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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28
To Discuss Post Wor Bills

Washington, July 28 - (U.P) - The possibility of an early German collapse today prompted congress sional leaders to put demobilization and reconveTsion problems at the top of the legislative calendar to be considered by congress after 1t re- convenes Tuesday.
 Chairman Robert R. Reynolds. D., N. O., called a special meeting of the Senate Military Affairs Commit tee Tuesday morning to decide which of two demobilization bills should be approved and sent to the senate floor for action.
 He scheduled the session shortly after War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes and Senator AT" thur H. Vandenberg. R., Mscb., ems phasized the need for immediate consideration of reconversion bills In telegrams to congressional leaders.
 Vandenberg's telegram asked Re- publican Senators to join a meeting of the COP steering committee on Tuesday to plan steps Tor "imme- diate consideration of reconyersion legislation." He indicated the Re- puhlicans would oppose any move to extend the current recess until after Labor Day,
 Both stressed that quick action was necessary because of the possi. bility that Germany might collapse at an early date and create compli- cated problems of industrial and manpower readjustmept for the United States,
 One of two bills pending in Rey- holds committee, is by Senators Walter P. George, D., Ga, and James P, Murray, D., Mont, and the other by Senator Harley M, kilgoFe' D., ", Va.
 The George Murray bill provides for the creation of an office of war Mobilization and Post-WaT Adjust ment to handle settlement Of con. tracts, The bill also provides federal aid to those states which are not solvent, in the payment Of unem' ploymept compensation,
 The Kilgore bill, which also estab- fishes an office of war mobilization and adjustment, would extend much broader federal help by hay5 ing the national government guar antee all state compensation funds,
 Sources close to KilgoFes var mobilization subcommittee predict ed that congress also would take up soon a bill to provide for the dis- pOsal of surplus war property,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28
Jops Deny
 
(By United PFess)


 Sadao Iguchi, spokesman for the Japanese information board, flat ly denied" today that any members of the crew of American BPS sup- erfOrtresses had been executed af- ter being shot down and captured, a Japanese Domei Agency dispatch said today,
 The dispatch. recorded by EGG Monitors, said Iguchi made the de- pial in commenting on an Amer" can inquiry, filed thorugh the Swiss legation in Tokyo to the Japanese foreign office, regarding a Singapore broadcast which purportedly said American airmen who ralded kybS shu had been put to death,
 Iguchj attributed the inquiry to a "tBisted interpretation" Of 2 slpgav pore broadcast which he quoted as saying in effect that ethe raiding B. 20 b0mbers, by being shot down out of the skies of Japan, had thus come with a 0nevWay ticket to nell,
 Domei said Iguchj also pointed out that FCC Monitors had reported that reception was not good on tDaE day, "and only 2 few excerpts Hl English were ntelligtble,|
 'sFhe spokesman concluded that this fact also mRy have contributed to the erroneous interpretation og the broadcast" Domei said,
 The Japanese have ackpoWledgeq that they executed several oF Lpe eight American flyers whom they captured after It, Gen, James r / poolittle's raid on Tokyo ip ApFll' l942,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28
10 JGponese
 Ships Sunk

Pearl HarboF, July 2s.-(UP)-A powerful U. s, Navy task force sank 70 enemy ships, including a de- stroyer, in a daring raid on the Western Carolines. 1t was disclosed today, while Marines struck out in a bid for quick conquest of the re- maining two thirds of Tinian Island in the Marianas.
 Marines, in control of one third of Tinian six days after its invasion, advanced southWard in a drive to eliminate the remaining Japanese from the 20 square mile island,
 Front dispatches described scenes of death and destruction on Guam where Marines and Army troops pressed their battle of annihllation against Japanese trapped on oFoEe peninsula,
 Carrier based planes struck at enemy bases on the Palau Islands and Yap and Ulitht Islands in the CaFolines Monday and Tues- day, Adm, Chester w, Nlmitg's lat' est e0mmunique revealed, and he listed as sunk one destroyer, an olleg, a destroyer escort or mine layer, seven small cargo vessels and many smaller craft" .. aircraft were shot down and 2l
 Nimits reported that five enemy were destroyed on the ground, while Aye American planes were lost, Four nll0ts were rescued, however, The carrier plane attack was the flFst attack on the Car0lines since March 2a.9O, when 2 task force destroyed leI enemy planes,
 Before beginning their drive
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28
GrisWoId To Keynote COP Conn. Meet

