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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-18
BRITISH MAKE SMALL GAIN ON
 ITALY FRONT

Allied Headquarters, AL gierS, November 18. - (UP) - The British Eighth Army, defying icy rains that swept the Sodden Italian battle front, has punched forward two miles in the Sangro River sector, smashing a German Counter-attack near Atessa before it could get un- derway, Allied headquarters reported today.
 The advance-the only one re- corded on the entire front in Italy occurred about 12 miles inland from the Adriatic and put the Eighth Army within a few miles of Sangro at that point.
 The Nal counter-atack was ob- served forming near the towns of Archi and Perano, three miles north west of Atessa. Aided by Royal Air Force Kitty-B -Bombers, the Eighth blasted the enemy force before it could get into action.
 On the Fifth Army sector along the western end of the batle line, whetre troops were further hamp- cred by streams swollen to flood stage from the ceaseless rains, the only action of importance was an attack on several small enemy boats caught sneaking up the Garigliano river some miles from the sea.
 A communique said that enemy artillery was active at several points along the Fifth's front, where po- Sitions which have ben taken in the recent slow fighting in wintry wea- ther were improved.
 The gain by General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's troops was the longest in four days along the river mountain line some 30 miles below Rome where a combination of mud, bad weather and stiffened German defenses had stalled Allied armies.
 (CBS Correspondent Farnsworth Fowle, in a broadcast from Naples said the rain was ceasing and the skies had cleared this morning. The floods threatening temporary bridges over several streams had been successfully combatted by en- gineers, he said.)
 An Allied commentator empha- sized the difficulties facing Allied troops from lavish German use of mines. He said a single well-trained division could lay mines at the rate of 10000 night, creating a tre- mendous problem for Allied engin- eerS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-18
Ex-Husbond Ouizzes Rito

Hollywood, Nov. 18 UP)-Edward Judson, who ise trying to collect ali mony from Rita CMrs. Orson Welles) Hayworth, plastered her with question marks today such as no lady even would attempt to answer.
 So the curvaceouS Miss Hayworth wasn't talking and all Hollywood was wondering what he meant when he signed document promising that he would not:
 Infer directly or indirectly that she has committed an offense in- volving moral turpitude under fed eral, state or local laws, or that she has conducted herself in any man. ner which would cause her to be held in scorn, or which would dam age her career
 The 47-year-old Judson made this promise and numerous others that he would not be the kind of gent who kisses and tells, shortly after his red-haired wife sued him for divorce last year.
 These promises were signed and sealed, Judson charged, upon Miss Hayworth's promise to give him all of their community property, except their furniture and one of their automobiles, plus $12,000 in $500 monthly installments.
 Judson, who described himself as an oil man when he married Miss Hayworth, received the community property, including shares of stock in Columbia pictures and 20th Gen.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-18
FDR Praises New England

Boston, Nov. 18.-CUP)-President Roosevelt saluted New England today as part of Americas fighting front" whicfahas achieved remarkable rec ords both in patriotism and produc- tion."
 In a message read at the opening session of the second New England war conference here, the President extended greetings and good wishes to the six New England governors and to the New England council, which is sponsoring the meeting.
 Tt is no accident that in this great crisis New England has achieved remarkable records both in patriotism and production; and that in this conference it purposes to plan for greater contributions to the war effort" MT. Roosevelt said.
 Prom colonial days onward, New Englands town meetings have furn- ished an outstanding example of the successful union between individual initiative and community coopera- tion. What has long been a symbol in a country at peace, today be comes a stinulant to a nation at war. The six New England States present proudly to the rest of the nation a stirring demonstra- tion of the fact that community cooperation and individual enter
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-18

grip on South Russia will be re- duced in the next few weeks to a hard-pressed brldgehead across the Dniester river, which itself prob ably will be liquidated in the Soviet winter campaign
 The liberation of the Ukraine in- evitably would produce first-class spasm inside Rumania and Bulgaria, observers said, and MT. Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin should meet in the near future to formulate a flexible policy to meet quick changes ill both the military and political situation in the eastern Balkans.
 London circles believed Adolf Hit Ter would defend Runania to the limit to protect the Ploesti oil fields, whose loss might collapse German resistance within six months, but a sudden Anglo American thrust across the Adriatic in conjunction with & Russian assault across the Dniester probably would doom the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-18
Meeting OF FOR, Stalin
 And Churchill Seen Near

