Times Recorder (Newspaper) - February 19, 1944, Troy, New York coll SIRIES 43 THE TIMES RECORD N V CUM IM AM W J TROY N Y SATURDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 19 1944 FOUR CINTS U Subs Sink 13 Jap Vessels German Drive In Italy Checked m E LOSSES ON Greatest Tank Battle of En- tire Italian Campaign Under Way Allied Headquarters Naples KB Marshal Albert all-out offensive against the Allied beachhead below Borne was reported In a United 1 Press dispatch from the area this afternoon to be cracking up under paralyzing by American and British armored forces Four German divisions spearheading the attack on the beachhead have suffered terrific United Press correspondent Reynolds Packard reported In a dispatch which he filed from the battle zone at 1 p.m Italian Time today Some of the greatest tank battles of the entire Italian campaign were raging around the rim of the Allied pocket I Packard said Indicating that the giant German tiger and other Nazi tanks had more than met their match In ican and British armor I Allied Headquarters Naples forces are holding their lines intact on the Anzio beachhead after smashing back attacks by four full German 40.000 to in the strongest Nazi counter blows yet delivered Allied headquarters announced today The Fifth Army on the main front to the east reinforced by New Zealand and Indian troops ened a ring on Cassino from the northeast northwest and south winning two heights west of Mt Cassino and reaching the railway station south of the town after throwing 50.000 shells into the ruined stronghold The powerful Nazi assault below Home knocked a hole in the Allied line near ten miles above Anzio but Fifth Army tanks and Infantry struck back in several local ing heavy casualties td the enemy and making some progress An Allied officer declared that previous enemy this Is obviously the effort f to throw the Allied forces back into the sea German Attack Furious Front dispatches said the mans were attacking with even greater fury today and tbat Allied troops were defending their lives in the grimmest fighting The Germans were spraying the whole area with shellfire The German communique by Berlin said the Nazis had advanced two and one-half miles of or within seven miles of Anzio The claimed that they were still holding tha Cassino railroad station but the Algiers radio said Allied troops fead occupied it The beachhead which be one of the moot decisive the was apparently In its crucial Field Marshal Albert Kesselring with units drawn from all over Europe ing in the full weight of his force without regard to costs At least four divisions including the Third Armored Grenadiers were trying to smash straight through to Anzio Allied nerve ter on the beachhead while other brought pressure all along the of Nads Slam Withering Fifth Army fire took heavy toll of the attackers which also included the and Divisions and snan Infantry Allied warships and planes aided the defense A dispatch from the beachhead said last night that the Nazis ready had lost thousands of killed and wounded German artillery fire on the beachhead front has been heavier CHARLES BEDAUX NAZI AIR ATTACK Page I PRESIDENT APPOINTS WILLIAM D HASSETT AS FULL SECRETARY Washington D sett veteran newspaperman today was appointed a full secretary to president Roosevelt He has been an assistant to White House Press Secretary Stephen Early appointment papers wore presented him at a surprise ceremony arranged by Mr in the presidential office Hassett W a native of Vu succeeds the late Marvin H Mclntyre His appointment first time In several years that the President has had three a year secretaries as authorized by law The other two are Early and MaJ Gen Edwin M Watson who also serves as chief aide Koth Hassett and Early were of Oie Associated Press Washington staff during the first WorM War Heaviest Casualties and Damage Since First Blitz Reported London bombers penetrated London's strong anti- aircraft defenses early today scored direct bomb hits on several crowded residential buildings and kindled many blazes inflicting the heaviest casualties and damage of any night since the blitz An undetermined number of sons were reported trapped in an apartment block and in another section civilian defense workers still were digging in the ruins of an old people's home for survivors hours after the raiders had left A German DNB Agency report acknowledged that five bombers were missing revising an earlier announcement that seven had failed to return Unofficial estimates said that fifty to sixty German planes crossed the British coast and that a larger portion than usual reached the London area because of weather which favored the attackers Raid Unusually Heavy German seemed to come from all directions and it was ble tbat some sections of London which had been the chief targets in the recent series of raids received almost no bombs today Although the raid caused what was believed the heaviest ties and damage since the big man raids of it could not be compared with the blitz in which 250 to 400 bombers came over ly climaxed by the devastating of May 5 1941 that killed persons A