)
 Virtually all of the 1st paratroop division, plus some Nazi Panzer Grenadiers, were reported officially to be defending Casino and its env- irons-a force of possibly 10000 to 15,000 men.
 Throughout Tuesday night Ger man cannon and screaming meemies" mortars-pound- ed the New Zealanders in Casino while the paratroopers entrenched in the southwestern corner of the ruined town kept up steady stream of machine gun and rifle fire.
 United Press War Correspondent James E. Roper reported from the battlefront that the Germans launched a strong attack at 5:30 this morning against Allied hill positions overlooking Casino in an effort to win new artillery platforms" from which to step up their shelling of the town.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-22
Rome To Be An O pen City

London, March 22-(UP)-The Rome radio said today that the German command will withdraw its forces from Rome and divert all military traffic from the city within a few days to preserve the capitals alleged status as an open city.
 The Naz-controlled radio labeled Rome an open city then nullified the label with the tacit acknowl- edgement of German troops being in the capital and rilitAT~ tFTnSport flowing through it.
 Axis radios claimed Rome was an open city months ago, but the AL lies continued raiding it's military targets.