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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-30
Incendiaries Transform
Wards Into Shambles;
8 Killed, " Badly Hurt!
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD

BY REYNOLDS PACKARD !,
UNITED Press War Correspondence
Allied He a d q ua rters s.
Naples, March 80. UP) -
German fire bombs turned
an American Hospital area
on the AnziO beachhead into
a bloody shambles last night
climaxing a night and day
of savage patrol fights and
artillery exchanges on the
three major Italian fronts.
Screaming in over the
waterfront under cover OF
darkness, a formation Of
Nazi bOmbers dropped high
explosives and incendiarieS
across the port area in am
apparent attempt to blast
Allied military installations
and shipping.
Two American field hose
pitfalls came in the Nazi line
of fire and were blasted and
burned by a half-dozen in~
cendiaries that fell across q
cluster of tents crowded with!
wounded men and medica1l
corps personnel.
Eight men were killed ~
six Of them wounded soldiers
sleeping on their cots-and
u were wounded, including
two nurses. Thirty-eight OF
the injured were soldiers who
were recuperating from bat~|
tie wounds, some Of thel1
German prisoners.
The bombing raised to IS killed
and 1923 wounded the number OF
casualties suffered in q series Of
Nazi bombing and Smelling attacks
ON Allied beachhead hospitals. II
was feared the death toll Of the
latest bombing will rise when come
plete figures are compiled.
United Press War Correspondents
Robert Vermillion, who witnessed
the attack, said there was no imnaes
diate indication that the NaN planes
had struck deliberately at the hose
pital area.
On the fighting fronts, there was
no major change In the opposin@
battle lines, although feverish patrol
and artillery activity indicated that
both sides were preparing for ana
other test of strength on the beact~
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Jury Meets.
To Decide
Laws Status

New Haven, March 30-(UP)-A
superior court grand jury convened
today to consider whether it will re-
turn first degree murder indict-
ment against Walter William Law,
accused cremation slayer of Miss
Rose M. Brancato, 28-years-old
Newspaper society reporter who dis
appeared last July.
A finding of Coroner James ].
Corrigan, released last night, held
Law criminally responsible for the
girls death, asserting Law had adj
mitted he punched and choked''
Miss Brancato when she refused to
submit to his advances.
After the Staying, according to the
coroner, Law telephoned his wife to
come to the downtown Office build
ing of which he was superintendent
and where the alleged killing took
place, and told her he was mixed
up in a murder rap"
When Mrs. Law arrived at the
building, Corrigan said Law took
AACI AI1UO VIC OcOCAlC1AU dA1Il OL1OWCO
her Miss Brancato's body lying near
water cooler, remarking:
There she is, kid"
Law, the finding said, endeavored
to induce his wife to go into the
boiler room, and when she refused,
told her to go home, that he would
follow later as IT have things to
clean up"
The alleged murder occurred in
the basement of the Woolworth
building, where Miss Brancato fire.
gently visited the Offices Of the
American Women's, Volunteer Serv-
ice, of which she was a member.
On the afternoon Of July 5, Corri-
gan said, Law and Miss Brancato
rode up and down in the elevator
ito avoid any other occupants who
might have been in the building
II find that at some time during
the evening Law made improper
advances toward the deceased" the
coroner said, "and that when she
resisted he punched and choked
her."
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-30
Broderick
Sums Up
By RICHARD G. HARRIS
United Press staff Correspondent

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
New York, March 3O-(UP)-De-
Tense Attorney Edward v. Broderick
in a table, humping summation
pleading for acquittal of Wayne
Lonergan, charged today that his
clients confession was obtained
while he was drunk.
Broderick, making the final plea
for Lonergan, charged with first de-
gree murder in the death of his
heiress-wife, Patricia, spoke for an
hour and, As minutes. He charged
the district attorneys Office with
"trickery and device" in obtaining
an unsigned confession from Loner-
gan and attempted to show that
some one else could have killed Mrs.
Lonergan last October "a.
Assistant District Attorney Jacob
Grumet, prosecuting Lonergan,
made the states summation after a
short recess.
Broderick made little reference to
generalization, factor the state
must show to obtain first degree
murder conviction.
Broderik said that the prosecu-
ton never had proved that the can
dlesticks with which Mrs. Lonergan
was killed were a part Of her bed
rooms furnishings or that they were
not broken or dented before the
murder.
II say that those candlesticks
were placed on that bed and in that
room after Mrs. Lonergan stopped
breathing" Broderick shouted.
And whether they came from the
shop of that antique dealer I don't
know, but it is up to the district
attorney to show that they didn't"
His reference was to the fact that
Mario EMO Gabelline, Mrs. Loner-
gan's escort the night before the
murder, described himself as an in
terror decorator dealing in antiques.
Recalling that Gabelline had
denied having a key to Mrs. Loner-
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WPA Predicts
Milk Drought

