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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-26

= You were going to spend lot of
unnecessary money on a vacation
that you believe you need.
Put that money into BONDS.
Our millions Of men overseas and
those about to go will have no vaca-
tion-runless it is the eternal sleep.
The more BONDS you buy the
quicker your loved ones will return
home.
The more money you put into
BONDS the shorter the war.
BONDS are an investment-not
a gift on your part.
And they are not only an invest
ment in cold cash.
They are an investment-an in
surance-for your fighters and for
your own safety.
They are an investment IN
LIBERTY.
They are an investment in
VICTORY.
THE Hearst papers and the Blue
L Network have inaugurated
gigantic victory army drive.
From noW until July s, Uhen the
drive wiH end, the Hearst papers
With ISL stations on the Blue Net
work wiU glue millions of American
listeners national and international
broadcasts celebrating American
heroes from Valley Forge to Cher
bourg.
The purpose of this campaign is
to make us all BOND CONSCIOUS.
Do you know-are you conscious
of-what our men in Europe and in
the Pacific are going through?
Between those of us who remain
at home and our fighters there is
BOND.
That bond is blood bond.
But the blood bond must have
material WAR BOND to make it
valid and real.
What is the most frightful word
that can be accusingly used against
any American in time of war?
It is Stacker"
Don't be Stacker"
Buy bond today.
Buy bond tomorrow.
Buy all the bonds you can.
He is looking at you, with his gun
in hand, from the beachheads Of
Normandy.
His eyes are saying:
BACK ME WITH BONDS"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-26
JAMES l.. VAN NLIET

TO THE EDITOR:
If THERE is any one in the
L audience who has a vest
pocket edition on how TO make
friends and keep them, he had
better forward it Immediately 10
Capt. Oliver Lyttelton. British
production minister and also
member of the war cabinet.
whose untimcly assertion that
"the japanese were forced TO
attack the Americans az Pearl
Harbor" because we provoked
them so, was slightly unman-
nerly 10 say the least.
And his disclosure that the
United States had lcnd-leaSed
81 900, 100000 TO Great Britain
while she generously loaned us
half that amount must have had
the effect of rubbing salt in the
wound. Seems they can't wait
with their insults this time until
we get this war won for them.
NJ l.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-26
MRS. MARGARET l..
"MOMS") HANSEN.
Maryland State President
Mothers Of Men in Service.

TO THE EDITOR:
/ AM in full sympathy with
every reasonable effort to sell
War Bonds, and buy my share
of them. but there are certain
things that all thinking Ameri-
cans are bound TO resent. One
of them is the cartoon which
appeared on the front page Of
your paper yesterday. II is the
worst possible form Of maudlln
sentlmcntality.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-26
WILLIAM RANDOLPH
HEARST

DEAR SIR:
OUNCE the first division of
~ Maryland Naval Reserves
left Baltimore in October. 1910,
/ have associated myself with
families who were left behind,
grouping those who had enough
TO share with those who were
less fortunate
! have moved on since then,
from naval reserves TO navy
regularst families and in the
past year have been associated
with families OF all branches OF
the armed forces.
| feel | am almost an author
ity on knowing what is the most
important legislation bill so
necessary 10 expedite the emer-
gencieS that follow an honor
discharge. The CT Veterans
Bill of Rights" is il. Thanks be
to God. il is now a LAW.
| know that every army and
navy mother will agree with
me. that the Hearst militant
publications under your direc-
ton. gave the necessary support
to have all those in authority
recognize IT. and they will join
me in giving thanks TO so fine
an American as you.
Today We, nation. join in
prayers for those across the sea
for their safety and deliyerance.
and by the passing Of the CT
bill. they will know by the grace
of a merciful God and the
Hearst papers this time they
are not forgotten.
II is men ard people like you
make me proud to be an Ameri-
can and mother of two sons
and a daughter in our glorious
navy.
May God speed you on. Will
liam Randolph Hearst.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-26
TO THE EDITOR:

WE RECEIVED from the
w Times the picture Of our
son, Pfc. Vernon Morse. with
the Marines. somewhere in the
southwest Pacific,
Words cannot express our APP
probation and gratitude rs II is
the first picture We have had in
two years. as he left the states
in June. 1912.
AS we already are Detroit
Times readers, lean only add a
sincere thank you.
MRS. FRANK MORSE
BiTh River, Mich.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-08
Workers Riot
 At Ford Plant

