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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-15
OTHERS GET WELL
 -8O CaR You. Nervous Break DOwA"

Of Rll sll- HfDis th a { inc hu ma D being iS sub- jeel 10, there 8 fe . Q 9 q ibat eause as much suffer- ing as that of bTeakT down by the Nervous kksE ielD, Tbis .is true, ns ihe sufferer aoes no At on q sulfeP UflaDF ehOly spells,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-15

SPEED LIMIT 25.000 MPH
 Rocket ship scientists say mans body can stand a speed Of 25,000 miles an hour as easily as 25 miles, provided acceleratiOn is gradual.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-15
FORT POLICE LANDLUBBERg

London's Port Authority controls a police force of 900 whose work lies entirely on land. The Metropolitan police part0i the Thames river.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-15

NHVFHA-ID thlF city, Aug, 18th, lgfl.- Mrs, Anna lJohns0nl DFufVa, of e5 Wheeler Street,
 a'cioek, from from HIdsrsosn HIds Funefal Home, 70 Central Avenue, Burial in Riverside eemeteTy,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-15
IlIBeBl

DsDwAHDs-In 0akyllle. Aug. iith, lett, Mrs. Helen Edwards, of lb5 Ball Farm Road, Oakyille, Funeral Thprsday morning, at Sil5 Hall Farm Road, 0akyille, tO si. Mary Magdalen's Church, 0akyills, at $500 o'clock. Burial In Calvary cemetery,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-15
Mrs. Dorsey To Tell All

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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-20
DULLES REQUESTS
PROBLEM DIVISION
Proposes That Policing
Axis And Peace Main
teaaance Be Separated

ALBANY. N. Y, Aug. 19-P)-
John Foster Dulles, deputized by
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey for foreign
policy consultations with secretary
Of state Hull, proposed today that
the problems of policing defeated
Axis countries and maintaining
lasting peace be separated.
Meeting reporters in the COVER
nor's study of the executive man.
sion with the republican presiden-
tial nominee sitting nearby, Dulles
said he believed difficulties of
forming an international security
organization ought not to be COM
plicated by the immediate problem
of disarming Germany and Japan
and making them unable to under
take new aggressions.
The 56-year-old New York law
yer said that Dewey's statement Of
this week in connection with the
four power diplomatic conference
at Washington should be interpret
ed as deliniating the king of mill
Continued on Page Two; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-20
PLANES SLAUGHTER
RETREATINC NAILS
Spread Death, Destruction
Among Divisions Rae
ing For The Seine

LONDON, Aug. 10 -lPCAided by
the new rocket-firing tank-busting
U. S. Thunderbolt, Allied W 7
planes spread death and destruc-
ton among German division racing
for the Seine today and the three
day toll of destroyed or damaged
Nazi tanks and vehicles was OF
flcially estimated at 10000
The destruction inflicted on Nazi
armor and transport was describ'
ed as having caused tremendous
confusion and chaos" among the
fleeing enemy troops.
Raj typhoons and the newly an.
nounced U. S. Thunderbolt fighter
bomber accounted for much of the
destruction with their deadly
rockets, which have been smash.
ig German armor with astonishing
success.
Bad weather gave the Germans
some respite this afternoon but not
before 615 military vehicles and
81 or more tanks had ben knocked
out
The second tactical air force for
the three days starting Aug. II
has destroyed or damaged more
ninth air force during Friday and
than 1000 vehicles and tanks. The
Thursday accounted for more thar
1900 and the tabulation is not vel
completed and does not include to.
days score.
Storm clouds blanketed the area
late in the day. However, the
second tactical air force in the
forenoon knocked out SO motor
transports east of the Falaise
Argentan area, while U. S. Ninth
Air Force fighter bombers sweep
the routes of retreat.
Mediterranean-based Amerlcr
heavy bombers struck at Hitler
dwindling oil resources at P1oesti
Romznia, for the third straight day
and encountered no enemy aircraft
Raj Lancasters smashed again a
an oil stroage depot at La Pallice
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-20
CITY QUADRUPLES
ITS SINKING FUND
Is Expected To Amount To
100000 By End OF
The Fiscal Year