Hartford, July 28 - Governor Dwight Griswold of Nebraska, who nominated Governor Thomas E. Dewey for the presidency at the Republican National convention last month, will deliver the keynote ad- dress at &heI Republican state con- vention in Hartford on the evening of Monday, August 7th, State Chair man J. Kenneth Bradley announced today.
 Choice of Q keynote speaker for the convention, which it is expected will renominate Gov. Raymond E.. Baldwin and the entire slate of state officers, was rested with Chairman Bradley by the Republican State Central committee. He designated the Nebraska chief executive, and Governor Baldwin invited Governor GriswOld to address the Connecticut delegates.
 Expressing his satisfaction and pleasure over the fact that the Me- braskan had accepted his invitation to sound the keynote here, Governor &SdtAHAlA oaAd' aOfEtAtuI JkloWOAa is one of the country's young and vigorous chief executives. He is now serving his second term as governor of Nebraska and he has an excellent record of administration in his state"
 While Nebraska is almost wholly an agricultural state, our thought in inviting Governor Griswold to speak at the Connecticut convention" the governor stated. twas to show the unity of purpose of the Republican party in the interests of both the farm and industrial workers upon both of whom our country is de- pendent and who are dependent upon each other"
 Governor Baldwin added that Governor Griswold also has a Cons pecHcut background, He is a de-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28
Storn, Rips Church Roof
NEA Telephoto.

4 sharp electrical storm which swept the state yesterday afternoon brought an inch and Q quarter Of rain here and for Q short time completely blackened the sky and caused minor floods in the down. town area.
 Nearly four-fifths of an inch fell throughout the state, the United Press reported, but farmers feared that the moisture came to late to be generally beneficial to the parched Connecticut crops.
 Waterbury escaped with minor storm damage although number of surrounding towns were hard hit.
 In Prospect, Rev. John ?. Mc- Teague and two choir boys had a narrow escape when lightning struck St. Anthony's church, rips ping a hole in the roof.
 Father McTeague and the boys, Leo Gonnyille and Jack Sullivan, were in the church basement mak- ing plans for e lawn festival to be held next week, when a bolt struck the wooden cross on the steeple, jumped to the transept, and went down through the drain pipes to the basement,
 Tn jumping to the transept. the bolt tore a hole 2 feet long and 3 feet wide ln the roof, through which the rain poured Into the church proper,
 Father McTeague reported that the entire church rocked as though 1t would come tumbling down about them, Planes sprang from 8 metal boiler and . meter box, between which they were standing, as the bolt made It's way to the ground,
 As in two previous storms thls month, the East End section of Waterbury, Prospect and Woleott were hardest hit, Power ln several homes was disrupted as nearby lightning flashes burned out trans formers and fuses 4 total of it0 telephone lines were knocked out of seriVee in the area,
 Hartford, Conn, July 2e-lUPl- Sharp storms brought nearly f0lTs fIfths of an inch of rain to paFched Connecticut crops last night, but farmers feared that the moisture came too late to be generally ben'
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full scope for the great sweeping slasbes with which they have eoy' cred more than 1000 miles since stalingrad,
 Behind Poland lies 6llesia, Pomr egania and the last adequate des fepse line before Berlin, the River Oder, For the sake of his own life and that of his regime which ne had promised would endure 900 years, Hitler must choose 8 battle. field east of the Oder He must llght there with an army already ln complete Fopt--nothing else can explain the speed of the RusslaD adVanoe-plns whatever halfrready reserves Hitler, G0ebbels and the WehEmaebt high command can And,
 He must fight against aD enemy iD the full flush of victory which today has np to 400 divisions Feaay for battle,
 Black Thursday recorded apotheT fatefNl warning on the peFlmeteg ef western Europe when AlneFleaO tanks eomplstsd thelP bFeakout ln
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28
3, 900 HeaUy Bon,bers HitLargeN Nazi Centers