London, November IS. - (UP) - A daily telegraph dispatch from Washington said today that Presi- dent Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stain were expected to meet even sooner than was thought likely at the time of the Moscow conference.
 The tripartite conference at Mos COW October 19-November 1 was presumed to have laid the ground work for a meeting among the "big threee" some time before the New Year.
 Reporting in similar vein, the Washington correspondent of the London News Chronicle reported to- day that there was talk in the American capital again of "big events in the offing".
 "Itis vague and carefully phrased, but urgent he said.
 The need for an early conference of the three heads of states, mill tary circles said, was underlined by the likelihood that the German
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-18
Stobbing In
 Little Harlem

New York, Nov. 18-(UP)--With an investigation of Grand Jury charges of "deplorable lawlessness' in Brooklyn's little Harlem baked because the people refused to talk, authorities were confronted today with two more acts of violence the rape of a 17-year-old negress and thes sstabbing of a negro youth.
 The incidents occurred in a section which the grand jury charged "has become dangerous and unsafe to traverse the streets" and citizens have been assaulted, robbed, mur- dered."
 Two persons were taken into cus- tody for the attacks and three other arrests were reported in the district last night, one for disorder ly conduct, one for possession Of policy slips and one for liquor viola ton.
 The new violence was reported after police called off a house-to- house inquiry, ordered by Mayor F. H. Laguardia, when the majority ot residents refused to answer ques- tionS.
 Those who did answer questions most of them neighborhood mer- chants-tended to confirm the grand jury's report. One druggist said the police "are helpless and can't do a thing"
 And we don't dare touch these kids" he added. "I caught one with
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-18
Bushnell Aids Z Young Jews

Boston, Nov. 18.-(UP) Asserting there was evidence of brutal and unprovoked assault" by police sergeant upon the defendants Massachusetts Attorney General Robert T. Bushnell today nol- pressed the cases of two teen-age Jewish youths who had appealed fines imposed in connection with alleged anti-semitic demonstrations
 Bushnell took the action on the grounds that the police complaint against the youths was ''unneces- sary, unwarranted and unjust" He did not name the police sergeant.
 Tn terminating the prosecution, ; Bushnell said, "it is not necessary to pass upon evidence of police brutality"
 Bushnell said hat there was evi- dence that anti-Semitic demonstra- tions had been occurring in Boston ever since the United States entered the war.
 While records show attempts by individual officers to perform their duty, Bushnell said, mo real con- certed or intelligent effort has been made to deal with the problem by police authorities"
 Police Commissioner Joseph F Trinity, whose reappointment Bush nell is opposing, was not available
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-18
Uncle Sam Is Bio Landlord

Washington, Nov. 18-(UP)-Un- cle Sam, the nations No. 1 cuss toner and employer, is likewise the leading real estate owner. .
 A congressional committee report showed today that the federal gov ernment owns 383, ,600,533. acres - one-fifth of the nations total land area.
 Chairman Harry F. Byrd, D., Va, of the congressional economy com- mittee, said his group had watched with apprehension "the alarming increasing land acquisition in the last few years' and recommended that government agencies begin immediately to liquidate surplus holdings in land and real estate which are not needed for federal activities.
 Most of the federally-owned land is in public domain. Byrd reported, adding that the cost of acquisition and Improvements up to June 30, 1940, was well over $5,00O,000, 0,O00.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-18
Speculation Blamed For Plight
(Rv United Pressl