The City of Wilmington's sinking
fund, the money for meeting long
term bonds that will mature be-
tween 194S and 1855, has been qua
drupIed within the past three years,
according to figures released by
CITY Manager A. C. Nichols yes
terday.
The fund at present stands al
S615,0Oe, and by the end OF the
current fiscal year will amount tc
over 100000, it was shown.
In 1941, the fund totahed only
S153, 1893. In addition to the $50, OOC
annual appropriations to the fund
in the past three years, 100000
was transferred to it at the close
of the fiscal year ending June 80,
1913, and interest has been added
Sinking fund money has been in
visited by the city in high-type
bonds.
Bonds outstanding for which the
sinking fund is maintained were
issued to cover water and sewer
and street improvement projects,
and the bonds represent, aggregate
ly. over a million dollars.
The information on the status OF
the sinking fund is part of the data
accumulated for the city's second
annual report, which is soor to be
published.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-20
Navy Ordered
To Take Over
Pacific Shops
Union Refused To Lift Ban
On Overtime In Ma
chine Establishments
TO OPERATE SO
San Francisco Area Seiz-
ure Recommended By
WLB Vice Chairman

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 - R -
President Roosevelt today ordered
the secretary of the Navy to take
aver and operate SO machine shop
companies producing war mater
ials around San Francisco because
of refusal of union to lift an
overtime ban on workers.
The order was made public by
,he White House along with a let
Ter dated yesterday from George
W. Taylor, vice chairman OF the
War Labor board, recommending
seizure of the shops.
The board previously had urged
seizure of five plants because CT
the refusal of lodge 60 of the In
formation Association of Machinists
(AFL) to accept a board order to
rescind union action prohibiting
work in excess of eight hours a
day or 49 hours in one week in 1O4
San Francisco shops.
Began IN MdECA
The controversy began last March
when the union put a ban on over
time while in the course of negoti-
ating a new contract with the en-
ployers.
The union refused to agree to a
War Labor Board order to rescind
than ban and the case was referred
to the president.
Union officials, asserting over
time was not necessary, ordered
their members to cease work.
Many complied. but in the last
few days had returned to work.
Taylor said it was hoped that
seizure of the five plants, which
the president ordered August IA,
would result in removal of the
overtime ban on all of them but
the ban was lifted only on the five
shops over which the Navy had
assumed control and continued or
the remaining ninety nine.
Reports Facts
Taylor said the board has been
informed that the union does not
intend to lift the ban on the other
shops. He added: in view of this
persistent refusal the board unami-
mously voted to report these facts
to you for such action as you may
deem appropriate.
The presidents order asserted
Continued on Page Two; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-20
TROPICAL STORM
MENACES JAMAICA
Will Reach Vicinity OF
Island Today If Present
Course Continues

MIAMI, Fla, Aug. 19.-fR - A
tropical hurricane roared over the
Caribbean sea today on a course
which threatened the island of ia
maica.
eff present course continues, .
said the Miami weather bureau ir
a 400 p. m. advisory, "the storm
will reach the vicinity of Jamaica
late tonight or Sunday"
The bureau advised caution II
Jamaica, as we'll as western Hal
ii, Cuba and surrounding water
areas.
The storm was reported moving
west northwestward, but gave
some indications of turning north
westward.
Winds of go miles an hour OF
higher were bowling near the cen
ter.
The indicated position was about
300 miles southeast of Miami, and
100 or more miles south of Haiti.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-20
GERMANS STRETCH
FORCE IN BALKANS
Fewer Than so Divisions
Reported Along The
6OO-Mile Front

BARI, Italy, Aug. 1s-PEA Ger
man force of fewer than 60 divi-
sions, most of them far under
strength, is holding the entire Bal
kans. including the front facing
Russia, an examination of the most
recent reports reaching this listen
ing post indicated today.
The Germans have strung out two
thirds of this number across 900
mountainous miles between the
Black Sea and Krakow in Poland,
dispersed about dozen divisions
below the Danube and concentrat-
ed the remainder in central and
northwestern Yugoslavia.
These troops constitute the mini
mum with which Germany can
hope to retain the Balkans, it is
believed here, and withdrawals to
help meet the new Allied invasion
are unlikely.
The enemy's transportation situa-
ton has become critical, principal
ly because of Allied bombing op-
erations against the oil installa-
tons at Ploesti and elsewhere.
The German air force, bolstered
by Romanian, Hungary and Bull
garian units, probably is able to
muster 800 to 1000 fighter planes
of all types in the Balkans. They
are based principally in eastern
Austria, Hungary, Romania, and
eastern Yugoslavia for defense of
refineries, freight yards and war
factories.
Most of the German divisions in
the south have been saturated with
Satellite troops-Poles, Czechs. Slo-
walks, Serbs and Armenians -
probable indication the Reich
means to jettison them whenever
it becomes necessary. Field Mar
shall Gen. Macmillan Won WEIGHS,
who directs all operations in Yu-
goslavia, Albania and Greece, is
believed to have no more than five
or six alderman divisions left in
his command.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-20
Patrol Planes Bomb Haln1ahera,
Louer Guardian OfPhilippines
DAMAGE FREIGHTER
Fourteen Japanese Barges
Destroyed Or Damaged
Off Manokwari