London, July 28 (UP) - Almost 5000 American heavy bombers and fighters from Britain and Italy rocked Axis Europe by daylight to- day. smashing at the vitals of the Nazi war machine in central Ger. many and the Ploesti oil fields in southern Romania.
 The mighty two-way blow was set in motion by . fleet of 2,O00 U, s, etla Air Force Flying FoFtreases, Ll- beTat0rs and Fighters that Berlin said skiFted the German capital to hit the big aircraft and chemical centers of Dessau, Halle and Merse- burg.
 Simultaneously. an estimated 300 Italian-hased heavies, covered by strong fighter formations. heaped new devastation on Ploestts bate tered oil installations.
 The Romanian ground defenses threw up a terrific tiak baTrage and laid dense smoke screen across the vital oil fields. but returning American flyers said their bombs touched of great fires and eyploss ions through the target area,
 At least 1900 Flying Fortfesses and Liberat0rs and an equal num- ber of long-range Mustang, Light. ming and Thunderbolt fighters paF' ticipated in the assault. laying their bomb loads through a thick oyeF- cast that plotted out the targets,
 Despite Nazi accounts Of furious air battles raging all across the center of the Reich, first reports from returning arewmen indicated the Luftwaffe put up only q feeble defense,
 Anti-aiFcFaft fire over the targets was so thick, however. that at one stage Of the attack the eseortlng American fighter pilots found their visibility dimmed by the black bursts of exploding flax,
 One large formation of h0mheFs
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28
Author ToIks Wor Embargo

Kennehunkp0Ft, Me, July 2b - (U,P.l - Booth Tarkington, dean of American letters, said today he be. lieyes that some day the world will outlaw war just as 1t has Outlawed dueling and murder.
 Tn an interview on the eve of his 18th birthday, the Hoosiev novelist playwright said that the question before us is whether We shall do lt now or wait for the war that will end with a handful of survivors here and there nursing babies in the deepest cayerns of the earth"
 Twice winner of the Pulitzer prize for literature, TaTkingt0D advocated the use of force to maintain peace,
 "T'he disciplinary forces need not be an international police" he said, And nothing could be simpler than to provide that they could not inter- fere with the internal affairs of any nstion-so long as 1t keeps the peaee,'
 Maintaining that Germany and Japan must be treated as separate problems i1 any consideration of Q permanent peace, TaFklngtop des claFed that "hoDest agreements made and supported in good faith will soon be possible between our. selves and all the other pnhypno. tlged peoples of the earth"
 Those agreements, he added, must be such that no nation can go to war or prepare to go to War-n0 matteF how right t thinks its cause without bringing down upon itself from all the rest of us, military forces sufficient to stop It's WaFllke preparations
 While TaTklngton pF0fessed to bf "personally AatteFed" at questions about his own plans, he said the answers would be unlnteTestlng,
 sWh0 wants to beaF that an old hiEd's sitting on the VeFanda of hoathouse at Kennebunkp0Ft, WoF' Tying about young relatives ln N9Fl mandy, Italy and the Pacific and trying to forget how many birthdays he's already had9p he asked,
 TavkingtNp ealled his 7bth biFths day one of numerically aeeuFsed'l proportions, He said he would spend
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pV, Joseph Goebhels' "totaV cans psigp within s4 hours Of iis start
 They foFetold the fall Of War; saw, Pvgemysl aDd oFaeow and the surge of battle-the battle being eagr vled by 'iDfeTl0r' people fhom Hts Ter desplses-lnto the Feleh's own eastern marches,
 There are few people in London today, or for that matter probably ln Berlin, who cared to forecast Where the Red ATmy dFlVe-nlne separate NtEenslVes between tne Finnish TpnaFa and the gaFpafh' len passes-Will end,
 Must ktRWa
 The Germans must stand somes where lp western P0land N they gre to pF0l0Hg the WRE more than a matter of weeks, They must stand on the same ground where ATep0WeF, manp0Weg and memenF tunl, which the Red Army nos n0mmands, W0n Hitler the first h9tv tles pf tho WaF, Et is the Polish plains where natural defensas are lev RRa the Red Army will haFe
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28
"NAzIS KNEW. OF INVASION
 PLAN" -RIESS

