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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-27
.. 5. Aircraft Carrier Force, Bad NelUs For Japs

struction program. The other type consists of destroyer escorts.
 A little better than half the new carriers are believed to be of the so-called escort class. These vessels have merchant type hulls and carry much smaller complement of planes than the combatant type. Although presently employed largely for escorting conveys through Submar- ine-infested waters, they can be and have been used for combat. One such carrier played an important part in securing bridgeheads for American landing forces in the re- conquest of Attu,
 Knox pointed out also that the new. big combat carriers-not the super-carriers of 45000-tons which soon will be on the shipways-were vastly improved over their pre-Pearl haxbog predecessors. Their anti-air- craft firepower for instance, is l09 percent greater than the earlier types.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-27
Claim Nozis Kill ItoIion Coptives

Allied Headquarters, Alglers. Nov, 27-(UP)- )--Prcmier-Marsha Pietro Badoglios govern rent today charged the Germans with shooting Italian officers captured while fight ing with the British on Lero Island in the Dodecanese.
 Similar offenses have occurred in Albania and Montenegro where Ital- ian regular army forces were oppos- ing the Nazis, an official com- munique issued through Allied headquarters said.
 The communique said the shoot ings had been established with certainty" They were carried out against officers taken in uniform while fighting at the head of their units. 1t was charged.
 This German disregard for all laws human and divine, multiples the sufferings and horrors of war. !" the statement said. "The Italian government derounces to the world this fresh, unparalleled crime"
 The Badoglio government delivered a protest through the armistice control commission and announced the denunciation would be laid before all Allied and neutral gov ernments.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-27
HEAVYWEIGHT VICTORY COST
 MANY LIVES

With U. S. Marine Assault Forces, Tarawa, November 23. = (BUP) = At the high est blood cost in the history of their corps, U. s, Marines broke the back of Japanese resistance in a 60-hour battle on Tarawa.
 Never since American fighting men began writing heroism into the nations records have so many men died so quickly in such a small area.
 But the Japanese were beaten. The elite corps of enemy marines were forced back into the tapering tail of this lizard shaped island, there to stand and die, some by hari kiri.
 There has not been time to bury the bodies of either Marine or Jap anese dead. There was no official count of the casualties, but Colonel Merit A. Edson of Marine raider fame said only 8 few hundred men of two battalions who Stormed an inner beachhead were known to have escaped death or injury.
 GA battalion usually numbers l. 900 men but in some cases may run as high as 1,50O, Marine Corps off, cials in the United States said).
 (Navy Secretary Frank Knox in Washington told newspapermen yesterday to prepare the public for heavy losses. Johnstons dispatch was written before final conquest of Tarawa. Later at Pearl Harbor 1t was announced the island had been won and only a few Japanese of some 4,00O there remained alive.)
 "Guadalcanal was something but I never saw anything like this" Lieutenant Colonel Evans F. Carl son, raider chief, said.
 The siclsening smell of death per meated the blasted shell-torn beaches, the scared blockhouses of the enemy and the riddled plateau topped by coconrt trees on this tiny islet (Betio) 2 1-2 miles long and 800 yards wide.
 Dead Japs were everywhere-in the blockhorlses, i'll the surf, scat tered among tattered palm fronds. And Marine bodies were nearly as numerous. At low tide you could see the corpses exposed on the Co., ral reef fringing the beach where they tumbled while walking in 800 yards of neck-deep water through
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-27
WiIIkie Louds
 Woodrow Wilson

Dallas, Texas, Nov. 27.--CUP)- Wendell Willkie, l940 Republican presidential candidate, said last night that the nation must return to the principles of Woodrow Will son to avoid control by "oyer-cen- tralized government"
 Willkie, in the principal address of a five day campaign tour Of Texas, Said the democratic presl- dent Of the first World War be- lieyed the nation should be con. trollcd neither by oyer-centralized government, nor by big business, nor by big pressure groups Of any kind.'
 our domestic economic and So- cIal ills cry out at present for the application Of the policies and pro- gram oG q Woodrow Wilson," Wi)lkie said. The many regulatory laws which Wilson advanced sought to control forces in our economic life which would cnslavc men, not to regiment mems lives as so many laws do today"
 He added. however, that economic complexities since Wilson's adminis- tration require new instruments for the application of his princi- ples."
 But the principles are as good as ever" he said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-27
9TH BEATS OFF ENEMY BLOWS
 NEAR vENAP0

