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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-19
Botoon Tanks 'Averted FaII
 Of Australia
(Navy Photo from NEA Telephoto)
BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON

Manila, February 19. - (UP) - American Paratroopers and Infan- trymen joined today in the ardu- ous job of cleaning out hundreds of die-hard Japanese from the tun- nels and crevices of Corregidor Fortress.
 Both sides of the rock fortress, guarding the entrance to Manila Bay, were secured by the two Amer ican contingents which invaded Corregidor from the air and sea. Their sole task was to dig out the Japanese - probably man by man from the receSSes where the enemy was expected to make last ditch stand.
 GA Japanese communique, broad cast by Tokyo, officially acknoWl- edged the landings on Bataan and Corregidor and said that both Amer jean Forces were being reinforced. The communique said that heavy fighting was in progres sat both placeS)
 General Douglas Macarthur hailed the invasion of Corregidor with a tribute to those men of his command who staged the historic defense of Bataan three years ago.
 The long struggle on Bataan in 1942 enabled the United Nations to gather strength to resist the Japan csc in the Pacific and prevented the fall of Australia Macarthur said.
 No garrison in history has sur passed that on Bataan in more thor oughly accomplishing it's mission, the general asserted adding:
 Let no man henceforth speak of it as other than as of magnificent victory"
 While units of the 503rd para chute regiment and the 34th h. fantry Regiment joined in secur- ing the upper and lower parts or Corregidor, observers said the bat tie for the fortress was just begin
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-19
Breokthrouqh Across Pruem River Likely
BY BOYD ID. LEWIS

Paris, Feb. 19-CUP) - Scottish riflemen and flame throwing tanks broke into the Siegfried line for tress of Goch from two sides today and fought through to the center of the town against fierce German opposition.
 Far to the south, the American Third Army advanced a half-mlle or more into the German west wall defenses along a 30-mile front be- tween Pruem and Echternach.
 At the southern end of their as- sault line, It. Gen. George s. Pat tons Third Army troops were com pletely through Seven-mile stretch of the Siegfried Qualifications to a depth of two miles and threatened a further breakthrough across the Pruem River.
 Field dispatches said the entire chain of west wall fortresses on the Third Army front was rapidly turn ing into a death trap for their Nazi defenders under the grinding American attack. More than half the German troops in that stretch of the Siegfried line were reported to have been killed, wounded or captured since Patton's men launched their drive across the Sure and Our rivers three weeks ago.
 On the Canadien First Army front meanwhile, Scottish infantrymen were out in front of General H. D. G. Crerar's Ruhr-bound offensive with the thrust into Goch, keystone of the Nazi defenses in the 17-mile- wide corridor between the Maas and Rhine rivers.
 The Scots opened their attack late last night after raking artillery bombardment that churned the streets into rubble and exposed scores of steel and concrete plllboXes hidden in the cellars of the town.
 Converge On Niers
 One assault wave charged into the northern factory area of Gocl after outflanking the town from the west, while a second stormed in from the southwest. Both columns were converging early today on the NierS river, which flows through the center of the town.
 A third Scottish force moved down from high ground only 1000 yards northeast of Goch, threatening the
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Washington, February 19. - (UP) - Senator Lister Hill, D.. Ala. pre- dicted today that the Senate Mili- tary Affairs Committee will approve this week a modified version of the "work-or- else" manpower bill.
 Hill emphasized that it would not necessarily be the house-approved bill providing stiff penalties for 18-45 year men who refuse to take war jobs as needed.
 Other Senators agreed that pros- poets for the House Bill were slim, despite the administrators vehe- ment demands for it's passage. Sec retary of War Henry L. Stimson is- sued the latest plea last night when he warned that each day of delay was poStponing victory and increas- ing the cost in American lives.
 In one of his rare radio addresses (Blue Network, Stimson said the present voluntary methods of man. power control were clearly "ineffi-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-19
Sornoff Receives
 One World Award

