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ft he IIeotot Weather Forecast Fair, Continued Warm Further Details on Page 13 Sun rises 5:23 a. sets 8:29 p. m. Start livery Day Right ESTABLISHED 1764, VOL. (',) CVIII HARTFORD 1, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 7, PAGES Member of the Associated Pre.ie 4c COPT 139 Die, More Than 5 Hurt In Circus Fire Five Arrested On Manslau ghter Charges U.

Troops Menace Heights Above La Haye Flames Of Death Sweep Across Big Top Filled With Circus Crowd Panic And Blaze Closing Ring About Nazis' Anchor Point Job Ceilings Lifted For Disaster Work Employment ceilings for all persons needed to assist in work connected with the circus fire have been lifted. William G. Ennis. WMC Area Director, announced Thursday night. Undertakers, cemeteries and rescue squads may employ as many persons as needed.

Mr. Ennis declared, saying that the USES office is recruiting help. Anyone who needs assistance is asked to contact the USES office. Speaking for Mr. Ennis.

Assistant Director Arthur A. Nielsen said Thursday night that the WMC officials had received many calls asking permission to hire extra workers. The temporary lifting of employment ceilings applies only to those concerns aiding in relief work, he commented. Trap Hundreds Relatives Seek Their Dead at Stale Armory, Hospitals Crowded; Cages Block Exit for Many as Flames Sweep Over Big Top in 10 Minutes; Many Ordered Back, is Charge; Wide Inquiry Started, Inquest Set for Tuesday Storm To Forest's Probably Still Hold' Hail road Station In Northern Outskirts Foe's Kear Areas Mauled From Air- Chartres, Armenian, Cc-j rences Pummeled By! Allied Planes; 3 Towns Liberated One hundred and thirty-nine persons were killed and upwards of 225 injured within 10 minutes Thursday afternoon when fire, apparently starting from a carelessly discarded cigarette, swept through the big tent of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey's Circus at the Barbour U. S.

Troops Go Ashore On Manim Street show grounds in the worst civilian disaster in Connect Supreme Headquarters AUier Expeditionary Force, Friday. June 7. i.AP.i U. S. troops closing a ring about the enemy anchor of La Haye clu Puits have stormed to the edge of the Foret de Mont Castre.

where strong enemy forces lie in wait, and! are threatening the last wooded Island Hanking Jaj)S No-hetghts dominating the town. Su-i eillfoor Airdrome Is icut's history. Thursday night, as the death list grew, every hospital in Hartford was crowded with the injured. The big State Armory on Broad Street was turned into a morgue. There the bodies of men, women and children, most of them burned beyond recognition, lay on canvas Army cots, covered by blankets.

As investigations into responsibility for the disaster were pressed by police officials, Prosecutor S. Burr Leikind the Police Court announced Captured Without Re fe 4 i4k aMMitWBi I i i sistance preme Headquarters announced last night. Front line dispatches said the only escape route out of the road and rail junction on the south was under artillery fire, and reported savage fighting toward the heights of the forest, three miles east of La Haye, whose capture would unhinge enemy defenses resting on La Haye Known Dead the arrests, on charges of manslaughter, of four circus BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. Advanced Allied Headquarters. New Guinea, Friday, July 7.

United States troops have occupied Manim Island off American-invaded Noem-foor Island, headquarters announced today. While panic-stricken thousands fought their way from the blazing big top Thursday afternoon, a young amateur photographer caught this graphic picture of flames eating their way across the enormous canvas in a few all too brief moments, ((c) Spencer Torcll.) state Armory. officials. Mr. Leikind said the The following list of dead in the'imen- who vvere into circua-flre-have been identified at custody by Hartford Police, List of Injured TlyinsAVallendas' On High Wire When Flames Swept Through Tent on the west-fmd the bog, Marais de Manim by July 5 with- Mayor Gims Victims Full out opposition.

