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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-16
Wife Sues
 E. Roosevelt

Ft. Worth, Texas, March 16. - (UP) - Divorce proceedings against Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, second son of the President, were scheduled to be filed in district. court today by his second wife. the former Ruth Googins, whom he married in 1855.
 Robert L. Hanger, Mrs. Roose- velt's attorney, who announced the contemplated action last night, said the petition vii lbe filed on purely statutory" grounds and will include a charge of cruelty" but not any misconduct.
 Roosevelt, now serving overseas with the Army Air Forces, did not know about the petition, Hanger said, but T imagine he'll find out about the suit by nightfan."
 Mrs. Roosevelt declined to make a statement, referring all inquiries to Hanger, who. she said, "has been Elliott's and my attorney for many years"
 Texas law provides divorce suiI must be on file 30 days before any final court action can be taken Hanger explained.
 The ROoSevelts were married II years ago. just five days after Ell
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GovtFiIesSuit AqoinstsICI,

New York, March 16.-(UP)-The government filed antitrust actions today against IS American firms and the powerful British Chemical Trust, Imperial Industries, Ltd, on charges of maintaining international cartel agreements to restarin pro- duction and marketing of alkalis.
 The Justice Department instituted civil suit in federal district court in which it seeks abrogation of al- legedly illegal contracts among the defendants and an order perpetually enjoining them from dividing ex- port markets, allocating territories, fixing prices or establishing export quotas.
 The suit was the first to be filed against organizations operating un- der the Webb export trade act ex- empting certain practices from anti trust prosecution.
 Defendants included the Dow Chemical, major American producer of critical magnesium, which has been linked with cartel interest in the metals field; the United States Alkan Export Association, Inc -Al- kasso) of Delaware, and the Cali fornia Alkai Export association (Calkex) of California.
 ICI's American agent" Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd, of New York also was named.
 Beginning in 1924 and continuing to the present day." the complaint charged "the defendants have en- gagged in unlawful combination and conspiracy in. restarin of tradet and commerce in AllRalis."
 The complaint also linked the de. fendants with the giant I. G. Far benindustrie of Germany and three other firms named as co-conspira' tors.
 The complaint stated that the American manufacturing firms named as defendants conducted sub stantially all their expert trade in alkalis through Alkasso and Cal- keX
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More Fathers For Draft

Washington. March 16-(UP)- The nations 6,400 draft boards were faced today with the need of step- ping up the draft of fathers and of reclaSsifying one out of every 20 men now deferred for farm and war work to meet military man. power requirements by July 1.
 The complexities of the manpow- CT problems were outlined before a Senate committee yesterday by Se- lective Service Director Lewis B.. Hershey and additional details were expected to be made public today when Col. Francis V. Keesling, Hershey's legislative aide, testifies before a House military affairs sub committee.
 Hershey said in an order to the local boards last night that the draft of fathers must be stepped up sx tsaeet quotas which have fallen ISO,OOO men short of goals each nonth since october.
 .:ss guiy i, Hershey said. the armed services will need 1,l60,000 more men. But in sight, there are only 92O, OOO leaving deficit of 24O,O00 that must come out of the 1,70O, 900 now deferred in agriculture and the 3.2O4 900 in war activities. This means a reclassification of about one out of every 20 exceptionally deferred men.
 Selective Service. Hershey said. was preceding on the basis that "less than one man out of every three" can meet physical require ments because the armed forces now are in need of men able to do combat duty.
 eve must, in the future. make fathers available in increasingly greater numbers to meet induction requirements" he said. "At the same time we must secure men from other classes and particularly we must secure men, fathers and non- fathers, from the groups now de- ferred in industry and agriculture"
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Official reports indicated American and British forces had delivered their most de- structive one-two punch. The focal pOiIL of both mighty assaults was southern Ger. many, the RAF having dropped 2,8OO tons of bombs on the big aircraft and trans port center of Stuttgart alone.
 American and Allied f1ghts CTS in "great strength" eS- corted the U. s. bomoerS, the preliminary announcement said.
 The official use of the words "very strong" indi- cated the daylight attack involved more heavy bombers than those in recent strong forces" which were known tQ number around 300.
 Weather Bad
 German broadcasts indicated thaA the weather probably was worse than it was in the Brunswick raid yester~ day, and may have prevented tho big scale fighting which Lieutenant General Carl A. Spaatz is seeking in order to eliminate the German air force.
 The American bomber force was so big it took an hour to cross the British coast on the outbound flight. The German DNB agency said in a Berlin broadcast that the Amer. icar daylight forays had touched off violet battles between U. S. bombers and Nazi fighters over western Germany and norther1 France.
 Unfavorable Weather
 Unfavorable weather, includina snow and thick clouds handicapped German planes in their takeofIe
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16Yeors For
 German Spy