Spokesmen for the liquor industry said today that speculative pur- chases, while not a major factor, have contributed to the whiskey shortage and cleared the way for the return of bootlegging.
 Industry representatives, however, saw little possibility of spectators cornering the liquor market, and de- nied charges by Senator James G. Scrugham, D., Nev., that large stocks of whiskey were being hoard ed by prof1teers.
 Scrugham's charges prompted ap- point1nent of a senate judiciary sub- committee to determine whether the shortage was created artifcially by monopolistic interests.
 At Chicago. John Law, executive secretary of the National Alcoholic Beverage Control Association, said the liquor shortage resulted from the conversion of distilleries to pro- duction of industrial alcohol, and an increase of between 200 and 300 per cent in consumer demand for distilled spirits.
 Law acknowledged. however, that purchasers by spectators have ag- gravated the shortage.
 Speculation buying is present. possibly as high as 15 or 20 per cent in some localized retail areas but such buyers can't corner the market or anything like 1t because the disposal of liquor stocks is under surveillance from so many angles" he said.
 Industry sources declined to con- ment on charges made in the sen- ate that large distilleries have been buying up smaller concerns to ere
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-18
Germans Still Love Hitler
 In Germany

Lisbon, Nov. IS - (U.P0 A Chilean diplomat who just has ar rived from Germany said today that the German people were taking news of military reverses stoically and were prepared to fight to the finish.
 The diplomat, who declined use of his name, came here by train yesterday with 56 other Chileans to be repatriated in exchange for 143 Germans in Chile.
 He regarded 1t as unthinkable that Germany would collapse as did Italy and said the entire country still believed fanatically in Adolf Hitler.
 Despite threats of Imprisonment, he said, most Germans listen to AL lied broadcasts, especially the Brit ish Broadcasting Corporation, and one of the more popular jokes in vaudeville houses is "of course no one in the audience heard the BEG last night"
 Living conditions inside Germany have changed little in the past year the diplomat said. Food continued strictly rationed, though bread ra- tions recently were increased as a propaganda measure. Clothing re- mained about the same quality and prices, fixed by law, were un- changed.
 Bomb damage in German indus trial cities was tremendous, particu- larly in Hamburg and Cologne, he said. Damage to Berlin mostly was concentrated in the outskirts, where war factories were situated he said. Life in the center of the capital was fairly normal.
 Foreign workers in Germany were too closely supervised to commit much sabotage, he said, while Ger man workers were too well disci- plined and too afraid of the Ges- tapo to attempt to hinder the war effort.
 News from occupied countries was difficult to obtain, he said, but he learned that the Germans consider the Czechs the most difficult to handle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-18

The Elm City corporations came in for it's share of criti- cism, though the finding held that the legal criminal lia- bility rested solely with tha driver despite the fact that officers, servants, and agents of the corporation, and through them, the corpora1 ton itself, seem to have, been negligent in certain respects"
 The c. R. & l.. Corporation, and the bus driver were eXonerated of blame for the accident, as they had been by the public utilities commis>| sion.
 The finding follows:
 "A few minutes after two o'clocE in the afternoon on September 13, 1943, Louis Deschenes operated 8 Connecticut Railway and Lighting, Company bus easterly on East Main street in Waterbury. Seventeen high school children were passengers in the bus. At the same time, Harry Hemstock operated a truck loaded with fuel oil westerly on said high way. Said truck was owned by the Elm City Filling Stations, Inc.
 40 Miles An Hour
 While the bus was travelling on the southerly side of said highway at about 25 miles per hour at point opposite number 3080 East Main street, the truck was pro- ceeding toward it at approximately 40 miles per hour. At a point ap- proximately 100 feet east of 308O East Main street, the left front tire of the truck blew out, the truck swerved to the south side of the highway and collided with the left front of the bus.
 The operator of the truck, Harry Hemstock, suffered a fractured skull, from which he died instantly, and the operator of the bus, Louis Des- chenes, suffered rupture of the small bowels, torn mesentery, intro abdominal hemor11age and shock of. which he died several hours later at St. Mary's hospital, Waterbury.
 Hemstock made an effort to cons trol the truck after the left front tire blew out but was unable to avoid the collision. The operator of i
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-18
Hull Reports To Congress On Moscow Allied Talks

