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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-27
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with Third Army on western front. November 27. = (UP) - Troops of the 9Oth Division, driving toward Germany, have overrun a gigantic German ammunition plant which was believed to have em- ployed more than 1000 slave labor CTS, 1t was dicloSed yesterday.
 The plant, located about Il miles southwest of Merzig, had been ship ping three carloads of shells to Ger man fighting units daily and was believed to have been one of the most vital cogs in Hitler's mltary setup.
 Seven buildings and storage yards occupied about 10 acres and were skillfully hidden in the Lorraine hills.
 The Germans were able to remove nAosS of the machinery when they evacuated but neighboring hills were covered with more than 1,OOO,- 900 shells of all descriptions. Ex- plosives ranged from hand grenades to three-ton block-busterS.
 Major James F. Sinclair of Chi cago and It. Colonel Joseph L. Cow hey of CPS S. Ledyard St. New Lon- don, Conn, while inspecting the dump, spotted several 5000 pound bombs, great sea mines and large ealiber naval ammunton.
 It was reported that slave labor at the camp included 150 Russian women.
 Chicago, November T. - (UP) -- Novena Notes, magazine of Our Sor- rowful Mother Novena, said today khat . national poll conducted by the publication revealed radio and film star Bob Hope as the comedian who most consistently violates" Christian principles.
 The Cathode Weekly made no edi-
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Superfortresses Strike Twin Blows At Japs 'Co-P Prosperity Sphere
BY FRED SCHERFF

United Press Staff COrrespondentl
 Washington, November 27 .- (UP) = American .B-29 SuperfOrtresseS crashed hun- dredS of bombs on Tokyo and Bangkok, capital of the pup- pet state of Thailand, today in the 2Oth Air Forces first simultaneous attacks from east and west on Japap's shaky Asiatic "cO-prOsperity sphere"
 Upwards of 100 Superior tresses of the 21st Bomber Command thundered out from Saipan to blast sprawl ing from the Sub-Strato- sphere for the second time in 72 hours. Bangkok, near ly 5000 miles southwest or Tokyo, was hit for the first time by a "substantial' force of B-29s from the 20th Bonn Der Command insIndia.
 Strategic industrial targets" were raided at Tokyo and" strategic ter getS' in the Bangkok area, the War Department said in brief announce ments that promised details after the giant -engined bombers returned to their respective bases.
 A United Press dispatch from D. 8 Army Headquarters in the Pacific Ocean areas revealed that the Eai- 1 pam based B-29s hit Tokyo about noon (11 p. m. Sunday, EWTO and said the objectiveS again were be- lieved the Musashina airplane plant in the northwest suburbs and Tokyos teening waterfront.
 Six huge fires that sent smoke mushrooming over Tokyo were kindled in the Musashina works, one of the largest aircraft plants in Japan, during the first Superfort- reSS attack on the capital last Ffi- day. The MuSashina factory lies II miles from the center of Tokyo.
 It. Gen. Willard F. Harmon, dep- uty of the 20th Air Force, only a i few hours before today's attack dis closed to the United Press in an exclusive interview that the water front area also had been attacked in Fridays inaugural assault.
 Compressed Target
 "There'S an awful lot of stuff in that waterfront a-Wharfage, warehouses and aircraft factories and it would be difficult to bomb there without causing damage" he said.
 An announcement from Harmunss headquarters on today's attack said it was carried out by 8 ''sizeable task force"-normally 100 or more B-29s.
 Tokyo confirmed the raid 35 min utes after 1t had been announced by the War Department in Wash- ington, a marked contarst to the three hours it took the Japanese to admit the first B-29 raid Friday.
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Triphammer Assault Weakens
 Jap Ormoc Corridor Resistance
BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON

United Press War Correspondent
 Allied Headquarters, Philippines, Nov. 27. (UP)-Japanese resistance in the Armoc corridor weakened to- day under triphammer assault by the American 32nd Division pressing steadily south toward Ormoc it. self, last big enemy's stronghold on Leyte.
 American fighter planes blockad- ing the west coast of Leyte sank three more small enemy transports loaded with troops and supplies for the besieged garrison in maSt-helght attacks of the northern tip Of Cabu yesterday.
 The sinkings brought to II the number of enemy ships wrecked in the past three days while attempting to reinforce Leyte. Nearly 10000 enemy troops probably have been killed or drowned.
 First signs of break in the des- perate Japanese resistance in the Ormoc corridor were reported by Gen. Douglas Macarthur in his daily communique. Opposition was steadily decreasing under our pres sure" he said.
 Veterans of the 32nd division were revealed to have repulSed a flight enemy counter attack in their march south from Limoa area 20 miles north of Armoc.
 Elements of the seventh division also repulsed a Japanese counter attack at night near Palanas, Il miles south of Ormoc, which was under siege from three sides.
 Japanese planes stabbed again at American ground installations in the Tacloban area at night, causing minor damage and casualties, but four were shot down by anti-alr- craft gunnerS.
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B-29S BLAST TOKYO, BANGKOK TANKS WITHIN 24 MILES OF COLOGNE
Tighten Battle Arc
 Around Fortress City Of Duren
BY J. EDWARD MURRAY

BY J. EDWARD MURRAY Limited Press War COrrespOndent)
 Paris, November 27-(UP) American troops frightened a nine-mile assault arc on the approaches to Duren to- day, driving within 3 1-2 miles of the fortress city 20 miles west of Cologne, and Swiss dispatches said Allied paratroopers had landed be- hind the Siegfried Line east of the upper Rhine.
 SwarnS of Thunderbolt and Tightening dive bombers joined the battle of the Co., logne plain, striking by scores through cold, sunny skies in close support of three Allied armies grinding down the German defenses before Duren and the Roer river.
 U. s. first Army forces drove into the outskirts of Langerwehe, five miles northwest to Duren, captured the village of Frenz, 8 mile and a half to the north, and reached the area of Merode, three miles south east of Langerwehe and 3 1-2 west of Duren.
 Units of It. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges First Army were fighting heavily in the streets of Langer- wete, in Grosshau, six miles south west of Duren, and in Hurtgen. 8 mile farther south.
 To the south, Ut. Gen. George s. Patton's Third Army forces pushed a mile to . mile and . half deeper into the Saar on Q 19-mile front inside Germany against resistance mounting hourly.
 A Zurich dispatch said the para troops swarmed down out of the sky along a railway running from Im- mendigen, some 40 miles east of the Rhine and just north of the Swiss border, to Oberlauchringen, which uoes not show on available maps.
 From Basel came word that the paratroops had cut the railway. an important supply line for German garrisons along the Rhine north Of the Swiss border. The Swiss have evacuated the northern tip of basel, on northeast bank of the Rhine, be- cause it was exposed to both French and German artillery.
 The Volkesturm throughout southwest Germany was alerted, the
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Clare Luce Admits Being Urged To Maintain Silence

London, Nov. 27-(UP)- Clare Boothe Luce, Connecticut's beauti- full blonde CongreSswoman, told a news conference last night that the U. s. Army Public Relations Office had urged her not to make any statements to the press during her stay here as a member of an Amer ican Congressional Delegation on tour of the European war theater.
 Mrs. Luce said she had complied with the Army'S request until last night when she she discovered she was getting "the short end of the deal.S
 Her statement was taken to mean that an alleged interview said to have been given by her and dis tributed in the United States was a aphoney..'
 q have not eeen or talked 1o . reporter until noW.g she told the
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US. Bombers
 Keep Up BIitz