Detroit, March 16.-UP)-Dr. Frederick w. Thomas was sentenced to 16 years in a federal penitentiary today on charges of being a spy for Nal Germany.
 Federal Judge Edward J. Moinet imposed sentence on Thomas, a member of the German spy ring headed by Grace Buchanan Dineen, Canadian-born heiress, after his conviction by a jury Feb. "A.
 Thomas was accused specifically of obtaining vital information on Ohio war plants from Miss Buchan- an-Dineen, confessed Nazi spy who became a counter-espionage agent for the United States when her activities were exposed by the FBI.
 The seIf-styled Canadian countess and five other defendants who pleaded guilty to espionage charges will be sentenced later.
 Before imposing sentence Judge Moinet asked Thomas, a native of Fresno. O., whether he had any thing to say.
 Your Honor" Thomas said, "I'm not guilty. That's all"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-16
Bombs Hit In Perfect Murder Moze
By CLINTON B. CONGER United Press War Correspondent

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 Aboard a Liberator over Casino, Italy, March 15. - (UP) - Bombs from our wave struck in a perfect, murderous pattern across the entire southern portion of Casino. Flashes of flame belched into the air and the whole town seemed to shudder. Then impenetrable col umns of thick, sluggish gray smoke obscured the target.
 Sitting on the rear flight deck with my legs dangling into the bomb bay, the doors of which had been left open so I could see the action below, I saw the high ex- plosives hit the already smoking totwn, causing new explosions and sending up new clouds of smoke.
 The Liberators are handling the southern section of Cassino. Flying FortreSSes already have laid the northern half low beneath a thick pail of smoke and dust.
 AS the bombs dropped from the big plane in which am flying, sig naling to the rest of the formation to release all explosives, I saw the smoke from the bombs of preceding Liberator formations drifting across the pock-marked, blasted outlines of the southern portion of the town.
 The sky is black with P-38 Light nings protecting us and occasional Thunderbolts are visible down be- low. Scuttling along to "delouse" the area of enemy fighters.
 We haven't seen a German fight CT on the entire trip and there was no flax to distract us until our bombs were away. Then Capt. Allen K. (Moose) Trobaugh of Brunswick, Ga, our bombardier, spotted the bright muzzle flashes of four anti aircraft batteries and sang out over the interphone: "F1ak coming up at 12 o'clock.
 Col. Thomas W. Steed of Etowah, Tenn, group commander flying as co-pilot on this Liberator, swerved the formation to the right and the flax burst just to the left. We con- tinued evasive action for about five
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Draft Nobs Hunted Mon

Salem, Mass, March l6. UP)- The local draft board has classified George Corey ir IA, but his chances of getting into uniform ap- peared remote today.
 Corey, 30-year-old former Salem leather worker, has been hunted throughout the nation for more than three years as the alleged slayer of Kenneth s. Legro, 30. A onetime Dartmouth hockey player, Legro was shot dead on the steps of his Nantasket cottage Dec. l6 l940, as his bride of three months appeared at the door to greet him Police said that Corey was Mrs Legfo's rejected suitor and that jealouSly motiYated the crime.
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Caught InAirShoft