Its occupation pro- i the morgue in the State Armory: iai'e: J- A- Haley, Vice-presi-I Barry, Gail, 6, of 36 Curtis street, John Biice, circus chief Zio" identified by aunt. nnlirp- Hnnvo-n Smith Gorges. on the east. Al Hartford Hospital. Boardman, Dorothy, 159 Street.

Supreme Headquarters said that vwps llallK POMuon lor me one fnmrht twire Into La maining Japanese-held airdrome on Five members of the "Flving Wallendas." Herman. Carl. Joe, Helen Boardman, Katharine and Henrietta Wallenda. were on the center high wire, about to begin 159 zion man Road, wethersfieid. ffeneral manager and Leonard Berman, Judith, 8.

same Aylesworth, boss canvas man. Haye in the last 48 hours and twice Aid Of City their act. when the fire broke out. Street. Brannon.

David, 25 River Road, Wethersfield. "It didn't seem to snread fast." Herman said later. "I thought I were forced back, although they; probably still held th railroad sta-j Birch, Ariand. 12, of 232 orangeMr Leikind said other arrests Street. Menden.

identified by -n i I.awrsnri, Rtrfh father 11 1 Ue maue. Brannon Gladys, 25 River Rirch. Shirlev Ann. 9 of 232 Or At 2 a. m.

todav Trosecutoi had time to lash the bicycles which we had put on the wire ready to Office Used As Clearing. begin our act- But wnen tlie flames nit tne r00f- we saw ve had t0 1T 'n get down fast llOllse I'Or All LirCUS, They slid down the ropes near the center ring and started for the Wetnerslleld. 1 nncrA StrAPt Mprlrlnn cictpr nf tlio'I nll-i'nl cfntnl Noemfoor. That airdrome, Namber. is the present objective of U.

S. forces driving across Noemfoor, off North Dutch New Guinea. The two other Noemfoor airdromes, Kamiri and Kornasoran. already are in American hands. A Japanese counter attack on Noemfoor was repulsed, headquarters reported Brown, Anna Reduker, 62 Glas-i above, identified bv Lawrence 4 i Fil'C Rescue and HOSDI- performers' exit through which the animal act had left, Herman said.

i trnvA cn rrrnrrinrl in 1 tonbury Avenue, Rocky Hill tal Agencies Birch father rrvu Bradley, Helen, 30, Fairviewcerned lv- Bl'ice but that two Street, Simsbury, identified by Mary additional cil'CUS employees DuHaskas, 541 Hudson street, Hart- had been arrested. They are t. nf 9a rhnrrh Ed ward Versteeg, chief elec- there that we saw we didnt have a chance. "So we climbed over the cage that Bushnell, Mary, Saybrook. Carvozza, Ida, 447 North Terrace Avenue, Mt.

Vernon, N. Y. Conlon, Thomas, 78 Mayflower Street. A clearing-house for all agencle; tion In the northern outskirts. Capture of the heights might force the enemy to withdraw as far as Lessay, five miles south of La Haye, and Periers, nine miles southeast.

In the brightest, hottest day In Normandy since D-Day. another column coming around the great bog on the east forged beyond the village or Culot. which the Germans once regained with a counterattack, and fought to within a mile of Sainteny. five miles southwest of Carentan, widening the nar Allied air raiders sank three small LnnnprnMiw in the rescue and hos-: lmes Ule exlt' ilm as 101 113Children, Mothers Not Yet Located street, Piainviiie. identified by fa-jtrician, and David Blanch- Japanese vessels and damaged onejpilal in connection with the' in waters near New Guinea.

Sixteen "circus disaster was established at; After thev had got out, Helen Fryer, Karen, 63 White Street. ther. held, chief wagon man. Bonds of $15,000 each were set in the cases of Halev and Fryer, Katherine. 63 White Street' Carrier, Jacqueline, 4, 77 Orange TpffAf ci rif Street, Hartford, identified by Frjer, Michael, 63 White Sheet.

mother. Mrs. Rolande A. Carrier. barges also have been sunk or dam-1 tne mayor's office Thursday after-, Wallenda couldn't find her 7-years- noon by Mayor Mortensen, who old daughter Carla who, she 5 More Jap Ships Sunk.