London, Nov. 27. (UP)-More than 800 American heavy bombers raided rail yards at Offenburg and Bingen, two key German front-line supply points, 3oday in the wake of pre- dawn attack by British Lancasters on Munich, industrial and transport center in the southern Reich.
 An equal number of Eighth Air Force Thunderbolts and Mustangs at the same time carried out offensive sweeps over Northwestern Germany.
 Approximately 25O Mustangs escorted the flying Fortresses and Liberators as they laid strings Of bombs across the freight yards at Bingen, west of Malnz and Offen- burg, southwest of StraSbourg.
 Offenburg took the brunt of the air blow with both Liberators and Fortresses slamming at freight con- centrations there. Most of the bomb ing at both Offenbourg and Bingen, 100 miles to the north, was done by instrument through clouds.
 Specific targets for the Thunder bolt and Mustang offensive was not immediately disclosed.
 New TabulationS at Eighth Air Force headquarters meantime re- vealed that 138 German planes were destroyed during heavy American attacks on the Reich yesterday. U. S, Fighters shot down IA, destroyed another eight on the ground, and bombers brought down 16 more. The Americans lost S6 bombers and six fighters.
 British heavy bombers hammered Munich for IS minutes in the early morning darkness, and in their wake big fires sprang up over a wide area clogged with aircraft and engineer
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Senote Group Seen Ready
 Took Hurley
(NEA Telephoto)

Indications were today that the Senate Military Affairs Committee would tomorrow sanction the recent appointment by President Roosevelt of Connecticut's former Democratic Governor Robert A. Hurley as chair man of the Surplus Property Board.
 Hurley one of three of the com- mission was unsuccessful candidate for governor in the recent election being defeated by Governor Ray mond E. Baldwin (R) the latter be- ing the only one on his ticket to meet with election success.
 Meanwhile in Washington, Rep resentative Charles Halleck (R) Ind. charged today that the administra- tion have already named two lame ducks as stooge heads of the surplus property board" While not identi- flying the individuals referred to. Calleck charged them with being ''proteges" of Presidential adviser Harry Hopkins and men without retail selling experience"
 The surplus property board will have charge of the administering o1 $100 billion worth of war surplus goods.
 Only one other has been named to the board to date in addition to Hurley that being Lieutenant Col onel Edward F. Heller said to be an in-law relation of Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau.
 Halleck furthered charged the administration with "squuandering the estimated $100 billion property now under their jurisdiction.
 Indications were today that the Military Affairs Committee would sanction Hurley and Heller's ap- pointmentS. This was predicted on the fact that objections to the ap- pointments have been sporadic and as declared somewhat partisan"
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FDR Accepts Sec'y. HuII's
 Resignation

Washington, Nov. 27.-CUP)- President Roosevelt announced to- day that-with very deep and very great regret-he had accepted the resignation of Cordell Hull as sec- retary of state, but that the 73-year old Tennessean will remain in Washington as an administration adviser on foreign policy.
 MT. Roosevelt, confirming the resignation at a special news con- ference, turned aside all inquiries as to a successor.
 There were reports, however, that War Mobilizer James F. Byrnes, the South Carolinian whom MT. Roosevelt brushed aside for the vice presidential nomination last sum- mer, might be the choice like Hull, Byrnes gets along well since the senators-and that is bound to be an important consideration since the senate will have to pass on treaties. Byrnes and Hull both are former senators.
 Hull's resignation will be effec- tive with appointment of a success sor. Pending that, Undersecretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., who has been administering the department during Hull's illness, will continue as acting secretary. Stettinius also has been mentioned as possibility for the top post.
 The president explained that physicians felt his recovery from the illness which has kept him away from the State Department since Oct. 2part of the time at his apartment, for five weeks at the Naval Hospital-would be re- tarded by continuance Of any heavy responsibility.
 MT. Roosevelt told the special news conference that he had visited
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BY ROBERT MUSEL United Press War COrrespondent)

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 United Press War Correspondent
 London, November 27. = (UP) = Russian mountain troops stabbed to within about 25 miles of the twin Slovak strongholds of Presov and Kassa (Kosice) today, rolling back fierce German resistance on a 60-mile front extending across the eastern half of the Nazi protectorate from the Polish to the Hun garian borders.
 The Soviet drive threat ened to cut one of the main railway lines linking the Ger man armies in southern Po- land with the wavering de- lenders of Budapest, whose f o r m ida ble e StroG1gpoints northeast of the Hungarian capital already were begin ming to cave in under a Suc- cession of Red Army hammer blows.
 Battling through wet, clinging snows and dense fogs that hampered their air and artillery support, vet eranS of General Ivan I. Petrov's 4th Ukrainian Army pounded out gains running up to 15 miles yester- day, forcing the Germans out of 60- odd towns and villages on the ap- breaches to PreSov and Kassa and capturing hundreds of prisoners.
 Petrov hurled his main attack force almost directly against the
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M ORE JAP SHIPPING IS
 SUNK OR HIT
BY WILLIAM THREE United Press War COrreSpOndent)