Allied Headquarters, AL giers, November 27 - (UP) = American Forces of the Fifth Army smashed two Nazi counter-attacks west of Venafro in a sudden surge of fighting on the western end of the Italian front, Allied headquarters announced to- day, while British troops i'm proved their bridgehead across the flooded Sangro river.
 One of the enemy attempts to break into American lines was blasted with artillery fire before 1t could get underway around Mig nano, in the high ground near the main road to Rome northward from Capua.
 Better weather along the Fifth's front allowed the Nazis to step up the pace of the fighting. It was the first activity on the Fifth front in several days.
 Against Odds
 Despite two-foot rise In the already flooded Sangro, the British Eighth Army extended its bridge head along the stream and threw new bridges across 1t. operating ,in- der protection of what official re- ports described as creeping bar rage" laid down by the tactical air force.
 The Sangro ranged from 300 to 1000 feet high and was gushing i'll torrent toward the Adriatic and rain still was falling.
 Minor clashes occurred along the rest of the Eighth Army front, il communicate said. Most of them were in the Castel Di Sangro sec- tor near the center of the line. Brl- tish troops were threatening the town, which is q junction point on q road through central Italy toward Rome.
 On Lieut.. Gen. Mark w. Clark's Anglo American Fifth Army front artillery duels continued while m Allied commentator said reports iil- dicated the Germans were construct ine strong field positions in the mountains south of the Capua Rome road. T..
 These reports said the work h.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-27
8 LOCAL
 CASES FOR DEC.
 HIGH COURT

Seven civil actions heard in superior court and one decided in common pleas court are listed on the De- cember docket of the State Supreme Court of Errors in Hartford and will be called when assignment of appeal hearings is made Wednesday, December l. Only three of the cases have been printed, however, end are likely to be assigned for hearings next month.
 Entered on the docket for the first time is the appeal action of the Wa terbury Trust O., City of Water- bury, and state of Connecticut from the superior court decision which denied use of the David Porter es- tate for use of q trade school. Evi- dence in the case has not yet been printed and c decision is still being awaited on q motion of the heirs of the late Mr. Porter to erase the appeals of the city and local bank.
 Corporation Counsel Maurice T.. Healey said today the city has filed all the necessary appeal papers and Is going ahead with the appeal, de- spite the presentation of the special motion and the federal housing pro- ject which has been started on the Porter land on Merlden road. Since the trade school project could not start until after the war the erec- ton of the temporary homes on the land has no effect on the city's re- quest, 1t was reported. The Porter estate is valued at approximately $200 ,000.
 Newspaper Appeal
 The appeal of the Waterbury American Republican, Inc. from the $l5, 900 superior court jury verdict returned for Margaret Scorpion of Waterbury and the denial Of Judge William II. Comley on a motion to set aside the verdict has been en- tered on the docket. The young
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-27
Mrs. Cudohy Denies Kote MorIowe Claim

Hollywood. Nov. 27--CUP)-Mrs. John Cudahy. wealthy widow of the Chicago iacker, today maintained her police dog was acting in self defense when it assertedly attacked actress Katherine Marlowe.
 Mrs. Cudahy. In answering Miss Marlowe's $31 ,425 damage suit, said the actress was careless end had provoked and excited the dog into its action.
 The actress complained the dog viciously attacked her while she wSS a guest at the Cudahy Hollywo04 mansion on July 19
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-27

Washington, Nov. 27. (UP) Secre- tary of Navy Frank KnoX'S dis closure that the unprecedentedly powerful U. S. fleet now includes a force of more than 40 aircraft car- riers with it the implication today glat preparations were being made for a smashing assault on the Japanese homeland.
 It was TO secret that the main purpose for which the carriers are being built was to spearhead an eventual direct attack on Japan proper. How soon such a thrust will be made was matter of conjecture. but naval experts would not be sur prised to see it come early next year.
 Already the United States has a carrier force numerically greater than those of all the worlds naval powers combined. and t ts being steadily augmented. The carriers are one of two types of vessels given top priorities in the Nays con-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-27
CoIombio-Nozis
 Now BeIligerents

Bogota, Nov. 27-CUP)-Colombia today declared a state of belliger- ency between her and Germany as result of the 'cowardly' sinking by German submarines of second Colombian schooner within year.
 A government statement pro- claiming the existence of state of belligerency was approved by the Senate, 33-13, after an all-night meeting despite the opposition of conservatives who wished to post pone action for further study.
 Foreign Minister Carlos Lo2ano Y Lozano told the Senate the govern- ment would not submit an actual declaration of war since such was considered unnecessary.
 As a belligerent against Germany. he said, Colombia's position will be the same of that as Brazil. Though not participating actively in the war, the country will adopt new de- anse measures.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-27
Maxi Hordes Flee Soviet
 Pincer Move