L.rtrf Ktflff parlv to-'thought, had been in the audience. Kokoskl, Gladys, 43 Warren Street. Same address. jSmith and $10,000 in the Street. Connolly.

Edward 11. 5lLoSPo nf thp ntlipvc i ne enna naa oeeii pia.ving uuiaiutr "SEKRito lo coordinaK liotpilal and Idcn- Harbor, July 6. The rowest sector of the whole front in! Heartrending Stories Un the tent with the daughter of an Pearl sinking Kumetta, Stanley. 15 Pease Ave- To a -u i Richard Casey, 68 White Street. nnp irlrtlptmrn -i (iO Bodies Identified.

an advance of more than a mile, lineation tasks of five more Japanese ships and de notified of the other performer and had I been herd- The mayor was folded At Brown School Clearing House Fight for Airfield Ktriirtlnn nf ninr mnrp nl.nnns in thP pci tn sfp niacp hy DOliCe When. liit'liu ui lK.iiiij. 1 i' I Larson, Robert 136 Lyon Connolly. Rita Ann, 13, of 51 East-1 ri'antlC relatives, each ac- street, New Britain vi street. icompanied by a nurse and a Both British and Germans poured jRnnm Island.

riurinr of! circus fire by a reporter 101 i nc ICourant shortly after it broke of his! ouiy luni.v u.v mmiiLsu tauici ft i iotpl- with thp xieimaii sitiu iimi jiiubl ui mo Herman said that most Libby, Judith, 3 Burbank street, Elmwood, identified by policeman, were led. a dozen armor and infantry into the battle raging for Carpiquet airfield, only three miles east of Caen on the road to Paris, and the night communique task force was disclosed today by; (, He equipment was safe. "But what Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. I1'? "1 1 is our equipment now?" he in work there for gpd Wethersfieid.

assisted rescue iwmm-M Louis Conlon relation unknown. tj through the rows of From 6 p. m. on, the Brown Ui.niifTVit .4 1 tl-, trttl nmm. i as he assembled it in the cots.

Many were unable to Wo School on Market Street served as a 01 enm l8nKS sWPs nt down by carrier Planesi 'tt HoSpltal. charred center of the ring, have no circus." Libby, Juliette, 3 Burbank Road Wethersfieid. Libby, Lawrence, 3 Burbank Road Wethersfieid. destroyed. and raised Nipponese air losses to Street.

Bristol, identified by Kenneth Coty. presumed father. De Le Vergne, Elizabeth. 34, of U. S.

Fleet moved into the MartauL1 VJ- Jlw. identified by husba nd. Marcyomack. Fossed Cigarette OlrtLld. XIO W)" roTriavtirt Anno 37 nf fil Por.l Street.

Elmwood. iboUr Street. 'identified 'bv husband establish certain identity but late Thursday night more than 60 bodies had been identified. As soon as identification was positive, medical examiners permitted the removal of the bodies to under- clearing house of information regarding missing children. By late Thursday night 113 children and mothers who had accompanied them to the circus were reported by authorities at the Brown center as missing.

Also, about 20 children found wandering about by police With the skies cleared at last, and the Allies free to throw their Sunday aerial punch at the enemy, German communications took a severe mauling as hundreds of warplanes went bombing and strafing transport, roads and rails all the way behind the front and on back to the Paris area. to pave the way for invasion of Sai- pan. In addition to the 41 carrier frJ he lm in plane victims. 17 enemy surface Headquarters then were set up craft have been sunk by other meth- lhe maor off ice and helping hun there were Police Commissions Mi-- i chael A. Connor, Assistant Corpjra- Mnkings 600 Miles Off Tokyo.

rllnKrI Renub- Blamed For Fire By Ushers, Police mauibuu. nuaiu. opru.g DcNezzo. Joseph 3,. 104 i Edwards Street.