Detroit, March 8 - (U.P0 - An estimated 25O aircraft building workers rioted at the Ford River Rouge plant last night, ransacking the government-operated labor re- lations office, the company charged today.
 A Ford spokesman said the work CTS gathered outside the office, ap- parently in protest against the dis charge of a man for striking a foreman and the disciplining of two men for smoking in a restricted area.
 The workers, the spokesman said, demanded the Labor Relations ofh- cial and Surged into the building. A plant protection man, was beaten with various pieces of office equip ment and trampled, the spokesman said. The labor official was injured slightly.
 The workers, the company said, broke several desks and chairs in the office and dumped files contain ing government records. Names or the plant protection man and labor official were withheld.
 Union officials could not be reach- ed for comment immediately.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-08
Additionally Democratic
 Denver District Goes COP
BY JACK V. FOX

United Press Staff C0rrespOndent)
 Denver, March 8. - (UP) - The first congressional district of Color ado, traditional Democratic strong hold, swung into the Republican .rapls tvday with the election to the National House of Representatives of Dean M. Gillespie, 69-year-old businessman who built up & million dollar truck repair firm from scratch.
 Gillespie won by less than 5000 votes over Major Carl Wuertele, dis abled bomber pilot whose brilliant war record was emphasized by the Democrats. Unofficial returns from Denver's 400 precincts gave Gillespie q total of 4l, ,447 votes against S8,524 for Wuertele.
 The Republican victory was the first congressional triumph in Den- yer since 1880.
 Wuertele had pledged support of administration war and home-front policies in his campaign and had endorsed the election of President Roosevelt to fourth term.
 Gillespie had attacked bureau cracy and bungling" of the New Deal and had called for private business to be given an opportunity o show what 1t could do in the re- employment of an estimated 20000,- 900 service men and women and war workers after the war.
 The 30-year- flyers foot almost was severed by Flax as he piloted his well-known bomber, Hel-En- Wings - named after his wife - or his 205th combat mission against the Japanese. He was the only man to get a bomber off the ground during the Pearl Harbor attack and was decorated nine times by the War Department.
 Gillespie's election gave the Re- publicans 2l0 esats in the House against PIT for the Democrats Minor parties hold four seats while there are four vacancies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-08
Marines Move Closer Jap
 Held RobouI
BY DON CASWELL United Press War COrresp0ndenO

V
 Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pacific, March 8,-(UP)-U. ,, Ma rines, in Q ll0-nile jump from their Cape Gloucester base, have landed on the north coast of New Britain near Talasea to capture poe sitions less than l70 miles from the Japanese stronghold ct Rabaul, 1t was announced today.
 American forces also won control of Los Negros in the Admiralty 1s- land, across the Bismarck sea from New Britain, and prepared to start using Momote Airfield which they captured in the initial landing last week.
 The Marines, in landing near Talasea on Willaumez Peninsula Monday morning, met only light opposition when they went ashore In small landing craft. and 0 head quarters spokesman said no Amer ican casualties were reported.
 In the deepest penetration yet New Britain, the Marines Skirted . wide expanse of enemy positions, placing the New American line 30 miles from Rottock Bay, where the ground forces last were reported.
 On the Southern Coast, the D. &. troops continued their advance up the island reaching Amgoring, 24 miles east of Arawe atrfield, an- other of the American landing points on New Britain.
 The new advances were coupled with continued aerial bombardment of Rabaul, where Solomons- -based bombers dropped 98 tons of bombs in a raid over the township and To- bera airdrome. Five enemy planes were destroyed on the ground, six barges were destroyed or damaged and two small merchant vessels were hit. The Americans lost one plane in the assault.
 A spokesman at 18th Ar Force headquarters said portions of Ra- baul were razed by the raid and To- bera air strip was heavily damaged. Three members fthe crew of the one Liberator which was lost were picked up by a Navy rescue plane, the spokesman said, adding that 1t was the first bomber lost over Ra- baul since Jan. 2.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-08
b0MBERS ON RAMPAGE AGAIN
 Germans Prepare For Fourth Italy Blow
4,00O Churches
 Bombed By Nozis ln Britain