New York, Feb. 19-UP)-Brig Gen. David Sarnoff, president of the Radio Corp. of America, en- visions a worldwide television sys- tenn shrinking Willkie's "one World' woul dbe close neighbors.
 Sarnoff, speaking at dinner last night on the 53rd anniversary of Willkie's birth, said the whole world Twill go sight seeing by radio" after the war.
 When International Television de- veolps, he said, people of all coun- tries will get first hand pictur of how freedom functions in Democra- cieS.
 Sarnoff was one of three men given "one world' awards by the American Nobel center for contribu- tions to radio, motion pictures, and news service.
 The other two awards went to Daryl Zanuck, motion pictur exec utive. and Kent Cooper, executive director of the Associated Press.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-19
Forts Rock Tokyo In New Offensive

Washington, Feb. 19 - U.PD - B-29 Superfortresses took over the air offensive against Tokyo today, dropping hundreds of tons of bombs on the capital while 1t still smould- cred from a record two-day carrier based assault.
 The Marianas-based raid on Tokyo came simultaneously with an announcement from advance Paci- tic fleet headuarters that carrier planes had destroyed or damaged at least 36 Japanese ships and 659 aircraft in their raids on the Tokio area last Friday and Saturday.
 A second force of Superfortresses thundered out from bases in h. dia today and bombed military and communications targets on the Ma lava Peninsula. They may have hit the big naval base at Singapore to prevent Japanese Warships from go- ing to the aid of their homeland and American-invaded Two in the Volcano Islands.
 A War Department bulletin an- nounced the Marianas-based Tstd merely as against industrial tar gets" on the main enemy home is land of Hanshu. A Japanese com- muniue said 100 B-29s participated, with the main strength attacking Tokyo and it's environs.'
 At least 10 Superfortresses were shot down, the enemy communique said. Damage to Japanese installa- tions was slight" Tokyo added.
 Another Tokyo broadcast said the big Japanese aircraft center of Ma goya, 160 miles west of Tokyo, and targets in Shizuoka Prefecture on the southeast coast also had been hit.
 Japanese broadcasts warned that Tokyo must expect more carrier based raids. Though the American task force temporarily has moved south to support the landings on Two, the broadcasts said, it prob ably will remain somewhere in our home waters until American tropo succeed in taking foothold on IWo."
 Another Tokyo broadcast said more than 500 American planes had raided Formosa Friday, Saturday and Sunday. It established 150 air craft attacked Friday, ITO Saturday and 360 Sunday.
 General Douglas Macarthur has announced continuing raids on For mosa, but has not specified their strength.
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Nazi broadcasts said the Russians smashed across the Oder south of Crossen and struck westward for Gupben, IT miles distant. A Berlin military commentator later said that the thrust from the Crossen area had carried to Guben. There the Germans braced, the spokes~ man said, and showed back the spearhead which had probed into the city.
 A Berlin broadcast said strong troop concentrations were seen at various points behind the Russian lines, and predicted a great offen- sive effort" at any time.
 Despite the general showdown in the tempo of the fighting, Nazi broadcasts reported that Marshal Gregory K. Zhukovs First White Russian Army was rushing prepara- tionJ for an imminent knockout blow against Berlin,
 Soviet tanks crossed the Oder river into bridgeheads on the west bank only 31 to 43 miles east of Berlin yesterday, the Nazis said. An- other broadcast said Russian guns maEsed 400 to the mile along the Oder between Kuestrin, 38 miles east of Berlin, and Fuerstenberg, 43 milos southeast, were pouring a heavy barrage of shells in the Ger man lines before the capital.
 Berlin Raided
 RAF Mosquito bombers raided Berlin last night. A Moscow broad cast said the enemy capital was stocking up dugouts and strong holds for prolonged siege"
 Another Moscow broadcast said martial law had been proclaimed in Saxony. SS Troops were said to be in control of Dresden and other Saxonian town.
 Marshal Ivan s. Konev's First Ukrainian Army drove to within ar- tillery range of Goerlitz, main de. fense outputs of Dresden. after cap turing Naumburg, 16 miles to the east.
 The advance carried to within Tz miles of Dresden, 19 miles of the Saxony border and 84 miles north east of Prague, capital of Czechoslo- vakia. To the northwest, the Red
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Navy Supply Ideo Clicks
BY E. e. VALENS