Boston, March 16-(UP)-Trapped head down in a restaurant ventila- tor shaft for perhaps nine hours, a U. S. sailor was extricated un- harmed today by police, fire and Navy rescue squads.
 Thickly smeared with kitchen grease from & Scollay Square res- taurant. the victim said as he emerged:
 Where am I--boy do need a bath!"
 Sole Identification was obtained from a sailor hat that tumbled out of the shaft during the rescue op- erations and which bore the name w. J. Fraser"
 Though the sailor was not dis covered in the shaft until 5:45 a m., police believed he might have hung headdown there since 2 a. m
 At 6:46 a. m. resaurant worker Frank DiSaldo turned on fan in the shaft and heard a noise. Sone- time later he heard untitled voice shout:
 Get me out of herel'
 Police were notified and probed down the shaft to discover the vic-
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Roosevelt Advises Films
By JOHN A. REICHMANN

By JOHN A. hEACf1MANN United Press Staff Correspondent
 Washington. March 16 - (U.P0 President Roosevelt put new pres sure on Finland today to withdraw from her hateful partnership" with Nazi Germany.
 MT. Roosevelt issued a statement voicing the sincere hope Finland will now take the opportunity to disasSociate herself from Germany" :"
 MT. RooSevelt'S statement, issued while Russian-F Finnish negotiations were still hanging fire, said:
 Tt has always seemed odd to me and to the people of the United States to find Finland a partner of Nazi Germany, fighting side by side with the sworn enemies of our civil ization.
 "The Finnish people now have a chance to withdraw from this hate full partnership. The longer they stay at Germany's side the more sorrow and suffering is bound to come to them.
 T think I can speak for all Americans when I say that we sim cerely hope Finland will now take the opportunity to dissaSsociate her self from Germany"
 White House Press Secretary Ste phen T. Early in releasing the state
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Red Drive Seals Fate OfVinnitso
BY HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent


 Moscow. March 16 - (UP) - Rus- sian mobile forces swept through a 62-mile break in the Bug river line today to within less than 28 miles of the Dniester in drive which sealed the fate of Vinnitsa, and opened the way for & Southward push against Odessa.
 Any hope the Nag; may have held for an effective stand along the Bug, the last natural defense barrier in the Ukraine, was shat tered by Marshal Ivan s. Konev's smash across the river.
 German resistance melted under the relentless blows of the stamped. ing Russians. The Nazis strove in vain to break of contact with the Soviet vanguard in order to gain breathing space for the next stand expected to be undertaken along the DnieSter.
 To the southeast, other Russian units were closing in on Nikolaev, last major German-held Black sea port east of Odessa, which was be- liever untenable as a result of the trapping of several Nazi divisions to the east.
 GA German communique acknow- ledged continued Nazi retreat - which 1t screened with the propa- ganda language of "disengaging movements both sides of the Ingul river, which runs southward through Nikolaev, and west of Kiro- vograd.
 Front dispatches said the Ger mans suffered heavy defeat" at the hands of Konev's men who forced the Bug. They reported that the Soviets struck across the river without waiting for the complete liquidation of German resistance on the east bank.
 As the Soviet armed forces swept toward Rumania, the army organ Red Star published bristling at
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AS the Allied arnor closed in for the kill, fierce fighting exploded on the Anzio beach, head 40 miles to the north where America , shock troops lashed ou in a sudden attack houtheast of Aprilia.
 The German beachhead lines swayed perilously un- der the fury of the American assault, and observers specu- lated that the Doughboys might have launched a major drive to coincide with the big push at Cassino.
 On both fronts, however, the Ger mans were battling desperately to prevent an Allied break through that might collapse their defense structure in southern Italy and lay open the invasioned roads to Rome.
 Beaten into russle yesterday by the greatest aerial and artillery bom- bardment in history, Casino re- mained a battle-ground today and all reports indicated that the Ger mans had rushed in strong rein forcements to defend its ruins to the death.
 Nazis Swarm Back
 German Infantrymen and Mortal crews swarmed back into the twistee heaps that remained of the ancient stone town and fought back Stoutly under 8 merciless rain of shellfire from the surrounding hills and the raking blasts of the attacking Allied armored forces.
 (The German DNB News Agency said the Allied attack collapsed completely" under the fire of the German defenderS.)
 Front reports said the Allied tanks and assault troops were forcing the
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Tanks Smash Blo1U
 At .BougainuiHe
By DON CASWELL