By M. $. HANDLER

Moscow, Nov. 27. CUP) ~-Thou- sands of Germans were reported fleeing through q 40.milc gap above Gomel today In All attempt to escape Soviet nutcracker offensive that smashed the southern end Of the Axis winter line in White Rus Sia.
 Seeking to hold open the mouth of the pocket for their retreating forces, the Germans counter-at- tackled Up to 20 times In 15 hours half way between Gomel and Mogi- lev yesterday, but finally gave way under overwhelming Soviet pres sure and yielded 30 towns and vil- lages to the Red Army.
 Bloody fighting ragged all around the pocket, from the lower reaches of the Berezina river to the upper Dnieper, 70 miles above Gomel. Nearlyq 5,G00 Germans were killed yesterday alone, and hundreds were taken prisoner.
 In the base of the pocket, the Russians pursued the enemy nine miles up the railroad from recap tured Gomel toward Minsk and seized Kostyukoyka. Large quanti- ties of Booty, including guns, mor- tars, flame throwerS and supply dumps, were revealed to have been seized at Goinel.
 At the northwestern exit from the escape gap, the Russians consoli- dated their hold on the lower reaches of the Berezna river with the capture of Il more communities, including Otruby, 20 miles south- west of the railway junction Of Zhlobin.
 The Soyiets also pushed 75 miles due west from Gomel on the rail- road to pinsk and seized Stary Makhov and seven other towns wooded. marshy terrain hampered the advance along the northern rim of the Pripet marshes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-27

5 in "A Hours
 The day-and-night assault brought the number of raids on Germany in 24 hours alone to five and sent the Anglo-American aerial of- fenSive to it's highest pitch. since the start of the war in what was generally inter- preted as a campaign to soften the Reich for the opening of ! second front.
 Nearly 1000 tons of bombs have been dropped on Berlin alone in the past nina nights.
 The double edged raids on Berlin and Stuttgart, $40 miles apart, suc- cessfully split the German fighter defenses last night and only B bombers were lost in what was one Of the greatest operations urderTak- ell by the RAF bomber command. Intruder aircraft rounded out the nights attacks with raids on enemy airfields over a wide area with a los; of only one plane.
 Pathfinder planes swepe in ever burning Berlin early last evening and flying below the pail of smoIe that has hurg over the capital for nine days, marked out the talset area with flares.
 Hundreds of Bombcrs
 Hundreds Of four glned Lar- casters, Haliia%es and Stirlings iol- lowed with their cargoes of bombs ranging Up to four-ton super blo,k
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-27
SoIons Want Dope on Patton Case

Washington, Nov. IT, -(UP)-The personal report of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower today whetted, rather than satisfied, the Congressional ap- petite for more details on It. Gen. George s. Pattons slapping Of aii ailing soldier in q S!cilian field hos- pital.
 Eisenhowei's report acknowledged that Patton was guilty of repre- hensible conduct which might have merited his removal except that 1t apparently did not impair his ef- fic.ency as q military leader. It was submitted to the Senate yesterday along with q statement that Secre- tary of War Henry L. Stimson be- lieved Eisenhower's ruling was right and proper"
 The Senate Military Affairs com mittce, which had asked Stimson for q full report. decided 1t wanted more details before 1t would agree.
 Committee Chairman Robert R. Reynolds, D., N. C., and several other committee members declared that StimSon's and Elsenhower's statement "by no means close the matter"
 Some of the questions in the mind of committee members includes:
 1. Are there other similar inci- dents in pattons background? (Icisenhower's report revealed for the first time that Patton had berated two shell-shocked soldiers but slapped only one)O
 2. Why wasn't this incident, which occurred fin August, reported by the War Department earlier?
 g. Why did Eisenhower's Algicrs headquarters issue flat denial Of knowledge of the affair when 1t first was reported last weekend? CI'he Algiers headquarters issued q denial Monday but confirmed the story the next dayJ
 4, Since EiscnhoWer's decision againt firing Patton was based on a finding that Patton's own Seventh Army troops felt mo great harm was done" has subsequent publicity brought about the need for q new appraisal of Patton's present effi- ciency?
 These questions, along with oth- CTS, may be addressed to Stimson or some other War Department repre- sentative in executive session next Friday when the committee meets to consider Pattons promotion from the permanent ranE of Colonel to that of Major General. His present rank of Lieutenant General is tenn porary.
 Two service publications -- The Army and Navy Journal and the Army and Navy Register-expressed disapproval of the Armys handling of the affair. Both are unofficial but highly influential publications.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-27
WiIIiom Floyd, 72
 Humonist Editor Dies

