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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-04
Eisenhower Launches 

Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Dec. 4.-(UP)-Allied troops advanced in the all-out assault on the road to Rome today with Anglo American Fifth Army forces driving two miles through German mountain defenses of western Italy.
 Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower an- nounced in a communique that the Fifth passed to the offensive in a massive assault under heavy artil- lery barrage, joining Gen. Sir Der nard l.. Montgomery's forces push ing northward near the Adriatic.
 Important Heights have been captured and the advance is continuing" the communique said.
 The Fifth's attack came five days after Montgomery's forces had stormed forward north of the San gro river to start German forces into retreat.
 The Eightll's troops also continued to advance, capturing the vital cen- ters of Larciano, Treglio and Or sogna after fierce battles with stub born German rear guards and moy- ing up the coastal road toward San Vito through minefieldS and around demolitions.
 Lieutenant General Mark w. Clarks American and British in the heights of central Italy above the main road to Rome began their as- sault in the night hours yesterday after what was described officially as one of the heaviest artillery bar rages of the war in Italy.
 In their first drive to cut off the eep-laid German winter defenses they captured rumberous Germans dazed by the gunfire, seized import ant heights on Monte Camino four miles southwest of Mignano and made short advances north of that center.
 (Radio France in Algiers said other attacks had been launched northeast of the key point of Cas- sino after a three-hour bombing assault on the town0
 Rain was falling on the Fifth's front but front dispatch from Reynolds Packard, United Press correspondent, said the Americans had advanced through knee-deep mud to capture one important peak squarely on the path of the route to Rome some 70 to 80 miles north ward.
 Striking for g breadth which would take them out of the moun- tains and into the level plains lead ing to Rome, both the Americans and British struck directly into strongly prepared positions, aided by waves of bombing and straflng planes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-04
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Mon Planned To Kill FDR

Washington, Dec. 4.-(UP)-Wal- ter W. Best, 38, Pontiac, Mich, waa held in St. Elizabeth's Mental hos pital today following a 10-day vigil near the White House last months during which he hoped to "get & pot shot at President Roosevelt" &C., cording to the U. s. Secret Service.
 Best, Secret Service said, has been judged insance and is in St. Eliza beth's awaiting commitment action by federal authorities.
 According to the Secret Service, Best was discovered in his assaSsina- ton plot by letter to his wife in which he disclosed that he plan ned to "get rid of Roosevelt" The President, however. was out of town, and when Best wrote that he plan ned to wait and try again. his wife turned over the letter to the Secret Service.
 Secret Service agents seized Best on Nov. 13 in a hotel not far from the White House where he had been taken by local police after he was caught jaywalking across Penn sylvania avenue facing the White House.
 Arresting officers found a loaded .38 revolver and 10 extra shells in Best'S hotel room. Best eXplaircj agents said that he had hoped 10 ''get" the President while MT. Roose~ welt attended church near the White House.
 He told agents that he once was able to steal through the heavy guard surrounding the White House while soldiers were busy untca6:,,g truck and was debating whether to steal a gun from one of the sJi- diers when he was seen and ordered from the reStrictnd area
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-04
US. Gets Bad News Break

Washington, Dec. 4-UP)-The United States government, scooped again on news of Allied war strategy conferences, hoped today to get an even break for the American repub- lie on the announceemnt of deci- sions reached at Tehran, Iran, by President Roosevelt, Prime Minis ter Winston Churchill and Premier Marshal Joscef Stalin.
 But they could make no definite promises of an early and simul- taneous announcement because of the apparent breakdown in arrange ments for handling conference news.
 Last nights "break" by the off, cial Russian TaSS news agency dis closing that the leaders already had held their long sought conference, marked the second time in a week American newspapers, radio and the public have gotten their first official news from 8 foreign source. The Tass report confirmed a widely known but guarded secret that American newspapers and radio commentators had agreed to keep until the confereeS themselves re- leased the news.
 The Tass announcement surprised the Office of War Information-and apparently the White House. OWI Director Elmer Davis, still embroiled in a dispute with British Minister of Information Brendan Bracken over premature disclosure by the British Reuters news agency of the Roosevelt-C -Churchlil-C Chiang conference at Cairo, said merely:
 "We had no idea that this Grass announcement was coming tonight. We hope that hereafter we will be able to make better arrangements so that such stories can be released simultaneously in all the capitals 1 involved. We are trying to work out arrangements of that kind with our colleagues abroad"
 The White House secretariat was not available for comment.
 It was reported, without confirma- tion, that 8 communique on the i Tehran conference might be issued today.
 There have been numerous pro- tests. official and otherwise. to the British government about the action of Reuters in connection with the Cairo conference. Tass' prematurE disclosure of the Tehran meeting presumably will lead to similar presentations, at least from Amer ican newspaper and radio men to their own government
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-04
Alien Patents Come To U. 5.