deafening barrage of flak met the raiders as searchlights almost the entire sky over the city British night fighters also swept up to meet the invading force Americans Aid Rescue Work The official communique ed that the also ranged over East Anglla and southeast England but said that the ties and the only appreciable age was confined to the London area Civilian defense workers called for neighborhood volunteers to a sist in the rescue of victims trapped in the wrecked apartment block American and Canadian soldiers pitched in to help both the rescue squads and the fire brigades ins a number of blazes dotted over the city In one district Americans slipped trousers and rubber boots over their pajamas and grabbed sand bags to smother Incendiaries blazing in the roadway FACING TREASON E ENDS LIFE Windsors Friend Under Arrest at Miami Fla Commits Suicide f Miami Fla E Be- daux international mystery man died at a hospital here last night and John E Burling immigration agent said that he had taken an overdose of sleeping powders and left a suicide note Burling said Bedaux swallowed the powders a few hours after he had been informed that a grand jury would be convened to decide whether he could be indicted for treason and for communication with high German officials and the Vichy French government A special board of inquiry had de- that Bedaux was a citizen of the United States and could be ad- mitted to this country Bedaux had been held by gration officials here since he was brought to Miami from North Africa in an Army plane late in De- cember He was taken to the hospital Tuesday in an unconscious tion and never regained ness Friend of Windsors Bedaux achieved prominence iu 1937 when it was disclosed that he was arranging an American tour for the Duke and Duchess of sor The announcement caused a stir in labor he was once termed that arch-enemy of labor and the trip was subsequently called Union leaders were critical of the French-born engineer whose system they called the stretch-out or the old speed-up Bedaux was very friendly with the Windsors at that time It was at hia chateau in Monts France that Windsor married Wallia field Simpson For many years before his with the Windsors Bedaux was widely known in business cles Invented labor System He came to this country from France about forty years ago His first job was as a sandhog in New York's East River tunnel Bedaux soon elevated himself to better tions however and began the labor management system which brought him enormous wealth His system designed to in- crease industrial efficiency Bedaux engineers studied plant timed individual operations and what was known as B units for the industry Explanations of the system de- scribed a B unit as the amount of given work which a worker should be able to do in a minute after certain allowances were made This method drew heated cism from labor Union men said It placed labor in a purely ical plane deprived labor of human Continued on Page Z JAPANESE CABINET SHAKEUP REPORTED New York shakeup of the Japanese cabinet Involving three posts related to internal matters was reported today In a radio broadcast recorded by U S monitors New appointments were Sotara iwata possibly a garbled version of Sotaro Ishiwata as finance minister Shinya Uchida as culture and commerce minister and Keita Goto as transportation and communications minister Ishiwata has been general of the imperial rule sistance association and Goto has been one of the cabinet advisers NEW POLICE B Kendall of 8 Larch Avenue member of the Troy Police Department for 18 years who today was named Chief of Police to succeed George F Preston who has served since last December Kendall a traffic officer has been on duty at Congress and Fourth Streets for the last six years Frank Kendall Named Troy Chief Of Police COHOES RESIDENT GAS Waclow Dziekan 52 Re- ported in Serious Condition Dziekan 52 of 212 toga Street Cohoes is in a serious condition in Cohoes Hospital be- the victim of gas poisoning Cohoes police eaid that a taker of the Army and Navy ern at 19 St John's Street that city smelled gas this morning and found Dziekan in a room over the tavern and at the rear of the building Dr Leo Friedman was called The Fire Department emergency squad worked over the man for a long time before he responded to ment The Samaritan Hospital lance was then called and Dziekan was taken to Cohoes Hospital Police said that three gas jete had been turned on REWARD OFFERED FOR ARREST OF VANDALS WHO DESECRATED CATHEDRAL New York UP Thousands of placards offering reward for the arrest of vandals who smeared bright red paint on St Cathedral and on the doors of two other Roman Catholic churches in Manhattan were posted today in subway and elevated stations Police continuing a hunt for the vandals said that designs roughly resembling the Communist emblem and daubed on the doors and walls of St rick's and on the doors of the Church of St John the Evangelist The latter church is said to be the second oldest Catholic church in Manhattan Special police details have been ordered to guard religious of all faiths against any possible repetition of vandalism