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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-21
Allied Planes Hit
 Hitler's Hdeaway

Rome, Feb. 21-UP)--Allied war planes bombed Adolf Hitler's noun tain fortress at Berchtesgaden in daylight yesterday for the first time, a headquarters announcement said today.
 A force of Italian-based medium bombers and fighter bombers of the Mediterranean Allied Tactical Ali Force carried out the surprise blow on the feuhrer's hideaway in the Bavarian Alps, 75 miles southeast of Munich.
 The attack apparently was direct ed mainly against the railway yards in Berchtesgaden village, but first reports said rocsket-firing Thunder bolts roared across the fortress it. self at low-level.
 Hundreds of anti-aircraft batter ies all around the feuhrer's hideout opened up with a terrific barrage. Nazi Elite Guards fired on the low flying raiders with rifles and ma chine guns.
 There was no immediate indica- ton whether bomb or rocket hits were scored on Hitler's mountain top palace itself.
 GA Rome dispatch to the Ex- change Telegraph in London said the fortress was hit directly by the attacking ThunderboltS0
 Hitler'S present whereabouts were unknown, but it was considered pos sible that he was in BerchteSgaden at the time of the attack, in view of the Red Army's close approach to Berlin and the precent heavy Allied air attacks on his capital.
 The Eagles Nest" at Berchtes- gaden was probably the most fam tastic of all the steel and stone mon- uments Hitler erected.
 Built in 1888 at the height of Hit ler's power. the hideaWay was placed atop the 1,800-foot crest of the Kehlstein, a toWerlike rock ris- ing high in the Bavarian Alps over looking the village of Berchtesgaden.
 When Nazi Germany's military fortunes began to wane and Berlin itself came within range of the Red Army there were rumors that Hitler and a picked corps of his followers would retreat to Berchtesgaden and fight on in the mountains around that fortress.
 The Kehlstein itself bristles with anti-aircraft batteries and secret defenses behind which the Fuehrer had believed himself safe against all attack.
 It was at Berchtesgaden that the Fuehrer held his gravest councils
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-21
State Funds
 For Go Aim

Use of state funds for the appeal of Francis ZukauSkaS, condemned slayer of Mrs. Stephanie Plungis will be sought directly through the State Supreme Court of Errors in Hartford, it was learned today.
 Public Defender Edward T. Car mody, who represented the former supernumerary policeman in the superior court trial, revealed he will raise the matter of funds with the hgih court by special motion, drawn up today.
 Last Friday the three judges who convicted Zukauskas denied de- fense motion for use of state funds for the appeal. Attorney Carmody said today he will not appeal from that denial but instead will file a direct motion in the Hartford court, asking it to rule whether or not zukauskas should be allowed to take his appeal at the expense of the state.
 An early hearing on the request is expected to be assigned. The de- fenSe meanwhile is awaiting de- cision from the three superior court judges, Frank P. McEvoy, John H. King, and Howard w. Alcorn, on a motion for an extention of time until March 6 for completing the appeal papers. The tWo-Week limit ends today.
 Zukauskas, who on February 8 was sentenced to die in the electric chair April 20. was reported today to be behaving normally at the Wethersfield prison while awaiting execution.
 It was disclosed by Warden Ralph
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-21
McEvoy FIoys
 Jury Verdict Freeing Boy
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Sentencing 8 youth in superior court today to WetherSfield state prison for from one to three years Judge Frank P. McEvoy took issue with a jury which yesterday after noon acquitted another youth 1n- volved in the same incident and in a similar accusation.
 The two youths, Arthur Moody, g, of 189 Orange street and Francis Richardson. 24, of 142 Union street, were apprehended by police Nov. 29 in a car owned by Morris Halbe- stein of 136 Columbia boulevard. They were fleeing from the vehicle when they were arrested.
 Richardson on Jan. g pleaded guilty to the charge Moody pleaded not guilty and selected trial by jury.
 Yesterday afternoon jury of nine men and three women found Moody not guilty. Today Judge McEvoy faced the task of imposing the rigid sentence, required by statute, for the youth who admitted the crime.
 "The jury by it's verdict yesterday practically gave approval to this kind of conduct" Judge McEvoy commented. He declared the jur- ors in effect, gave commendation for people to do these things"
 State laws do not authorize 8 judge to set aside 8 jury verdict ill a criminal case, even though he may disagree with it. The only remedy would be an appeal by the state to the State Supreme Court Of Errors, but such action Is unusual.
 Richardson had claimed from the stand yesterday, in turning as a states witness, that he and Moody took the car to attend a dance Richardson drove 1t.
 Today Richardson told Judge Mc- Evoy he had ben drinking heavily at the time. He stated also he planned to take a correspondence
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-21
Jops Luzon Losses HeovV
Bv WILLIAM B. DICKINSON

