davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29
WilIiom Allen Atrocities White Is Dead Flushed Up

Emporia, Kans., Jan. 29-(UP) William Allen White, Dean of the American Country Editors whose writings in his Emporia Gazette brought him national fame, died at his home early today, two weeks be- fore his 18th birthday.
 White died of | a heart attack, but his condition had been serious since he underwent an abdominal opera ton at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., last October. He failed to recover fully and was confined to his home during most of the months after the operation. He spent his last two weeks in bed.
 White, who purchestd the Gazette in 1896, first achieved national rec ognition with an editorial entitled Whats the Matter With Kansas" The editorial attacked the radical populists who, at that time, were rising to power in Kansas.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29
War Session Adiourns

Hartford, Conn, Jan. 29. (UP)- The five-day war emergency session of the General Assembly was in ad- journment sine die today, with its enactment of a soldier ballot law hailed by Gov. Baldwin as lone of the most liberal and one of the most far-reaching in its beneficient effect of any vote law that any state has ever passed"
 Six of the dozen bills approved by the legislators were concerned with voting law changes. The prin- cipal one iberalized the absentee ballot statute to make it easier for Connecticut soldiers in camps in this country and abroad to take part in the state and national elections in November.
 Changes in the absentee law pro- vided that town clerks shall furnish lists of candidates to electors in the service by August Is. In event nominating conventions are not held before that date. then supple mental lists shall be forwarded not later than IA days before election day. This last clause was intended to speed up the nominating conven- tions, inasmuch as ballots sent out after mid-August to far away places could not possibly be returned in time to be counted.
 It also provided that absentee ballots be voluntarily sent to serv- icemen at their last known addresses and that servicemen could apply directly for ballots. Use of federal facilities for quock two-way trans mission, also was approved.
 Companion bills provided for ex- tension of the voting hours in the state and national elections this year from 6 p. m. until p. m., granting commanding officers the authority to make qualified electors in the field; authorizing local boards of selectmen to hold special ses- sions to make voters on application of servicemen home on furloughs, and extending identical residence status to the spouse of persons in the armed forces.
 Law Changes
 Two other voting law changes, not related to the military, allowed municipalities to extend the vot- ing deadline from 6 m. to 8 D. m, on local option, in municipal elec- tions, and directed registrars to furnish town clerks with supple mental lists of names and addresses of persons transferred. restored or added to regular voting lists.
 The special session, the second to be held in Connecticut in war time, also approved bills which provided:
 Extension of the governors war emergency powers until February l, 1945.
 A memorial to the President and congress to remove restrictions which peg the income of state dairy men.
 Repeal of a law enacted in 1943 which allowed landlords to elect tenants whose rent was not paid on the due day. The repealer restored
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29
IJops Jeer
 IAt Our Big Yellow Streak
By United Press

A Japanese radio spokesman today ridiculed charges that AL lied prisoners of war have been mistreated by Japan and taunt- ed sarcastically 'Why don't they teach their men to stand up and fight to the finish?'
 "The way Americans threw up their hands at COrregidor, the way the British gave up at Singap0re-On the heels of Ioud-mouthed assertions that they would fight to the finish- surely shows that these men have carried on their backs a pretty wide streak of yellow" He said in a Tokyo radio broad cast recorded by the United Press fin London.
 He added that Americans and British 'can't take 1t" and ridicuIed the atrocity stories as sthe final propaganda measure to which the enemy Is forced to resort, due to the lack of any other favorable propaganda which they can dish up to their publics." ]"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29
Red Armies Close In To Trap 25O,OOO