Hartford, ldenti-i Mehlhorn. Rita 228 Maple Ave- fied bv Joseph DeNezzo, father, nue- I DeNezzo. Mrs. Katherine 35. lilt' 11VC ilUlUlHIllrtl SIUMIILJS.

Ill- Street, Wethersfieid. 'tified by Joseph DeNezzo. taking establishments. Metrelis, Norma. 35 Somerset! Dineen.

William. 8. 73 Martin Governor Baldwin. were taken there and in every in- i Wi State isor bix Attendants st ance were later called for by rela- in Street, wethersfieid. nuiuuiu.

wui l.CL" 11U ta'a ector Rail lines were cut by bombs at eluding two destroyer escorts, Maintenance Sunerv any points, fuel dumps were left' scored in the vicinity of Chichi 1 pM nAJ I JZing at Chartres. Argentan andjjuna. 600 miles south of Tokyo. Robert Duffy, Buildings Supe rences, and dive bombers at- I blazing fprpneps 11UU1 iunn Killian. With Water Buckets' uves, sergeant and Airs, wuiiam j.

ui-" w-v-a nnunrej a rin- In contrast to the happiness re neen. oince. Loroner frank L. O'Brien, Madeline, 399 Overlook Terrace. O'Brien, Nadine, C-399 Charter! Fail; Detectives Near Healy.

Hartford police and an vealed in reunions of mothers and children and fa and children Duhamel. Alice 25, 77 Orange Street, Hartford, identified by Mrs tacked troops massing to oppose tlle Qnpji ImOT'ini American push southwestward from OJCL-UU tendent Edward F. and Executive Secretary Samuel Gould. Nephew Located. The mavor's nephew, Donald Six circus ushers who fought the, was the sorrow seen in the faces of Oak Terrace.

Rnd a rwi Tme address I investigating committee named at Peck, Florence. 246 South Whitney 1 "reus grounds by Mayor Mor- 9.Sntn Street. Wethersfieid. identified by1 tensen began a coordinated inquiry fi- f--. He nninn thrpi.

uiey imu uroi rted everywhere else and had been told Arranged Today At Camp Courant Mortensen, at first was repo' ti.vAr inrn nnni'Piiin wnu vti licrui uv H. C. Christianson, brother-in-law. LU icsijuusiuuuy im uie uuasitr. Soecial acents of the Federal Rn- missing, UUl lliuibuu iuhih oliiuui yhs uic iui 1 csui 1 gjj.pp Mortensen said he had ocen ine uouram inai uie oiaieioeiore maKing tne trip to tne; ed.

"He left the circus and went oriejllated from a cisarette thrown morgue at the State Armory. In a Rlchi, Bertha 23 Whitmore Street. stlVeuieVsVieid. identified by reau of Investigation also joined the ko, t-ugene, warren btreet. Cnristianson.

uncle. investigation but as far as could be bampson, baran, 63 freeman. Marv. fi lOfi Edwards lpainprl ha.l fnnnH nn PviHpnrp nf WiU to a show." the mayor said. i instances, even while persons luusii.

aiiu v.uinruj mui daughter of Citv Assessor A mon inQuiring for children, others gpppj i run. by a man using the mens toilc' inH. fH 1 iumucu ti v. Jill-: riai 1 j. ivuiu ua uiniui 1.

n. Carentan. A dispatch from General Eisenhower's advanced command post declared that more and more Allied troops and vehicles, "an astonishing total." were piling up along the beachhead for the decisive battles ahead. Germans Mass Troops. British and Canadians around Caen battled the greatest mass of German manpower ever concentrated on a narrow front in this or in World War I one division to slighMy less than three miles of front, supreme headquarters said.

In funeral, the Allies kept up the nAZVr A. DeNezzo, 104 Edwards Federal investigation is limited. Arun ItvThoifpr Vrfisl wife and two children of Alderman C.riin f.t children and had taicen them home. drCIl 15J neater aUn pmprcpd Un- aiena' about l0 feet east 01 Unfortunately the number of nanny miuiLu.ovn. i-ft Hertford Smith.

