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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-16
Drought Hits .Wor PIont
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water shortage in addition to . crippling Of its many vital wartime production facilities. The old single pipe line had but a daily capacity Of II million gallons.
 Reason for a great share Of tlle water consumption increase locally is traced, naturally, to the heavy demands laid upon the supply by local factories. Heretofore. these lo' cal industries could rely upon their own reservoirs to capab1y pr0ylce for their daily needs but the vast ly multiplied daily productive re- quireHerts of these plants, in these days of war. has overwhelmed the adequacies of the privately ow'ed reservoirs,
 Local reservoirs have suffered less from the drought than others else. where iD Connecticut. These EeseT~ y0iFs have benefited by frequent heavy showers that have taken place in June and early July Q those areas where they are located. This condition has not resulted elsewhere in most parts of the state and some Of c0nnectieut's principal cities are suffering dangerous e'' fleets.
 However. the board of works last night took eogpizanee Of the facI that # the present drought coIls tinueg much longer, some pEeeaus tons should be taken ip ''boaFdipg the ctty,s water supply, The board, as result, last night adjourned bub' ject to the call Of the chair, 70 the event t should De deemed inpgne' diatejy necessary to again pDy0ke the ban op sprinkiipg Of lawns bS local residents. To date, the city haf been free Of this restriction al' though most Connecticut towns have had to enforce t, end tll many lnstapneS have heavily lped tllose gilO have violated tt
 The current month and cary ReptembeT are the normal" eFy periods but consideration ef u9e unusual heat wave and drought nov prevalent calls fog more caution, v ews stated today,
 Local victory gardens and faFme ip tl9is ares have euHeFed beag'ly from tIle lack Of soaking Falp aDo the intense heat, II the spFlptllne ban should have to be enforced con siderable apprehension Is being shown as t0 the total effects upon these RaEdeiag and farms and tbelE supplementary wartime produce,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-16
Many roops Well Inside
 South Fronce
BY sANDOR .. KLEIN

Washington. August i6. - UP Some Allied invasion clements already are "well inside" southern France and have reached critical read Junetions. a competent milis taFy source said today.
 Destruction of German coinmuni. cations in southern France has been so thorough that the enemy thus far has been unable 10 react in any Soreeful way against Allied Forces. he added.
 There Is no question:" he said, "tbat the Allied invasion forces will clean up in the south and advance up the RhoEe river valley to join up with the forces from the north"
 This source believed that once the juncture has been accomplished. It will be possible to isolate and destroy ans separate German forces remaining ip the south and west Of France. He was referring to the German list and 18th armies. Both repoTtedly under command of Cols onel General Johannes BlaseoWits.
 The military expert said t nov has been established that the Ger. man 18th army is facing the invasion forces in southern France while the ist Is deployed throughout western France to the Frane0-Span- ish border and the Bay of Blscew It previously had been reported that the ist army was opposing tle southern landing,
 Tills source said that the leth, although weakened somewhat py withdrawals to the north, was the stronger Of the tgo
 Demolition Of bridges. railroads and highways was so thorough that no slzeable German endorsements have been able to come iH either from the west or east Of the Allied beaebhesds ID the south t was said,
 Tlle landings in southern France obviously were timed to prevent German f0Teeg gn the south from belrg sent t0 the assistance Of the eWbattled Nazl Ttb army tn the north. where an important deelsg Ion Is about to De reached" the military expert said,
 He said the Allied pocket in Normandy south 0f caeD Is belpg compressed sttll more and only g six mile escape gap remains, 4 high percentage Of the German troops in the tFap, be sald, gre com bot soldiers, the Germans appaFs eptly heVlng succeeded ln esGFaeats Ing 2 good portion Of the 7th aIFay's EeaF elements,
 An sttempt by 6eFmsn aTmoT to bFeak out hes been effectively sIeps ped, he added,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-16
Rebet Bombs Keep Up EDelend BIows