Boston, Dec. 4 - (U.PD - The Boston Post says today that 45,- 900 German, Japanese and Italian patents, covering every field of manufacturing. will be made avail able to New Englanders through a patent library to be established here by the Office of Alien Property Custodian within 30 days.
 The Post says plans for the lib- rary became known coincident with the appointment of Julian E. Jack son, former professor of business law at Northeastern University, as patent representative of Leo Crow ley, Alien Property Custodian, for New England.
 The Post says that New England industrianstS at the library will be able to obtain rights to use the enemy alien seized patents and the patents of aliens of enemy occupied nations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-04
Dazed Nuzis Quit to Yonks

With Fifth Army, Italy, Dec. B. (UP)-Their way opened by thun- dering guns that poured tons af- | ter tons of steel into the dazed Ger mans, American and British troops advanced today to seize strategic peaks barring the way to Rome.
 The enemy guns answered -- passed American dead on the bat tlefield on my way up-but it was nothing like the shelling the Allied guns, set hub to hub, gave them.
 After they had worked over the enemy, moving in big concentrations from position to position, the troops drove forward into the center of the line as torrential rains drenched them.
 The Americans and British start ed climbing toward the high ground before dawn this morning and oc- cupied most of their objectives be- fore nightfall although the rain turned the sides of the mountains into slippery patches of mud. Some walking knee-deep in the mire, they went ahead, up heights 5000 feet/in the air. climbed the slopes of one hill to watch Ameri- cans take over a main barrier on ] the way to Rome while shells went I over my head by the hundreds, sounding like the roar of great ex- press trains.
 German defenders sent mortar
  fire on all the hillsides but when our forces reached them, they were huddled down in their gun pits, caves and foxholes ready to give up.
 Yesterdays artillery barrage pick ed out spots as small as 300 yards square to turn into hells of destruc- ton. Some German sectors were combed four and five times. saw four batteries alone fire two tons of explosives in five minutes. Anti aircraft guns were turned on the mountain peaks and their red trac- CT bullets made luminous dots and dasheS through the night.
 Sgt. Alexander Horowitz of New York, was herding some of the Ger man prisoners back and they told him they never had seen anything like the artillery-not even in Rus sia, where most of them had been.
 Boy, were they glad to surrend- er,' Horowitz said. Tt was like taking candy out of those foxholes."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-04
Soldier Held For Murder