United Press War COrrespOndent)
 Pearl Harbor, November 27. = (UP) = China-based Liberators, re-joining the battle of attrition against Japanese shipping, sank a submarine chaser and dam aged two light cruisers in the South China Sea Saturday night, a Chungking com munique announced today.
 The attacks followed by only a few hours the sinking of 18 more Japanese ships, including a heavy cruiser ot the 8,5OO-ton Kumano class and a destroyer, in a carrier based assault on Luzon in daylight Saturday (Friday Pearl Harbor time).
 General Douglas MacArthur Southwest Pacific fliers accounted for another 12 ships sunk or dam aged in round of attacks in Philip lines and East Indies waters. A China-based Liberators of oht 14th Air Force damaged the tWt light cruisers, one of them with two direct hits, in an attack on a maya convoy north of Tourane, French Indo China, Chunking said. The submarine chaser was sunk by an- other Liberator 50 northeast oi Tourane.
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Sangerville, Me, Nov. T.-CUP) Textile machinery and quantity of woolen cloth were destroyed early today when fire swept the Carleton Woolen Go. mill here causing dam age estimated at $100,000.
 Supt. Donald Maxfield said the blaze started on the roof of the three story wooden building and completely destroyed the third floor. The lower floors suffered smoke and water damage.
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Nozi PWS Smoke Too Many US. Gigs

London, Nov. 27-(UP)-The Sun day pictorial's Behind the Scenes" column claimed the real reason for the American cigaret shortage was that German prisoners are "smok- ing too many doughboys' cigarets." ."
 The column explained that when the big push started on the con- tinent, propaganda leaflets were dropped to the Germans, promising those who surrendered the same treatment as American soldiers, and that the promise is being carried out even to the cigaret allowance.
 But nobody realized, it added, that the Germans would surrender by the thousands.
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Fight On On PoyroII ox

Washington, Nov. 27 - (U.P) = Chairman Arthur J. Altmyer Of the Social Security Board judged the House Ways and Means Committee today to scrap proposals for 1reez- ing the payroll tax at its present level of one per cent, to avoid 1m- pairing the financial Soundness or the old age insurance system.
 Altmeyer was the first witness at committe hearings on proposals to halt the automatic increase in So- cial Security payroll taxes scheduled to go into effect January l. The present tax on both employers and employees will double at that time unless congress acts.
 '"There is no question that the benefits promised under the present federal old age and survivors 1n- surance system wil cost far more than the two per cent of payrolls now being collected" Altmyer said.
 He testified that all actural esti- mates indicated the annual cost of the insurance system would be at least four per cent and might be as high as seven per cent.
 He said the present value of bel1e- fits due those now eligible amounted to $4,5OO,O0O, ,000. Since the reserve fund, January 1, 1945 will be $6,000,- O00, 900, he said, there will be only $1 500, ,000, ,000 in the reserve fund to meet liabilities for benefits to 69,- OOO, ,000 persons who have accumu- lated wage credits but have not yet died or reached the retirement age of 65.
 Altmeyer conceded that payroll tax collections at the present one per cent level now were running at a figure estimated five years ago for a two per cent tax but said more people had become insured and had
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press conference.
 The Sunday Express agreed with that version, reporting that the Congresswoman was mot talkative about the job she is over here to do"
 The Express said, however, that Mrs. Luce, "expensively fJrred" and wearing a New York hat calculated to make English women gasp with envy, was staying in Mayfair apartment loaned to her by a friend after she had been unable to find accommodations with the rest of the Congressional party at the Hotel Claridge.
 The Express asserted that two en- tire suites at the Clardigs had been reserved for the American party but that no provision apparently c1it'nned cn p6Ss q
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Little Steel Rule Holds