London, August te. - lUPD - The Germans carried tlseiV flying bomb attacks into the tbjrd month today gJtb rev assaults oD the southern counties end the Lonc0D area,
 The dayliglpt raids came sfter the second aiertless night Co the London area tp six days. although there were several robot bombs landed before dusk last evening.
 Aitbougb there have been brief lsterludes ip the attacks, the 0ers mans have sent oyeg the pil0tlese weapons ct least ofee every 2g hours since shortly before midnight June iS.
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New Lending Anticipated
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Saturday and Sunday in Italy.
 fVa1aA Alawaa aaaAmwe AanaaaneMA RAa

Saturday and Sunday in Italy.
 The three leaders discussed both military and political questions "lD a spirit of entire frankness," Brit isE coEnmunique said at the time. and added that the conversations would continue.
 Tito's army. comprising 350,000 or more guerilias, already holds several large sections of Yugoslayia and ol many occasions has demonstrated it's ability to seize beachhea6s on the Dalmatian coast on which an Allied invasion army could be put ashore.
 The combined partiSan Allied Armies. tt was believed, easily could Fout the 10 to n German dlyislons stationed in Yug0slayia end then strike into the German rear in Hungary and Romanla and ulti' mately southern Germany.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-16
Fovors Short .Compoign

Washington. Aug. i6--(UPJ-Sen. Harry s. Truman, President Roose- yelt's fourth term running mate who probably will carry the brunt of the party's national campaigning be- cause of the war, hoped today that he could limit the job to half dozen major speeches.
 The strategy for the Democratic campaign is expected to be worked out by Truman and Mr. Roosevelt at d meeting either tomorrow or Friday. It will be their first confer enee since they were nominated by the Democratic National Convention at Chicago last month.
 In the interim, Truman as the vice presidential nominee, has been working out his own ideas in conjunction with Democratic Ma tional Committee Chairman Robert E. Hannegan. His proposals will bf subject, of course, to the approval of MT. Roosevelt as titular head Of the Democratic party as well as its master political stTategist
 Truman is ready to become a yer itable workhoTse if that will improve the chances of President Roosevelt s reelection in November but he per- sonally believes that a short cam paign is more effective,
 He would like to deyot ehis per- sonal efforts to the midwest, south and far west, leaving the industrial east to the personal attention of the president who served notice in his fourth term acceptance speech that because of the war he would not be able to campaign in the customary fashion of coast 10 coast speaking tours,
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lCoDtinusd from Page ID ping tWo-top blockbusters without lass,
 The widespread assaults Vere capped by q concentrated blow by 900 fouF-engiEed b0mbers and nearly 2,O00 fighters against 2i key German air force stations in vest eFn GeFmspy. Belgium and Holland.
 An cir expert, summing np the mighty strike in which 5000 tons 0i explosives were dropped during go minutes, said the blow would go down in history as the 'LuStwafSe's 6 unhappy day"
 Otter Allied bombers and Gghters continued the steady attack on Ger man communications and positions on the Normandy front.
 Supreme headquarters announced that IS tanks Rd more than tJb vehicles, including balf tracks, wefe destroyed and RD equal number damaged in the fighting gone. Thirty locomotives weFe shot np tG the railroads ct BratDe-le-comte in Belgium.
 During the day g pianes were shot down, while Allied losses to- taled go bombers and 1s Agbters,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-16
Won Contegd To Do Gndueted

New York, Aug. Ib, lUFI-oeFl Hans Yon GontaFe, ap heir 10 the AnheueeF Busch brewery fortune aeaulttad in June of e charge oI eoi16piraey to eyade RliiitaFy serve Ice, wlll be iaaueted into the armed forces on Friday, siig dsys before he reaches the automatically de. GegTeo age Of 2e eeleetiEe seryiee headauaFiers revealed t1ay.
 Won Goptard. aB 0fIiciel at selee. siHe service eaia, wouid be sibteci C accepted to service fer the afFs- ton plus six months, aFd then w0uid be plaee6 ln reserve forces uptiD bs was eb.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-16

