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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-13
Nozi Defense
Line No Myth

Columbia, Mo-, May l3.-(UP)-
Germany's main defense system in
the west actually exist and should
not be considered "a myth like Hit
ler's secret weapons" Ralph E, Helm
zen, former United Press director
for France, said last night at the
University Of Missouri's 35th an
nual journalism week.
Heinzen, who arrived In the United
States recently after Is months in
ternment at Baden Baden, Ger
many. said he personally had seen
portions Of two OF Germany's three
main defense systems. The Atlantic
wall is backed up by the so-called
Reichenau line. running from Dun
kerQue southwark, and by q third
barrier, the Siegfried line, stretching
along the east bank Of the Rhine
from the seaeoast to Switzerland.
Heinzen said he saw Q part OF the
Atlantic wall two months ago at
Biarritz on his way TO Lisbon for
repatriation.
EVEN at that point. he said, 80
far south and so near the Spanish
border that an Allied invasion
would seem highly unlikely. German
precautions are so serious that !
saw . wide belt OF anti-invaslon de-
lenses"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-13
Cheers For
OrIemonski

Springfield, Mass, May 13 - GU.
Pr = Cheers greeted the Rev. Stall
islauS Or.er anSki at Union Station
today when the Polish American
priest returned home from his much
criticized mission to Moscow.
About $50 persons. mostly mem-
bers of Our Lady OF the Holy Ros-
airy parish, had gathered on the
station platform to welcome the
man who left here as an obscure
parish priest few weeks ago and
returned as a world-known figure.
The Rev. Xavier Baronowski,
Fother Orlemanski's curte, and
Stanley Ciak, Treasurer of the Polish
National Home Of Springfield, were
among the greeters.
I'm glad to be back" Father
Orlemanski smiled. Beyond that, he
brushed of the crops of newsmen
and cameramen who besieged him.
Father Orlemanski came here by
train from Chicago where yesterday
he discussed at q press conference
his interviews with Premier-Mar-
shall Josef Stain and other Soviet
off1cialS.
The priest went directly to the
rcctory where Ciak, acting as his
spokesman, told newsnen:
Father Orlemanski is too tired
as a result of his trip to make any
statement today" He indicated,
however, that the priest would re-
ceive the press some time later and
possibly ampiify his comments on
his Moccow mission.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-13
House Committee Approves
Nev Draft Regulations

SAID.
The last selectiye service act
amendmtnt approved BY Congress
provided that the President could
delegate authority only to the selee-
tive service director and not divide
It between him and the war man
power commissioner.
After the amendment was adopted
President Roosevelt directed selec-
tive service director Lewis b, Her
Ehey 70 consult With the war man
power commission on matters o. pol
ley.
Following Herkheys announcement
that only O few men 20 o. over
would be called this year, WAaC
sources estimated that there are
about 10000 men between 10 and
- who have not been called for
military duty.
Almost all Of them Win be avail
able under the eSE ruling.
WA4C aso estimated that between
10000 and 100000 men - e. oFeF
would Be taken because e. phYaicaH
unfiineG nmons ths gonnseE msn.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-13

Air Campaign GrolUs
To NeutraLize Truk

aircraft In the last eight months.
In the Wednesday attack on Truk,
MacArthur's South Pacific bombers
dropped so tons Of bombs on Dub
lon and Eten Islands in the Atoll
and shot down six enemy fighters
and probably two others. Two ad-
ditional Japanese planes were de-
stroyed on the ground, the U. s.
force lost one bomber.
Sixty-two tons OF explosions were
spread over Truk's airfields the fol-
lowing day by seventh air force Lib
orators, and one Japanese plane was
shot down. "A second wave also was
believed to have destroyed one Of
four enemy inserceptors.
Other U. S. forces from both the
central and South Pacific carried
out widespread raids on other Caro-
line bases, striking from Kusaie, the
easternmost island, to within 800
miles of Palau in the War West.
Allied planes again hit Rabaul,
New Britain, the Wewak- Hansa Bay
area Of British New Guinea and the
Wakde area, in Dutch New Guinea
Ground troops continued to mop
up in the Hollandia and Aitape
areas, where an additional SO jan
anese were killed Thursday and As
captured,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-13
Mccormick
Children Go
ToDr. Clarke