Moscow, Jan. 29 - CUP> - Red armies, closing a trap on upwards of 250,000 Germans, tore huge chunks out of disintegrating enemy forces below Leningrad and surged toward the last escape railroad to- day.
 The Russians appeared closer to the encirclement of a huge German army than at any time since Stalin- grad.
 Slashing into the southern flank of the NaI salient, Gen. Kyril A. Meretskov's vanguards west of Nov gorod swept across the Leningrad- Vitebsk railway, next to the last es- cape route out of the bulge and pressed on toward the main Lenin- grad-Pskov line, g miles to the east
 The Germans were reported reel ing back under the Soviet hammer blows. Thousands were cut of and annihilated. Others surrendered.
 On the northern flank of the bulge, Gen. Leonid A. Govorov's Leningrad armies swept up more than 50 towns and villages south and southwest of the former cap- ital, pushing to within 34 miles oi the Estonian border and narrowing the escape corridor to. 65 miles.
 Frontal attacks on the bulge cleared the Germans from all but an 11-nlile stretch of the main Moscow-Leningrad railway and trapped thousands of Germans de- lending the remaining segment around Chudovo. nearly 70 miles southeast of Leningrad.
 The Soviet high command an- nounced that battle of annihila- tion was being waged against the trapped forces at Chudovo, south eastern anchor of the German sal tent, and its fall was expected soon.
 The capture of the German fortress town of Lyuban, 50 miles southeast of Leningrad, paved the way for the successful clearing of the Moscow-Leningrad railroad to within five miles northwest of Gnu dovo. The greater part of the gar- rlSon of Lyuban was slain. Other Soviet troops penetrated the eastern suburbs of Chudovo.
 Raglitsa, 20 miles northwest of Novgorod, also was captured.
 In the southwestern Ukraine. the Germans continued to throw huge forces of tanks and infantry into battle east of Vinnitsa despite enor- nous losses. All counter-attcks were repulsed with German losses yes terday reaching 1,20O dead and 65 wrecked tanks.
 (Radio Berlin said the Russians had begun an unprecedented artil- lery bombardment of German po- sitions in Kerch at the eastern end of the Crimea. Embittered fighting was raging for every building in the outskirts of the city, the broadcast said. It estimated Soviet forces out numbered the Germans by as much as eight to one.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29
Am. Legion Asks For Action

Boston, Jan. 29 = U.P) = Ma tional Commander Warren H.. Atherton of the American Legion demands that congress quit dodg- ing and ducking" on the soldier vote issue.
 Atherton, here to confer with Massachusetts Legion officials, said last night at a press conference that the 'iservicmen ought to have the vote"
 The ways and means of accom- plishing 1t is the duty of congress, he added, "and it's time it stopped jockeying around on it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29
NAzIS' DYING CAPITAL BLASTED AGAIN
 47 Bonbers Lost Tn Big Berlin Smash
British Strive For Knockout Punch To Groggy Citadel

London, January 29. - (UP) British bomberss striving for knockout blow, blasted another huge secto of Berlin into blazing ruins with 1000 to 150O tons oN explosives last night and Stockholm dispatch said goy ernment buildings in the center of the capital hit
 Smashing at GermanyS dying capital for the second time in little than 24 hours hundreds of the RATS four-engned heavyweights sent demolition bombs ranging to fouton super block busters and thousands of nce diaries crashing down the center of the Axis effort
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29

shot down but admitted that the Japan neSe suffered precious loSSes.")
 American Liberator bombers, fol- lowing up heavy assault on the island group Wednesday, attacked Lorengau, on Manus Island of the Admiralty group, Thursday, drop ping the record bomb tonnage which caused large fires and explo- sions, damaged two parked enemy fighter planes and destroyed a barge in the harbor, 370 miles north west of Rabaul
 The Japanese sent 60 fighter planes into the air over Rabaul Wednesday as more than 100 dive bombers, torpedo planes and fight CTS from South Pacific bases at- tackled the base following an earlier raid by heavy bombers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29
Admiralty Island s Bombed For Record

Advanced Allied Headquarters, New Guinea, Jan 29 = (U.P0 = Allied airmen blasted the strategic Admiralty Islands with a record 123-ton bombing and shot down 9 more enemy planes over Rabaul in blows aimed at isolating that last major base in Japan's southwest Pacific defense line, a communique announced today.
 (An indication that the Allies were succeeding was seen in Tokyo radio broadcast reported to the OWI which admitted the situation at Rabaul was becoming grave" and added we are worried about our inferiority in numerical strength" The broadcast said that 430 Allied planes attacked Rabaul on Monday. Wednesday and Thurs day and that 125 of them were
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29