Waltham, Mass, December 4. - (UP) - A 28-year-old soldier at tached to a Seattle, Wash, air base here early today and after brief questioning allegedly confessed that he raped and killed with his hands Mrs. Lillian Parent, 37 on her birth day 8 week ago.
 Private Francis Victor Joseph Gricus of Waltham, whose arrest and reputed confession was an- nounced by District Attorney Rob- ert F. Bradford, was to be arraigned later in district court in connection with the death of the mother of three small children.
 GricuS, a veteran of three years who lived only a short distance from the stony batter playground where Mrs. Parents battered body was found, was preparing to return to his Seattle post after furlough when he was seized.
 It was not disclosed exactly how the woman was killed. However, police said that Gricus was "a husky, well-setup fellow" and an autopsy revealed that the 80-pound Mrs. Parent had sustained face bruises that resulted in a cerebral hemorrhage.
 AS result of an investigation, Gri- GUS was taken into custody at his home and at police station he told several conflicting stories. Authori- ties placed him in a cell while they checked various phases of an alibi but before they returned, the soldier asked to speak to Bradford.
 According to Bradford, the soldier said he met the coatless Mrs. Parent in front of his home early Sunday morning. He said that he had been drinking and that Mrs. Parent also appeared to be intoxicated.
 Then Bradford said he was told the soldier forced the slight mother to accompany him across the street to a lovers lane that runs between the playground and the Charles River. Here, the soldier allegedly said, he criminally attacked Mrs 1dIcliJ dIlQ UllS1A h11ASA ApSA VASAA ~~~A hands. The method was not dis closed.
 The alleged confession jibed witf the police Investigation and with the story of a 35-year-old truck driver picked up yesterday as a suspect This man had said he met Mrs Parent in a cafe. took her to his home and had a quarrel. She hae run out of his house without hel coat, he said.
 Mrs Parents body was discovered last Sunday by three boys playing football on the playground.
 Investigation disclosed she ha< left her home early Saturday nigh her birthday-to go to a nearby cafe flor a drink, leaving her hus- band, Wilfred. ct home with theil three children. From there she hae gone to at least two other cafei afore meeting the soldier.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-04
Old Clothes For War Relief Drive

Persons having old clothes to donate to the war relief drive may leave them at the follow ing fire stations today and to- morrow:
 Burton St. Station, 97 Burton St.
 East Main St. Station, 519 East Main St.
 Washington Ave. Station, 2SS Washington Ave.
 Baldwin St. Station, 823 Baldwin St.
 East Main St. Station, 1856 East Main St.
 Willow St. Station, 431 Wu- low St.
 Walnut St. Station, 315 Wal nut St.
 Bunker Hill Station, 197 Bunker Hill Avenue.
 Waterville Fire Station, 1l51 ThOmaSton Ave.
 Field St. Station, 26 Field St.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-04
FINAL STAMP
 BELIEVED PUT
 ON WAR PLANS

Moscow, December A. iUP) - All Moscow news papers published on the front page today a Tass dispatch announcing the meeting of Premier Stalin, President Roosevelt and Prime Minis ter Churchill at Tehran. Comment was not expected until the decisions are pub lished.
 London, November 4. - (UP) - President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin were revealed today to have concluded a conference at Tehran at which they probably put the final stamp of approval on plans for an invasion of west ern Europe and the complete defeat of Germany some time next year.
 A communique was expected momentarily that will call upon Axis Europe to yield or die" and proclaim Germany's postwar fate in broad terms that become in- creasingly stringent for every ad- diticnal month she resists.
 The communique probably will touch off an explosive crisis in the Balkans, perhaps leading to the early collapse of Hungary, Rumania. and Bulgaria, and hasten Ger many'S domo.
 First authentic details of the Big Three" conference, about whiih the whole world has been Speculating for nearly a month were disclosed by the official Rus sian, news agency Tass early today in transmission over the Moscow radio for Russian provincial news paper. The Tass dispatch later was repeated in the Moscow home broadcasts.
 The dispatch, consisting of only three paragraphs, said:
 "A few days ago, a conference ot the leaders of the Allied powers President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin-oc- cured at Tehran.
 INop&;1,,,ad ov Daro CS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-04
Flank Threat Forced Nozis Into Retreat