Communist party spokesmen laid the desecrations to fascist dals who hoped to place for it the doorstep of the Communists Nazis Compelled Civilians To Remain In Benedictine Abbey Traffic Officer Frank B Kendall of 8 Larch Avenue member of the Troy Police Department for 18 years and a World War veteran be- came Chief of Police today three patrolmen were promoted to the rank of captain and two present captains were demoted to the rank of detective as tne long-awaited police changes were announced by Frank M Ames commissioner of public safety The changes George F Preston chief of police appointed in December by the out- going Democratic administration who will retire on March 1 at half his present salary of Enoch Eaton of 5 Mechanic Street patrolman in the Central Police Station who becomes cap- tain in the station house to ceed Joseph P Shields present cap- tain who is demoted to the rank of detective Fred H Ibbott of 252 Sixth nue patrolman m the Central Police Station who becomes cap- tain in the Traffic Bureau to ceed Frank J Connery who is de- moted to the rank of detective Connery and Shields step into created by the recent re- of Andrew P Lovelock and John F Foley In the past change of administrations it has been the policy to reduce outgoing captains to the rank of sergeant There are no existing sergeant at present Iri their new Continued on Page British Subs Sink 19 Axis Ships BY JAMES K ROPER With the Fifth Army before sino Italy soldiers using prevented ZOCO civilians from fleeing the tine Monastery on Mount Cassino before American planes and guns desTroyed it survivors who reached Allied lines said today The Germans refused a request by Don Gregorio the Abbot to mit men women and children by Allied warning leaflets to leave the abbey the day before the bombardment started the said The Germans weer said to havs set up two at 5 am last Tuesday pointed directly at the monastery's main gate behind which hundreds of Italian civilians were huddled awaiting the man reply Four and a half hours later the first wave of Flying Fortresses droned high over the abbey and dropped their bombs Jhe first ones desTroying the monastery Wave after wave of Fortresses then Mitchells and Marauders lowed the initial attackers Tuesday On Wednesday and Thursday dive bombers completed the destruction The Genman guards fled In the midst of the late however to save many of the civilians trapped inside Survivors trickling through the Allied lines were bruised and wounded and their clothing was In Their anger was against the mans who had held them prisoners Mario a Italian workman who escaped with seven women and children after the first bomb salvo told the story Mario's wife was the group The others In- cluded his sisters Antionetta IS and Maris 3 Filomena a dis- wild-haired woman of 90 who wept and moaned throughout the interview over the lost of her husband and four children In the monastery Catherine Si whose husband is missing her daughter Anna and her son Ello 13 None had washed for three days and they were The children begging for food as they talked Mario and his family had been in monastery for 15 and estimated that 3.003 or 4.000 ians had trudged up the mount to the abbey escape destruction during the first three days of the fighting inside the town of sino Don Gregorio Abbot who has been at Monte Cassino for 53 years and thres or four priests were the only clergymen at the abbey when the refugees arrived Mario said The monastery had sufficient drinking water but the only food was ground corn and a little flour which the refugees had taken up with from Cassino he re- ported Mario said that on the about 300 yards frown the abbey was a sign in Italian which read tral Zone But everywhere around the of Monte he said were German entrenchments emplacements dugouts pillboxes and two self-propelled guns No civilian who passed through the big gate was permitted to leave and one man who tried to slip through the German guard was snot Mario reported NIAGARA FALLS NEGROES SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR FOWLER MURDER Lockport State Supreme Court Justice William H Munson today sentenced two Niagara Falls Negroes to die in the electric chair the week of April 3 at Sing Sing for the slaying Oct 30 of George W Fowler 63 Ransomville gasoline station proprietor A jury convicted the couple Mrs Helen Fowler 36 and George F Knight 25 of murder Fob 11 Mrs Fowler wept softly when Justice Munson imposed the mandatory death penalty Knight displayed no emotion They were accused of beating and robbing Fowler and throwing him into the Niagara River His body was recovered Dec 8 AMOS R PINCHOT NOTED NEW YORK LAWYER DIES New York Richards Eno 70 New York at- torney and of Gifford former governor of sylvania night at West Hill Sanatorium in Bronx Like his was active in politics for yarn He also was an ardent pacifist and and was a member oT several pacifist including the America First In politics appeared to be attracted by liberal and movements He one of the original the late Theodore Progressive Party In 197.2 he supported lin hut later became s severe critic of the President's