Boston, March 80 - (U.P) - DR..
T. G.. Stitts of the War Food Adj
ministration predicts a shortage Of
100000 pounds of milk in the ma
ton his year due to the feed Scar
city.
Addressing the New England Milk
Producers Association yesterday,
the VITA director of milk and dairy
products added that the govern
ment will need more than 100000
600 pounds of butter this year for
military and lend-lease purposes. He
estimated that 0,000,000 pounds of
powdered milk also will be needed.
To forestall serious milk short
age, DR.. Stitts said the government
would limit Use of milk in cream,
in ice cream and other products
this spring.
He told the producers that the
present American army was the
first in history that has been milk
drinking army. He explained that
100000 pounds of powdered milk
must be allotted this year to the
Red Cross
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Reporter Describes Horror
As Bombs Blasted Hospital
BY ROBERT vERMILLION
United Press War Correspondent

United Press war correspondent
Anzio Beachhead, Italy. March 20
-(UP) - Wounded American SOL
diers moaned and cried in their
wrecked hospital tents and explo-
sions still sent fiery bits of frag-
ments through the fragile, canvas
structures, an hour after three large
German incendiary bombs burst
among two American hospitals on
this beachhead tonight.
One wounded American soldier
and a ward man were killed When
an incendiary made direct hit OH
the surgery ward in which they
were sheltered. Five other wounded
soldiers and nurse died from in
juries received in the attack, and
70 others, including two nurses
were wounded.
Among the injured were Sc sol.
dierS, including German prisoners
who had suffered battle wounds.
The bombing occurred at 10
O'Clock, during the second air raid
on this beachhead in seven hours.
The bombs landed about SO yards
from the tent where l was talking
with some hospital personnel.
One of them fell directly in front
and between two ward tents. When
I reached the scene, it still was ex-
ploding and I hit the dirt to avoid
the flying, burning chemical. In
front Of the tent lay what appeared
to be two bodies. I stopped to In
vestigate and heard both of them
moaning softly.
The front Of both tents had been
ripped open by the explosion and
from the inside came the sound of
men sobbing and begging for help.
I called for litter bearers and two
soldiers arrived running. They too,
called for litter bearers. The bombs
still was exploding and scattering
the burning substances, among the
tents, forcing three Of us to drop in
our tracks.
L made my way to the nearest
tent. It was dark inside and a nurse
was saying repeatedly and In firm
voice: Nov, everything Is all right
boys; everything is alright"
She brushed past me, went to the
door and shouted:
Get me some stretchers and get
them quick"
Inside the tent, wounded men had
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Bismorcks
BGtzed By
u. S. Bombers
BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON
United Press War CORRESPONDENT

United Press War Correspondent
Allied Headquarters, Southwest
Pacific, March 30-(UP)-American
bompers, maintaining a nonstop Of
fensive against isolated Japanese
positions in the Bismarck archipel-
age, penetrated intense anti-air-
craft fire over Rabaul Sunday and
Monday to destroy 80 buildings at
the enemy's battered New Britain
base, 1t was announced today.
(Tokyo radio said 1873 Allied
planes hit Rabaul again on Tuesday,
adding that six of the craft were
shot down and four heavily dam
aged"
A communique said medium and
light bombers, following night pat
rol raids, dropped SO tons of bombs
on enemy supply dump areas at
Vunapore. Tawui point and Talili
Bay, starting extensive fires which
left smoke visible for rs miles.
A spokesman at Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's headquarters said the
bombers, flying from Solomons
VASES D1cW uJ 90 NuAANAAA60 az VuAA"
pore and 16 others in the Talili Bay
ammunition dump area.
The new raids raised to nearly
5000 tons the total amount of ex-
plosives unloaded on Rabaul since
Feb. 9. The communique did not
mention any aerial interrogation, al
though photographs by the Raiders
showed seven japanese planes on
the ground.
American bombers also hit New
ireland Island, adjoining New Bril-
tain attacking debris-littered Kavi-
eng and Namatanai, where they
started fires.
Far to the northwest, Allied air
men carried out new assaults OH
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KATE GETS ONE
TOTHREEYEARS
FOR B|GAMY