EFaB0nefB Rounded ID
 A front dispatch disclosed that five towns, including one Of 5000 persons five miles inland. fell Go the invaders in the first six and a half of the landings yesterday. Prisoners were being rounded up in patches of 20 or more and were of all ages. the dispatches said.
 Some ground forces were believed already to have linked up with American and British air-borne troops landed behind the Germans coatsal defenses by parachute and glider for a thrust up the Rhone Valley toward Lyon and Paris. AL lied bofnbers attacked valence air. drome, in the Rhone Valley 57 miles south Of Lyon, last night.
 Heavy. medium and light boinb- CTS. as well as fighter boEnbers. pro- vided a continuous air umbrella for the 1000 ships and hundreds of air transports and gliders pouring re- Inducements. armor and equipment into southern France. Beach de- lenses, troops concentrations, bridges. aircromes and other mili- tary objectives were bombed. shelled and strafed.
 Three enemy aircraft were des- troyed and % Allied planes were lost.
 Stiffened Resistance
 German resistance stiffened in some sectors. forcing landing craft to go into the beaches under cover of dense smoke screen, but elsewhere continued sporadic to non-existent
 Sky trains of gliders. some of them 100 to l50 miles long, ferried in air-borne endorsements. while AL lied navies provided a virtual bridge of ships from Italy, North Africa. Corsica and Sardinia to the French coast. Some of the vessels were fresh from participating in the in- vasion of Normandy.
 ''The steady build-up of the army by the Allied Nayies and Merchant Navies is proceeding smoothly" a naval communique said.
 ''Reinforcements with all their guns, mechanical transport. food and other miscellaneous equipment are rapidly being landed in fine wealth CT. The work continues by night as well as by day"
 Front dispatches estimated the number of thoops put ashore in the first i2 hours alone in the tens of thousands and said tanks. guns and jeeps already were rolling inland from the beaches on a a0-mile front.
 Headquarters revealed yesterday that one force had captured Cap Negre. 28 miles east of Toulon. and an uneonfirmed broadcast by the clandestine radio Atlantic asserted other troops had cut the Marseille- Cannes road near Hyeres, nine miles east O. Toulon. and effected june ton with phratroops i2is miles be- hind the road.
 storm Beach
 The bombardier of a liberatoE bomber told of seeing troops storm a beach near Rejus. 10 miles south west of Cannes. this morning after a preliminary air and sea bombard- ment.
 Landing craft elrcled six miles off shore until We began our bomb run" the bamhardier, It. Robert Kimball Of Cincinnati. O., said. As if by pre-coordinated planning, They were north and south of our target. which was the FseJus road. Warships were pumping shells into the town. Soon troops were seen landing
 (A Paris broadcast said heavy fighting was taking place on both
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 O( the George blll foF continued state control Of lobleag benefits, Some freely conceded that there was no hope Of winning concessions from tho Ways and Means Committee.
 GelleF eHlphasized, hoWeVeF, that C the committee reported out the George biil he would offer hia meas uge e e substitute from the f0loT.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-16
Gas In Stomach
 and Bowels
BELIEVED oR 70 COST

Every person who is troubled with soEeeeeive gas in stomach and bowels inhould get a package of baalmaRn'e Gas Tablete and try them for quick re- ileg af the distress.
 sharp pains in the abdomen are l0ften due entirely 10 gas pressure. Many sufferers occasionally have a burning pain at the pit of the stomach. called heartburn. others complain at times of palpltafi0n, labored breathing, lanuT rinings, nausea, bloating. head oehe or dlszlness. any of which may result from gas pressure.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-16

Chile is gathering ever tWlee as many ehIlnoweT seeAs as besys the waF.
 Ar passenger fares in Honduras have 5liat been cut as much ns % |peE est
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-16