GENERAL HEADQUARTERS,
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sunday,
Aug. 2O-R-Continuing the steady
patrol of southern Philippine wat,
ers, a Liberator bomber damaged
a small Japanese freighter off
Davao. headquarters announced
today.
Patrol planes bombed Halma.
hera. southern guardian of the
Philippines, and Vogelkop PENN
sula, the northwestern tip of New
Guinea. They also struck at Pa
lau. Fourteen barges were des'
troyed or damaged off Manok-
wari, northern Dutch New Guinea.
Continue Air War
This patrol activity continued
the aerial war which Gen. Doug
las Macarthur said has reduced
the enemy's potential strength in
islands around New Guinea.
The Philippines raid, made Fri
day, was the fourth consecutive
attack in the Mindanao area and
the sixth in eight days.
A small number of Liberators
nit Palau Thursday and reported
fires and explosions, including a
terrific explosion" All the other
attacks were Thursday.
The generals Saturday commu-
nique told of air blows to the
south Of Ha1mahera in the Banda
sea area-ai- assaults in force
against the islands Of Amboina,
Ceram and Boeroe. Japanese air
dromes were the chief targets of
the Allied filters. Halmahera was
hit simultaneously while other
planes ranged northward in their
eighth attack this month on the
Davao sector of the Philippines.
The airmen reported three bomb
Continued on Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-20
ga err Soviet Army
s mes Breach On East
IN Rim OF, 7 Territory
NEW DRIVE BEGUN
Second White Army Cap
lures 80 Localities In
Southern Offensive
By w. w. HERCHER

LONDON, Sunday, Aug. 2O.-(Rj
Red army troops yesterday ad.
vanced up to 10 miles in thrusts
imperilling Lomza and OstroW
Mazowiecki, German bastions
guarding the lower East Prussiar
border northeast of Warsaw, while
Berlin said that another powerful
Soviet army had punched out d
breach in major depth in Nazi
lines on the eastern rim of East
Prussia.
The Russian pincers movement
on Germany's exposed eastern
province was launched by two
Red armies totalling 100000 men
supported by strong tank and war
plane formations, Berlin said
The main center of fighting" wa!
near the East Prussian-Lithuani
an frontier, the Germans said.
Moscow'S communique was 81
lent about the western Lithuanian
front where Gen. Ivan Cherniak
hovsky's third White Russian ar
my Thursday reached the Eas
Prussiap border, but dispatche:
from the Soviet capital said The
Russians there were awaiting ar
announcement of the first Sovie1
crossing into Reich territory in 81
years.
Gen. G. F. Zakharov's Second
White Russian army began tn:
new drive between Warsaw anc
the southern border of East Prus
STA, capturing 80 localities, the
bulletin said. Curving around be
low the Wisna marshes one col
umn seized Kolomija, only 1;
miles from Lomza, and SO miles
west of Bialystok. the Soviet Of
fensive base.
Another column striking south
west in 10-mile advance captur
ed Czyzewo, 40 miles beyond Bi.
alystok and only 16 miles east O.
Ostrowmazowiecki. CzyzeWo is or
the Bialystok- Warsaw railway ane
also is a junction on a highway
linking Lomza and Siedlce.
The town of Smolevo. IS miles
south of Ostrow, also was captur
ed in this drive which is linked uE
with Marshal Konstantin K. Rok
ossovsky's first White Russian ar
nv wheeling movement between
the Ostrow sector and Warsaw
East and northeast of Praga, SUI
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-20
Nazi Soldiers Resent
HimmIer's New Post

LONDON, Aug. 19-|RHAppoint-
ment of Gestapo Chief Heinrich
Himmler as commander of the
German home army created re-
sentiment among some Nazi SOL
diers, Field Marshal Walter Won
Brauchitsch, former commander
in-chief Of the German army, indi-
Gated today in an article appear
ing in Berlin newspaper.
Meanwhile, DNB told Of continu-
ance of the hopping up of Hitler S
assassination planners by an
nouncing the arrest in West Prus-
STA of DR.. Karl Goerdler, ex-
mayor of Leipzig, who had been
sought under million mark re-
ward,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-20
GERMANS RETIRE
TO GOTHIC Line
Determined To Fight De-
spite Allied Landings In
Southern France