policies Allied Bombers Smashed 15 Vessels in Three-day Attack Allied Southwest Pacific bombers sank 15 enemy ships attempting to ply and reinforce the big Japanese bases at Rabaul and Kavieng in a three-day running at- tack that was believed today to have desTroyed the entire convoy A communique which said enemy casualties were heavy listed the sunken ships A two corvettes an tankei a tanker a trans- port five cargo ships of tons each three cargo vessels and a freighter This is believed to have com- prised practically the entire con- the announcement said Convoy Intercepted Allied medium bombers ed the convoy on Tuesday off u Island north of New Ireland after a lone Liberator spotted the supply ships steaming toward the harassed Japanese bases in the marck Archipelago The 12 sunken merchantmen tone and included tankers carrying oil for battered Japanese air bases Except for anti-aircraft fire from ships the Allied bombers were unopposed as they swooped over the vessels at singly or in pairs The Japanese failed to put a single plane in the air to protect the convoy Jap Bases Bombed Other bombing units continued their constant attacks on the eng New Ireland and Rabaul New Britain bases meeting no tion at either The Allied flyers scored more than thirty direct hits on the runway of airdrome at Kavieng leaving it unserviceable and dropped 45 tons of bombs on airdrome In a attack on Rabaul Enemy night attacked the Green Islands north of Bougainville and dropped twenty bombs but the communique said there were no casualties or damage Two enemy planes were shot down by air patrols Allied air and surface patrols at- tacking coastal targets on gainville sank one barge in Bay another at and damaged several others BODIES OF TWO WOMEN BOTH BELIEVED SLAIN DISCOVERED IN BOSTON Boston bodies of two unidentified women were dis covered in tions of Boston today and police said there were indications tha both may have been slain There was nothing to indicate a connec tion between the two deaths police said The body of a well-dressed young woman was found on Circuit Drive near the bear den in Franklin Park Dorchester Police said the woman evidently had met a violent death and perhaps had been criminally attacked Earlier five miles away in th south end the nude and battered body of a woman about 35 years old was found in a vacant lot The clothing had been beneath the body IMKS IN FIRE N Y Margaret Barker 72 was killed and three her family were injured in weather today when their home Mrs Barker suffered burns and the others were hurt Ing from a second story window London rines sank 19 enemy ships probably sank six others and damaged eight more In recent patrols In the Atlantic ranean and the Southeast Asia area the Admiralty announced today In the actions which the Ad- described as taking place In theaters of war ex- tending from the Arctic Circle to the eastern limits of the In- dian enemy ships sunk included the largest types of supply vessels One of the largest the communique con- was picked off from a convoy slipping along the coast of Norway escorted by trawlers minesweepers and aircraft The British submersible sent three torpedoes Into her sides WALMSLEY TO OPPOSE HSH FOR NOMINATION Spring Valley Robert of Pearl River will oppose Hamilton Fish for the Republican nomination for of the Congressional District Walmsley retired banker and lawyer announced his candidacy last night at a meeting of the Rockland County lican committee which Fish also attended MAY FIJI BAKU Program Visualizes New In- Era for time America Washington Roosevelt today was reported on the verge of ordering into effect some of the major tions contained in a master blueprint for swinging America's arsenal of democracy back into peacetime production Publication of the document constituting in effect a strategy for economic victory on the postwar apparently signaled the beginning of a new era for government business and era in which con- production for war will be meshed increasingly from now on into restored production for peace The expressed aim of the gram drawn up by Bernard M Baruch and John M Hancock White House advisers and veterans of industrial mobilization in both world wars is to avoid economic chaos in tbe period of ment from war to peace and to create instead an adventure in This period the report makes plain is already beginning as war needs slack off slightly But the job will start in earnest the day Germany is defeated and only Japan remains to be licked Thai day is designated as X-day and it is proposed that the White House order preparation of a de- tailed X-day reconversion plan for industry based on a program already drawn up by the War De- but concerned only with any supply needs No Need For Depression No on the war is the re- curring theme but paralleling it is the reiterated argument that the administration and Congress must work together now in preparing for every phase of economic justment There is no need for a postwar depression Baruch and Hancock say Handled with competence our adjustment after the war is won should be an adventure in Continued on Page 10 YOUTH WHO MOTHER HELD INSANE