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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-28

Jan Murray's idea of the Best After-Dinner Speech he ever heard: Waiter give me both checks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-28

A Los Angeles Auto Supply Com- pany is saving money on telephones by distributing carrier pigeons to customers and having the latter put rush orders into capsules attached to the pigeons leg. Fly-by-night out fit?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-28

Excerpt from a love letter: Well, my dear, love you today more than yestcrday--but not as much as to- morrow" What weekend!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-28

If you want to enjoy the brighter headlines these days, share in your country's victories by sharing III its costs--Buy Another Bond. IF. B. They're still paying off $4 for $S you knOw!)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-28

NaziS have a new scout car that has four speeds--One that permits the car to reverse at 8 speed of fifty miles per hour. Probably getting ready for the invasion.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-28

You've got to give that man Kaiser credit. He hired former Tank pitcher Lefty Gomez for his shipyards so the latter can throw champagne bottles with a curve--launching two boats in one throw.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-28

Stanley Kunda, a grocery manag- CT of Washington was fined $1O for skipping a woman customer in the face with 8 fish. If it had been a steak the patron probably would have given Kunda SIC!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-28

Kaiser's policy is based on that ole proverb: An apple Day Keeps the Doctor Away" Only he's modernizec it: "A ship Day Will Put The JapS Away"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-28

Speaking of WACS did you hear about the WAC who was doing K. F. and got so mad peeling potatoes she started scratching their eyes out!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-24
On Triumph's s Eve Says FDR
By UNITED PRESS

Three United Nations Leaders President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery-served notice on the Axis today that the zero hour for the invasion of Europe is near.
 In simultaneous announcements on the showdown battle with Ger many, MT. Roosevelt spoke of the "very eve of triumph" Churchill said the assault would come "soon, !" and Montgomery predicted that peace now is not so far off,"
 MT. Roosevelt's statement was issued at a Washington news con- ference. Churchill addressed Amer ican troops at an invasion base in England yesterday. Montgomery, commander of British ground forces that will invade western Europe, spoke at a London rally warning, however, that the end of the European war might not come until 1945.
 The Presidents reference to the "very eve of triumph" was part of statemnet voicing Allied deter imitation to punish all enemy lead- CTS and functionaries responsible for the mistreatment of refugees in Europe and Asia.
 He said that as the crisis ap- preached, 1t was fitting to proclaim again G'our determination that none who participate" in the acts of savagery against European and Asiatic civilians shall go unpun- iShed."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-24
Noxon Asks
 To Be BuiIed

Pittsfield, Mass, March 24--CUP) Counsel for Atty. John F. Noxon Jr., 47, appeared before Superior Judge Abraham E. PinansKi today to argue a motion that the defen- dant be freed on bail pending his re-trial on murder charge May 3l Noxon is accused of electrocuting his defective 6-month-old son.
 The wealthy corporation lawyer was said to be prepared to post any amount of bail demanded to gain his freedom. The bailing of first degree murder defendant is unprec- edented in Massachusetts.
 Chief defense counsel Joseph B. Ely contends that as a prisoner in Berkshire county jail, Noxon is un- able to obtain the medical treat ment he needs as one who has been afflicted with infantile paralysis.
 Since his arrest more than six months, ago, NoXon has been con- fined to the jail infirmary,
 Noxon'S son Lawrence was cleo trocuted in the living room of the family home here last Sept. 9. The father claims 1t was an accident. Ills first trial recently ended In Q mis- trial because of jurors illness.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-24
J. F. McGroth Estate Valued At $5O,OOO

Appraised inventories of the eS- tates of the late Judge John F. Me- Grath and the late Isabelle c. Mar tin Hancock, formerly of Waterbury and late of Kentucky have been &C., cepted at the local office of Probate Judge Patrick Healey.
 An appraised total value of $50, 100 has been set on the estate of the late prominent jurist who died sud- denly Dec. 10. 1943. The estate as inventoried consisted of piece of land with Improvements thereon situated on the westerly side of South Main street and valued at $34, 100, and an undivided one-half interest in land and property situ- ated on the southwesterly corner of West Main street and Judd street and valued at $16,000.
 The late Judge McGrath was long noted as one of Waterbury's out standing iurists.. His philanthropy was generous and widespread.
 The late Mrs. Hancock was member of one of the city's oldest families. An appraisal of her estate revealed 8 total value of equity in 6 parcels of land in the amount of
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-24
FDR Promises Venq eonce