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 Manila, Feb. 21-UP)-Japanese forces, with their casualties in the Luzon campaign nearing the 100, ,000 mark, fought back savagely from 8 shrinking pocket in southern Manila today against American flame throWers and heavy artillery.
 Gen. Douglas Macarthur said the "bitterest fighting" had developed as the American infantrymen slowly compressed the enemy lines and big guns maintained a steady lombard ment of the ancient wall around the Intramuros sector.
 The last-stand death battles Waged by the Japanese was taking a heavy toll of the enemy forces. A communique reported that the Jap anese casualties in the first six weeks of the Luzon campaign eX- ceeded 92,000. In that same period, the American casualties totaled g. 676 dead, 1OOO8 wounded and 245 missing-a ratio of seven-to-one over the enemy.
 AS the trapped Japanese faced all most certain death in their holdout positions below the Pasig river, they let loose an orgy of sadism and de- struction on Filipino civilians and property.
 The communique officially dis closed that the Japanese were "act- Ag with the greatest Savagery in @e treatment of non-combatants and private property"
 A survey showed that almost all private possessions of Filipinos were thoroughly footed during the enemy
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-21
.Yonks Wreck
 Big Sieefried Line Section
By BOYD D. LEWIS

Paris, Feb. 21 - (U.PO - Reports of wholesale German surrenders poured in from Lieutenant General George s. Patton's U. s. Third Army front today as the Americans col- lapsed another big section of the Siegfried Line and advanced as much as 5 1-2 miles on broad front.
 Patton's armored and infantry columns were swinging out in front of the Allied western offensive at a quickening pace along a 50-mile att tack line extending down from the Pruem sector to the Moselle-Saar triangle.
 German resistance was strangely spotty all across the Third Army front. At some points the Nazis fought savagely and skillfully for every yard of ground. At others, sullen enemy troopers were sur- rendering by the hundreds, quitting strong defensive positions without 8 fight.
 1000 Prisoners
 Field dispatches said the Third Army had rounded up almost 1000 prisoners in the past four days, equivalent to more than the full combat strength of one of the Wehr- macht's thinned divisions.
 The mass Surrenders were made more puzzling by the fact that mud and slush were hindering Patton's advance sufficiently to permit most of the Germans to escape eastward if they wished.
 Far to the north, tough German paratroopers were putting up 8 dif- ferent kind of battle against the Canadian First Army in the IT, mile wide Maas-Rhine corridor leading to the Ruhr Valley.
 Bolstered by fresh endorsements that put elements of nine German divisions across the path of the at- tacking Canadian Army, the Nazis were throwing strong tank and in- fantry forces into a series of coun- ter-attacks that slowed and at some points reversed the Allied advance.
 Hardest fighting ragged along the left flank of the Canadian drive in the Calcar area, where the Nazis
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-21
Prison And Jail Terms
 Given Circus Officials

Hartford, Conn, Feb. 21.-(UP)- Six men charged with responsibility for the circus fire which last July claimed 168 lives, were sentenced today to prison and jail terms by Superior Court Judge William J. Shea.
 The defendants, officers and em- ployes of Ringing Brothers-B -Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, Inc, had pleaded nolo contendere, along with the corporation itself, to 10 counts of manslaughter.
 The corporation was fined $10,- 900.
 Vice President James A. Haley was sentenced to one to five years in prison on each of the counts, the sentences to run concurrently.
 General Manager George w. Smith, two to seven years on each count, concurrent.
 Execution of the sentences, eX- cepting that of Galley, were stayed until April 6 at tie request of De- ferse Counsel William L. Hadden, who told the court it would be utterly impossible to put the circus on the road this year without these key men" to supervise the work of reconstruction resulting from the heavy fire losses.
 States Attorney Hugh M .Alcorn, Jr., agreed to the stay, although Ee said 1t was "an unusually long time, but this is an unusual case"
 Chief Canvassman Leonard S
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-21
5th Retakes
 Italy Mount