Mrs. Joseph, 491 Hudson," Galulccli Mrs. Rose. 55 mother of! Street. iHontifiH Viv Incpnh A Dp-.

Wind Fans Flames. The animal acts were over and harmed. After being missing for the main entrance. 1 anticlimaxes were few compared to some time, the wife and two child-1 usw u.r uu. with no news of their loved the Flying Wallendas had taken AurtMM d.mi water was uu Kunr.

aiu xwmcwi ones. Staples. Mable. 32 Hart Place. Bellevue ttle'r Peaces on the high wire when Goff, Muriel.

4. of Keene. N. H. it'll Ui, i Motto were found, but Mrs.

Motto 2mel of New, Hf Kenf. was under a doctor's care Thursday He said he was joined by Mike Dare v. Sqimre'. identified by Robert Wells, a tiny flame crept from a canvas Volunteers Plentiful. Volunteers were Dlentiful at Tyler.

June Florence. 29 Vernon ia friend. toilet room outside the southwest Avenue, Rockville. Goff. Maurice.

24. of 62 Bellevue corner of the big top not far from Tyler, Viola, 29 Vernon Avenue, square, identified by Arnold Goff. main entrance and spread up-Rockville. Goldstein, Mrs. Sylvia.

25, Andover ward toward the big top, under Conlon, Mrs. John, no address. street. Hartford, identified by Ser- wniCn gOOO men, women and chtl- Conlon. John.

no address. first name unknown) Wein- ren were seated. CAMP COIRANT FUND Previously acknowledged $7530.19 Malcolm G. Campbell, Jr. 2.50 In memory of Elsie Elaine 5.00 Mr.

and Mrs. J. S. Wagner 5.00 Junior Victory Carnival 8.00 Belle R. Gaylord 10.00 Civitan Club of Hartford 25.00 $7585 69 night Her foot became caught in umh-i.

ui Brown scnooi irom tne ttea cross, one of the cages and only with the 'Paul Runyon. of Sarasota. J. American Legion and other organi-help of one of her children wholRaymond Morriss, of ChattanoogaJzations. From the beginning Mrs.

came rushing back to the mother's and Thomas Tucker, of Thomas Tyszka, of the Blood Donor assistance was she able to extricate R. all members of the; Service, was on duty along with herself. staff of 75 ushers headed by John Philip Wilcox, of Legion Post No. 23. Mayor Mortensen made several M.

Carson, chief usher, of Sarasota, Wethersfieid. Lieutenant John broadcasts during the night, notify-: Fla. iShages. of the Police Department, ing Central Connecticut residents of Mr. Carson estimated there werend Policewomen Vera Conroy and the latest casualty toils and what 6000 people in the tent, approxi- Ella Brown were constantly on duty, was being done for the injured imately half of its capacity, when As time went on, the stories un- At the scene of the disaster, he the blaze started.

folded at Brown School became made this statement- i The toilet room consisted of a more touching, fathers telling of en- It was 2:40 p. 20 minutes after the performance got Ushers ran to the blaze with bucket of water but the flames roared out frost, BarDara. 44 capen btreet. stein, uncle. Livingston.

Ralph. 3. 7 North: Goldstein, female, first name un-Quaket Lane, West Hartford. known, age 3. Andover Street.

Hart- Fortier. Ann, 298 Naubuc Avenue, iforci, identified by Sergeant Wein-Glastonbury. stpin progress which had liberated 1313 square miles of French soil since D-Day, Just one month ago yesterday, an average of about 43 square miles a day. The Americans liberated three towns Glatigny, four miles southwest of La Haye. Scor-man.

nearby, and La Butte, six miles east at the edge of the Marais de Gorges. French Patriots Active. Far behind the front the French of control. A strong southwest wind Boyer, Albert. 7, 131 George Street, Grant, Mrs.

Hulda, 28, 143 Cannon caught them and swept them nonh- by (Concluded on PaSe 2, Column identified easterly across the tent top. For a i 1 ailiv wniiaii, Aiicruu. few seconds the crowd was calm. Hess. Minnie.