Washington Nov. 27-(UP)-The administrations apparent determin- ation to permit no general wage in- creaSes' until the war in Europe is over was underscored further today by the War Labor Boards refusal to break the little steel formula in settling the wage case of the CIO Steel Workers.
 In a week end decision dispoSing of the year old dispute, the VILE rejected a union demand for @ gen. eral wage increase of IT cents an hour-which would have broken the little steel formula-but granted hourly increases of four cents to second night shift workers and six cents to third shift workers.
 VILE Chairman H. Davis said the boards report, far from breaking the little steel formula, Does not even bend" it. The decision acceded in full or in part to other union de- mandS for more liberal vacations, severance pay, sig paid holidays a year at time and one-half, and an increase of maintenance of member ship dues checkoff to $1.5O per month.
 Disposal of the steel case cleared
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Senate Fight Ouer Flood
 Control Menaces Recess

tend substantially the period of de- bate on the general flood control issue.
 Sen. George D. Aiken, R., Vt, sponsor of the St. Lawrence pro- ject, refused to say whether he would insist on pressing his propo- sal as an amendment to the flood control bill or wait and offer it to the rivers and harbors bill, next controversial item on the Senate calendar.
 Aiken said he would offer 1t to the flood control bill providing the measure was in reasonably good shape" when the Senate got through with it. If it is in such bad shape that the president has to veto It." Aiken said, he will hold his amendment for the rivers and haF-
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Good Results In Bombinq

10th Bomber Command Head quarters, Somewhere In India, Nov. 2T-UP)-A considerable force of B-29 superfortresses achieved excel- lent results in Q daylight raid to- day on the Bansue railroad freight yards at Bangkok, an important clearing center for Japanese sup plies.
 The main objectives were the re- pair shops at the north end of the yards and warehouses at the south end, together with the tracks in the yard. Damage was inflicted on an estimated 12 to IS locomotives and 200 freight cars. The. Japanese are believed to be short of locomotives
 Pilots and crew members reported they encountered little fighter or ack-ack opposition, and described the raid as the milk run variety.
 It. Daniel Duffy. bombardier of Chicago, reported:
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BY ALLEN DRURY

NUMte0 FreSS Sta1I COrreSpOnuentJ
 Washington, Nov. 27-(UP)-The Senate fight over the $970, ,965, 900 flood control bill posed a growing threat today to congressional hopes to dispose of all important pending legislation in time for Christmas recess by Dec. IS.
 The Senate went into its second week of debate on the measure with the outlook complicated by proposed amendments to tie in the contro- versial St. Lawrence Seaway pro- ject and an agency to develop re- sources of the Missouri Valley.
 Sen. James E. Murray, D., Mont. and William Langer, R., N. D.. CO., sponsors of the Missouri Valley au- thority bill, stood firm by their plans to press for a vote on the amendment. 2 move that would ex-
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U. P. Correspondent Listed Missing"

New Delhi, Nov. 27-UP)-John J. Andrew, United Press war corre- Spondent, was listed officially as missing" today after a recent B-29 superfortress raid by the 20th bom- Der command.
 Censorship permitted only the statement that the plane on which Andrew was abroad had been lost in flight.
 Andrew rode 8 superfortress which failed to return from the first B-29 raid on Formosa Oct. IA.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-20
State 10 Use
.|ts0wn Ballot
For Soldiers

LANSING. March % 49, Gov
Kelly informed President Roose.
welt today that Michigan viii not
recognize the federal proposed
soldiers voting bill.
"Our statute does not provide
for a federal soldier ballot and
furthermore, our own ballot u
far superior" the governor said.
"All we ask in Michigan il
that the army and navy provide
transportation OF our ballots TO
SerNicemen and women"
The governor statement was
IN response 10 request from the
President for Michigan's senti-
ment on the federal bHl before
he signs or vetoes the measure.
Similar kilograms were sent gov
errors Of all states
Previously, Coy. Kelly had said
Michigan might 90 along with the
federal bill but after examination
OF the measure by the state at
torney- generals office. the gov
efnor changed his mind
Gov Kelly said that Michigan
ballots will be printed in plenty
of time 20 enable every Michigan
SeTvICeman 10 vote If proper
transportation facilities are made
available.