"The bombing was well concen~ trated and large areas of fire were observed" the air ministry a1s; nounced in a communique.
 F'orty-seven bombers were lost in the Berlin assault and in subsidiary raids on unspecified objectives i'm Northwest Germany.
 An extensive mine laying opera tion also was completed during the night, the ministry said without elaboration, and Allied intruder air- craft shot down two planes over enemy bases with 8 loss of three of their own.
 The Nazi-controlled Scandinavi- an Telegraph Bureau reported from Berlin that damage in last ilight's attack probably exceeded that of the previous night and acknowledg- ed that certain central sections's had been hit.
 Reliable private information reaching the United Press Bureau in Stockholm indicated that gov- ernment quarters and the surround ing area in the center of Berlin, in- cluding the Potsdamer Platz and Goeringstrasse, suffered heavy new damage.
 Fires still were burning from Thursday nights raid.
 Pathfinder planes went in ahead of the main raiders and marked out the targets with flares for the 18th major assault on Berlin since the RAF launched its all-out of- fensive against the capital last Nov. 18.
 British authorities withheld an- louncement of the nights target until after g a. m. (4 a. m. EWTls nearly two hours later than tiSizaIs and it was believed that the raiders actually may have hit the city only few hours before dawn in cons trast to the dusk attack Thursday night.
 The raid probably boosted the to- tai tonnage of bombs dropped on Berlin during the past two months and half to ,000-approximate- ly two thirds of the tonnage which it has been estimated will be need-' ed to knock out the capital as ths nerve center of the German war effort.
 Coastal reports indicated thas the RAT armada may have split and taken two different routes to the battered capital to confuse enemy defenses and force them to divide their strength. Watchers re- ported large formations flew over both the east and southeast coasts during the night.
 Travellers arriving in Malmo. Sweden, by plane from Berlin re- ported that Thursday nights att tack was concentrated mainly against the southern and south eastern suburbs, which they said appeared from central Berlin to have been turned into a single sea of flames"
 The raid was terribly concen- trated,s the witnesses said. Fire fighting apparatus was summoned from neighboring localities over a wide area. Street car traffic was in terrupted and commuters walked miles to work.
 The southern and southeastern suburbs of Berlin contained many key German war factories, as well as homes of war workers.
 The appearance of German planes over the Thames Estuary last night touched of LondOn'n 700th alert of the war, but no enemy aircraft appeared over the capital itself.
 American four -engined bombers Spearheaded yesterdays daylight attacks on the French invasion coast. Canadian Mustangs shot down four enemy planes, and six Allied fighters were lost.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29

There was no doubt that the American people had been aroused to a pitch of anger unparalleled since Pearl Harbor by the Army Navy disclosure that the Japanese employing starvation, torture and butchery-had exterminated at least 7,700 American and many more Fil- ipino heroes of Bataan and Correg- idor.
 A United Press survey showed that throughout the country, war bond sales Skyrocketed as angered citizens jammed booths and banks, many of them speaking harshly of the Japanese and vowing vengeance as they made their purchases.
 White House Secretary Stephen T. Early indicated yesterday that the account of Japanese barbarity was continued story when he said "the time has come to release factual, carefully authenticated reports of Japanese atrocities"
 Today Chairman Ebert D. Thom- as, D., Utah, of a Senate military affairs subcommittee on war prison CTS announced that he would sum- mon Army and Navy intelligence of ficers to closed hearings some time in the near future. Expressing sur prise that his group had not been told fin advance of the facts in the Army-Navy report, he added:
 More Information
 My committee is going to get all the information it can through the proper channels"
 In Los Angeles, Capt. Samuel R Grasl1io, companion of the late It. Col. William Dyess in the infamous March of Death" told how HOO Americans and 14,000 Filipino pri- soners died horrible deaths in Camp O'Donnell.
 He said he saw his companions perish daily at his side from star vation, dysentery and disease. Many times, declared the 25-year-old for mer member of the Fist Pursuit squadron. they prayed for death to put an end to their sufferings. He scid they were beaten many times" without provocation and forced to bow to "grinning Japanese enlisted men who told us in English how they hated us."
 His descriptions. and the figures he quoted, apparently were part of the general picture disclosed earlier by the Army and Navy.
 Despite the rising demand for vengeance against the Japanese-a demand which found its most clam orous expression among congress men-there was nothing to indi- cate that Allied staff chiefs would permit popular anger, however just, to alter strategic decisions reached after long and careful consideration ef all military necessities involved.
 These decisions. calling for the enSkAing of Germany and Japan an that order, will be unswervingly : adhered to despite such demands as that of Chairman Andrew J. May, D., Ky, of the House Military Af- fairs committee that the entire fleet move at once upon Tokyo and blow 1t into Hades."
 (Continued on Page 9
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29
Angry Congress Pledges Vengeance On Jap Barbarians For Torture
Wipe Out Vowed On Tokyo, Mps;
 More Facts Ahead