4 Prisoners Of War Exhibition was held recently in kond0n,
 South Africa Will subaaelao the growing of more Indlan cegn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-16
Routed Foe In
 Fierce Escape Try
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--@--4 .-@ -@s.z@---s-s-@---ss..s... - which then artillery could sweep virtually every roda ln the Falaise area.
 Simultaneously, Pattons tanks and riflemcn pushed slowly north and west of Argentan to within less than six miles Of Falaise, meet- lng savage resistance from German panzer units battling to hold open that side of the corridor.
 Enemy Isolated
 At the opposite end of thet rap, British troops from the north and Americans from the south slasheG deep into the German defensive Derimeter In a series Of fast-rollirg thrusts that isolated a half-dozcn enemy units and pushed in the Nazl fines as much as three miles.
 The Americans captured Dom- front. La Ferlc-Mace and Ger, drove Into Yvrandes. three miles south of Tinchebray, and farther to the cast pushed beyond Ranes against strong enemy opposition.
 Bitter fighting also was reported around Argentan, where the Ameri. cans stili held only a part of tho town, although thicr armor al. ready had penetrated well to the west and north. Putanees, 10 miles west of Argentan, also fell to the Americans In a quick lunge that topped mere than five miles of tho southeastern corner of the enemy pocket.
 To the north. British troops drove into Tinchebraw and pushed east. ward along the top of the pocket by-passing Che strongly-held vile lage of Condo and crossing the Moireau river.
 Other British units pushed in coward a junction with the Can. adians at the eastern end of the line. Capturing Cossessville and TTeprel, the latter barely seven miles west Of Falaise.
 Poor Weather
 Flying weather over the battle area worsened somewhat early toe day, but swarms Of Allied warplanes were on the attack almost continu- ously. bombing and strafing the trapped enemy and ranging far to the east to strike at the few Maxi elements that managed to slip thorugh the gap yesterday.
 American and British flyers flew some 1000 sorties yesterday. high lighted by a massive strike at the German Air Force stations in the Reich and the low countries from which the Luftwaffe might attempt to aid the cornered 7th army.
 More than 1900 American and British heavy bombers. covered by a massive escort of about l 900 fight CTS, bombed 2l main Luitwatfe head quarters, control stations, and air. fields, while hundreds of medium bombers and rocket-firing fighters slashed at communications targets, bridges and supply dumps in and around the battle area.
 Other Raiders
 Other raiders struck hard at the embattled German garrison holding out in the citadel of St. Malo, on on the north coast of Brittany. Ire township itself fen to the Ameri- Nazi DNB news agency said the cans last night after several hours of street fighting. but both sides said the motley garrison inside the cita- del stlil was putting up a furious battle.
 There was no change in the situ- ation at Brest or Lorient, where the American armored columns were pounding hard at isolated German gsrrisons trapped in those ports
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Comm0ndos
 Led The W0y

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Boston, Aug, lA-luPlwAn0fheF day 0f Fee0Fd-hFeaklng humid heat was lD store for New England today -the seventh ln . F0wwas the aFea sweltered ln It's longest hat spell which already had Nsaimed la lives,
 Weather bureau officials said the temperature would hlt % today, eae degree above the record fog thle date set ln 1928, Temporary relief Enay result from thundeFsh0NeFg ln the afternoon, No important tens neFatuFe changes were predicted foF tomorrow, The heat wave ls due to break late Friday eT EatuFday,
 Yesterdays hlab Wae %, four des eEees abGVe the record foF the date set ln lese, officials said that with yesterdays record the current hot spell surpassed the five days ef Fss cord hlah temperatures set ln 1911,
 The heat wave which set Co ThuFeaay, hes rolled up the iollegs ing record tampeFatllFesl FFlday, cos. Saturday, l0g. Sunday, l00,gi Monday, e7, and yesterday Ae.
 Meteorological c, Harold Moves said that the excessive heat WaA caused by alr from the tropics which had moved Into the aFea,
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1000 Planes Pound Reich

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Allies Drive 8 Miles
 On 4O-MiIe Front
Prisoners Rounded CI

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Heot Wave Unobotins

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s|oHtsRueu FFbHl EaEs " BleF drought were broken in the North Central states today and the weatherman assured the east coast that long awaited relief from the heat would be delivered this week end,
 The rains. which were fairly uni. form over an area extending from Miehlgan southwest through noFth- ern Indiana and Illinois and into Missouri, brought l0ngraWaiteA moisture 10 growing crops which had been ln danger Of ruin,
 ID some regions the rains were heavy, with 2,ls inches at nurllngs ton, Ia,, BIO inches at st Joseph, Mo, and l,l0 Inches at Kansas city, during . slg-h0uF period last nlsht, Smith Grove. Ky. had the most pres elpltatloD, reporting s-es inches ie i2 hours.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-16
CeIIev Seeks Aid For Bill

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Evening star., 1944-08-07
Hot Final Seen in D. C.. Tennis
Doubles as Fuvorites Score