Rome, Feb. 21-(UP)-American troops of the Fifth Army, storming up precipitous terrain against strong German resistance, recaptured B. OO0-foot Mount Belvedere dominats ing the entrance to the Pararo river valley, headquarters announced to- day.
 The advance was aided by artil- lery fire and strong air support. The sector is about 30 miles southwest of Bologna.
 The peak had been in German hands since November when Ger man counter-attack pushed back the doughboys four days after they oc- cupied it.
 The troops encountered heavy mine fields as they pressed forward. capturing the mountain villages Oe Polla and Valpiana and other com- manding features in addition to Mount Belevedere.
 Four German counter-attackS were thrown at newly-won Amer ican positions on Mount Mancillo- Pizzo de Campiano west of Mount Belvedere Tuesday night but all were repulsed
 In one thrust, 30 Germans ap- preached with upraised hands until within close range, then dropped to the ground and opened fire. They were routed with heavy casualties. American losses were extremely light"
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-21
Senator Fauors Shipping
 Chaplin Back To EngLand

Chaplin asserted that liberal ideas in that picture caused him to be called to Washington for question ing as a "war monger."
 '"That investigation fell through after Pearl Harbor,' he said. But the pro-Naz: and reactionary ele- ments continued their attack. They trumped up charges inspired by vicious lies of sob sisters using Miss Barry as their tool"
 After was acquitted of Mann Act charges" he s"id medical science proved I am not the father of Miss Barry's child. And still the persecution continues. This case is being used to attack my charac- ter, discredit me with the public, and baniSh me from the country for which my two sons are fighting overseas.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-21
By VIRGINIA MAC PETERSON

Hollywood, Feb. 21 -(UP)-Char- lie Caplin, the millionaire comedian, said today suggestions that he be deported were part of 8 political smear campaign.
 Chaplin replied to proposal by Sen. William H. Langer, R., N. D.. that he be shipped back to his na- tive England. He said that Joan Barry, his former drama protege was encouraged in filing her pa- ternity suit against him by the same forces who inspired the de- portation proposals.
 "Its all part of 8 political per secution," Chaplin said. "It's been going on for four years-ever since I made an anti-NaId film, '"The Great Dictator"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-21
Soldier, Gal
 Die March 8

London, February 21. - (UP) - The date of execution of Pve Karl Gustav Hulten, Boston, Mass, paratrooper, and Elizabeth Marina Jones, British strip tease dancer was set today for March 8.
 They were convicted of the rob- bery-murder of British taxi driver.
 Hulten will be hanged at Penton- villa and Mrs. Jones, wife of Brit ish soldier, at Hollaway. The date of execution was fixed by the Home Secretary's Office following the de- cision yesterday by 8 three-judge Appellate Court denying their ap- peals for a new trial.
 Although the execution date was set, 1t was pointed out that the action did not necessarily mean the Home Secretary had ruled finally on the cases. He has the power to reprieve the death sentences imposed on the American soldier and the 18- year-old dancer.
 Hulten's mother, Mrs. Signe Hull ten, remained in seclusion, but his 22-year-old wife and mother of his 2-year-old daughter told the United Press she has not given up hope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-21
Jap Carrier, Cruiser Sunk

Washington, Feb. 21.-UP)- American submarines have sunk a Japanese escort carrier, a large converted cruiser, a destroyer and g merchant vessels in new opera tions the Navy announced today.
 The large converted cruiser was believed to be an 18-000-ton con- verted merchant ship.
 This latest submarine haul in cluded the three warships two trans ports, three cargo transports and IF cargo vessels, the communique said.
 Total sinkings by American sub- marines since the beginning of the war now total 1925 vessels. These include 100 warships.
 Since Jan. 1, the Navy has an- nounced sinkings by U. s. subma- rines of 121 vessels an average of more than two a day in the past two months.
 All the sinkings announced today took place in Far Eastern waters. close to the enemy's homeland and stolen southern empire.
 FavOrS POst-War Fleet
 Secretary of Navy James For restal is strong for big postwar fleet backed up by an independent government research agency to keep all American armed forces up-to- date.
 After the war;" Forrestal told President Roosevelt in his first aYl- nual report as cabinet officer, "the United States and its Allies should keep fleets capable of con- trolling the worlds oceans"
 He said such power fits right in with plans for international col- (Noyotipund Ot1 poUo Al
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-21

