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the Reich to separate the warrior race of PrusSians from the remain der of Germany. Prussia and her junkers stand charged with having fomented most of the international uproar of the past 70 years.
 But the President, Prime Min ister and Premier all were on record for the annihilation of Nazism and and the elimination of its leaders from the life of Europe. There was in the declaration no appeal to the German masses to shorten their torment by chucking their leaders.
 General satisfaction with the declaration's military commitments seemed assured. Congress and the people evidently were reconciled to a hard fight to subdue Germany. There was general realization that the opening of a land front in west ern Europe was part of that hard bargain. It will be costly in lives but the concensuS here was that it will shorten the war
 There was acute interest in any agreements which may have been reached at Teheran regarding post war Pacific relation and especially, how China, the Soviet Union and the United States are to maintain peace in that area.f1 There was no hint in the Teheran declaration that the conferees had surveyed the future.
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in a broadcast heard in London quoted the Turkish newspaper Te- min as saying that President Inonu of Turkey had gone to Cairo to confer with MT. Roosevelt and Churchill mot merely as gesture of friendship but because talks oc- cured at Cairo dealing with the most important problems of the present and postwar period inter- esting the facte of the world and of Turkey The newspaper was quoted further as saying that the Turkish nation was determined not to be dragged into adventures as long as Turkish vital interests were not involved. The German Trans ocean News Agency said Inonu was accompanied by Foreign Minister Numan Menemencioglu, Marshal Chakmak and the British and American ambassadors
 The original conferences among President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek were held at the Mena House, a hotel situated almost at the base of the Pyramids and long famous among tourists. Barbed wire machine guns and anti aircraft bat teries established around the Mena House and its surrounding villas, in two of which the President and Prime Minister were quartered. Transformed the area into virtual armed camp.
 Upon their return from Teheran, the Anglo American leaders and the combined British and American staffs began a new series of vital military conferences, presumably working out detailed plans for put ting the Teheran decisions into ef- feet.
 Both the President and Prime Minister were described as "elated' by the Teheran meeting with Stalin. The President had said months ago that 1t was his "f0ndest desire" for & meeting with the Russian leader and now that he had 1t he was said to regard 1t as "very successful" He also was reported as saying that great progress toward the end of the war had been achieved.
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Aim To Keep Home Fires From Burnino

Boston, Dec. 6-UP)- To keep the home fires from burn ing on Christmas Day-"one of the worst days in the year of fires''-the National Fire Pro- lection Association today urged the nations homeOwners to:
 l. Bring a fresh tree into the house as short 8 time be- fore Christmas as possible and remove it as soon afterward as you can.
 2. Keep the Christmas tree standing In water while i'm doors.
 3. Keep the tree we'll se- cured, away from stoves and so as not to block d0Orways.
 4. Use electric lights instead of candles.
 5. Check all wiring before lights are strung 6. Don't let Christmas wrap pings accumulate, 6on't burn dry wreaths in a fireplace. 2. If you play Santa Claus, be sure and have your whiskers me-prOOfed.
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 bullet and Father Meany, under fire. ran to help him.
 Father was kneeling beside my man when bullets started pinging around and I dived to the ground" ]" Capt. Charles Coates of (Old Post Road) Wakefield, R. l., said. When I looked up again, I couldn't see Father Meany."
 The priest, who lives in New York and was associate editor of the American Catholic weekly, had been struck but the medal hanging around his neck had turned and eased the bullets force.
 Father Meany fell into the hole beside the soldier. then calmly spr ink led d Sulfanilimide in his wounds, bandaged himself from a first aid kit and lay waiting for the medical crew.
 The next morning five man pa trol got him out. The chaplain told me only the medal had saved him.
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called flair antique" with a card expressing the hope may we be together for many years" Stalin did not give a present.
 Another high spot in the pro- gram was the dramatic presenta- tion by Churchill to Stalin and Voroshilov of the British honor sword of Stalingrad in behalf of King George VI and the British people.