Washington, January 29. = (UP) = Senate com mitees chairman promised today to dig out still unpub shed facts about Japanese prison camp atrocities which already have reused the nation to concentrated fury and given it blazing battle cry-"vengeance!"
 This promise, underscoring White House hint that the History yet to be told the conviction among Congressional and military leaders that only the destruction of Tokyo and the unashng of wars horrors upon the Japanese people at home could quench this countrys thirst for revenge against brutal and sadistic
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29
Board Will Investigate Now Plane Crash

Bath, Me, Jan. 20. CUP)--An in- vestigating board we appointed to- day to determine 1hat caused a plane to crash and burn, killh.s two navy flyers, during routine flight from the naval reserve station at ] Brunswick.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29
Jugo Portisons Occupy Two Towns

London, Jan. 2o-(UP)-JugosiM1 Partisans have occupied the town of Borece and Celic in their oOsin- offensive to drive the 0eE7Es from Bosnia, 6 communique an- nounced today.
 The communique said . Partisan brigade advanced along the rlghs bank of the Kraka river in Croasia after routing a German column.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29

(oOntinued on Page D
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29

(Continued on Page 9
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29

CcOntinued on Page 3
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29

(continued on Page 2l
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29

Continued on Page 9
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29

(Continued on Page p
Evening star., 1944-03-21
Eleven Quints Remain
In Pro Title Tourney
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Mar. 21.-Eleyen teams
remained in the running as the sixth
annual professional basket ball
tourney entered its second day at
Chicago Stadium.
Tonlght's program of three games,
concluding the first round, pits the
Cleveland Brassmen against the In
dlanapolis Pure Oils, Oshkosh ALL
Stars against Rochester Wings and
the Harlem Globetrotters against
the Pittsburgh Corbetts.
Emerging victors in last nights
opening session were the DAYTON
Av etors, the Brooklyn Eagles and
the New York Rens.
Dayton defeated the Akron Col
legians, whose lineup included for
mer Notre Dame ace, Johnny Moir.
52-38, after leading at half time,
26-11, Brooklyn trailed Camp
Campbell, KY, for three quarters.
then poured in % points to win,
|55-41.
New York, with five players from
last years champion Washington
Bears, polished off the Detroit
Suffrins. 1888. Washington is not
in the tourney.
Favorites are the Rens, the Globe
trotters and the Fort Wayne Zoll-
ners, National Professional League
titllsts, who meet Dayton. Wednes-
day.
Evening star., 1944-03-21
BY the Associated press.

BY the Associated Press.
LAKEWOOD, N. j., Mar. 21.-
Manager Mel OFT may be in the
Army before the National League
season rolls around, but most of the
New York players he has here
waiting for the snow to melt will be
around from now on.
OF the 80 men listed on the clubs
shiny new player roster, 16 have
been called and rejected by the
Army OF Navy, three others have
Army discharges, one is overage
and another is a Cuban citizen.
Only eight of the players can be
listed as vulnerable from a military
standpoint.
Buster Mayard who has been ac-
cepted by the Army and is waiting
at his Her 1erSon IN. c. home to
see If he will have any time to play
ball before he is called to active
duty, heads the parade of service
bound.
Some in Vulnerable Class.
OFT is due to take his physical
next week and First Baseman Phil
Weintraub left yesterday for Chi
cago to be in plenty of time for
his preinduction examination March
25, Pitcher Johnny Wittig comes
up for his test March 81. There is
considerable doubt about the pres
ent physical fitness of all three.
Evening star., 1944-03-21
Martin, Card Vet, Still
|Spirited, but Serious
JAS Wartime Player
BY the Associated Press.

= ~
CAIRO, I'LL, Mar. 21.-No longer 8
colt, Johnny L. Pepper) Martin
one-time wild Hoss of the Osage,'
turned his back on his old Gas
house Gang days but not on the
Gashouse spirit in serious minded
discussion today of his role as a
returning veteran in wartime base
ball.
Martin, who has gone through the
trials and tribulations of a minor
league manager, has rejoined the
Cardinals as the youngest 40-year-
old player who ever donned a uni
form. He was more spirited in
spring training practice than some
of the kids"
Without going out Of character
to become highbrow, Pepper said
he regarded baseball as "a serious
business right now"
He visualized himself az "holdine
down the fort for the ball PLAYERS
who are soldiers, so that when thew
come home the game will be alive
and they can practically pick ur
where they left off"
"As I see it," he said, that is my
job this year"
The maestro of the old Mudcat
oand still strums melodious guitar
and draws sweet strains from a
harmonica, but he's conf1ning the
music to his hotel room here at the
Cardinals training camp.
It's strictly for self entertain
ment," he said. Il believe in Mud
cat bands and all that, but right
now this baseball business is more
serious and don't want to give the
impression of being a character. -
Evening star., 1944-03-21
Aggie, Kentucky Fives
Gain Brackets With
DE Paul, ST. Johns
By the Associated Press.