A one to three year prison
sentence was imposed in
superior court today by
Judge Frank P. McEvoy,
without comment, on Her
man Katz, SO, of Prospect
street, who pleaded guilty
last January to a charge of
bigamy. Katz, a disbarred
New York lawyer, married
Bertha Wright of East
Greenwich, R. l., in January,
1943, while he was still legal
ly married to the former
Sadie Weisberg, now of Ellen
vile, N. Y.
Katz's martial tangle was brought
to light last Nov. 8 when he was ar
rested by local police on a fugitive
warrant issued in Kingston, N. Y.
and charging him with abandoning
his wife and two children. Upon
his arrest 1t was discovered ne mao
married Hsecond time, and the adj
ditional charge was then placed
against him.
Last Tuesday when arguments
were presented by States Attorney
William B. Fitzgerald and Public
Defender Edward T. Carmody, it was
disclosed that the former New York
lawyers martial difficulties started
when he was disbarred. His amic-
able relations with his wife rifted,
he had difficulty in finding work,
and finally left his home, it was re-
ported.
While working as a construction
man at a Naval station in Rhode
Island Katz met Bertha Wright.
Shortly after he was indicted into
the Army in November, 1912, she
came to his camp in Kentucky and
they were married, the court was
told.
1t was Katz's claim that he be-
lieved his first wife had divorced
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BY d. W. DITTMER

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
Washington, March 30.-(UP-A
House Military Affairs Subcommit-
tee proceeded today with the task
Of preparing limited national serv-
ice legislation to force 4-F draft
registrants into non-combat work
battalions or essential industry.
Conceding that voluntary meth
DDS have been unsuccessful in fore
ing into war work an estimated J.
100000 4-Fs now In non-essentiai
Jobs, Chairman John M. Costello
D., Cal, said his group would pre-
sent legislation for a compulsory
program to the full committee about
mid-April, when the Congressional
Easter recess ends.
Costello said the bill would reflect
recommendations by Undersecretary
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BY ROBERT MUSEL

DIX fObEhl MOSEL
UNITED Press War Correspondent
London, March 3O.-(UP)
- The German high COM
mand acknowledged today
the loss of Cernauti, capital
of BucovinO province and
key gateway to the Balkans,
to Russian assault troops
who stOrmed across the Prut
and charged into the city in
a twO-day pincers.
A Berlin communique re-
ported the "evacuation" of
Cernauti, third city of pre-
war Rumania in the north
eastern province yielded to
Russia along with Bessarabia
in 1910.
The collapse of German
resistance at Cernauti shat
tered the Nazi communica-
lions vital to the defenses OF
southeastern Europe and laid
open the way for a whirlwind
advance by the rampaging
Russians into r u m a n i a
proper.
Although Naz propagandists
termed the loss Of Cernauti an
evacuation" Moscow reports Of
violent street fighting in the city
of 10000 made it evident that the
German garrison was overwhelmed
by the great Red Army offensive
pulverizing the enemy defenses Of
the entire southern front.
A Stockholm dispatch to the Lon
don Daily Telegraph said other Rus
sian forces southeast of Cernauti
had plunged across the Prut into
Rumania proper and were battling
in the streets of Iasi, vital Ruman-
ian rail junction some miles west
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Chaplin Girds
For Big Role
BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
UNITED Press Hollywood
Correspondent