Moscow, Dec. 4 - (UP)-Front dispatches indicated today that a mounting Russian flanking threat forced the Germans to abandon the key white Russian railway junction of Zhlobin and pave the way for a Soviet drive on MinSk.
 The Red Army reached the Dnie- per River on a broad front some 18 miles northeast of zhlobn yes- terday and were believed massing for crossing in force to sever the zhlobin -Mogilev section Of the Odessa -Leningrad railroad.
 The river normally freezes in this sector by Dec. i2 and could be forced with ease over ice. A eros sing before ice forms would be most difficult and presumably costly. Cutting of the zhlobin- -Mogilev rail- road would leave the German gar rison only the railway to Minsk over which to flee Zhlobin.
 Capture of Dovsk, junction of the Roslavl- -Bobruisk and Gomel-Mog1- lev highways, crumbled the Ger man defenses northeast of Zhlobin and enabled the Soviets to push on to the Dnieper and capture Sver- chen.
 More than 100 towns and villag- es also were engulfed by the So- yietS yesterday as they slowly frightened their arc around zhlobin. Moving up the Gomel- -zhlobin rail- way, one column seized Saltanovka, only 13 miles southeast of zhlobin.
 In one area, the Germans sought to halt the Red Army at previously prepared defenses, but met disas- ter when the Russians attacked from the Hanks and killed 700 of ficers and men, wrecked eight tanks and IS guns.
 Latest reports also placed the Russians 12 miles south and about 20 miles southwest of zhlobin.
 Soviet guerrillas operating behind the enemy lines in White Russia actively assisted the Red Army by wrecking supply trains and shoot ing up troop columns.
 In one sector alone, four trains were derailed and II others attacked from ambush.
 Some 250 miles to the south, the Russians repelled series of des perate German counter-attacks de-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-04
FATAL PRANK
 RECALLED BY S15,0OO SUIT

Hearing of the $15,O00 air hose death action brought by Louis Rin- chiuSo as administrator of the estate of the late Joseph Rinchiuso against Frank Davis and his wife, Amelia, will not be held until some time next year, 1t was indicated In su- perior court yesterday when Judge John A. Cornell stated he would dis qualify himself from presiding at the trial. Judge Cornell, who heard criminal charges arising from the incident and disposed of the crim- inal cases, is scheduled to remain here through the winter term which ends December 23.
 Assignment of the civil action was set for December 16 yesterday but the jurist cancelled the hear ing after counsel informed him he had officiated at criminal proceed ings involving one of the defend- ants. It is believed the case may be heard early next year when Judge Frank P. McEvoy presides here.
 The plaintiff seeks to recover on the death of Joseph Rinchiuso which occurred July 2, three days after an air-hose had been applied to his body. The incident took place at the Commercial Iron and Metal Company plant, with Davis and another employe, John Chere- pinSky, later arrested as 8 result. Davis wife has been named in the civil action on the ground she pos- sesses bank accounts which allegedly represent her husbands savings and have been placed in her name to de- fraud creditors.
 Davis was freed of a manslaughter charge by Judge Cornell October 13, but Cherepinsky was given a one year jail sentence with eight months l S,lsDended.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-04
Troin Guns On Jap Held Woreo

Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pacific, Dec. 4-(UP)-Australian forces brought the Japanese strong hold at Wareo under close artillery fire today after capturing Kuanko, a half mile away, in their drive to clear the enemy from New Guinea's Huon Peninsula. ...-. The attack went forward as AL lied planes r1nged the south ned o1 New Britain and new raNts, carry ing ahead an aerial offensive begun Nov. 20 to smash supply centers and fortresses on the invasion route toward Rabaul.
 Gen. Douglas MacArthur's spokes- man indicated the Australians, closely backed by land guns and planes, would require some time to knock out Wareo, situated in the heights 10 miles north of F1nschha- fel. Fighting was taking place at three points on a tWo-nlile front from Wareo to Bonga, on the coast.
 Mitchells and Marauders support ed the attacking forces Thursoay by hitting Kanlagidu, just beyond Bonga, and other aircraft made harassing raids up the New Guinea north coast.
 A communique reported tht Amer ican planes ripped at both the north and south coasts of the western end of New Britain. Mitchells dumped 63 tons of bombs on the Borgen Bay area, sweeping down to tree-top heights in the raids. Attack planes swept the coast above Borgen Bay from Natamo to Tamuniai islands.
 Medium bombers t uched off big fires and explosions in new raid on the south coast airdroL- 7. at Cas- mata and AiracobraS strafed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-04
Mosquitoes Heap Destruction On
 Germany's Capital