United Press War CorrespOndent)
 Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pacific, March 16-(UP)-American troops have smashed a heavy Jap anse counter-attack against there beachhead on Bougainville island and killed more than 1,200 enemy troops in six days of fierce, close quarters fighting, Allied headquar- ters revealed today.
 Charging fanatically into the mouths of American machine guns and flame throwers, the Japanese were moved down by the hundreds and finally were forced to retreat leaving 1,173 of their dead on the battlefield.
 Uncounted scores of other enemy troops were believed to have been killed under the almoSt-inceSsant American shellfre and aerial bomb- ing.
 . Headquarters spokesmen said the Americans expanded their positions Monday on the northern perimeter of the Empress Augusta bay beach, head after beating of the enemy counter-thruSts.
 The fiercest fighting centered around Cannon ridge, where troops of the U. s. 37th division killed l. 900 enemy soldiers and drove all but one company of Japanese from the crest.
 The Japanese made two suicidal attempts to drive the 37th from the ridge but were cut to pieces by fire from American tanks, flamethrow- CTS, mortars, bazookaS and machine guns. They left TOT dead hanging on the American barbed wire in one assault, front reports said.
 Wewak Hit
 Meanwhile, Allied headquarters announced that American airmen struck at the Japanese base at We wax, New Guinea, Tuesday for the fourth straight time and shot down eight more enemy planes.
 Almost 200 miles to the southeast Allied ground forces closed in to within g miles of Madang.
 Heavy and medium bombers
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3,36O Tons Of Explosives Hit Targets; Allies Shove NaziS Back At CaSSinO
Allies Make
 Bad BIunders
 In ItoIy Wor

Washington, March 16. (UP)- Secretary of War Henry L. Stinson said today that he had received of- ficial reports of American planes being shot down by U. s. anti-air- craft gunners during night-time amphibious operations.
 He declined to comment further on the matter in response to in- quiries about report that 20 C-47 transport planes had been destroyed in the air over Sicily by U. s. Navy gunners who mistook them for Nazi attackers.
 q can guess at what may have happened" Stimson said. There have been instances of confusion during night amphibious operations when one of our forces has mis- taken our own flyers for the enemy" '"
 The Sicilian incident was related yesterday by Sgt. Jock Rosie, a cor respondent for the army newspaper Stars and Stripes, in 8 speech be- fore the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. He said the trans ports were carrying 18 men each.
 F'oisie related the incident, "the only unfortunate one of near per feet campaign" as an illustration of the uncertainties of war, despite which "GI Joe can still laugh" He did not reveal the number of cas- ualties.
 Foisie, who covered the Mediter- ranean theater before returning to this country, said only two major slips have come to light, in the aft- ermath of the highly successful African landings in the fall of 1922.
 "One," he declared, "was the frontal attack on Oran harbor, where we took our heaviest casual ties, and the other, the Washing ton announcement of the landings around Casablanca even as the forces were still five miles off shore. Talk about tipping the enemy"
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Baldwin To Discuss Bill

Hartford, Conn, March 16-tUP) Gov. Baldwin today summoned the legislative council into confer ence at 4 p. m, Friday to determine what changes would be necessary in the states soldier ballot bill to make it conform with the new fed eral law.
 The governor has advised Presi- dent Roosevelt of this conference and told him T feel certain that Connecticut will do all that she can to make her plans for the sol- dier vote fit in with the act adopted byb Congress"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-16
Altitude TolUard CaptiUes
 Betters As Germans Lose

Jersey City. N. J., March l6-(UP) --Oficials of the FBI, the State Department and other government agencies resumed their examination of repatriates aboard the Swedish diplomatic exchange liner Grips holm today as i30 more passengers whose questioning was completed prepared to leave the ship.
 Approximately 400 passengers still were to undergo the exhaustive in- quiry by government agencies seek ing to block the possible entry Of enemy agents and indications were that the process would take consid- erable time. The Red Cross, f was learned. has been instructed to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-16
Films Ponder Peace Reply
By HUBERT UXKULL United Press Staff Correspondent