 The conferees recognized Trans part in the war as a transit base for Allied supplies bound for Rus- Sia in a statement that promised. all economic assistance possible during and after the war and ex- pressed their desire for the main- tenance of the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Iran"
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Legal Notices
NOTICE

sCOvILL MANUFACTURING COM PANY, corporation specially Chartered by the General As sembly of the State of Connecti- cut, and having it's principal place of business in the City of Water bury, in the County of New Haven' said State,
 BERNARD MCCORMACK, his Wi dow, Heirs, Representatives and creditors, all of unknown address.
 ORDER OF NOTICE STATE of CONNECTICUT. NEW BURY, December 2, 1943.
 UPON THE COMPLAINT of the above named plaintiff, praying for reasons therein set forth. for judgment quieting and settling the title to that certain piece of land situated in said Waterbury, bound ed: Northerly, on East Main street; Easterly, on land now or formerly of James J. Fruin, now of Scovill Manufacturinng Company; southerly, ing Company; Westerly, by land now or formerly of Ezra Dun worth, now of Scovill Manufact- uring Company, as described in Waterbury. Land Records. Vol. 167, rage lZ4, In an aCtlOn between the above named parties returnable to the Superior Court, within and for New Haven County, at Waterbury, on the first Tuesday of January, 1914, it appearing to and being found by subscribing authority from an affidavit attached to said complaint, that the plaintiff has no knowledge of the whereabouts of the above named defendants, and it further appearing that the mo- tice most likely to come to their attention is by publication, as here- matter ordered;
 THEREFORE, TT IS ORDERED. that notice of the pendency of said action and complaint be given to said defendants by some proper officer causing a copy of this order of notice to be published in The Waterbury Democrat, a newspaper printed and published in said Wa terbury, three days successively, commencing on or before the 18th day of December, 1943, and that re- turn be made to this Court.
 JAMES E. MCKNIGHT,
 Clerk of the Superior Court with In and for New Haven County, at Waterbury.
 STATE of CONNECTICUT, COUN- TY of NEW HAVEN, ss., WATER BURY, Dec. 4th, 1943
 The within and foregoing is a true and attested copy of the orig inal order of notice ill my hands for publication.
 Attest:
 JAMES E. O'LEARY, 12-6-3t Deputy Sheriff.
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COLONEL PLUME
 GUEST SPEAKER

President Thomas E. Patterson has announced the regular meeting of the Bunker Hill Mems League will be held this evening in the Bunker Hill Congregational church at 800 p. m.
 Colonel S. Kellogg Plume of Thomaston and Watertown, well known executive of the Plume and Atwood Manufacturing Go. will speak on his recent experiences at the Aberdeen Proving Ground. Aberdeen, Md. Lately retired from active service, he will describe the war and peace time functions of this important Army organization. Little known to the general public 1t is at Aberdeen that new weapons are given preliminary trials and old weapons modified for new purpose. Members are cordially invited to bring their friends. There will be a short business meeting before the speaker and refreshments will be served.
 Submitted by:
 GORDON R. WEAVER,
 Publicity Director. 859 Watertown Ave, Waterbury, Ct.
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paracllutes filled with food ans other material.
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 parachutes filled with food and other material.
 Drop Supplies
 Tho same American invader fight er-bombers which dropped the sup plies dove down to bomb and strafe enemy positions ahead of Lieut.. Gen. Mark w. Clark's forces.
 Bad weather hampered the Fights attack, which was being spearhead- ed by tanks. The armored vehicles were credited with knocking out iso- lated German machine gun posts at Casone, three miles north of Lan- ciaco, while the drive Of the main body of troops carried 10 miles be- yond the Sangro river.
 Eighth Army troops captured a new German flame throwing vehicle.
 Despite the German reinforce ments and heavy fighting, further progress has been made" by Mont gomrey's men, the communique said.
 Nearly 100 miles above the Eighth's line, the British destroyers Quilliam and Loyal bombarded the port of Ancona, swept on south to hit San Benedetto, sank from three to five enemy coastal schooners and shelled bridges on the coastal road between Pescara and Guilianova.