Washington, March 24.-CUP)- President Roosevelt today reiterated Allied determination to- punish all enemy leaders and functlonaries re- Sponsible for the insane" savage treatment of refugees in Europe and Asia.
 MT. Roosevelt, in a news confer ence statement, said that on the "very eve of triumph" over Nazi barbarism it was fitting to pro- claim again "our determination that none who participate" in the acts of savagery against European and Asiatic civilians shall go unpun- iShed."
 '"That warning applies not only to the leaders, but also to their functionaries and 3ubornidates in Germany and in the satellite coun- tries,' MT. Roosevelt said.
 "All who knowingly take part in the deportation of Jews to their death in Poland or Norwegians and French to their death in Germany are equally guilty with the execu- tioner. All who share the guilt shall share the punishment"
 At the same time MT. Roosevelt called on every German and every man everywhere under Nazi dom- ination "to show the world by his action that in his heart he does not share these insane criminal desires" '"
 He asked the German people es- pecially to help pursued victims es- cape and ito keep watch and to record the evidence that will one day be used to convict the guilty"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-24
Germans Nearly Complete Occupation or Satellites

the river empties into the Black Sea.
 While the Germans desperately were attempting to reorganize the Balkan setupj in the face of Soviet pressure from the northeast, various sources said the NaNs were encoun- tering some difficulty in Rumania.
 London newspapers said that gen. eral mobilization had been ordered in Rumania as the German troops were reported crossing the border from occupied Hungary.
 The Germans also were said to be having difficulty maintaining mill tary communications around Balti, about 30 miles east of the Prut river. All roads were reported jam med with panicky refugees fleeing before the Soviet advance. The Lon- don News Chronicle commented that it is France and Belgium all over again, but this time the Ger mans are suffering."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-24
KidnoperM Must Stay In Jail

Boston, March 24. - (UP) -- Kenneth E. Buck, 39, of Harwich, serving 24-to-25 year sentence for Kidnapping Margaret (Peggy) Mo- Math of Detroit, must remain in prison at least until 1949, the state parole board ruled today.
 Chairman Reuben L. Laurie de- nied Bucks petition for freedom from the Norfolk State Prison col only under the wartime emergency law, and added that any parole ap- plication would be ignored until Buck had served the required two- thirds of his sentence.
 Buck was arrested in 1883 for kid naping the then 10-year-old Peggy McMath and holding her for $60,- 900 ransom. Subsequently she was released unharmed.
 He had made several attempts to obtain Q pardon or parole since his convistion. Ills latest came when he wrote to enighbors in HardWich and Chatham asking them to write to the Parole Board requesting his re- lease.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-24
2Red Armies Race Through Split Foe 7o1uard Run1ania
By HARRIsON SALISBURY

Limited Press Stan Correspondent
 Moscow, March 24-(UP)-Two Russian armies raced through shat tered German defenses for the hon. or of driving the first wedge to the Rumanian frontier today, forging nearly three-fourths of the way across Bessarabia and down through pre-war Poland to the outer ap- proacl1eS of the upper Dniester.
 Marshal Ivan s. Koney's second army held the advantage in the race, reaching within 15 miles of the Prut river border line with the cap- ture of Ryshkanovka in Bessarabia
 At the same time a sudden south ward surge by Marshal Gregory K Zhukov's first army gaainst crum- bling German resistance sent spear heads closer and closer to Cernauu to the northwest.
 GA German communique reported "embittered defensive fighting against superior Soviet forces" be- tween the middle Bug and the Dniester rivers as well as on the 65-mile Tarnopol- -Proskurov front where the first army of the Ukraine was pressing q new offensive0
 Front reports from the regions where the Russians were approach ing Rumania referred to the utter demoralization of shattered German divisions which the Nazi high coln- mand was trying frantically to stiff fen with fresh Rumanian levies said to be displaying pronounced lack of military ardor.
 All signs were that unless Marshal Fritz von Mannstein pulls a rabbit out of the hat the Prut line will prove no more formidable barrier for the Russians than were the Dniester and the Bug.
 How von Mannstein proposes to defend Rumania in the light of the apparent debacle was a growing mystery. The German preoccupa- ton with snoring up the Hungarian defenses may be clue to the mys-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-24
Nozis Duck Fight With US. Bombers
BY PHIL AULT
70 ' ILL H@OASN limited Rress War C0EreSnn