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 Stockholm, March 16. (UP)-Fin- land still pondered her reply today to Russia's latest Armistice note, which was reported reliably to of- fer three concessions from the original Soviet demands.
 Helsinki dispatches said the Fin nish government was not expected to make its final decision until to- day despite earlier reports the gov- ernment had rejected the Soviet note, ending all possibility of peace discussions.
 Russia was understood to have made it clear she expects the Fin nish reply before Saturday.
 Reliable sources close to Swedish government and Soviet diplomatic circles said the Russian note, far
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By LYLE c. WILSON

Limited Press Stan COFreSpOndehtJ
 Washington, March 16 - (U.PD- Representative Eugene E. Cox, D.. Ga, today demanded changes in Democratic national convention procedure which would provoke the bitterest kind of intra-party dis pute.
 In an address for delivery at Moultrie, Ga, but released here, Cox summoned the south to unite and compel the party convention to return to the two-thirds ma jority system of nominating presi- dential candidates.
 The two-thirds rule was abolished in the harmony convention of 1886
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Cox Demands Return to OLd Nat. Contention Procedure

when President Roosevelt was nom- mated for second term. That rule, requiring nominee to receive a minimum vote of two thirds of con- vention delegates. almost prevented MT. Roosevelt's first nomination in 1852. In 1912, Woodrow Wilson was chosen at the Democratic National convention after Champ Clark of Missouri gained a majority vote but failed to achieve a two-to-one margin.
 Under the two-thirds rule, south ern delegates had in effect a veto power against any candidate.
 When the two-thirds rule was
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remain on duty on the GrlpShoIin s pier for three days.
 Thirty-flve wounded soldiers and approximately 100 civilians. most of them diplomats and others on ofii- cial business who were caught in the German occupation of France were cleared from the ship by last night.
 One repatriate said that the Ger man attitude toward prisoners or war changed from one of harshness' while the Nazis were winning, to one of kindness after the tide had turned.
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Tanks, Men, Guns Battle Fanatic Foe In Bomb Wreckage

Allied Headquarters, Naples March 16 - (UP) - savage battle ragged through the blackened ruins of CssnO today and official reports said Allied tanks nan trymen and artillery slowly crushing fanaca band of German gners who crept back last night defend the bomb and sheltOrn wreckage of their mountain strong hold
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5 Pilots Have Big Dov For Selves

london, March 16--(UPl- Five pilots of the Eighth Air Force bagged doubles in We'd nesday's raid on Brunslkwick' German manufacturing city.
 They included It. John 5. ThernelI Jr.. t22l Pleasant stJ Walpole. Mass.
 Besides scoring 2 35 to $ vlc- tory over German planes, the fighters destroyed six lOconio- lives, power plant, boat hangar, barracks and ether targets.
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Powerful Fleets of Yank Planes Follow Up Huge Raid For Day Blasting
BY PHIL AULT United Press War Correspondent

London March l6 P Powerful fleets American planes smashed at Of assault O. time. 
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-26
Manager Group
Meets tuesday
AT 0|de Wayne

Members Of the property man
agement division. Of the Detroit
Real Estate Board will hear Ed
ward L. Cushman, state director
of the War Manpower Commits
sion, at their meeting in the Olde
Wayne Club Tuesday noon, Rob-
.ert J, Brooks, divisional chairman,
said Saturday.
He is expected to speak on
regulations and orders affecting
building maintenance and service
employees and other activities of
the commission affecting property
management.
John s. Spencer, program chair
man. will be in charge of the
discussion period.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-26

All webbing reset
new webbing replaced
where needed 10 give
new life, comfort anc
suitability.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-26
Producers Give Plan
To Ease BUILDING
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30 days Of the date OF his appli-
cation.
The applicant certifes that not
more than 10 per cent Of the
value of materials required for
the construction shall be obtained
on a preference rating Of AA-3
Tor higher If specifically applied
for and granted for obtaining any
particular item) and that the
remaining materials can be OBJ
tanned either without q rating or
with a rating lower than AA-3