Hollywood, March 31.-CUP)-
Charlie Chaplin rehearsed today the
most important speech he ever made
in his life, designed to convince
jury that he was no white SLAYER
bat a man of good will when he
bought Joan Barry a railroad ticket
to New York.
The silent screens greatest come
dian who never was much of a
talker. had exactly IL people tc
impress with his sincerity five
housewives, two middle aged spin
sters, and five elderly men.
They have heard the state present
evidence indicating that Chaplin
took his red-haired drama student
to New York two years ago for
immoral purposes, a crime under
the Mann act punishable by i'm
prisonment. They also have heard
eight defense witnesses, guided by
Jerry Giesler, tell how Miss Barry
was drunk, disheveled and blood
spattered once in the apartment OF
another man, and how Chaplin
bought her a ticket to New York
only after she had decided to aban-
don her movie career and marry
man in the east.
The defense was stymied by the
rulings of Judge j. F. T. O'Connot
almost every time it sought to delve
into her affairs of the heart with
any man aside from Chaplin; the
Judge agreed with Prosecutor
Charles H. Carr that Miss Barry's
morals had nothing to do with
whether the 54-year- old Chaplin had
violated the Mann act.
The Jury thus was expected tc
base its decision largely upon what
Chaplin had to say and how ne de-
meaned himself.
Most damaging Of the witnesses
to Miss Barry's reputation 80 fal
was Hans Ruesch. a scenario writer
who testified he took her to dinner
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British Slo1U Up Jap
Inuasion OF India
By DARRELL BERRIGAN
UNITED Press War Correspondent,


UNITED Press War Correspondent
New Delhi, March 30-UP)-
British forces have slowed down OF
halted the Japanese invasion OF
India at four key points no 14O-
mile front along the Indo-Burma
frontier, a communique disclosed
today, while Chinese units Topped
a death trap around 1000 f1ercely-
resisting enemy troops in the Mo-
gazing valley OF northern Burma.
Admiral Lord Louis Mountbat-
tens communique indicated that
the main British frontier forces had
gone into action with planes and
heavy artillery in q determined eff
fort to hurl the invaders back across
the border.
One enemy column striking down
from the Somra hills toward Imphal
was revealed to have been caught
in an open stretch of country-pre-
sumably in the Ukhrul area-and
pounded savagely by British dive
bomberS and ratillery.
The Japanese suffered heavy
casualties" in this action, Mount
batten'S .communique reported.
Allied headquarters spokesman es-
timated that about $500 Japanese
have been killed on the central
Burma front"-presumably on the
Indo-Burma border-since the be-
ginning Of the enemy offensive sew
eral weeks ago.
Further north, a second prong of
the Japanese invasion armies was
halted 'after 48 hours of furious
fighting in the dense jungles of the
upper Somra hills. The communique
said fighting was continuing but
that there had been on change in
the opposing battle lines. The
enemy thrust was aimed toward the
highway town of Kohima and the
Assam Bengal rmailway beyond, but
apparently had made little progress
past the frontier.
Some 80 miles to the south, how
ever, the Japanese fought their
way halfway down the Tamu-Palel
road to a point about 80 miles
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Eagerly Awaited Quads
Ariue Safely; All Well

New York, March 30.-(UP)-The
Zarief quadruplets, whose arrival
medical science predicted accurately
three months in advance, were do
ING nicely" today.
Born to Mrs. Harry zarief, n,
a slender former ballot dancer who,
according to neighbors "looks like
child" the babies constituted per-
hapS the most eagerly awaited null
tiple birth in medical history.
In a bulletin issued this morning,
the hospital said:
Mrs. Zarief had a good night
and slept well. She ate breakfast
ard enjoyed reading articles about
her in the newspapers. AL the
babies are well. During the night
they took liquids and were given
their first breast feeding at 8 O'Clock
this morning. They are in air.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-30
Churchill Wins
Confidence Vote
By AIS To 70
BY JOSEPH w. GRIGG

BY JOSEfd w. OhAOU
UNITED Press Sta, Correspondent
London, March 30 - CUP -
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
won an overwhelming vote Of con-
fidence today when the House Of
Commons reversed, AIS to %, q
ballot defeating his coalition gov
eminent ON a minor issue.
Commons registered virtually
complete support of Churchill in
the showdown on which he had
insisted as a test of his leadership
and the fate of his cabinet.
The vote on an amendment to
the education bill to provide equal
pay for men and women teachers.
The House approved the amend
ment Tuesday.
TOday's vote was on a motion
that the disputed clmause in the
education bill should be elimi-
mated from the measure.
Even before the decisive vote,
political activity had made
Churchill's victory manifest.
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Imminent Danger" Still
Threatens Hawaii Nimitz
BY CHARLES ARNOT
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent


Honolulu, March 30. -
(UP) - Adm. Chester w.
Nimitz, commander of the
Pacific fleet, and 1t. General
Robert C. Richardson, Jr.,
Army commander for the
Hawaiian area, warned in
affidavits filed in federal
court today that Hawaii was
still in Imminent danger"
of Japanese invasion and had
been ever since the December
7, 1941, sneak enemy attack.
Both Nimitiz and Richardson con-
tended that continuance of martial
law and suspension of the writ of
habeas corpus were necessary for
the prosecution of the Pacific war.
Their afhdavits were filed as part
of a lengthy brief in which counsel
for Honolulu County Sheriff Duke
P. Kahanamoku; famous Waikiki
swimmer and surf rider, asked dis
missal Of petition for a writ OF
habeas corpus that sought the re-
lease of a civilian war worker jailed
by a military court.
The case was the second within
less than year to challenge di-
rectly the existence of military law
throughout the Hawaiian territory.
Counsel for the war worker, Lloyd
G. Duncan, charged that martial
law no longer existed in Hawaii and
said Duncan should have been tried
by a civilian court.
Duncan was convicted by the mil
itary court of iassaulting two Marine
guards and sentenced to six months
in the county jail. His attorney is
Garner Anthony. former territorial
attorney general.
A hearing was scheduled for Fri
day on the new habeas corpus writ
before Federal Judge Delbert G.
Metzger, who last fall fined Rich
ardson $500 for contempt Of court
after the general refused to produce
two Americans Of German ancestry
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conditioned oxygenated cribs, and
are dressed only in diapers and
shirts"
Mrs. Zarief, wife of an assistant
concert master from the Columbia
Broadcasting System, was X-rayed
in December. A physician told her
that he thought he could count
five tiny skulls, but the consensus
at the hospital was that there
were four.
-Four is enough" the mother said
after the arrival Of three girls and
boy born within 81 minutes in
deliveries described by DIR. Benja-
min p. Watson as "easy".
DR.. Watson, medical director a.
the hospital, was attended by three
other doctors, four graduate nurses,
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Solons Work On La1U To
Force IFS Into War Work

of War Robert p. Patterson aIlC
Assistant Secretary of Navy Ralph
A. Bard that the proposed new
non fighting units should not be
entitled to bonuses, free lifetime hos.
pitalization or veterans employment
benefits. The measure, he said, will
include these features:
1. establishment of an auxiliary
working corps, probably under Sc
lective Service Control, to replace
able-bodied younger men in war in
dustry with physically deferred
AID draft registrants.
2. Place administration Of the in
dustrial requirements directly in
the hands Of local draft boards.
3. Provide for gradually step
ping up Of non-deferrable age
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Washington, March 80 (UP -
Harry L. Hopkins, according to word
received at the House, is '"doing
nicely" following an operation yes
terday at tie Mayo Clinic in Roch-
ester. MINI.
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US. HOSPITAL BOMBED AT ANz|0
Cernauti Capital Of Bucovino Falls;
Pre-War Rumanian City I'm Red Grip
VITAL GERMAN
LINES
ARE SHATTERED
BULLETIN

BULLETIN
London, March 80. -
(UP)-The capture of
Cernauti was announced
by Premier Josef Stain in
an Order of the Day today
after the Germans had
acknowledged the loss of
the city.
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Cloudy Tonight

Fun Weather RspOr. Pas. g,
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Home, Final Edition
Late Sport NelOs
Late NetOs Flashes
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sU JAPONAIs

Leyte saloje pasiliovus
lietui, Amerikieciai vel pa
dare pirmynzanga, uzim-
dami naujus plotus ir at
kirsdami Japonu kareiviu
dalis.
Japonai noredami atko-
voti prarastas sritis ver-
cia savo paraSiutistus sa-
loje irengtose lektuvu ak
stese.
Americas lakunai siomis
dienomis nuskandino Sesis
Japonu laivus. Pirm to bu-
vo nuskandine penkis lai-
vus.
Gruodzio 7 suejo trys
metal nuo to ,kai Japonai
uzpuole Amerikos karo lai-
WI stoti Pearl Harbor, Ha-
Waii salose, kas priverte
Amerika istoti j kara prizes
Asies :jiegas. Per iris me-
tus labai daug laimeta, tu-
rint mintyje kaip Amerika
buvo nepasirengus karui.