Middletown, Conn, May 13-(UP)
"A public hearing on charges
brought by her Chicago million
tire brother, Fowler Mccormick
that she was an unfit foster-moth-
err was avoided today as WAC Cpl.
Muriel Mccormick Hubbard re-
linquished guardianship over her
two adopted children to DR.. Fran
els M. Clarke Of Durham.
Declaring her brothers accusa-
lions that she was addicted to the
excessive use OF alcohol" and had
repeatedly beaten and abused the
children as ''baseless and not true"
Cpl Mccormick issued statement
through her attorney that she de-
sired ito avoid any controversy
which would affect their welfare
now or in the future, and with their
adoption by DR.. Clarke I sincerely
hope that@they will be spared any
further unnecessary embarrass-
ment."
The children, Elisha Dyer Hub
bard, II, age Z, and Edith r. Hub
bard, age II, were living in a New
Haven orphanage when they were
adopted by Cpl. Hubbard in 1899.
When she entered the army In
(C0ntinled on Page ~
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-13
ks$53,60O
For Damages

Total damages Of $53, 900 are
sought in an automobile collision
suit which has been assigned for a
special jury hearing in superior
court Tuesday morning. The plain
tiffs are Carmine DiGiacomo OF Wa
terbury, who seeks $4,000 for per-
sonal injuries, and his son. Peter Dr.
Giacomo of Waterbury. who claims
81 600 for damages to his car. The
defendant, the c. A. Cawles, Inc,
Of Southington has filed a cross
complaint, claiming $4,000 for dam
ages to its truck.
The complaint states the collision
occurred Jan. Is, 1913 at the in
tersection Of North Main street and
Hill street extension. Carmine d.
Giacomo was operator of the car,
owned by his son, while the defend
ants truck was operated by Peter
Scorpio.
1t is claimed by each of the driv-
ers that the other one was speeding,
and was on the left side OF the
highway.
The father claims he sustained
decorations of his head, face, and
body, crushing injury to his chest,
internal injuries, conclusion OF
the BRAIN. a back strain, and injur-
les to his right shoulder, arm. and
hand. The son claims the value OF
his car was reduced considerably by
the resulting damage.
Attorney Milton Harrison of New
Haven has drawn up the complaint,
while Attorney David M. Reilly of
New Haven represents the defense.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-13
Argentine Gets
FoIse News OF
Europe Invasion

Buenos Aires, May I2-(uPl-
The siren OF the newspaper La Ma
el0n shTieked today heralding what
proved 10 be 0 false report that the
Invasion Of Europe had commenced.
The report consisted Of two As
ISOLATED Press Bulletins datellned
London which were posted on La
Nacion's hulietlD board, reading:
'sThe invasion Of Europe has com.
neneed at several points on the
French coast"
THE Allied invasion commenced
simultaneously NJ Cambria. Epinoyl
Lllle. Monehy. Breton, Mervilie and
Niergnes,
Tire bulletins were taken down
after about an hour.
fThe Associated Press New York
office explained that the false bull
l0tins we're based on msiinterpEeta'
tlon Of an cir var story from Lon-
E|-44 IL
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u. s. Record

New York, May Is.--(uPl-Col,
Clair A. Peterson Of Fargo. n. d.,
few . Psi Mustang fighter plane
here from Inglewood. Cal. yesteF.
day a. an average speed OF 2Tsbt
miles per hour 10 establish . new
transcontineEtal record.
PeteFsons elapsed time was 9
hours. 81 minutes and 20 seconds,
including the time II took him 10 re-
fuel IN Kansas City.
A second Mustang fighter. iown
BY II. Col. Jack n. Carter. Pasa-
dena. Cal. made the sAme night
nonstop and lnnded seven minutes
behind Peterson.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-13
$4,000
Repairs. Etc.
To Schools
NEA Telephoto.

Approximately $4,000 will be ex"
pended, before the close Of 1914, on
general repairs and installations in
the city's n grammar and 3 high
schools. 1t has been estimated by
authorities.
Type of repairs to be undertaken
cover wide range and including
new roofing, flooring, repairs to
class rooms, gymnasiums, resurfac-
ing Of school grounds, fencin, ETC.,
as well as such major installations
as new heating systems, etc.
Such a program which is already
underway, some $4,000 having been
spent to date, will cost far beyond
appropriations already set up in the
city's 1914 educational budget. Al
though this program was being Civ
en- full consideration last fall at
the time the 1914 budget was being
compiled, wartime building restric-
tons of that time gave little prom
Use that such q program coul dbe
feasibly undertaken this year. How
ever, War Production Board author
tiles who have met with city Off
Gals on many occasions now have
given the go-ahead signal TO much
Of the program by lifting and easin
many Of these past restrictions.
OF major proportions in this plan
will be the installation of the new
boiler and heating system In the
Walsh school which alone will cost
about $4,000. This work as we'll as
most Of the general repair work will
get underway as soon as the city's
public schools close in June for the
summer. Costs exceeding budget APP
preparations will be met by means
of transfers made from other un-
expended items in the educational
departments budget and will also
likely be met by means of new ap-
preparations which can be set up
this fall in the preparation Of the
departments 1916 budget.
Also included in this program Is
the repair and renovation Of the
Duggan school swimming pool which
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NewWeopon
ToSpeorheod
Invasion
BY ROBERT DOWSON
nited Press STAFF Correspondent