A blistering battle for the Dis
trict doubles crown is shaping up
between the team of Hugh Lynch
and Davey johnson, tourney favor
ties, and the sizzling John Nc
Diarmid-Bob Flournoy combination,
recent National Capital Parks
titlists.
Both duos breezed through OPEN
ing rounds at Edgemoor Club yes
terday, with Lynch and johnson de-
feating Maurice Goubeau and Joe
Baker, 60, 60, and McDiarmid
and Flournoy licking Whitehead
Curran, 6-3, 6-1. Tourney talk
sees no opposition for either team
in the brackets to come and pre-
diets one of the best court battles
of the season in the finale.
Singles play was featured by four
three-set endurance contests, one of
which lasted over two hours, as Don
CARRIER triumphed over G.. Hall
Cook, Is, 60, 6-1, in a Rock
Creek courts match. On the same
courts Bob Miller, the American
University ace. beat Paul Sullivan,
the former Pittsburgh star, ST.,
81, g. Other marathon matches
saw 1t. Col. Curtis Dali, former SON.
in-law of the President, defeated by
1t. Bob Hill, who lost the first set,
1-6, but came back to take the next
Evening star., 1944-08-07
Big Field Colts in State Pro-Am:
Diffenbuuq h Cup to Ho||under

A big field of the Districts top
golfers were set to tee off today at
Manor Country Club in a pro-ama-
teur event sponsored by the Mary
land State Golf Association after
putting in practice hcks in another
record goldng Sabbath.
High light of yesterdays play was
Nick Hollander's annexation of the
George Diffenbaugh Cup at Ken
wood with a net 139 in the 36-hole
fixture. Hollander finished six
strokes ahead of the held with
rounds of "a and 70 and subtrected
"a handicap of eight strokes for his
winning total. Finishing behind the
River Road club veteran were r. r.
Woodheld, 81-78-14-145; Sidney
Lanier, 75-79-8-146; c. P. Redick,
77-79-10-l46; DR.. M. N. Parks, TO-
83-12-147, and C. L. Vaile, 77-82-
PLAT.
Other headline performance of the
day was recorded at Manor by
Johnny Allen, who aced the 146-
yard 11th with a 6-iron in the
presence of John R. Miller, Jack
Crook and D. N. Pratt.
Things were humming at WASH
ington Golf and Country Club, with
the days activities featuring a Wal
Bond blind bogey, qualifying rounds
for the Birney Cup competition and
a Semifinal match in Horton Cup
Evening star., 1944-08-07
U. T. Girls Whip New England
Champs, Tune for A|I-Sturs

If the All-Star girls softball team
that plays the United Typewriter
lassies in the big twin-bill tomor.
row night in Griffith Stadium wa:
the type of club that scared easily
all 10 players would have a sinking
sensation today.
The United Typewriters took a
trip to Stamford, Conn, yesterday
to play the Connecticut Nutmegs
New England champions who hac
won 88 out of 80 games, Al of 'en
in a row, and had not been beaten
since July 1912. At least that was
the record before they collided with
the Washington lassies.
The Typos licked that nationally
famous ten, to 2, before an enthusi.
astic crowd of $500 that cheered
the District girls as often as they
rooted for their local team.
Marion Leary, the Typos star
finger, spaced out six hits, and
famed three over special g.
inning route. The Nutmegs collect
ed their two tallies in the ninth,
and if the game had been the regu-
lation seven frames, it would have
been {. shutout for the Washing
tonians.
Smoky Stevens, Typist third
sacker, was the star at bat, COL
Evening star., 1944-08-07
Grays Win Double Bill
In Swapping Slump

There's no stopping those Wash
ington Homestead Grays when they
make up their minds to win ball
games, and their latest exhibitions
show no trace of the miserable
slump they were in a week ago.
The Grays took two more steps on
their comeback trail yesterday at
Griffith Stadium, where they
grabbed both ends of twin bill with
the Philadelphia Stars, club that
has licked them before and had
everything in the cards to do it
again. Scores were 9-6, 4-3.
The big guns of the Grays, Josh
Gibson and Sam Bankhead, were
firing expertly yesterday. Bankhead
knocked a triple in the opener to
score Wellmaker and Bell, and Old
Josh clouted his three -sacker in the
same inning to drive in Bankhead
and Leonard.