United Press War Correspondent
 London, March 24.-(UP)- Ely ing fortresseS and Liberators ranged over hundreds of miles of Germay and France today, bombing vital targets in the Reich for the third straight day, but again failed to flush the Nazi Air Force for the long sought showdown battle.
 The U. S. Eighth Air Force sent out two formations of up to 250 heavy bombers each. Fortresses hammered German target over which they once fought bitter bat ties with Nazi fighters as well as other objectives, and the Liberators plaStered air bases in northeastern France.
 American airmen returning from the fourth penetration of Germany this week said they found their targets blanketed with clouds, and encountered only moderate anti-air- craft fire and no German fighter planes.
 Smaller Scale
 The daylight attacks were on smaller scale than the powerful as-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-24
Joan Barry 
BY FREDERICK c. OTTMAN United Press Hollywood
 COrreSpOndent

Hollywood, March 24-(UP)-Joan Barry, who wanted to be movie star and claims she wound up as Charlie Chaplin's mistress, faced in federal court today criminal attor- ney, Jerry Giesler. who sought to make her admit that she lied.
 AS the governments principal witness in its Mann act prosecution of the middle aged comedian, the 23-year-old Miss Barry told a story of dinner at the 21 Club in New York, drinks at the Fl Morocco, and a night with Chaplin in his bed- room in the tower of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
 She charged, in effect, that the multi-millionaire Chaplin transport ed her to New York in October, 1942, for the sole purpose of indulging in sexual relations and that he sent her back to Hollywood three weeks later for more night-long revelS in his Beverly Hills mansion.
 The red-haired Miss Barry, who is growing plump since the birth of the baby she claims was fathered by
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-24
Frances Former In Mental Hospital

Seattle, March 24. UP)-Frances Farmer, 30-year-old former screen star, was under commitment to the Western State hospital today on an insanity complaint filed by her mother, Mrs. Lillian V. Farmer.
 The commitment was signed by two physicians after Mrs. Farmer testified yesterday that she was unable to control her daughter at home and that institutional care was necessary.
 Miss Farmer came here year ago after spending several months in rest home in Southern Cali fornia. She was transferred to the home from jail where she had started serving a six months sen- tence for failing to pay the final installment of 8 fine imposed for driving while intoxicated.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-24
Wayne Tried
 To- BuyPoiso
By RICHARD G. HARRIS

United Press Staff Correspondent
 New York, March 24-(UP)- Wayne Lonergan admitted that he had attempted to buy one gram of arsenic, a lethal dose, for $100 two weeks before the murder of his wife, Patricia, 1t was disclosed at his murder trial today.
 A few minutes after this was brought out in testimony, Defense Counsel Edward V. Broderick asked for the withdrawal of juror and a declaration of a mistrial. His motion was summarily denied by Judge James c. Wallace.
 Lonergan'S admitted attempt to purchase arsenic was revaeled by Detective William James Wall of Toronto police, who took steno- graphic notes of the defendants questioning after his arrest in the Canadian city the day after his wife was slain last October.
 Reading from his notes, the wit ness quoted Sergeant Harris of the Toronto police as asking Lonergan: Do you know MT. Mischel?"
 Yes" Lonergan replied.
 e. Did you see him two weeks
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-24
Drive Starts For
 Wide Wage Boosts
By RAYMOND LAIR