(Umte0 EEeSS SVSn OOITe6pOnOentD
London, May l3-(UP)-British
forces trained to razor edged sharp
ness for the invasion Of Europe were
revealed today to be armed with a
secret weapon which demolishes a
military position within a matter
Of seconds.
Prime Minister Winston Church.
Ill and visiting premiers Of the COM
monwealth witnessed a demonstra-
ton of the weapon somewhere in
England. A sample German" po-
sition crumbled to rubble, infantry
charged with bayonets to CONSOLE
date the destroyed post" and
Churchill exclaimed excitedly to
Premier Jan c. SHUTS of South
Africa:
Look Jan"
The nature Of the new weapon
first will be made known to the
NaZis In a manner calculated tc
do them the most harm, but IL is
not too much to say that 1t may
play a big part in neutralizng the
west wall Of Adolf Hitler's European
fortress.
Churchill, SHUTS and Prime Min
lister w. L. Mackenzie King Of Can
ada covered 100 miles in a tour of
inspection among Britain's invasion
forces.
Putting vigorously at his cigar,
Churchill led his guests through
DOGGY marshes, across farmlands,
over slopes and through minefields
during grueling day.
The Allied offensive in italy ap-
parently threw the Neza propaganda
lists of balance. For hours they
did not even mention 1t, then they
wavered uncertainty in search Of a
clue as to how it fitted into the AL
lied plans for the promised assault
on Germany from east. west and
south.
The Nazis also appeared to have
been caught OF guard by the Allied
warning to the Axis satellites to get
out Of the war at once or face the
consequences. The best retort they
could muster was that the warning
was an appeal to surrender volun-
tarily to Bolshevism."
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-13
Explosion Of
Ammunition
Ship Probed
NEA Telephoto.

Boston, May IL. (UP)-The Navy
today abandoned hope and search
for those missing after a Navy
lighter carrying condemned am
munition exploded, burned and
sank in the fog -shrouded Atlantic
IA miles northeast Of Boston Thurs
day, killing II sailors.
William j.. Bradley, 30, a New
port, r. T., motor machinist's mate
&c, died Of burns at a Chelsea
hospital yesterday. Names OF the
other 16 victims, who still were
missing, were to be announced by
the Navy later today. Bradley was
one OF II officers and men who
leaped into the sea as the lighter
was wracked by a series Of terrific
explosions. The IS survivors, picked
up by q Navy weather vessel, were
treated for shock and immersion.
A naval court of inquiry Is seek
ing the cause Of the disaster, which
sent the 132-foot, self-propelled
lighter to the bottom in IS minutes.
About two-thirds Of the ships
load Of condemned ammunition
from the bingham Naval depot nao
been hauled up on deck and jetti-
soned when the first of the mysteri-
GUS explosions occurred.
Clearest picture Of the ensuing
inferno came from 1t. (jg) Herman
w. Doering Of Springfield. director
Of the working party who was
among the unframed survivors.
IT was standing on the deck on
the starboard side checking the men
on the working detail on the method
Of disposing Of some projectiles
when suddenly there was a fash
and an explosion to my rear" he
said.
Abandon Ship
81 turned around and found my
self in the middle of a mass of
burning ammunition. The heat be-
came extremely intense and the
rate Of explosion was increasing
rapidly. Two seamen and myself
abandoned ship, swimming under
(COntinued ON Page q
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-13
Axis Crimeo
Loss 111,OOO
BY HARRISON SALISBURY
United Press Staff Correspondent