A floating naval base somewhere in the Pacific, Feb. 19-UP)-T'he navy took its own supply base along with 1t for the assaults on Two lima and the Honshu coast.
 The American answer to the most gigantic logistics problem in naval history-that of supplying provis- ions, fuel and ammunition for war ships in action far from island bases or docking facilities was re- vealed today by fleet Admiral Ches- ter W. Nimitz as the secret weapon" which has upset all Japanese strat- egy.
 The answer is simply that all naval installations in this most ad- vanced area are floating. Everything from drydocks to Quonset huts bob right along in the wake of the fleet itself.
 This base is located as far from San Francisco as San Francisco is from London. It is operated by squadron 10 of the Pacific fleet ser- vice forces.
 Installations include floating cranes, hotels, repair units. baker les, offices, refrigerated warehouses, wells, drydocks and repair ships. The base has more than 12,0OO workers, many of whom live in the floating hotel called Ritz Carlton" {"
 More than 400 pieces of floating equipment included electrical equip- sRent repair ships, tugboats, three fresh water tankers, an evaporation vessl capable of making 120 gallons of water daily and ship which does nothing but supply bakery goods.
 The maze of ships is so confusing that we had to stop three separate warships to ask where our objective was.
 For the current operation, enough food was loaded on the task force vessels to feed Columbus, O., for 30
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him money.
 Callahan was shot in the chest by Devlin when he asked the sailor why he was running from Pearl steln's shop. Devlin continued his flight and communicated an army truck in which two soldiers were riding.
 Cowing the soldier-driver, Dev- lin forced them to proceed a short distance but the truck b1 anne stuck in a snow pile and Devlin again started his flight on foot. He was shot by Pol eman Frank J. Con- nerney who had chased Devlin after seeing Callahan fall.
 Discharged from the navy last November because of a nervous con- dition, Devlin died yesterday before police could question him in con- nection with several recent holdupS of which he was suspected. Since leaving the navy, Devlin had work ed on bakery truck route.
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Luzon Death Toll 5000
BY FRANZ WEISSBLATT

Manila, February 19. CUP) - Approximately 5000 American pris- oners of war died in Japanese hands on Luzon after the fall of Bataan.
 That estimate is based on careful records which I kept during the more than three years I spent as a prisoner of war myself in Bilibid prison.
 The total does not include deaths which may have occurred among the more than 16.000 American prisoners who were taken from the Philippines to camps in Formosa or Japan.
 Approximately 16,0O0 were trans ported from the Philippines, but l was unable to obtain any knowledge of them and I do not believe any agency has any detailed informa- ton as to the deaths among them or of the conditions of their i'm priSonment.
 My records were kept almost from the beginning of my imprisonment after I was wounded and captured January 2, 1942.
 l kept them up-to-date as pest could from information obtained from hundreds of prisoners who passed through Bilibid enroute to various destinations. At intervals l talked with men from every prison camp in the Philippines.
 I concealed my records, which contain thousands of names, in a niche in my cell wall and managed to keep them from being discovered by Japanese guards during their rigorous weekly inspections. Obvi- ously, I am not permitted now to reveal the names of those who died or who still are prisoners, but my information is being turned over to Army authorities for whatever use they can make of 1t,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-19
Dead, Cop Near Death, Ln
 Do1unto1un Boston Holdup

Boston, Feb. 19-(UP) A police man was reported near death at a hospital today following theatrical district holdup in which the gum man and an elderly couple who operated pawnshop already have died.
 Already 30 pints of blood had been administered during a 36-hour period to Patrolman Frank B. Cal lahan, 52, father of five children whose condition was so critical he has not been moved from the shock room since he was brought to the hospital late Saturday.
 Victims of the running gun-battle were:
 Patrick J. Devlin, "A, of Waltham, a discharged navy veteran who was shot after attempting to rob the loan shop.
 David Pearlstein, co. and his wife, Fannie, 65, of Brighton who were killed by Devlin when they refused
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-19
ManpoverCo ControLMethods Inefficient Says Stimson

cient." He said some member of the Senate Committee appeared to have listened to Spokesmen of special and trivial interests that seem to have stifled the voice of national interest"
 Stimson recalled that President Roosevelt, General George c. Mar shall and Admiral Ernest J. King appealed for passage of the House bill. And yet, he said, some people continue to call it slavery or to oppose 1t because they fear civilian workers may be sent too far from their homes to work in intuition plants"
 Docs this seem a very weighty objection to you fathers and moth- ers-you wives and swetheartS of our fighting men, whose loved ones have been bravely and willingly fighting in the torrid jungles of New Guinea or the frozen hillsideS of the Rhine?" Stimson asked.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-19
Fog Flinders Fifth Army