Washington, Nov. 18.-(UPJ-Sec- retary of State Cordell Hull told Con- gress today that the four-poWer Moscow program of international cooperation would eliminate the need for spheres of influence, for alliances, for balance of power" or other similar arrangements used in the past to preserve peace.
 In a detailed review of the Anglo Soviet conference at Mos COW, Hull told a joint meeting Of the House and Senate that the basic policy of international CO., operation for the maintenance of peace and security must be carried forward or we again will become victims of destructive forces of ill- ternational anarchy which in the absence of organized international relations will rule the world"
 Explaining that the United States, Great Britain, Russia and China in the basic Moscow declaration pledged themselves to carry for ward to it's fullest development a broad and progressive program of in- ternational cooperation" Hull told the Congress:
 ''The provisions of the four-ration declaration are carried into effect, there will no longer be need for spheres of influence, for alliances, for balance of power or any other of the special arrangements through which, in the unhappy past, the na- tions strove to safeguard their se- curity or to promote their interests"
 Supreme Importance
 Thus, Hull continued, the results of the Moscow conference were of supreme importance" At the meet
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-18
Turks Believed
 On Verge Of Important Step

Ankara, Nov. 18 - (UP) The Turkish parliament voted approval of the governments conduct ill negotiations with the British early today after storm 91a hour session, and informed circles believed the country was on the threshold of im- portant steps.
 The government communique an nouncing the vote of approval was interpreted as sanctioning whatever commitments foreign minister Nu- man Menemencioglu gave British foreign secretary Anthony Eden at Cairo early this month following the tri-partite conference of foreign ministers at Moscow.
 The communique said parliament had discussed questions resulting from the exigencies of the treaty of alliance with Britain, but did not elaborate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-18
Pork Ration Points Down

Washington, Nov. 18.-(UP)- A government program to stabilize prices of live hogs and to prevent jamming of storage space in the : e of heavy seasonal marketing brought temporary reduction of two points in the ration values of all cuts of pork, effective at midnight tonight.
 Price A d m nj S tr tor Chester Bowles announced the reduction would continue for a limited time only' and emphasized that it should not be interpreted to mean a "sud- den improvement in the overall ra- toned meat picture"
 The cut not only will enable housewives to set aside more red points for butter, cheese, oils and other types of meat but will give them pork cuts ion-free-includ- ing hooks, fat backs and clear plates, pieces or slices of bacon ends, knuk- les, and jowls, jowl butts or squares. All other pork cuts. including 100 per cent pork sausage, will be two points cheaper down the line.
 BoWles said the reduction was made possible by war food admin istration order lifting restrictions oU delivery of farm-slaughtered pork, and declared that the cut also would serve to take the premium off black market operations.
 Whenever the amount of meat on the market is greater than the SUD- ply of points in the hands of con- sumner, black market gangs find conditions favorable for plying their trade,' he said. By lowering points for pork products, OPA brings the supply and ration purchasing power into better balance and spikes the game of these gangster profiteers."
 The OPA action coincided with an announcement by WFA Administra- tor Marvin Jones of a support pro- gram assuring hog producers a price $1 per hundredweight below OPA ceilings to prevent a threatened price collapse and elutting of marl-ets.
 Effective Nov. 29, Jones said, the support of price of good to choice hogs weighing 200 to 27O pounds will be $13.75 a hundred pounds at Cfit- cago, or $1 below the current OPA ceiling of $14.75. Prices at other markets will be somewhat lower but will reflect the customary diffeSsa- tial between those markets and Chs- CapO.
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U. s. Bombers Raid Norway