New York, July 28.-(UP) Months before the Ameri- cans invaded French North Africa on November 2, 1922, Hjalmar Schacht and other German bankers and indus trialists had been told of the Allies secret plans to invade, Curt Riess, German refugee author, charged today.
 As a result of this intelli- gence, Riess wrote in his book, "The Nazis Go Under ground" published today by Doubleday, Doran, German industry was able to acquire many American dollars at an extremely favora ble ex- change rate for billions of French Francs that had been transferred to Africa from France proper.
 When we landed in Africa we found there quite sizeable group of Frenchmen who usually did not reside in that part of the world" Reiss wrote. we also found bil- lions of Francs in African banks which had not been there Q short time before. There had been leak somewhere and a few French in- dustrialists-or were they German? had not been slow to profit from it."
 The leak, Riess wrote, had come sometime in l942 from "an impor- tant Frenchman." The latter spoke of it to numerous persons. tnclud- ing the late Pierre Pucheu, who sub sequently was executed for treason. Pucheu talked about 1t to a num- ber of other persons, including the banker, Breart De Boisanger.
 '"Thus, via Pucheu and Boisanger, a great many people learned of the invasion who were not supposed to know about 1t, among them Schacht
 Herr Won Schroeder (German in- dustrialist) and of course, Baron Von Schnitzler Chairman Of I, G. Farben)," Riess charged.
 Reiss said the strange financial deal by which the French leaders,
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Nazi broadcasts said fight ing had broken out at Przemysl, another Polish citadel SO miles west of Lwow, indicating that the Russians were storming it from the captured area of Zurawica, two miles to the north.
 The fall of Brest Litovsk, almost encircled stronghold, ll5 miles eass of Warsaw, unhinged the last Ger- man salient looping eastward into the string of bastions on which tho last Nazi hope for an effective stand in central Poland depended.
 Berlin acknowledged that the routed and hard pressed German army in the east abandoned Brest Litovsk and fought back to new positions" as powerful Soviet forces narrowed the escape corridor vest ward to about six miles.
 The Naz acknowledgement Of Brest Litovsk's loss indicated that the Red Army was adding Black Friday to the Black Thursday on which 1t amasse0 its greatest vic- tories of the war in single day, oyerrunning six of the biggest Ger man defense bastions on the eastern front.
 With the capture of Brest Ltovsk, Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky tore out the last German anchor impeding a frontal push against Warsaw, against which Russian Armored forces were driving within less than 30 miles. at rate proEll- ising to bring the Polish capital under siege within matter of days.
 Stockholm reports said German authorities and Nazi party officials were fleeing Warsaw, and had cosn- pleted plans to eyacuate it's indus trial plants while Polish patriots were picking off occupation troops in an upsurge of Guerrilla warfare within the city.
 Along with Brest Litovsk, the Ger man high command admitted the loss of Lwow, Bialystok and Dau- gaypils, three of the six big bases taken yesterday in the Red ArBy's greatest day of the war which loosed Q victory salute of 22,4o0 (Continued on Page 9
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28
U. $. Bombers Kill Ycnks

Ninth Air Force Headquarters, Normandy, July 26,--tuPl-About 80 Plying FnrtTesses and medium hombeEs dropped bombs short 0l thelT assigned area and killed and wounded American soldiers during yesterdays FeeoFd a,00Osplane aerial h0mbaFdment of enemy lines west of St, To, Maj, Gen, Lewis RFeFet0n acknowledged today,
 BFeFet0n, commander 0f the hth Air Force, told correspondents that the American casualties were much fewer than had been feared and added that you are practically eeF' tain to have some shorts when you have that many planes In the alF and FesNltlng smoke obsepFes tbs gr0upd,S
 ID the case Of one group of havoc b0mbers, he said, the bombing PeV lease mechanism on the lead plane went WrNng and bombs plummeted down 10000 yards short AF me scheduled area, Other planes lN the group immediately released tbelE explosives,
 Though practically the entire mass of bombs fell ln the assigned ares 5000 yards long and 5000 yards wide, RreFetaD admitted that the Army was not satisfied Wlth fne ges suits of the mass b9mbaramenF presumably because Of lts FalluFe 70 bring g quick break fhFough " tanks and infantry,
 lThe bFeaksthFaHgb was achieved Iate "Wednesday and ThnFsaay however,
 Iie saia the bembaEdment vel the aFea to be hlt,
 planned Rt the request ef thf Army commander, Whe indicated the RFea t0 be hlt,
 RFeFaten received the press Agtel 2 aenleFense with Et, Zen, Carl 4 spaatR, e0mmandeg Of the u, z sfFatAgie alF fAFaes oyer Europe and Lt, Gen. James J po0llttle commander ef the 9th Ar F0Fpe'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28
Panoran,a OF Disaster Faces AH or Nazidon As Tanks, Reds SlUeep On

the N0rmandy peacnneaq m an 0FE fensiye which probably IS still only balf developed,
 The Russians forecast yesterday that q full strength blow was the west would end the war tn Europe quickly, The blow may be about to fall,
 Purge
 Against this panorama Of dlss aster Himmler is trying to purge battered GeFmRDy of defeatism and Goebbels is trying to hack a few more divisions from the Retch's aDaemie manpoWer--aS many AS possible in the next few decisive weeks,
 They are working with 8 nation whose endurance already has been strained beyond helieYable limits, whose industry Is paFtlyvWTecked, whose aiTp0weF Is just . shadow and whose army Is 0ptpumbeFed on all fronts,
 The national m0rale can be stiftened with promises 0f peE
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Prelude To Biz Bottle
By HENRY T. GORRELL