Rome, Feb. 19-CUP)-Fifth rmy patrols continued active all along the Italian front despite mist and fog which restricted visibility, head quarters said today, while several sharp clashes were reported in the Eighth Army sector.
 Clashes occurred at several points as Germans engaged American re- connaiSsance parties with small arms, machine gun and mortar fire. Enemy artillery fire was light.
 A combat patrol operating on the right flank near Mount Grande en- countered heavy enemy defensive fire. An enemy patrol was driven off in an attempted thrust in the area of Mount Cerere and other German patrols were repulsed mile and a half southeast of Castelnuovo.
 Southeast of Alfonsine the Ger mans fired rockets at Eighth army units and artillery exchanges oc- cured southwest of the Senio river.
 A German raiding party was re- pulsed with casualties b yartillery fire opposite Cotignola. Patrol clashes north of Cotignola resulted in casualties to both sides.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-19
3O,OOO Tanks Storm
 Island - Casualties
 Moderate Says Nimitz
BY FRANK TREMAINE

Admiral Nimitz's Head quarers, Guam, February 19. -(UP) - Two divisions of U. s. Marines - 3O,00O men -stormed Two Island from an 800-ship Armada today and in two hours of bitter and one-half mile beach, head, extending to the edge of Suribachi Yama airfield.
 Casualties were moderate and the operation was pro- ceeding satisfactorily, Fleet Admiral Chester w. Nimitz said in his latest communi- que.
 Resistance from the trapped en- emy forces was increasing as the veteran Marines pushed inland on the tiny eight square mile island 750 miles from Tokyo, the communique said.
 Two hours after the initial land- ing was made the Marine veterans had pushed inland on an average of 500 yards and the defenses of Suri- bachi Yama airStrip were penetrated east of the field, the communique added.
 The Marine beachhead extended northward along the southeastern coast from the 546-foot high volcano that forms the southern tip of the island
 Radio Tokyo conceded that the Americans had won footholdS on the southwest, south and east coasts.
 Swarms of carrier and land-based planes and IA and 16-inch guns of battleships were pouring thousands of bombs and shells into the eight square-mile island in support of the invasion troops, but the enemy gar- rison was putting Up defense rei1l- iniscent of Tarawa and Pereliu.
 There is a whale of a scrap going on back there at Iwo," said a radio correspondent who flew over the embattled island as the invasion got under way.
 The invasion-an amphibious jump half way from American bases in the Marianas to Japan-waS ar1- nounced in the second of two jubi- lant "on to Tokyo" communiques issued only an hour apart by Ad miral Chester w. Nimitz, comman- der of the Pacific fleet.
 The first communique had pro- claimed an historic and decisive"
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-19
Priest Views Jap Atrocity
By FRANK HEWLETT

Manila, Feb. 19.-CUP)-A thrice bayonetted priest, who feigned death to escape, told from hospi- tai cot today how Japanese soldiers slaughtered civilians at La Sale university Feb. 12 and tried to vio- late wounded women in the group.
 The story of Father Francis Cos grave, superior of the Redemptorist Order in Manila, was one of many reported instances of mass slayings of civilians caught in Manila Mo- Mans Land during the last 10 days. Father CoSgraVe, several members Of his order and number of prom inent Spanish residents of Manila, had sought refuge at the university when they suddenly were visited by Japanese officer and 20 soldiers.
 He said the soldiers wantonly be- gan bayonetting the group. He sur vived miraculously despite three wounds. including one in which a bayonet was plunged into the left side of his chest and can out his back.
 More than 70 persons in the room, including several Christian fathers, met worse fate, he said.
 "The Japanese soldiers returned later in the afternoon" Father Cos grave said. "They laughed at the sight of bodies in heap and kicked them. They tried to violate the wounded WOmen-eVen young girls "
 Father Cosgrave pretended death until the Japanese finally went away.
 Shortly before midnight the priest decided that If he was going to di1 he would die on his feet. He crawled and dragged himself up- stairs to chapel and there, one by one, about 10 other survivors joined him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-19
Hidden Jops
 Busy On Two
By JOHN K. HENRY Representing the Combined American Press