(Un1Ce0 FreSS StaH COFTeSpOnueuV
 Washington, March 24-(UP)-- The United Steel Workers, leading of the CIO drive to liberalize the Little Steel Formula, called today for industry-wide wage increases which 1t said would cost $207 ,920 ,000 annually and could be granted without raising the price of steel.
 A wage boost of IT cents an hour should be allowed. the union said, because labor has been penalized by rigid wage controls while the ad- ministration's stabiilzation program has been ineffective in other seg- ments of the nations economy. {.
 The CIO unions case was sub mitted in a 166-page brief to the War Labor Board steel panel at the initial hearing on the merits of the USW dispute with 04 steel com panies. The union had 174 demands in all, but 1t focused attention on the 17-cent wage proposal, the basic issue in what has been viewed as a test case to determine the fate of the Little Steel Formula.
 In the steel case and a similar onue involving the American Fed eration of Labor, the WLB has agreed to hear union arguments
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-24
9More Jap Ships Sunk
By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON

By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press War COrrespondent)
 Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pacific, March A.-(UP)-Allied bombers sank two Japanese freight CTS, seven coastal vessels and 23 barges of Wewak Wednesday, smah- ing the third enemy attempt in four days to reinforce its virtually iso- lated base on the northern New Guinea coast, 1t was announced to- day.
 In the three attacks, the Allied airmen destroyed total of l8 Japa- nese vessels, including one destroyer and three corvettes, and severely damaged another destroyer together with three supply ships.
 Heavy, medium and light bomb CTS followed up the latest shipping raid with a series of assaults along the Ne wGuinea coast from Cape Moem, at Wewak, to Aitape, 90 miles to the northwest. Defense in- stallations, supply and bivouac areas were hit with approximately 200 tons of explosives, a communique said, and eight heavy gun positions were destroyed or seriously damaged. A number of parked planes also were destroyed.
 One Allied plane was lost, appar- ently from anti-aircraft fra. as the communique said the Japanese faR- ed to put any aerial opposition.
 In the isolated Bismarck Archa- pelago Solomons- based torpedo dive-bomberS carried out midday attack on Rabaul, dropping S6 tons of explosives on Vunakanau AiRs drome, while several hundred miles to the east in the Solomons, light bombers and naval units bombarded enemy positions around the Toro. kina perlmeter on Bougainville.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-24
By LYLE c. WILSON ited Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Stan COrreSpOn0entJ
 Washington, March 24-(UP)- High administration figures were described today as alarmed by the proinence of left-wing Laborites and ComunistS in the campaign to continue President Roosevelt in office for fourth term.
 The situation causing the anxiety mentioned by "Pri" evidently was developing in New York where the American Labor party is engaged in the bitterest intra-party political row this country has seen since the Alfred E. Smith and William G.. McAdoo forces battled over re- ligion, prohibition and related is- sues in the 1924 Democratic ma tional convention.
 The opposing ALP leaders are
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-24
LAPS WITHIN THIRTY MILES OF IMPHAL
Churchill Sees Invasion "Soon"; ];
 Peace Not So Far Off, "--Monty