Kingston W Held insane year-old David Paul Branch charged with first degree In the slaying of his mother wa committed today to State Hospital County Judge John in ordered the commitment after psychiatrist's reported finding Branch mentally ill The youth confessed Dist Atty N Le Van Hazer said that he killed his mother Mrs Hazel Branch 52 with a stove grate shaker and knife at the Mt lon farm home Jan 27 Fear Army Bomber Plunged Into Lake Syracuse musing Aimy bomber embattled by a blinding snowstorm in Lake Ontario today after Guardsmen reported hearing a plane headed toward Canada Coast Guardsmen at he Gallups Island station in On- tario and at the station fifty west reported hearing a roaring noise overhead but be- cause of the storm were unable to Identify the plane Provincial police at Kingston OnU and R C A F authorities at Ont said they had no reports of the missing plane The bomber with a crew of eight flew here from Westover Field yesterday circling over Syracuse municipal airport for an hour where It it was running out of gas and unable to land because of poor The commanding officer at over ordered the crew to bail out Planes from Rome Army air firld braved the storm to a fruitless search yesterday Forest rangers game and slate police in this vicinity were asked to participate Army officials at the Rome port announcing that next of had been notified listed members of the missing crew Flight Officer Wendell K der Jackson Miss Flight Officer Raymond A Springfield Mass Sergt Audrey H Alexander Rogersville Ala Sergt T neth M Jones Milwaukee Sergt Thomas C- Roberts Boston Sergt Joseph M Zebo R I James O and Phillip R Walton Berekeley Calif rank not Fleet Continues lence on Result of Smash at Truk BY THE UNITED PRESS Two United State submarines re- cently returned from war patrols around Japanese homeland have sunk 13 ships aggregating tons The Navy announced this new blow against Japan today as U S Marine and Army in- vasion forces thrusting toward the freat Japanese base at Truk anded on Eniwetok Atoll most of the Marshall Islands and only 750 miles from the bomb battered enemy bastion Late re- ports said the American forces were rapidly extending their initial beachheads The ships bagged by the U S submarines better than tons These successes raised to 447 number of enemy sunk by our submarines In the Pacific and Far East since the outbreak of war In addition they have probably sunk 36 others and damaged 114 to bring to 597 the total number of anese ships hit by our undersea raiders More than one-third of Japan's total merchant tonnage now has been desTroyed by submarines aircraft and surface forces Of the United Nations Warships Blast Island In the Eniwetok invasion Chester W Nimitz commander of the Pacific Fleet announced ly that the landing forces were able to consolidate their beachheads in- that the atoll might be occupied as quickly as Kwajalein 335 miles to the southeast which fell after eight days American battleships with mch guns cruisers desTroyers and planes blasted a path on Eniwetok for the landing forces comprising the 22nd Marine Division and ments of the Army Infantry division probably at least men The communique gave no hint as to the extent of the opposition en- countered but it seemed probable that the terrific preliminary and companying bombardment had razed most of the enemy's pared pillboxes and artillery em- placements Island Fine Fleet Base Rear Adm Rihcard Celly Turner invasion commander was expected to follow the Kwajalein pattern of sweeping rapidly across the invaded island to smash all organized ance with the aid of tanks lery and then up the scattered remnants Possession of Eniwetok atoil would give the United States one of the finest fleet anchorages in the Pacific and an air base on Island with a runway nearly 5.000 feet long which could be used in conjunction with Bougainville to the southwest for shuttle raids on Truk The lightning assault on tok coming only ten days after the Snai conquest of Kwajalein carried American ground forces 2.500 miles west of Pearl Harbor on the inva- sion route to Tokyo and ed an advance of nearly 1.000 miles in the past three months dating from the capture of the Gilberts The invasion of Eniwetok also further increased the isolation of Wake Island 600 miles to Oe northeast From Truk Powerful naval task which sent planes against Truk Wednesday still were radio silence and details oJ the destruction they wrought awaited their return to friendly waters Nimitz and hia commanders silent on Tokyo's tions that the forces in- cluded one of largest tration of aircraft carriers of the war had tried to land invasion forces However it generally was assumed that Tokyo for ganda was attempting to twist an air assault into an un- successful landing attempt Though there had been no con- of Japanese counter- blows it appeared certain the enemy would do all in his power to catch the task forces which probably included battleships as well as cruisers and desTroyers The Index Page Classified Cohoes Comics David Editorial Obituaries Pulse of the People Radio Society Sports 4 Theaters Women's Features 9 10 6 1