 Two other destroyerS, the Queen borough and Raider, operating east of Pescara, sank small merchant vessel.
 The weather limited air operations but Mitchell bombers battered the shipyards and railroads at Split, on the Jugoslav coast, and hit the road bridge south of Pescara.
 Kittybombers scored two direct hits on 4,000-ton merchantmen at Pauli. west of Split. Other planes hit gun positions south of Chieti. above the Eighth army Bostons at- lacked objectives around Pedaso and Porto Civitanova while light planes set afire a floating dock at Orbetel-
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 ferring reserves to the east front, taking advantage of the fact that there still is no real second front in the vest
 If Marshall is to be the leader, sources, here see him as possessed of joint staff of British and Amer ican officers already functioning. Plans for the final attack were be- lieved far advanced and the group of young, vigorous officers he could command would make CeaSar, Alex ander or any of the other great generals of history green with envy.
 It is not believed that any Rus sians will become members of the joint staff but they probably will have observers.
 Ranged under these battle-tested officers will be millions of men, the deadliest and most powerful air fleets the world ever has seen and 8 naval force capable of blackening the English channel from one end to the other.
 This force will be equipped with the finest weapons British and American scientists can devise, in cluding many still on tn secret list" Some troops, like their leaders will be veterans of other battles but many will be fresh from the United States. Lord Halifax said the other day that great armies had left the United States and it was safe to assume that they were not cruising in the Atlantic.
 Although the bulk of armies under Marshalls commando he is to be the Allied generalissimo-will be Anglo-American, there will be forces representing France, Norway, Po- land, Czechoslovaia and the Netherlands.
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designed to break through the So- viet ring from both within and around the western rim of the city and its approaches were filtered with the bodies of Germans and the charred, twisted wreckage of Ger man tanks and armored cars.
 In one sector alone, the Germans hurled 50 tanks and 5000 infantry men against the Soviet lines, only to be thrown back with loss of 400 men and at least six tanks. Five hundred Germans were killed and nine tanks burned in a neighboring sector.
 The liquidation of the sizable German garrison at Cherkasi would enable the Russians to push south eastward along the west bank of the Dnieper and contact other red army troops betow Kremenchug, 65 miles down the river, and establish continuous bridgehead of nearly 200 miles.
 The Kremenchug army extended it's penetration toward the import ant railway junction of znamenka, key to the main escape route for hundreds of thousands of Germans in the Dnieper Bend, by capturing three fortified points in fierce hand-to-hand fighting. At least 800 Germans were killed and II tanks were captured or destroyed.
 The Russians also posed new threat to the Germans in the Dnie- per Bend by beating off an enemy landing on the Kindurinskaya Pen insula on the south side of Dniepro- vsky Bay at the mouth of the Dnieper and Bug Rivers and mass ing strength there for a possible thrust to the opposite shore.
 The Germans captured Vorstadt and Pokrovskoye when they landed, but were driven into the sea after losing 700 dead and 500 captured. The reinforced Soviets now hold positions outflanking both Kherson and Nikolaev and opposite Ocha- kov, 37 miles east of Odessa.
 A Russian crossing at this point coordinated with a renewed Soviet drive from Krivoi Rog, in the mid dle of the Dnieper Bend, might trap huge German army within the Bend.
 In White Russia, the Russians captured three more towns and vil- lages on the approaches to the railway junction of Zhlobin, tight ening the siege arc on three sides of the city.
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  ings among themselves.
 There also were many American secret service men. In the kitchen were U. s. Army cooks to prepare the Presidents meals.
 Stalin was closeted with the Presi- dent for 90 minutes while Molotoy waited in an adjacent room Church i'll arrived about 4:45 p. III. and the initial plenary session began.
 Four such meetings were held one each day. The "big three dined together each night.
 Meanwhile, the military men oi the three nations met almost con- tinuously, referring each military problem which involved politics ol higher strategy to the three toE men for decision.