FLORENCE, Aug. 10 -tR>-Allie
patrols feeling out the Germans
found them sitting in their. gothic
line today and apparently deter
mined to fight it out despite French
and American landings in southern
France which threaten to seal of
One Of their best escape routes.
There was no perceptible loosen
ing OF the enemy lines anywhere
from Pisa On through Florence and
eastward to the Adriatic shore.
Allied patrols, splashing through
ram which prevented more impor-
1sNt operations, probed deep into
enemy positions in the upper Arno
river valley and in the Adriatic
sector.
Sporadic gusts of artillery fire
swept the front, and the enemy
sent out his own patrols to try to
.earn What fresh adventures his
I've I've was contemplating. These pa
Nots We're repulsed.
Inc last snipers were cleared
from the central part of Florence,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-20

mel were promised by Monday.
The Algiers United Nations
radio in a broadcast recorded
by the Associated Press said
"there are reports" that French
forces of the interior already
are in control of Vichy and have
set up their own courts.
The American tank thrust
south of Paris is a "reconnais-
sance movement" the Berlin
radio said. "a direct thrust Of
these American forces on Pa
ris is not on at this moment"
With their armies admitted
ly in flight west of Paris and
with last nights frank German
war ministry statement that
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-20
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. y u

A first-hand report of Russia's
appreciation for the material aid
the United States has given her
fighting forces was made here yes
terday by Major General Donald
H. Connolly, commanding general
of the Persian Gulf command, the
corridor through which the greater
part of these supplies have passed.
"They went out of their way to
express their appreciation to me
during the two months I was in
their country last winter, he as
serted. All this time, he added,
was spent in touring the Red war
fronts. Everywhere there was evil
dence that everyone was being in
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-20

Announcement that the chamber
of commerce. Military Affairs
committee, which last week was
appropriated $1,000 jointly by the
city and county, is working
on closer cooperation with Camp
Lejeune, as soon as the Army re-
leases local facilities" was made
yesterday in a bulletin issued to
Wilmington merchants by t h e
chamber.
Secretary Walter J. Cartier mott
fled merchants that the COM
mittee's trip to Camp Lejeune last
week developed acceptance by
General John Marston, command
ing general, and his staff to attend
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-20
Ice Shortage In Maffitt
Village Termed Serious

ed that the situation at the Village
was Serious and both men
agreed that the Housing Authority
has exhausted every effort to Sc
cure refrigeration for village
tenants.
eFrom a public health stand
point, the situation at Maffitt Vii
lage is not yet severe. However,
the personal health problem is in
volved, and food poisoning and in
adequate diet are likely to result
from the continued lack of ice, y
DR.. Elliot declared.
Elliot said the Board OF Health
Continued on Page Seven; Col. 4.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-20
FASHION POWERFUL
KNOCKOUT ATTACK
Nazis Push Ruthless De-
mo'itions Preparatory
To Fleeing Paris
By GLADYIN HILL

SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TIERS ALLIED EXPEDI-
TIONARY FORCE, Sunday.
Aug. 20.-P)-Speedy AM
erican reconnaissance patrols
stabbed nearly into the SUI
burbs of Paris yesterday and
columns of the American
Third Army reached the
Seine river Is miles west of
the French capital as the AL
lies fashioned a tremendous
knockout blow against the
German armies in France.
Explosions and fires shook and
scared Paris as the Germans ap-
parently fastened ruthless demo-
litions preparatory to abandoning
the city without fight.
The Swiss radio said American
forces already were in the Paris
suburbs. Allied sources did not
confirm this, but they put patrols
of 1t. Gen. George S. Patton's army
very near, and truck-borne dough-
boys were shouting, paris next!"
Quote Rumor
British papers all headlined re-
ports that the Americans were in
Paris, but all were quoting Ger
man or neutral rumors without
confirmation.
Destruction OF the German army,
not the immediate liberation of
Paris, remained the Allied goal, and
this was speeding on apace.
The Falaise Gap, where much
of the German seventh army was
destroyed in a week of sieige, fin
ally sealed off entirely, and the
fleeing enemy remnants that raced
away from it under the worst
aerial securing in history found
only that they had run into big
ger trap against the meandering
and bridgeless SENS.
While latest reports here put the
Americans only at unspecified dis
tances few hundred yards from
the Seine in the Nantes area, the
German communique acknoWl-
edged that Patton's forward ele-
ments already had fought to both
Nantes and Vernon, 30 and As miles
downstream from Paris.
This would envelop the Germans
in an area roughly SIS miles square
between the Seine, the sea, the
British and Canadians and the
Americans, with a perilous crossing
of the river as their only hope Of
escape.
Germans Beaten
Frontline dispatches passed by
field censors said fatty that the
Americans could advance on Paris
anytime they wanted to. Instead
of doing SO at once, they apparent
ly chose for the second time in
ten days to let that glittering prize
dangle for a time while they
sought out and slew more Ger.
mans.
The ruins of at least 10 Ger
man divisions from the Falaise
trap already were spread out in a
7O-rnile shambles from there to
Dreaux, jumpoff point for the
American dash to the Seine.
The German seventh army,
bolstered by elements of the 18th
army from the Calais coast, has
not been destroyed" wrote Asso-
ciated Press Correspondent Will
liam S. White with the American
first army, but he declared the
Germans had left thousands upon
thousands of casualties behind in
salvaging much Of their armor for
the dash to the Seine.
That dash, however. was o.
(Conttlued on Page Two; Col. u
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-20
ADVANCING TANKS
NEAR MARSEILLE
Broad Enveloping Move.
ment Headed Toward
Rhone River Valley
BY holland NORGAARD