New York, Nov. 7.--{UP)--Wii- liam Floyd. 82 editor and publisher of the Arbitrator. a human.st monthly, since 1918, died at his home yesterday following brief illness.
 Floyd was a descendant Of Cover nor William Bradford Of Plymouth Colony and a great-great grandson of William Floyd. signer of the Declaration of Independence.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-27
Two Mighty Armadas' Strike Terrific Blows

London Nov 2UP)A mighty British air armada lo3o blazing simultaneously blow the city of Stuttgart explosives and fire bombs dropped on Berlin probably
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-27

Fires from the preVOuS atJacKS SL!u were UuEu1HE and the weather was good" the Air Ministry announced. "Crews report the bombing most effective"
 The twin raids on Berlin and the southwest Germany industrial center Stuttgart followed the heaviest Amer can raid made with Bremen and unspecied targets northern France the targets yesterday More than 1000 bombers and fighters participated in the record daylight att
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The Weather

Moderately Cold
Evening star., 1943-04-23
BY the Associated Press.

6y bIic ASSOClhtc0 STcSSs
LONDON, April 23.-When Ger
man shell shot the rudder pedals
from under the feet of 1t. Leroy c.
Sugg Of Huntsville, Ala. it seemed
his job as copilot of a Fortress was
knocked out from under him, too.
But he teamed with Capt. Pervis
Youree of Walters, Okla, to add
another amazing chapter to the long
story of planes that came back. The
same shell which shot up 1t. Sugg s
controls over Bremen recently also
cut the cables regulating three of
the four engines.
While Capt. Youree fought the
Withdrawing number one engine,
1t. Sugg crawled under the catwalk,
found the end of the broken cables
and brought the motors under con-
troll sufficiently for the plane to
remain in its formation until it was
near the continental coast.
With fighter opposition thinning
out, it dropped so near the water
Evening star., 1943-04-23
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teenth and K streets NV, 9:3O
O'Clock tonight.
FOR COLORED SERVICEMEN.
Swimming, photography, games,
bridge lessons, YMCA (USO), 1916
Twelfth street NV, 2 to II pm. to-
day.
Refreshments, smokes, hostesses,
Leisure Lodge, 1889 U street NV,
2 to II pm. today.
Roller skating, games, YWCA
(USO), 901 Rhode Island avenue
NV, 8 o'clock tonight.
Easter egg hunt, smokes, refresh
ments, music, Banneker Service
mems Center, $500 Georgia avenue
NV, 8 o'clock tonight.
War workers cordially invited.
Evening star., 1943-04-23
Fortress Crew Brings 1t Home
Despite Damage to Controls

level that it left q wake on the sea,
and all seemed to be going fairly
well until the number two engine
burned out.
Although tempted several times to
crash-land in the sea near some
passing ship, Capt. Youree kept
going until he sighted the British
coast and then ordered everything
possible jettisoned. Guns, ammu-
milton, heavy clothes, radios-all
went out and slowly the plane
gained altitude.
Capt. Youree, with the aid of 1t.
Sugg, managed to keep it going
Evening star., 1943-04-23