The battle for Two Jim1 already has cost more casualties than the bloody capture of Tarawa in 1943.
 The Tarawa fighting was more concentrated, however, and losses were proportionately heavier than those thus far reported from Two.
 In any event, neither action seems likely to rank in fury with the bloodiest battle the Marine Corps ever fought. At Soissons, France, in the last war, the Marines suf- fered 14OO casualties in 60 minutes.
 Adm. Chester w. NimitZ estim- ated on the third day of the Two Jima battle that casualties had reached 365O. In the 76-hour Tarawa battle casualties totaled 2,151.
 The great proportion of Two casualties, ho e CT, were wounded. as indicated by Nimitz' report that 3,0l3 of the total had been evacu- ated. On Tarawa the ratio was 88 men killed tc 2,163 wounded A communique on the Two bttle. the toughest in the long history of the Marine Corps, said the two in- vasion divisions were slugging for ward yard by yard against heavy machine gun, mortar, small arms and rocket fire.
 Mai. Gen. Keller E. Rockey's Fifth Division hammered up the west coast of Two beyond the lower end of the runways of the last air field remaining in Japanese hands. The first and main base was firmly in American hands.
 Frontal Assault At the same time Maj. Gen. Cliff ton B. Gates Fourth Division launched frontal assault against the field from the south and by noon was pushing toward the cen- ter of the field," Nimitz'S com. munique said.
 "The Fifth Amphibious Corps. having secured the southern Two air field, made a general advance toward the islands central airdrome today" the communique said.
 Gains were made along the whole line, and generally were about 500 to 1000 yards in extent"
 At the south end of Two, where part of the Japanese garrison was cut off by the Marine drive across the island, American forces were driving slowly up the slopes of Mt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-21
Senate Rejects FDR;s Plea
 For Slackers Penalty BiU

labor hoarding and waste.
 Committee Chairman Ebert D. Thomas, D, Utah. said the surveys would include uniformed personnel as well as civilians employed in ord- nance plants. warehouses and sim liar supply installations.
 In addition, the substitute would:
 1. Authorize the War Manpower Commission to establish ceilings on the number Of workers any plant or industry may employ.
 3. Require WING approval on Job changing.
 Penalties against employers for exceeding manpower ceilings would be more severe.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-21
BIoze Destroys Jewish Synoqog

Beverly, Mass, Feb. 21-(UP) - A general alarm fire which may have been set destroyed Jewish synagog and community center to- day with $50,000 loss.
 Fire Chief John Greasy said the fire apparently started on the out side steps of the three-story wooden building housing the Sons of Abra- ham congregation and spread rap idly. AS 8 precaution, he ordered the evacuation of 25 persons from nearby homes.
 The blaze was discovered by Mrs. A. J. Marquis who lives across the street from the sgnagog. She said she heard several explosions as the fire gained in intensity. An 1n- vtstigation has been ordered.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-21

Washington, Feb. 21-(UP)-Thc Senate Military Affairs Committee hoped to finish work on It's own ver- sion of manpower legislation today after rejecting President RooSevelt's new plea for a bill with penaltieT for slackerS.
 The Senate substitute won ten- tative victory yesterday when the committee voted 12 to 6 to con- sider 1t instead of the House ap- proved work or else bill.
 The Senate bill would grant War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes power to survey manpower in private industry and the Army and Navy with Q view to eliminating
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-21
Stanley Crute To Direct OPA

Hartford, jonn., Feb. 21-(UP) - Stanley Crute, New Haven, who has been with the Connecticut OPA since its inception, will become state director of the agency tomor- row
 Crute was named by Regional Director Eldon 0. Shoup. Boston, to succeed Anthony F. Arpaia, New Heven, who resigned Feb. 1.
 Crute Is 47 years old, a civil en- gineer and former chief construc- tion engineer of the now defunct State Department of Public Works.
 National OrA Director Chester Bowles, who formerly headed the State OPA, approved Crute's ap- pointmen+ and said the new direc' tor twill give good account of himself"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-21
Prisoners Begging Coke In Providence