ROME, Aug. 19.-(P)-
Handwriting French tanks
today led the American Sew
enth army into st. Maximum
Le-Ste.-Baume, only Is miles
northeast of Marseille I'D %
miles below the vital road
hub of Aix-En-Provence, as
the Allies outflanked the
great Toulon naval base in a
broad enveloping movement
headed swiftly towards the
Rhone river valley.
Less than $50 airline miles sep
arated the forces in southern
France from those in the north as
they moved rapidly ahead for a
union that would split France in
two ngitudinally.
Announcing the latest 1O-miles-a-
day gain against German opposi-
ton that was Considerable at
some places but feeble at others,
Allied headquarters said the bag
of captured Germans now had pass
ed 10000 and identified the second
German general captured as Gen.
Ferdinand Neuling, commander of
the 62nd Reserve Corps.
Leap-Frog Infantry
The French, operating new Am
erican-made tanks, drove into St.
Maxinin by leap-frogging the tired
American infantry who had carved
a path for them.
Otnep American forces shot out
northward to the vicinity of Grasse,
eight miles northwest of Cannes,
and La Bastide, % miles northwest
of Cannes, thus deepening up to 30
miles their solid foothold along
more than so miles of the curving
French Mediterranean shores on
which they landed Tuesday.
An Allied staff officer said the
Germans were Withdrawing SO rap
idly that they were unable to &C
complish their usual demolitions.
He said they were expected to stiff
fen somewhat as the Allies pro-
crossed northward. but declared
that German reserves in France
already had been virtually exhaust
ed. He highly praised the Ameri-
can-French tactics in bypassing
and cutting off enemy strong
points.
Only on the coast a dozen miles
directly east of Toulon was Ger
man opposition described as truly
determined.
The Toulon garrison, however. al
ready was outflanked by the Ameri-
can-French drives farther north.
One of these took La RoqlkbruE
anne, IA miles north of Tomlon
and another Sollies-P ont, six nile
northeast.
Another five miles west from Sol
lies Pont would put 1t. Gen. Alex
ander M. Patch's men On an open
coastal plain across which they
could move a dozen miles to the
sea, cutting off Toulon entirely.
They already were reported less
than 80 miles east of Marsellle,
which with Toulon is one of the
two big prizes on the Mediterran
can French coast.
While elements of Third Ger
man division, the 338th infantry
have been identified in the north
western sector, probably around
Brignoles, there still were no OF
fetal reports of any movement OF
substantial German units toward
the battle zone.
On the east of the beachhead
front the Germans announced they
had abandoned Cannes, but official
information at Allied headquarters
indicated the eastern front was re-
latively stable and there was NO
word of entry into that onetlme
resort of the rich.
The Germans made belated
Continued on Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-20
Connolly Says Russians
Appreciate AmericanAld

formed that American materiel was
playing an important part in their
victories.
General Connolly has headed the
Persian Gulf command for the past
twenty-five and one-half months.
During this time it has grown from
a feeble line of communicate ons
from the gulf to the Caspian sea
to a great corridor through which
is passing not only supplies for
the Russians but the United States
air bases established on Soviet soil
as part of the shuttlebombing
system.
He arrived in Wilmington from
Continued on Page Seven; Col. Al
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-20
BY RICHARD KASISCHKE

LONDON, Aug. 10 up -
Vichy's chief of government
Pierre Laval, German ambas-
sador Otto Abetz, and Nazi
officials have fled Paris, and
Axis forces are fighting Ameri-
can tank spearheads some
where south of the French ca
pital, the German transocean
news agency said today.
The pro-Axis Vichy govern
ment also is thinking of leav-
ing that capital. the broadcast
said, and added sit is possible
this transfer may already be
in progress" Further details
on the plight of Vichy person.