By WILLIAM R. HIGGINBOTHAM United Press War COrrespOndenN
 U. s. Airborne Forces Base, England, March g. = (UP) - Prime Minister Churchill revealed in a zero hour in- spection of this American in- vasion base today that Amer ican and British troops have lost heavily in the battle for Italy, but predicted confi- dently that the impending invasion of western Europe will break Germany'S mill tary power and bring the war-guilty Axis leaders to justice.
 Whistling his surprise and ad- miration at the weight of equipment massed here for the coming blow at the continent, Churchill told the American air-borne troops that they will soon" be in action against the enemy in cooperation with British invasion armies.
 "Our troops, British and Ameri- can, at this moment are shedding their blood side by side in Italy, at Casino or in the Anzio bridgehead fighting hard and losing heavily in the struggle" he said.
 And now here this colnradeShip in arms is repeated and I am con- fident that not only will the enemy feel the shock of our joint exertions but that there will be left behind a core of good feeling and mutual un- derstanding and unity which will in itself be of priceless advantage to the goodwill which has united us now for so many years"
 Thanked by Gen. Dwight Eisen- hover, supreme commander of the western invasion armies, and Let. Gen. Omar N. Bradley, senior com- mander of American ground forces, Churchill reviewed the invasion base and then spoke directly to hundreds of soldiers who crowded about his command car.
 "S0On"
 "Soon you will have an oppor- tunity of testlfying to your faith in all those inspiring phrases of the American constitution and of strik- ing a blow which. however 1t may leave the world, will, as we are de- termined, make 1t a better, broader world for all," he said.
 Churchill told the Americans that the Allies are about to strike a blow flor cause which is greater than either of our two countries have ever fought for ill bygone times"
 Tt is world cause because, though no one can tell how the future of the world will shape it. self. we are determined that the dark tyrannies which have crowded over our lives and drawn our people from their homes shall be broken and battered down and that an example shall be made of the guilty which will prevent such tyrannies from being erected again upon the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-24
Mt. Vesuvius Slows Down
BY c. RF. CUNNINGHAM

Limited Press War Correspondent
 Pompeii, March 24.-(UP)--- Vesuvius still spouted smoke end ashes 10000 feet in the air today but the lava flows sLbsided sutfi- ciently to permit evacuees to return to some of the previously threat ened area.
 Some residents returned to Ger cola. Officials still stood ready to eVacuate Tore Del Greco and Tovre Arnunziatot, both of which were dieging out from 2 two foot de 1usit of gravel-like ash.
 Army bulldozers cleared main roaos in the vicinity of the vG)- cano and cinders became 8 serious problem, particularly along the main railroad running south from Naples.
 Veteran American troops, some of whom as rallroaders used to bat tie heavy snowstorms in the north west Uniceo States, worked A hours without 6 halt to keep the line open.
 The villages of Pagani and No eera, east of Tore Annunziato suf- fired heavily from the ash fall
 The ashes weighed down homes and scread a:ross vineyards and or chards, causing damage expected to run into millions of dollars.
 On the road between Pompeii and Salerno, came cross scores of fam lies trying to dig out of ash-bound homes.
 The crater also was shooting out boulders, about two feet in diameter, which rose nearly 2.000 feet and came crashing down like bombs.
 Authorities evacuated scattered settlements Of farmers between Tore AnnunziNta and the moun- tain but the main lava stream on the southern sltTe had slowed sui ficiently to relieve anxiety at Torre Annunziata and Tore Del Greco.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-24
By JOHN A. PARRIS United Press Stan Correspondent


 London. March 24 U,P) -- German forces were reported today to be nearing complete occupation of the NaM satellite states in south eastern Europe.
 With Hungary already under con- trol, the Germans were said in an Ankara dispatch to have pushed 50,- 900 troops across the Rumanian frontier to seize all communications railways and other strategic points, while $. s. troops from Vienna re- portedly were occupying strategic points in Slovakia.
 An Ankara report to the Daily Herald added that every Bulgarian and Rumanian city on the Black Sea was under German control, to- gether with all transport facilities on the Danube from Budapest to Galati. only e few miles from where
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-24
StuIemote
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BY REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press War Cores iOnden(

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 Allied Headquarters, Naples, March A. (UP)--Fierce and in- decisive fighting still ragged in Cas- sino and the surrounding hills to- day as Allied tanks and field guns moved in to support the attacking 5th Army infantrymen in an effort to break the weeks-old stalemate.
 Prime Minister Winston Church. i'll said during a visit to an Amer ican and British troops are Closing heavily" at Casino on the 5th Army beachhead below Rome)
 An Allied communique reported tersely that "very heavy fighting continues in Cassino," and head quarters spokesmen indicated that New Zealand infantrymen were making little, if any, progress in their drive to clear the Germans from a group of ruined buildings in the southwestern edge of the town.
 They revealed, however, that Allied tanks had moved into pointblank range of the NaA positions and opened up with theilr big 75-milli- meter cannon.
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