Providence, R. l., February 2l.- (UP) - Twelve jail and State Prison inmates were bagging coke at the Superior Coal Company yard here today in an effort by Governor J. Howard McGrath to relieve the critical fuel shortage.
 The prisoners, who have been authorized by the governor and Warden John R. Cranor to work for the duration of the fuel emer- gency, pack coke into 50-pounl bags which are delivered to emergency fuel outlets established at Provl- dence fire stations.
 Governor McGrath issued the emergency order when many faml- lies were left without fuel due to lack of manpower for transporting the coke frim coal yards.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-21
GripshoIm Docks In Jersey City

Jersey City, Feb. 21.--(UP)-The exchange ship Gripsholm arrived today from Marseille, France, car rying 1,20O soldiers and civilians, among whom were a large number of seriously i'll and wounded Amer ican and Canadian prisoners of war.
 The passengers included 463 American soldiers, 78 Canadian sol diers and 665 civilians, Americans and Nationals of Mexico, Venezuela and Peru. The white ship, flying the neutral Swedish flag, pulled i'll at pier F after @ 13-day voyage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-21
MARINES STORM SECOND TWO AIRFIELD D Landing On Ck1ina'S East Coast Looms
3O,OOO TANKS AWAIT SIGNAL
 REPORTSAX|S

London, February 21. - (UP) - Axis broadcasts said today that an Army of 30,O00 American troops and 90 Chinese divisions has been massed in southern China to support an American land ing on the east coast of China.
 The German Transocean News Agency, quoting dis patches from Tokyo, said the Allied Expeditionary Force awaited a signal to start an overland offensive in coordi- nation with the amphibious assault on the coast.
 The Chinese were said to be con- centrated in Yunnan Province, in- cluding troops transferred from the Burma front.
 The location of the reported American Army was not specified, but Transocean said the Tanks were equipped with tanks and heavy artillery.
 In western military terms, the 90 Chinese divisions would represent well over 100000 men, but Trans ocean indicated the divisions were believed to be considerably smaller than those used in European or American armies.
 (Japanese spokesmen repeatedly have speculated on the possibility of an early American attack on the China coast, which Admiral Ches- ter w. Nimitz, U. s. Commander-1n- Chief in the Central Pacific, has named as one of his major ob- | iectiveS.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-21
Two Yank Division Casualties 3,65O In First Three Days
BY WILLIAM F. THREE

Admiral Nimtz's Headquarters, Guam, February d. (UP) American Marines stormed Iwos second air field heart from the south in general advance averaging half mile along the blazing island front.
 Fleet Admiral Chester w. NnlitZ announced on the third day the invasion of the island springboard to Japan that the two Marine Divisions had suffered 365O casualties - killed, wounded missng-up to a. m today The casualties divided 150 officers and the rest enlisted men.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-21

Milo Me, February q. - (UP) -
 Four-year-old John Warren of Milo
 was praised today for saving his 3-year-old brother, Neil, from drown-
 ing in a 5-foot deep well, John held
 8 rope to which Neil clung and sup
 ported his brothers head above water for 1 minutes until firemen arrived,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-21
ARMY CONTRACT

Boston, Feb. 21.-(UP) The Bos- ton quartermaster depot today awarded an army contract for 291,- GOO pair sof jungle bootlaces to In- ternational Braid Co.,, Providence, R. I.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-21
By ROBERT MUSEL

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 London, Feb. 21-(UP)-Moscow dispatches reported today that Mar shal Ivan s. Konev had renewed his two-way drive toward Berlin and Dresden and that his assault forces were storming the suburbs of Guben, fortified city 51 miles southeast of the capital.
 Berlin reported flareups in several sectors between the Danube Valley and the Latvian coast, indicating that a frontWide Soviet offensive might be shaping up.
 Nazi broadcasts said five Russian divisions and one tank brigade opened a new offensive northeast of Ratibor, on the Polish Silesian frontier IT miles north of Moravska Ostrava, the gateway to the Czecho- slovak passes to central Germany.
 On the northern wing of the Rati-
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THE DEMOCRAT WILL PUBLISH TOMORROW!

Due to the vital importance of the news in all the aters of the war and the news at home as we'll, the Waterbury Democrat will be published usual at its regular time tomorrow, WashingtOn's Birthday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-21
Soviet Units Storm Guben
BULLETIN

London, Feb. 21-(UP) - Mar ehaI Stalin in an order of the day today reported the capture of Czersk, Polish stronghold AZ miles southwest of Danzig.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-21

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