42, of 1750 Bay 1( UdV Lilt: UUlltSLflS ilL VdillU "I am overwhelminslv grieved tour sidea canvas screen. 'T i ii i l- Then someone screamed "Fire!" and Pjrlraav Rrnnklvn irlpnt if lpii underground was ngnting so ei haVe a special treat in' that avtforrf such a ine eyewitnesses mierviewea Today's Index that the supreme command released for A5c Lvman. members of triv xiVntv Courant agreed that the flrc' another, only to find the first one by Hyman Karuk. thc Panlr bpgan' nui.i... Thrown A SaftT.

a special communique detailing its his h9nH. an(1 Sheldon started nt thP bottom of a sidewall disappeared, utners wno saved tvt'liui, oiuiify. ii, vi i.io n.vii BceomplLshments. five districts lib-; commg crept rapidly upward toward of uir Iamy i r0 Avenue, est nariiora. laeniuieu was me worsi uuu; r.ti by Sam Kellin.

said State Poilce 10 r.aieu. Mia. i-iiciiiy umb music and coniedy. Rudy Vm roud nf -he wav tlle bi? t0P- a new canvas. A strong Amusements tmi nf Nnrnunrtv inkpH nff nnri COIUniUIlllj 1 am ptOUQ 01 illC a) in ihp conflagration.

niiiust iiieiiis manager 01 me state inea- Hirtford nnlirpmm and fire-'southwest wind swepi me Bridge whole enemy divisions engaged. i -m k. lnc 'iruoiu poiiiemcn ana nre- The following were still listed emr and fire-' JttrL The STn, 17 Home Page 11 Jacqueline 4 Obituaries 21 Pegler 13 Radio in n.miu Byrnes tJi i iv no i ti i ui. win. 13 Lonitnis.siotier tawara j.

Street. Rockville. identified by John wll0 tool charge of the rewue 4 Burke. Rocky Hill, friend. and Ielirf erf0rU to which doctors.

Lapuk. Seymour. 8. of 240 Corn- rc. aH ilirpmcn fnm agencies with authorities at the Brown1 Classified t-laSSi; I men.

and all those other Mortensen Asks Flairs a lroup oul the toth from this city -and iuui iliiavii si i iiis camp each week this summer. other camp each week this summer. iravP ihr n.ltsirlP llle nUnn, nrdiv noht 9 mi. ti-s hprp Thomas Barber. Paul Beckwith and clubs i i iiuiiia.t Ddiui' i ix vnniui nnu i.uiiis a lie Flown at Half Staff.

were standing- ha. Mari, 13 ViIlaee Comics 16 Realty Papers 13 S'rR 5Lo 6 Monday morning buses will pick is dp t0 aU Thomas Kershaw ip the boys and girls at 9 a. m. from thnti oi 61 near the main ci: Monday morning, buses wil! pick! "Thomas Kershaw, up the boys and girls at 9 a. m.

from note aided the main Mayor Mortensen has requested 1 entrance. They cut Su.pet ast Hanford Crossword 6 Reminder Vernon Avenue. Rockville. Identi- 'a'a that all flags displayed in Hartford Tower on North Main Street commiioner Michael a i ropes and assisted scores of specta-, Akerhad Elaine 15 17 Coionjal Dixon 6 Society 13 ied by brother. Dr.

Metcalfe. herded nine of hi nieces no today be flown at half staff to mark and at the Old State House for the1 ti Police tors 10 safety' Tlle de'ectives agreed Slrcet Editorials 12 Sports lo, 6 Mu n. Cnarles 4 of 4 Crown nephews, ranging from four to 14 me ruys irioute 10 me scores no im uj i- w-uhu cc ui ii.u mc unnns mav n.c (1 healthful, happy campiiiE parently started from 3 cigarette. (Concluded on raje 3, Column 3.1 nassin 11 xour oiara 'Aonciuaca 0n 1 uumn oj perished In the circus fire. (Conrludrd on Pase 5.

Column 3.).