Boston, March 8 - (U.P.) - The Rev. William Cecil Northscott of London, home secretary and literary superintendent of the London Mis- sionary Society, has revealed that more than 4,000 Christian churches in Britain have been destroyed by air raids.
 Northscott here under the auspices of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, said yesterday that the British churches are facing reconstruction in gallant and high-hearted manner, however
 He said that the Church of Eng land lost i63 churches and i,280 burned by the Nazi raids; the Bap- lists and Congregationalists lost more than 300 houses of worship; the Methodists, l,3l6: the Church of Scotland, nine destroyed and ITO damaged. Approximately 2S4 Ro. man Catholic churches were blasted beyond repair in the blitz, he added,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-08

 Troops Score China d.
BY DARRELL BERRIGAN United Press War Correspondent

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 With Chinese forces in the Hulk awng Valley, Burma, March 6 - (UP)-Chinese troops, fighting be- side American infantrymen for the first time in this war, captured the village of Shingban today in a push southward along the main Hukawng road that frightened the trap they and the Americans nave closed around more than 2,000 Japanese.
 The Chinese, trained by It. Gen. Joseph w. Stillwell, advanced eight miles along the jungle road from MaingkWan, largest village in the Hukawng valley which they captur- ed last Sunday in one of tile stiff est battles of this campaign.
 Brig. Gen. Frank Merrill's Amer leans withdrew meanwhile from the small village clearing of Walawbum after capturing 1t in their first att tack and took up positions where their guns could cover Japanese posts still occupied in this area.
 (Today's southeast Asia command communicate issued at New Delhi re- ported that remnants of the Japan ese force were retreating from Shingban, remaining vest of the Nambuy river where the American force road block has prevented them from crossing.~
 The Japanese forces caught in a U-shaped trap guarded by the steep Wantuk Bum Mountain range may make a desperate attempt to blast
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-08
SAVAGE WAR RACES IN CITY
 OF CASINO
BY 0. R. CUNNINGHAM

Ap8 Se Aee SOANANAANNNAASAAVA
 tUnlted Press War COErespOndent)
 Allied H Headquarters, e Naples, March 8. - (Up) - Savage night fighting has broken out in the battered streets and buildings of Cas- sino, 1t was disclosed today, as reports from the Anglo beachhead indicated that the German high command has begun moving up troops and armor for a fourth major offensive.
 Headquarters spokeSmen said a fierce street battle flared up inside Casino Monday night for the second straight night as American units, already holding oi1e- third of the ruined town, fought to dislodge the Nazis.
 Allied and German guns lnassed in the hills above Casino rocked the town with shellfire, while both sides exchanged motar and gunfire in the streets ct close range.
 House to House
 Fighting from house to house through the blacked.out town, American and Nazi combat patrols repeatedly broke into the opposing lines in an effort to smash each others strongpoints with hand grefl. adeS and rifle fire.
 Headquarters spokesmen said there there had been no decisive change in the battle lines inside the town, but it was indicated that fierce fighting still was in prog ress.
 New Zealand gunners outside the town, meanwhile, leaunched heavy cannonading against the enery-held Casino railwM$ station Q mile to the south and set the German posi- tons ablaze with direct hits.
 On the embattled AnZio beach, head, German skirmishers attempt- ed to infiltrate British positions southwest of Aprilia, only to be thrown back after brief engage ment. Other Nazi and Allied pa- trols clashed along the beachhead perimeter without effecting any
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-08
WIPE Shocked By WMC Decisions

Washington, March 8 = (U.P) - War Production Board officials said today they were shocked" at the decision of q War Manpower Com mission Committee to refuse draft deferments for all but seven of 245 key WIPE employees,
 The WIPE was expected to ask for a rehearing. All the officials in- volved were pre-Pearl HarboI fathers. Among those refused de- ferments were WIPE Vice Chairman J. A. Krug. head of the require ments committee, and E. 4. Locke, Jr., confidential assistant to Chair man Donald Nj. Nelson.
 WIPE spokesmen said they had expected almost all their requests 10 be granted because they had been very strict when asking deferments for non.fathers. They said the WPB'S own deferments committee ned turned down over soc more re- quests before the PAS names were submitted to the WAGC review com. mittee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-08
Vet Groups
 TuIk Bonus