Five miles from Coutauces, France, July 2s.-(UP)-Guns are booming a prelude to the next big battle of the Normandy campaign a bold attempt by It. Gen, Omar V. Bradley's armored Army to tFaH the s4th German army corps uorth of Coutapces.
 The Germans already know wfat we are up to and our epotteFs re- port they have rushed up reinforce meDts of artillery, anti-tapk gunf and Uortars during the last few hours in an attempt to protect the bottleneck at Coutanees until the e4th corps can slip out.
 On arrival at this armored copl~ mand post I was informed that our tank spearheads had prohed te within two and one-third miles Of the vital road junction and that other tank units, supported by mos torized infantry, were dashing north and northwest of the MaFigpy-C -Couv tances highway in an attempt t9 cut roads north of the town,
 They were meeting stiff 0eTmap ECnfSANftAE AL4fpNfNA VII AtRA Al0 tAH eated on one of the highways runs ming into Coutanees just south Of Mont Houchon, of to our right,
 Big Convey
 4 great convoy of Eaultivybeeled vehicles and half-tgaeks Is brlpgv ing the infantry down from Marlgny to join the battle. Giant bulldozers are clearing q path for them through roads filtered with burned and blasted Naz Panther and Tiger tanks, saw many of these seoFchv ed monsters lying overturned in shellh0les at the roadside wheFe the bulld02egs had showed them,
 9he countryside west of MaFigpg Is infested with German troops by passed ln our rapid advance, That they did not Fe on my jeep As ]
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TvsIn Crew Quevisd ReeovdiHs Wreck

Mansfield, Mass, July 2e-(UPl- Members of the train crew were 70 be questioned at Q formal hearing lD Providence, B, !, today in eoppee' ton with the PennrRay State ekS press deFallmept in which ls persons were injured,
 Officials 0f the New HaVep FRilr road and the state public utilities department iDvestIgatlDg here still were puzzled as t0 what caused the West Mansfield accident Wedpess day, The last three ears Af the fast train enEpute from Pblladelphis 10 Boston with nearly t00 passegl5 gers aboard were deralled,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28
BY VIRGIL PINKLEY Limited Press War CorrespOndentl

Limited Press War CorrespOndentl
 Supreme Headquarters, AEF, July 28. - (UP) - American armored forces, hammering the Germans southward in a chaotic gen. eral retreat, drove to within a litle more than two miles of Coutances today and out fIanked that west coast stronghold with a deep thrust to the southeast ex- tending the First Army's breakthrough to IS miles.
 United Press war correspondent HenEy T. Gorrell reported from Nor- mandy that tank vanguards were only two and one third mile from Countances at 7:30 a. m. U:30 a. m. EWT0 and the fall of the highway and railway hub was considered imminent"
 Another front dispatch said American troops captured hill i0l, one and one-quartsr miles southeast of st. To, in new offensive slowly developing In that area,
 Capture of C0utances would trap the remnants of seven battered eH- enay divisions, among them Adolf
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EIGHTH ARMY
 DRAWS CLOSER TO OFLORENCE
BY ELEANOR PACKARD United Press War CorrespOndent)


 Rome, July 28. - (UP) - The British 9th Army, ad- vancing yard by yard through bitter enemy resist ance, stormed to within seven miles or less of Flor ence today while American and German forces to the west massed for the battle of Pisa and exchanged heavy artillery and mortar fire across the Arno river.
 GA German communique said the Allies opened an of- fensive on a wide front south of Florence and that fierce fighting was raging there today.)
 New Zealand tanks and infan- trymen spearheaded the frontal drive on Florence, slugging directly up Highway Two against fanatical- ly-resisting Nazi paratroopers and shock units who fought to the death from a network of hill positions and machine gun nests covering the southern approaches to the city.
 The New Zealanders pushed their lines forward about 8 mile yester- day, capturing the strongly-fortifled town of San Cascino and moving on four miles to the northwest to Ger baia. In the Cerbaia sector and just north of San Cascino the 6th Army was barely seven miles from Florence last night, well within ar- tillery range of that ancient center of commerce and culture.
 GA BEG broadcast recorded by NDC monitors said the New zea- landeTsn were only six miles trsnA i FIOtehcs)
 On their left flank. a second Brit ish armored column hammered out substantial gains in an enveloplng sweep apparently aimed at cutting the Arno river line around Empoit. 20 miles west of Florence. The British advanced as much as four
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