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 The table at which MT. Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin conferred was made of oak and was about nine feet in diameter. The Russian em- bassy gave a Tehran carpenter ar order for the table shortly before the conference. By working around the clock, the carpenter was able to deliver it fresh-hewn and shin- ing to the embassy well before the arrival of the dignitaries.
 As the chips flew off this table so did the rumors fly around Tehran The sleepy city - blend of the east and the west was convinced that this betokened a conference and 1t was not long before the ar rival of Russian troops and secret service men confirmed these Sus- picions.
 By Friday, when Stalin arrived, the embassy compound was a for tress. Huge screens had been put up at each end of the street in which the Soviet embassy and Brit ish legation face one another and a four-block area, swarming with guards, was blocked off.
 Stalin arrived in a military plane accompanied by Molotov and War Minister Klementi Voroshiloff. He gave cordial handshake to Soviet Charge D'Affaires Maximov and drove to the embassy.
 The excitement started long be- fore Stalin's arrival. For days the citys streets had been ahustle with innocent looking Russians, Ameri- cans with broad -brimmed hats and rain coated Englishmen. Miles of telephone wires were strung by American soldiers between the vari- ous United Nations embassies and legations. Indian troops brought so much lumber to the British com- pound that it was whispered that the minister, Sir Reader Bullard, was expecting a hard winter. Visitors said tents and bungalows were be- ing erected inside the compound.
 U. s. Minister Louis G. Dreyfus got as far as Marrakesh but hastily returned, explaining he had to come back to settle a few important mat terS before taking home leave Turk ish Ambassador Husnu Taray post poned an overdue trip to Ankara.
 MT. Roosevelt, surrounded by tanks and armored cars, led and followed by motorcycle troops, sped through Teheran to the legation at the other end of the city.
 By comparison, Churchill was all most unguarded. Iranian police and horse guards lined some streets along his route.
 Teheranites gathered on the main
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disclosure that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme allied com mander in the Mediterranean, had presided at a meeting of his com- mand at Cairo about 10 days ago, after the Roosevelt Churchill Chiang meeting.
 It was theorized that British and possibly American troops might thrust across the Adriatic from bases in Southern Italy, or move into the Aegean from Africa or the Levant. A Russian amphibious landing from the Black Sea also might be planned.
 British Foreign Secretary An- thony Eden was believed to have given Menemencioglu details of the Miscow conference as they effected Turkey and the Turkish minister later won his parliament's approval of his conduct of the negotiations.
 With possibly the final details of any Balkan operation worked out at Teheran, the reported visit of Inonu, Menemencioglu and Chakmak to Cairo at this time took on new sig nificance, though the Germans sought to belittle its importance. German Ambassador Franz von Papen was quoted by the Turkish press as saying that he had returned from Berlin to continue his work with my Turkish friends so that at least this part of the world may keep out of this devas- tating disaster"
 However, the London Daily sketch asserted that Turkey was closing a number of consulates and vice consulates in Germany and occupied territory with the official excuse there was too little work for them due to the slump in trade.
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so come into One world family o democratic nations.
 No power on earth can prevent our destroying the German armie. by land, their U-boats by sea, ana their war plants from the air. Om attacks will be relentless and in creasing.
 Emerging from these friendly con. ferences we look with confidence t the day when all the peoples of the world may live free lives untouched by tyranny and according to theil varying desires and their own con- sciences.
 We came here with hope and de- termination. We leave here friends in fact, in spirit, and in purpose.
 (Signed at Tehran, Dec. 1. 1943.)
 ROOSEVELT, STALIN,
 CHURCHILL
 (End Text) . Tehran, Dec. 1.-(UP(-The text of an Anglo-American- -RnsSian statement concerning Iran:
 The President of the United States of America, the premier of the USSR, and the prime minister of the United Kingdom, having consulted with each other and with the prime minister of Iran, desire to declare the mutual agreement of their three governments regarding relations with Iran.