Washington, March 8-(UP)-The battle among veterans organiza- tionS over legislation for bonuses and other benefits for veterans or World War II centered today in the senate finance committee.
 A subcommittee headed by Sen Bennett c. Clark D., Mo, opened a new series of public hearings on the issue confronted with two op- posing views of veterans organiza- tions. They were:
 1. The American Legion's omnibus bill providing educational and em- ployment programs but deferring the bonus question.
 ?. The proposal of five other or- ganizations that the bonus payment schedules be settled immediately.
 Willard Rice, legislative repre- sentative of the Disabled American Veterans which joined in sponsor ing the bonus now" measure. was called as the first witness. Legion witnesses are expected to be heard tomorrow.
 Rice was expected to object stren- uously to the first section of the legion's omnibus bill which would centralize jurisdiction over all vet- eran benefits in the existing Vet erans' Administration headed by Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines.
 The bonus bill. sponsored by the DAV. Army and Navy union, Veter- ans of foreign wars, Regular Veter- ans association. and Military Order of the Purple Heart, would have the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-08
20 Saints Arrested

Salt Lake City, March S-(UP)- Trial of 20 fundamentalist leaders. members of e group of self styled Saints" who practice and preach polygamy, arrested yesterday in a three-state roundup, will be held March 20, Federal Judge Tillman D. Johnson said today.
 The men, two of whom were re. ported to he the fathers of "at least 33 children" each, were seized in widespread raids in Arizona, Utah and idaho following their indict- ment by a federal grand jury which charged them with violeting the Mann act and the Lindbergh kid- nap law, and for conspiracy and mailing obscene literature. They Will be arraigned today.
 Seized with the 20 leaders were 50 other members of the sect who face prosecution on state charges of con- spiracy and cohabitation with as many as six women.
 The fundamentalists once were members of the Mormon church but they now have no connection with the organized latter Day Saints church which outlawed polygamy more than 50 years ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-08
Big Raid BeIittIed

German propaganda broadcasts yesterday called Mondays air bat- tie over Berlin "a catastrophe for the Americans" and "Doolittle's bloody Monday" according to the United States Foreign Broadcast Intelligence servcie.
 '"The Nazi DNB Agency applied the catastrophe designation in a wireless dispatch to the controlled European press outside of Ger many" the Office of War Informa- tion's report of the broadcast said. '"The dispatch was labelled 'unoffi- ciap."
 "The reference to Maj. Gen. James H. Doolittle, commander of the United States Eighth Air Force. was contained in a broadcast to erman troops in Norway. The bloody Monday characterization to Berlin military circles"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-08
It Pays To Advertise

Boston, March S.-(UP)- After an argument with a policeman in North Station, John A. Brattin, ROxbury taxicab driver, was arrested on charges of profanity and Ob- scenity.
 In municipal court, he was convicted on both counts and fined $l5. He appealed.
 Under the heading, "Wanted, justice," Brattin inserted in a Boston newspaper a front page advertisement, seeking wit nesses of the aItercatiOn. Chris tOpher Arveene of ROxbury saw the "ad", and when the case went to trial in superior court yesterday, he testified that Brattin used no prOfane or obscene language while argu- ing with the policeman.
 After 12 minutes delibera- ton, the jury acquitted Brat tin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-08
Mother Moy Be Able To Go To Funeral of 7

York Beach, Me-, March 8 - U. P.) - Doctors said today that Mrs' Raymond Rokey, who Is convales- cing from an illness, might be able to leave the hospital Friday to at- tend funeral services for her seven children, who were burned to death Monday night when firse destroyed the family's home. oo
 Meanwhile, Thomas Andrews oS' year-old owner of the house. re- wained hospitalized with critical hurns suffered during repeated at- tempts to rescue the trapped chil. dreri, whose ages ranged from AO months to 1S years. .
 Police investigators still were seeking the cause of the blaze: which occurred while the father oi the victims was at work at nearpy Portsmouth, N. H.. Navy Yard.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-08
U s. Seizes Majuro
 Plus Much MaterieL
By RICHARD w. JOHNSTON Limited Press War COFreSpOndent)