Lodon, December 4. -
 UP) - An unusually large, force of British Mosquitoes heaped new destruction on burning Berlin last night while a mighty parade of four-engined bombers, after feinting toward the capital to confuse enemy defenses, rocked Leipzig with nearly 1,7OO tons Of explosives. Though the weight of the new attack on Berlin did not approach that of the block buster raids by the RATS four engined heavyweights, returning airmen said 1t probably was the heaviest ever made by the twin engined Mosquitoes.
 The raid came only 24 hours af- ter heavy bombers devastated an- other huge area of Berlin Thursday night. The Mosquitoes stoked fires still burning from the previous raid and set new blazes.
 Leipzig, key arsenal city on Ger many's second lire of industrial de- fense, was left blasted and fam ing by the Thunderbolt raid that constituted last nights main attack.
 The RATS new feinting tactic. plus widespread intruder attacks on enemy airfields, cut the night , losses to "A bombers and one fight. CT. Mines also were laid in enemy waters.
 The estimated 500 10 500 big Lan- caster and Halifax bombers. along with a handful of Mosquitoes, tcok off from their British bases several hours later than previously ard headed straight for Berlin. more than one third of which has Estl devastated in five hlock-buster rs-ds in the past 16 nights.
 When within sight of the burning capital, the -engined bonhers 1 turned abruptly southward and minutes later were cascadlng 1.o00 British long tons - 1880 American short tons-of bombs on Leipzig, 30 miles away
 The feint at Berlin took the swarns of German night fighters by surprise and the number of bombers missing was only about half of that of the previous night, when Al were lost in raid of equal weight on Berlin.
 Pathfinder planes went in over Leipzig first to mark out the tar get area of Germany's fifth city with flares. Then came a literal rain of demolition and fire bombs lGnntin11ed nn PaQH 2l
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-04
Seek Release On Big Story
BY NED RUSSELL

(Unlted FreSS StaII COrreSpOnOeng)
 London, Dec. 4.-CUP)-Ministe of Information Brendan Bracken and his top advisers were under stood today to be seeking immediate release of Roosevelt-Churchill- Stalin smash Germany com munique as result of Russia $ scoop" on the news of the tri- power conference at Tehran.
 A new storm or newspaper criti- cism over the handling of the news of both the Tehran conference and the Roosevelt = Churchill Chiang meeting at Cairo was touched off by the official Russian TaSS Agency $ announcement last night of the Anglo-American- Russian converse tions.
 The Tehran communique obvious ly was drawn up before the Tehran conference ended, but its release presumably hinged on whether the safety of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill before they reach their home capitals would be impaired.
 All O4llC1dE dL IAlC 4All4lASeAy VA information were reported in con ference" this morning when news papermen from the United States and other Allied countries sought an explanation of TaSs' dispatch about the Tehran conference.
 First authentic word that the conference had been held was flashed to Soviet newspapers-and the worldly the official Russian rass agency in Moscow radio transmission early this morning.
 The three-paragraph dispatch promptly was accepted by most Lon- don sources as tantamount to an official communique, though pre- viously 1t had been assumed that any announcement would be made simultaneously by the respective governments in Moscow, London and Washington.
 No one in authority here was are why the Soviets suddenly an-
 ounced the meeting, unless It
 ss from boredom over the errors .hich has the British Ministry Of information and the American Of- ice of Information scrapping over the premature Reuters story on the Roosevelt Churchill Ch1ang confer ence at Cairo.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-04

Washington, Dec. 4-(UP)-The soldier vote issue moved to the Houst today after the Senate de- feateo the Green-Lucas federal vote bill and passed a substitute char acterized by supporters of the de- feated measure as the hardest blow ever struck at solc4ers' rights in wartime"
 Bills similar to the Green-Lucas measure and also the Senate sub stitute will be considered in the House, where partisan wrangling matching the week-long Sen'te de- bate is expected.
 The new version, backed by Re- pulblicans and southern Democrats who feared their states poll tax vot- ing prerequisites might be circum- vented, was pushed through, A to 37, over protests that 1t would null lify any effort to give the men over-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-04
Senate Calls Extra
 Session On 1943 7axes

Washington, Dec. E(UP)-The Senate Finance Committee called an extraordinary Saturday session today in an attempt to complete action on the 1943 tax bill before Congress starts Christmas recess about Dec. 20.
 Representative of tax exempt religious, charitable and education al organizations, scheduled to tes- tify today sought to write into the house-approved $2,140,000, 900 meas
 ure an amendment to the pay-as- you-go tax law enacted last spring.
 They propose that individual tax