London, Nov. 18.-(UP)-Four- motored Liberator bomberS of the United States Eighth Air Force car ried out the second American attack on Norway in three days today a few hours after a British ralding fleet struck in force at the Rhineland chemical center of Ludwigshafen.
 American and British heavy bomb- CTS teamed in day and night bom- bardments of Germany proper and outposts of NaI Europe in occupied Norway to put the western offensive back on a running basis.
 Mediterranean based bomberS joined in the campaign against Eu- rope with attacks on German air bases in the Athens area and other targets scattered across the south- ern part of the continent.
 American Army headquarters an nounced the new attack on Norway without specifying the targets. It was the first time the Liberator bombers had gone out alone on a major mission without Flying For tresses since their reappearance in the European theater after pro- tracted absence.
 Fortresses and Liberators struck the heaviest blow of the war at Nazi targets in Norway Tuesday when they devastated the Knaben Molybdenum mines and the Rjukan power station and electrolysis plant.
 Todays raid was the third by American bombers on Norway. In the second Tuesday only two bomb- CTS were lost and six German fight CTS were destroyed.
 5-Night Rest
 Back in action after f1ve-night rest, big force of BritisIa-ba RAF four -engined bombers dropped hundreds of tons of bombs on the Rhineland chemical center of Lud- wigshafen last night.
 The raid-60th of the war on the home city of the I. G. Farbeni-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-18
WAR RULINGS
 HIT FAMILIES
 IN APARTMENT

The hardshipS of war have hit home in double propor- tionS to six families located in a West End apartment block, now slated for con- version, and from which these families must vacate within the near future.
 Joseph M. Sullivan, head of the local FILA war housing program stated today to The Democrat. "that an emergency exists in Waterbury now, in regards housing, that is of little acquaintance to the peo- pie in general, and as result such measures as this type conversion must be resorted to-"
 MT. Sullivan elabora+od on this explanation by telling how families of war workers in Waterbury are sleeping on floors because of in- adequate housing facilities and many ills are resulting" Because of the fact that housing authori- ties have completely exhausted every available source of empty houses for conversion, such measures as the above must be adopted.
 Under the federal plan for con- version the families located in the block at 466-470 West Main street must vacate or appear in city court next Tuesday to show reason why they should not. MT. Sullivan ex- pressed full understanding If their problem and stated that many re- ferrals have been given all these tenants in regards housing facilities elsewhere in the city and of the same standard as they now enjoy" The only difference that may result in such change would be in re- gards the factor of rent. The occu- pants are paying rents in their present apartments in amounts ranging from $22 to $25 per month.
 MT. Sullivan likewise pointed out that these families are given prior ities" over all others in the matter of finding suitable other housing units for them. They are given preferred treatment, as far as making available other apartments to them, over people already on the federal list who have been waiting many months.
 It was also stated by the local housing director, that these same tenants will not be evicted in the real sense of the term in that they will be definitely placed elsewhere before conversion operations take place. Further, these same ten ants may return to this same loca- tion providing they find that the newly converted apartments, which will naturally be smaller, are ade- quate for their needs..t
 The conversion program, which is a MIA measure, is based on a seven year term lease on the part of fthe government, which will as- sume the cost of the converting plus mortgage interests and other assess ments. By such conversion meas ures an apartment block, such as the ore in question, will be changed into a housing unit containing just
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-18
Planes Damage Hong Kong Area

Chunking, Nov. IS. (UP)-Libera- tor and Mitchell bombers. In a CO., ordinated assault on the Hong Kong area Tuesday, dropped 27 tons of bombs on strategic targets and sank three Japanese merchant ships in the harbor, a 14th U. s, airforce communique said today.
 The Liberators, escorted by fight CTS, aimed at the ground targets, chasing away enemy interceptors while the Mitchells attacked across the harbor at low level. One 11,000 ton cargo ship and two 1000 ton freighters were sent to the bottom by four direct hits.
 Not a plane was lost in the at tack. The same day fighters shot up railroad buildings and barracks, set ting big fires, in a raid on the Dongcoung airdrome northwest of Hanoi, French ndo-China.