Limited Press War C0rreSpOndent)
 Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands, March 8-(UP)-American forces have established an important naval base on this atoll which was occu- pied without opposition at the time of the conquest of Kwajalein, 1t may be revealed today.
 While Japanese bases in the east ern MarshallS were kept occupied by American air blows, Naval and Mar inc forces were able to build strong supply point here without the knowledge of enemy forces isolated on Maloelap and Mile atolls, the latter only 60 miles to the southeast
 The fact that Majuro, sometimes known as Arrowsmith atoll, has been functioning as vital staging area for the American drive across the Pacific since 1t was occupied more than Q month ago delayed the announcement of its conquest, but United States forces from this base which hte Japanese did not know they had, have now pushed the en- emy back to point where secrecy no longer Is necessary.
 Operation of this atoll as re- fueling and reouttitting base has made 1t unnecessary for many war vessels to make the long return trip to Pearl Harbor, 2,250 mile to the northeast, aiding the rapid Amer lean moves against enemy bases in Ha A
 The secret seizure of Majuro probably was the most dramatic dempnstrAtion of the war of Amer icafi Pacific' uirpUwer and It's ability not only to knock out Japanese bases and planes but literally to blind enemy bases to developments just over the horizon.
 Majuro, which Is approximately 25O miles southeast of Kwajalein was chosen by the German hign command in World War I-whea the Marshalls were Q German col- ony--as the finest and most logical naval operating base in the Pacific But the Japanese never developed 1t and moved out, leaving ware- houses, power tools and other equip ment which fell into American hands intact.
 A task force under Rear Adm Harry w. Hill, 54, of Washington, D. C., arrived here a tthe same time Vice Adm. Richmond K. Turner's forces, which captured Kwajalein, were entering the MarshallS.
 Midnight
 Marines of a fifth corps recvon- naissance company under Capt. James Jones of Joplin, Mo, went ashore at midnight. It now may be revealed this this was the same group which took Abemama in the Gilberts, also under the direction of Hill, who commanded the Tarawa task force.
 Reconnaissance forces. thier faces blackened, landed in rubber boats and searched the main islands of the atoll throughout the night, turning Il pSeveral hundred Mar shallese natives and learning in the nicok of time the Japanese had gone.
 Hills battlewagons opened bom-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-08
Young Local
 Flyers Listed Deod, Missing

Waterbury youths, members of Uncle sam's mighty air force claim headlines today.
 Aviation Cadet Herman Brauns- dorf, IT,, 2l, was fatally injured in R plane crash at Albany, Georgia, yesterday.
 Lieut.. William Farrell, recently mentioned in official War Depart l1aent dispatches, for outstanding
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-08

performance of duty in a flight over Germany, was reported today as missing in action.
 Aviation Cadet Herman Charles Braunsdorf, Jr, q, son of MT. and Mrs. Herman o. Bransdorf, 568 Co., luinbia, Blvd. Ext, was killed in an airplane crash yesterday morning just four weeks before he was scheduled to receive his commission and pilots wings.
 A War Department telegram rec ceived by Mrs. Braunsdorf last night revealed that the accident occurred six miles from Turner Field, Albany, Georgia, where Cadet Braunsdorf was completing his flight training. Details of the accident were not re- vealed.
 Born in Brooklyn, N. Y, March ?, 1923, Cadet BraunSdorf attended
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-08
Reds Near LWoW Border
BY HARRISON SALISBURY

bx hAhHISON SALISBURY United Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 Moscow, March 8-(UP)-Marshal Gregory K. zhukov's first army of the Ukraine was reported closing in on outflanked Tarnopol and ap- preaching the border of Lwow pro- vince today in running battles wag- ed under some of the worst fighting conditions of the war.
 Dispatches from the fast shift ing southern front said the German command was rushing up air re- serves and undertaking counter thrusts in a desperate effort to halt the Red Army sweep designed to drive the last Naz soldier from Ukrainian soil.
 Spring thaws had turned the flat lands of the Ukraine and secondary dirt roads into bottomleSS pits of mud, tending to confine the fight ing to the main arterial highways and railroads. along which the Ger mans were putting up stiff resist ance.
 Despite the double handicap of terrain and increased resistance, the Russians forged an assault arc around the northern approaches to Tarnopol, key rail junction com manding the valleys running down to Rumania.
 The Soviet vanguard by-passed Tarnopol to capture Igrovitsa, 10 miles to the northwest and within 100 miles of the Czech border. From there the attle line swung south east around Tarnopol to cross the Odessa Warsaw railroad. rlptured artery of supply for an estimated 5OOOO0 Germans who are threat ened with isolation along tAe Black Sea coast.
 Another Red army spearhead to
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