Dy JQe ASSOCldteu FIeSS.
NEW YORK, Mar. 21-It will be
De Paul VS.. the Oklahoma Aggies
and Kentucky VS.. st. Johns in the
semifnals of the National Invita-
ton Basket Ball Tourney at Mad
ison Square Garden tomorrow
night.
A crowd of 1928 turned out at
the garden last night and watched
the Aggies sweep aside Canisius of
Buffalo, 43 to 20, and Kentucky
ove4came stubborn Utah quintet,
1888, to gain their places in the
round of four. In their quarter
final games last week De Paul
whipped Muhlenberg, 68-45, and st.
Johns tripped Bowling Green,
44-40.
The Aggies were held even by
Canisius for the first Is minutes
but after that big Bob Kurland and
Floyd Burdette took charge and the
Aggies gradually pulled away. at
one time holding a 30-14 advantage.
Kurland and Burdette together COL
lected 81 points.
Little-known Utah surprised by
holding favored Kentucky to a 24-24
first-half tie and yielding only in
the closing minutes to the greater
experience of the Kentucky boys,
beaten only once in 19 starts. Jack
Parkinson, with 20 points, and Bob
Brannum, with II. all in the second
half, were the big guns for. Ken
lucky. Arnold Ferrin and Herb
Wilkinson, with 13 and Is, respec-
lively, spanked the Utes.
Evening star., 1944-03-21
Three Summer Bowling Loops
To Be Organized at Kinq Pin

Pigs. Betty Halvorsen's lusty 367
gave H. & j. Construction a 81
win from the nant-contending
Garvin's Grill. while Rena Ride
nour's 353 aided the champion S.
& H. Parking quint to win the odd
game from Edmonds Optical.
Commerce pinettes continued to
wing their way to their second
championship in the National Capt.
tai Ladies League at Lucky Strike
as Rebecca Armstrong with 31l led
2-l victory over the second-place
Accounting Olga Kazenersky with
top game of 121 spanked Navy Blues
sweep over Planning.
The DuffyS are leading st. Martins
hectic flag chase again after white
washing the Madigans at King Pin
Paul Duffy starred for the winners
with 1863. Eddie Jarboe'ss high 142
gave the Baardses its lone game
from the TastetS.
District League will bowl at Lucky
Strike Saturday night at 7:30. With
postponed match between Chevy
Chase Ice Palace and AnacoStia
Spillway tentatively set for March
90 Red MegaW, Ice Palace captain,
wants his boWlers to contact him at
| the Queen Pin.
Evening star., 1944-03-21
Giants Almost Draft Club
With d Of 80 Players Exempt

Both second base candidates,
George Housmann and Hugh Luby;
Pitcher Reuben Fischer and Out
fielder doe Medwick are in the vul-
nerable class which may be called
next week, next month or next Sep
tember. ....
A complete catching staff is as
|sured by the presence of ageless Gus
Mancuso and Rookie Joe stephen
son from Springfield, Mass, Of the
Eastern League, who has been re-
jected. Ray Berres and Ernie Lom-
bardi have been mixed by the serv-
ices, but have neglected to sign
their contracts.
Outfield Is Az.
Johnny Rucker, Bruce Sloan,
Charles Head and Dan Gardella give
the Polo Grounders an all-left-
handed hitting 4-F outfeld.
Billy Jurges, recently rejected, and
Nap Reyes from Havana, Cuba, give
the left side of the infield perma-
nent foundation. Rookie Roy Mich
OILS was discharged from the armed
service and Shortstop Johnny Kerr
has been shuttled into Glass 3D..
In the pitching department Ace
Adams, Harry Feldman, Cliff Mel
ton, Ken Miller, Ewald Pyle, Frank
Seward and Bill Voiselle do not meet
military standards. Johnny Allen
is overage and newcomers Ken
Brondell and Walter Ockey have
honorable discharges.