Distributed by the United Press.
 Aboard Admiral Turner's Flagship of Two Jima. Feb. 19-CUP)-The Fourth and Fifth American Mar inc divisions were caught in the heavy cross-fire from hidden Jap anese batteries on Two Jima today, but the Leathernecks were combing through the islands rock caves to- night and slowly roofing out the enemy gunnerS.
 Assault spearheads of the Fourth and Fifth Marines fought through the Japanese fire to reach the edge of the vital bomber strip on the crest of a volcanic plateau some 600 yards inland from the islands eastern beaches.
 Japanese artillerymen and mortar crews were popping in and out or their cave hideoutS throughout the day, firing a few bursts at the Mar ines and then ducking back.
 American casualties were conSid. erable, but progress was being made and many. but not all, of the en. emy's heaviest defenses have been knocked out.
 Our men are spread all over Hells Acre out there" It. Gen. Holland M. Smith, commander Of the invading Marine forces, told ob- servers aboard this flagship.
 They're after those hidden Jap guns which are mighty hard to To- cate. Most of those guns are i'll caves. They come out and fire five or six rounds and then go back into hiding"
 Concentrated naval bombardment and carrier based air blows had re- duced the Japanese beach defenseAs but the concealed mortars and ar~ tillery still were pounding the beach area as well as the forward aSSAsxs WaVeS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-19
HuIten And Girl Seek New TrioI

London, Feb. 19-'(UP)-An appeal for a new trial was filed today in be- half of a Boston, Mrss., paratrooper and a British striptease dancer, jointly convicted of the robbery murder of a London taxi driver.
 Attorneys based the appeal on the grounds a court charge to the jury had not adequately covered the rights of the two defendants. Pvt. Karl Gustav Hulten and 18-year- old Elizabeth Marina Jones.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-19
MARINES SECURE TWO LIMA bEACHHE EAD Nazi Resistance StiffenS On Soviet Front
Reds Enter Guben Battering Anchor Bases To Capital
BY ROBERT MUSEL

London, February 19. - (UP) - A German military spokesman said today that the Red Army cracked into Guben key fortress city, 57 miles southeast of Berlin but thrown out after violent battle. Moscow reported that Soviet forces pushing westward from the Breau had unlimbered their big guns Goerlitz, gatewy to Dresden and Prague.
 Soviet dispatches said German resistance was stfen- ing all along the front but Russian assault forces batering forward within reach of number of anchor bases in the defenseS before Berlin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-19
Waterbury's Tax Status
 Among Best In Country
By JAMES M. MOORE

article on the tax trend for the
 past 13 years as affecting the
 nation and Waterbury. The sec
 Ond instalment will appear in
 tOmOrrOw's Democrat:
 Waterbury ranks fourteenth, in order, among cities of the nation with notably low tax delinquencieS for 1943 due-taxes collectable in 1914, it is revealed by survey of the trends in tax delinquencies dur ing the years 1930-1943 and cover ing cities with populations over 50,000.
 The survey has been prepared by Frederick L. Bird for the firm of Dun and Bradstreet, Inc, of New York.
 According to the survey Water- bury had a percentage average oF 1.9 in taxes uncollected.
 Bridgeport ranked first among the four cities of Connecticut so listed with only 0.9 per cent or less of the years property taxes un- collected. New Britain was sec- ond with IS per cent, Waterbury, third and New Haven, fourth, with an average of 2.3 per cent.
 In the overall national picture the cities of Fresno, Cal, and Phoenix, Ariz.,. ranked first with an CA per cent average of uncol- lected taxes, each.
 According to the report the col- lection of property taxes lis con- spicuously absent from the list of wartime fiscal problems of Ameri- can cities" The report further qualities this by stating that "peo- pie are paying their current taxes more promptly than ever before in the vast majority of municipalities, and continue to clear up arrears
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