 The governments of the United States of America, the USSR, and the United Kingdom recognize the assistance which Iran has given in the prosecution of the war against the common enemy, particularly by facilitating the transportation ot supplies from overseas to the Soviet Union. The three governments real ize that the war has caused spe- cial economic difficulties for Iran and they agreed that they will con- tinue to make available to the Iran government such economic assist ance as may be possible. having regard to the heavy demands made upon them by their worldwide mili- tary operations and to the world wide shortage of transport, raw ma- terials and supplies for civilian con- sumption.
 with respect to the postwar pe- riod, the governments of the United States of America, the USSR, and the United Kingdom are in accord with the government of Iran that any economic problem confronting Iran at the close of hostilities should receive full consideration along with those of other members of the United Nations by confer ences or international agencies, held or created, to deal with international economic matters.
 The governments of the United States of America, the USSR and the United Kingdom are at one with the government of Iran in their desire for the maintenance of the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Iran. They count upon the participation of Iran, together with all other peace-l loving nations, in the estab- lishment of international peace, se- cuity and prosperity after the war, in accordance with the principles of the Atlantic charter, to which all four governments have continued to subscribe.
 (End Text)
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streets and at crossroads cheered MT. Roosevelt as he whizzed past. l Minister and Mrs. DreyfuS moved over to the Turkish embassy to give the president plenty of privacy but on Sunday morning an invitation came to Mir Roosevelt to move over to the Soviet embassy, a box-like yellow brick structure with Doric columns across the front. One of the Americans observed it resembled Lees mansion at Arlington, Va.
 The Americans split into three groups. The President and his chiefs went to the legation. High military officials went to the headquarters of the Gulf Service Command, headed by Major General Donald H. Con- molly. The remainder went to the American camp Amirabad outside Teheran.
 Crowd Disappointed
 A throng waited for Churchill outside entrance to the British le- gation but he disappointed them by ducking through the back door.
 The principal conferences were held in a room 40 by 75 feet, lighted by an overhead skylight. Through out the meeting the Russians were hosts, although sometimes MT. Roosevelt and Stalin shared the du- ties of nominal host.
 Participants in the plenary Ses- sions were varied but always in- cluded some of each delegations political and military experts.
 So far as could be ascertalned, Voroshilov was the only high Soviet military official participating in the vital sessions other than Stalin himself.
 The final conference started with a luncheon on Wednesday and con- tinued without interruption until 10:30 p. m. Among those who parti- cipated were the three leaders. Molotov, Harry Hopkins, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden U. s. Ambassador to Russia W.. Averell Hartman, U. s. Ambassador to Britain John Winant, Admiral William D. Leahy, General George c. Marshall, Admiral Ernest King, General H. H. Arnold, and Lieu tenant General Brebon Somerville.
 On Saturday guards around the British legation were tripled and the city swarmed with new groups Of mysterious foreigners. In mid-afternoon, several large planes circled the city and crowds in the streets cried
 Here they are! Roosevelt! ChWchillp
 A swarm of red air fleet fighters met the transports and gave them an honor escort to the Galemorghe airdrome. The airfield was sur- rounded by troops armed with tom- my guns and bayonet-tipped rifles High officers of the Persian Gulf Service Command came forward to greet the president. Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, British ambassador to the Soviet Union, headed the group that greeted Churchill. Other British participants were Sir Alan Brooke, Admiral Sir An- drew Cunningham, Air Marshal Sir Charles portal, Sir John Dill and Clark Kerr.
 Military decisions were completed by 4 D. m. Thursday, after which 10-hour session was devoted to drawing up the cc.nmunique.
 The final conference broke up after midnight on Dec. 2. On that day MT. Roosevelt drove to the American Camp Amirabad where he reviewed the troops from his jeep and visited the hospital, where he was given three cheers by <, the patients.
 His jeep was driven up on plat form to enable him to address the the camp personnel briefly. After that he went to the airport and 1 returned to Cairo.
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The morning newspapers exhib- ited on air of most urgent expect ancy regarding the issuance of an official announcement on the Teh- ran metings. So far there had been no Anglo-American confirmation of the announcement by the Russian Tass news agency that the meeting had been concluded but 1t was generally accepted that the dispatch was authentic.