OAAS[0 ALCoS 0sN1AA correspondent
Moscow, May 10 CUP - Red
army troops beat off new attacks on
the Soviet bridgehead on the lower
DneStr River near Chisinau, Bessar-
abba, today as the last enemy resist
ance was liquidated in the Crimea,
where the Germans and Romanians
lost more than 10000 men killed or
captured.
The futile assaults on the bridge
head northwest Of TiraSpol. in which
the Germans brought large forces
Of infantry and tanks into action
cost the enemy 1000 dead and the
loss Of 100 tanks in two days
through yesterday.
Soviet pilots aided guardsmen in
repelling two enemy attacks on the
bridgehead yesterday and shot down
% German planes as the Red army
troops turned back assaults at dawn
and In the afternoon.
Gen. Feodor !. Tolbukhin's fourth
Ukranian army. which had captured
Sevastopol, wiped out the last center
Of enemy resistance at Cape Cher
sonese In the Crimea yesterday to
complete q 35-day campaign In
which the enemy suffered its worst
defeat since Stalingrad.
The Soviet information bureau
disclosed that more than $1,000 en-
envy soldiers and officers were kill
ed and 6il5s7 captured. including
two German generals as the Red
Army forces cleared the 10000
square-mile peninsula. In the last
six days alone, more than $4,000 en-
envy men were killed or taken pFis-
oneF.
Russian waFshlps and planes also
took q heavy toll OF enemy shipping
during the campaign, sinking 1911
German vessels, including 90 troop
transports,
The heavy enemy losses indicated
that few OF the Germans and Ro-
manians escaped from the peninsula.
as early Moscow dispatches had es.
timated that the enemy had Ap.
pr0ximately 100000 men on the
cFimea before the e0viets started
their victorious drive.
A eommnnlqle also disclosed that
Soviet forces killed approximately
200 men IN FepulaIng q battalion OF
German infantrymen which had at
lacked N one sector near etanisla.
WOW. n southeastern Poland.
Al the far northern end Of the
lQanlLnnld q RAaa a
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-13
Germans Fight Fiercely
On 25-Mile Main Front
RY RRYNoLDs PAcKARp

BY REYNOLDS PACKARD
UNITED Press War Correspondent
Allied HI e a dquarterS
Naples, May IL. - Cup -
Allied armies, driving toward
Rome in a dO-Or-die offensive
to crush the Germans in
Italy, have routed the enemy
from his outer strOnghOldS,
captured at least three towns
and five hills and engaged
the main defenSes of thu
Gustav Line, it was an
nOunced today.
Heavy fighting is raging all
along the 25-mile main 'front.'
from the mountains above
Casino to the Tyrrhenian
Sea, a communique reported,
with the Germans resisting
fiercely from long-prepared
defenSeS and in some sectors
counter-attacking in a deS-
perate effort to bar the gate
way to Rome, rs miles away.
Enemy opposition appeared TO be
sitter than anticipated. The Ger
mans were throwing tanks, self
propelled guns and hame-throwerS
into their counter attacks and re-
gained some ground on both tho
Fifth and Eighth Army fronts.
Fifth Army troops were forced to
fall back to the outskirts Of one
town they had penetrated, while the
Eighth Army at Casino finally
yielded a foothold 1t had gained at
heavy cost on Hill $50 overlooking
the monastery on Monastery Hill
after standing on six counter at
tacks.
"a London broadcast said the Al.
lied forces in some places had ad.
vanced two to three miles, but in
others had been checked. The
German DNB agency, estimating
that four to five divisions-60, 900 to
tO,VVV Alctl-4Adu Oecll Jk1IOWu INTO
the attack, acknowledged that the
Allies had made some unconnected
breaches in the Sorefleld."
(DNB also said that five more AL
lied divisions were being retained
behind the main front for a possible
new landing along the Italian
coast. perhaps north of the Anzio
beachhead).
Americans OF the Fifth Army UNI.
/ der Lieut.. Gen. Mark w. Clark re-
pulsed two counter attacks and
! pushed on through the mountatl1s
around Castel- Forte north Of the
Garigliano river to capture four
hills overlooking the Seacoast end
Of the main German supply line be-
tween Casino and the Tyrrhenian
Sea.
French troops of the Fifth Army
captured the crest of nearby 2,500-
foot Monte Faito despite stiff resist
ance and moved on against neigh
boring heights. The French also
repulsed q violent counter attack
yesterday afternoon.
Swept up in the American adj
vance were the towns Of San Sebas.
nN
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-13
Subs Sink
jap Ships At
IA Day Rate
BY SANDOR s. KLEIN

United Press Staff Correspondent
Washington, May lS-UP)-Am-
erican submarines have been sink
ing Japanese ships at rate Of bet
ter than one day during the last
six months, a United Press analysis
showed today.
Since Nov. 1 Of last year, navy
announcements have added up a
total Of 203 enemy vessels sunk by
U. s. underseas craft. This is a
monthly average Of more than 33
ships.
The Germans chalked up higher
daily average In the summer of
1912 when their U-boats sank Al
lied ships at rate of about three
day. Nevertheless, the American
average was considered relatively
good since the u. 8. submarines do
not have as many targets to shoot
at as the Germans had. Further
more, Japan's shipyard apacity Is
outstripped hopelessly by her mer-
chant losses to date.
The overall total of Japanese
ships sent to the bottom by Amer
lean submarines since the start of
the war reached $50 with the navy's
announcement yesterday that Am
erican underseas raiders had sunk IA
more of the enemy'S vessels.
In addition to the $50 ships sunk,
the navy lists SO more at probably
sunk and lis damaged. These lat
ter figures undoubtedly should be
considerably higher, since the navy
ceased reporting vessels probably
sunk or damaged about six months
ago.
All this has been accomplished at
a loss of 20 American submarines.
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BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON

United Press War Correspondent
Allied Headquarters, Southwest
Pacific, May 13--(UP)-The aerial
power Of four American Pacific
forces has been concentrated In the
growing campaign to neutralize
Truk and its protective Caroline
bases, 1t was disclosed today as long
range Liberators carried out the
45th U. s. attack on the strategic
enemy bastion.
The new raid by Seventh army
air force bombers, which battered
Truk Thursday, was a follow up Of
an attack the previous day by South
Pacific Liberators which destroyed
eight Japanese planes and probably
two others.
The blows on the former big enemy
base were announced in commune
ques by Gen. Douglas Macarthur
and Adm. Chester W. NimitZ.
BY massing the combined power,
the two leaders have brought Truk
and 18th air forces and the Nays
fleet arriving two.
Strength Of the American power
In the Pacific was indicated In Nj
mitz' announcement that the U. S.
Pacific fleet destroyed 1920 jan
anese planes at a cost Of 1914 U. s.
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BOMBERS ROAR.
OVER WESTERN
GERMANY AGAIN

BY WALTER CRONKITE
UNITED Press War Correspondent
London, May Is. - CUP
= Big forces Of Allied bamb-
ers and fighters flew against
western Europe today and
Berlin reported American
fleets over northwest Ger
many after British night
raiders dropped some 1000
tons of explosives on the
crippled rail network behind
the Nazi anti-invasion wall.
Nazi broadcasts reported
heavy air battles against
American bomber forces over
north and northwest Ger
many around noon.
Coastal reports indicated United
States Flying Fortresses and LII
berators were in action again after
their smash yesterday at the source
Of synthetic fuel for the German
machine in Czechoslovakia in one
Of their most important and bitterly
contested operations Of the war.
The Nazi radio warning system
reported bomber formations over
Schleswig- Holstein while single Al
Lied planes ranged over western and
southern Germany.
More than 500 British heavy bonn
bers carried the pre-invasion bonn
bardment Of western Europe into
its 9th straight day with power
full assault Of which the main
weight was concentrated on the key
Belgian rail functions of Louvain
and Hasselt.
Olthough Louvain lies 80 miles
inland mad nearly $50 miles from
England, coastal residents felt the
ground quake under the impact OF
the bombers rained on 1t. The town
is the junction for five main line
tracks, and Hasselt, % miles to the
east, is on the trunk road to the
RUIZ.
TIE Raj attack carried the
campaign against German trans
port lines supplying the coastal
Notifications through an unbroken
week during which bombers blasted
neraly every hour Of the day and
night at rail lines. forward air
dromes, and mysterious military
detectives" along the coast
As the night attack was an
nounced, English coastal observers
reported numerous formations of
Allied planes striking eastward
through the shimmering heat haze
rising from the calm. sunlit Straits
Of Dover.
Daylight Offensive
The daylight offensive got in
motion somewhat later than usual.
The hours Immediately after dawan
were broken only by Raj Spitfires
which swept the enemy coast. But
by IL a. m. large forces had swept
out toward Calais, flying excep-
tionally high.
Heading the daylight parade were
Mitchell and Boston medium bomb
ers of the British Tactical Air Force.
Escorted by Spitfires, they attacked
(Continued on Page y
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Dr.. w. Spencer Carter
Edueotor, Dies Al IS

Newton. Mass, May Is. - CUP
- Dr.. william Spencer Carter, ",
Of Newton, Educator and onetime
associate director Of the Rockefeller
Foundations medical science diyis-
ion. died yesterday at his home.
A native OF Warren County, n. j.,
Carter received his medical degrees
from the University Of Pennsylvania
In 1890 and served as . faculty
member until 1894. He left 70 join
the University OF Texas faculty and
In 1903 became dean Of the medical
faculty there. IN Ie22 he hecame
associated with the RockefelleE
Foundation but resigned N 1894 and
returned 10 the University Of Texas
for Q two year term.
He was author Of several medical
books. He leaves q wife ana smn
daughters. including MfE. AssBBs
Emery Of Ann ATbor. Mich.