| CONCERTS.
Navy Band Symphony Orchestra,
Departmental Auditorium, Consti-
tuition avenue and Thirteenth street
N. W., $3.50 o'clock tonight.
Army Band, Fort Myer (Va.)
band auditorium, 1880 am, to-
morrow.
Friendly Club of Washington,
Hotel 2400, 8 o'clock tonight.
FASHION SHOWS.
Show and luncheon, Raleigh
| Hotel, l pm. tomorrow.
| Broadcast, show and luncheon,
sponsored by the United Nations
Club, Hotel 2400, 1:30 pm. tomor-
row.
LUNCHEON-LECTURE.
Women's International League,
YWCA, Seventeenth and K streets
NV, 1890 pm. tomorrow. Basic
Concepts Essential to a Lasting
Peace" by DR.. Olive Redick, eco
nomics professor at Hood College,
Md.
LUNCHEONS.
Harvard Club, Hotel Annapolis,
1890 pm. tomorrow.
National Lawyers Guild, District
of Columbia Chapter, Cathay Res
turant, 624 H street NV, 1890
pm. tomorrow.
RECREATION.
Home AWAY From Home" Ii
brary, games, music, dancing, radio
phonograph, Walsh Club for War
Workers, 1923 Twenty y-second street
NV, to IL pm. today.
FOR MEN IN THE SERVICE.
Stage Door Canteen, Belasco
Theater, Madison place and Penn
sylvania avenue NV. Tonight:
7 o'clock, George Berg; o'clock,
Myles Hallett; 9:15 o'clock, Gloria
Estavez, Latin American songs;
10:45 o'clock, Capitol Theater show.
Pepsi-Cola Center for Servicemen,
Thirteenth and G streets NV, free
canteen service, showers, soap,
lounges, checking, towels, shaving
equipment, shoe shines, $50 am.
today until 1890 tonight.
Masonic Service Center, Thir-
teenth street and New York ave-
nue. NV. Today: Open / to 10
pm, games, stationery, library,
showers, shaving facilities; snack
bar open 4 to 8 p. m. Everything
free.
officers Club of the United Ma
tions, Burlington Hotel, 1920 Ver-
mont avenue NV, 10 am. until
1890 pm. today.
Officers dance, SCOTS Hotel for
Girls. 2131 o street NV, $50
o'clock tonight
Ballroom dance class, ARC first
aid and Spanish classes, NCCS
USO), 1914 N street NV, 7:30
O'Clock tonight.
Bowling, meet at Mount Pleasant
Congregational Church, 1410 Column
bia road NV, 8 o'clock tonight.
Social dancing and dramatic
class, Mcfarland Center, Iowa ave-
nue. and Webster street NV.
Dancing. refreshments, hostesses,
games, Servicemen's Club, No. l,
306 Ninth street NV, 8 o'clock to-
night.
"a Home Away From Home"
Church Of the Ascension Episco-
paD, 1901 Massachusetts avenue
NV, o'clock tonight.
'Women's battalion dance, Bureau
Of Engraving, Fourteenth and G
streets S.W, 8 o'clock tonight.
Religious services, social hour,
open forum, Adas Israel Congrega-
ton CONSERVATIVE, Sixth and
streets NV, 8 o'clock tonight.
Open house, Emory Methodist
Church, 6104 Georgia avenue NV,
o'clock.
'Theater Workshop; social the
South American way, games, Roose-
welt Center, Thirteenth and Upshur
streets NV. 8 o'clock tonight.
+Concert and community sing,
Central Center, Thirteenth and
Clifton streets NV, $3.50 o'clock
tonight.
Dancing, games, refreshments,
Friendship House, GIG D street Sc,
$50 o'clock tonight.
Square and ballroom dancing,
refreshments, First Congregational
Church OF Washington, Tenth and
G. streets NV, $3.50 o'clock to-
night.
Sports, YwcA Uso), Seven
Evening star., 1943-04-23
300 Treated at Novel
Fire Rheumatism Clinic

More than 800 persons have re-
ceived treatment in less than year
at the novel new Dublin (Eire)
Rheumatism Clinic, according to
the report of Senator Sean P.
Campbell, chairman.
Evening star., 1943-04-23
Tobocco-Lovino
|Horse Chews,
| InhdIes Smoke

By the Associated Press,
JERSEYVILLE, Ill.-Frank Sayer
says his race horse, Peter Guy, is 4
tobacco chewer and apparently en-
joys the aroma Of tobacco smoke.
Peter Guy, trotter with a 2:15
mile to his credit, likes any size plug
OF tobacco, Mr.. Sayer explains. He'll
roll the cud in his jaws complacently
for 10 or Is minutes and then swal-
low the chew.
Mr.. Sayer says that when Trainer
Charlie ODonnel puffs smoke into
Peter Guys nostrils, he lust lays
back, rolls his eyes and inhales the
smoke with real delight
Evening star., 1943-04-23

until he sighted q field and then
brought the bomber down safely,
although one of the landing wheels
could be only partially lowered.
Evening star., 1943-04-23

A Modern Design Suite Of
Smart Distinction. sturdily
constructed q hardwood
with lined oak vensers.
Consists Of Buffet, Extension
Table, China Cabinet and
Four Chairs With uphol.
stored sea4A
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-28
Todoy's Sport Parade

manded showdown-a choice be- tween him and McCarthy-and the stubborn Ruppert refused to accept an ultimatum even from the idolized Ruth. Ruppert offered the Babe the job as manager of the Newark Farm club and Ruth, demanding all or nothing, rejected it.
 That was the beginning of the end. Ruth finally was released in February of 1886. He was fat and forty-and through. There came a season as assistant manager and pinch hitter with the Boston Braves and quart of a season as a Dodger coach, but both experiments stole some of the glitter from the success saga that was George Herman Ruth
 The rollicking. happy = go ducky Bable. never master at tact and diplomacy, was forgotten by the game for which he did so much. But his name still holds magic at the box office-and that's the reason he gets this one chance to satisfy that frustrated ambition. Always a snowman the Babe even may go to bat as a pinch hitter today, but If he hits a homer the thrill for him won't match the kick he'll get out of running that ball club.