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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-24

LONDON. July "a QNS)-Re-
ports from Germany and neutral
sources concerning Hitler's totter-
ing Third Reich emphasized today
that the crisis for the Nazis has
not yet ended.
The German underground radio
reported that clashes had occurred
in Wilhelmshaven between ma
rines and SIS troops and that more
officers were being arrested and
shot by the SIS in garrison towns.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-24
REPORT CONFERENCE

The Berlin radio, in a broadcast
heard by the London Daily Ex-
press, said that Hitler had called
a conference Of all his command
erS on the western front who have
not yet personally renewed their
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-24

Our Allies In Japan %. startling
facts in August issue Of Magazine
Digest.-Adv.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-24
ISLAND CAPTURED

Cabras Island on the northern
side of the harbor has been
wrested from the JapS, Nimitz also
disclosed.
First casualty figures on Guam
invasion released by NimitZ,
showed LOSE far under those in
Cured on Saipan. Through Satur-
day. our losses were 348 marines
and soldiers killed, 10 missing
and 1,500 wounded.
Nimitz revealed that army air
forces Liberators bombed Truk
Friday.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-24
SETTLE FRONTIERS

The manifesto said Polish from
tiers would be settled by mutual
agreement with Russia.
1t pledged the restoration OF
democratic freedom and said par
liamentary elections would be
held at the earliest possible date
All property confiscated by the
Germans will be restored, il said
and agrarian reforms will be in
Stituted and the land of Germans
and traitors will be taken without
compensation. Land in excess OF
1850 acres will be taken from
large Polish landowners but with
compensation IF they have be-
haved periodically"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-24
ARRESTS REPORTED


Advices from Stockholm to the
London Telegraph said that at
least 500 German officers and for
mer politicians had already been
arrested and executed and that an
additional 10000 were in hiding
from the gestapo.
Among those executed. accord
ing TO unconfrmed reports quoted
by the Sunday Chronicle, was
Field Marshal Keitel. chief Of the
German supreme command.
The News Chronicle. quoting
the Turkish news agency, told OF
news conference in Berlin held
by so generals who had taken
part in the revolt against Hitler
SHOOTING ORDER
The Daily Herald, in a dispatch
from Rome, said that on orders
of the German high command
troops in Italy who do not suf'
ficiently oppose the enemy are
being shot by their own officers.
European dispatches, re-
ported by UP, said that Hitler,
fearing new assassination at
tempts, had fled TO the Rhine
land while Nazi authorities
clamped a 1870 p. m.-S:30 a. m.
curfew on Berlin.
Hitler's flight was reported
in a Stockholm dispatch to the
London Daily Mail. which said
he had gone into secluSion on a
large estate with few trusted
advisers, abandoning his retreat
at Berchtesgaden and two mill
tary headquarters. the Mail
said. but Zurich reported would
preside tomorrow at a confer
ence at Berchtesgaden 10 decide
on new military appointmentsO
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-24
WANT HEARING

D&C LAKE LINES to BUFFALO
every evening at $50; to Cleveland
every night at 11:30. Lake Ride
every Sunday at IL 90 A. M.-Adv.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-24
Guard
Kept al Stdt|er

Tied up by a strike Of 10
unions, the Statler Hotel was az
hard to. get into today as a war
plant.
Guards stood at the Washington
and Bagley entrances, allowing
admittance only to permanent
guests and few transient guests
who had checked in before the
strike of SO elevator operators
and engineers began Thursday
night and over 700 other employees
went out in sympathy.
MUST SHOW KEYS
40 get in, guests were required
to show their room keys to the
guard at the door. If they had
forgotten their keys, they had TO
wait until Identification could be
checked.
When negotiations stopped
abruptly Saturday afternoon on
the refusal of the hotel officials
to talk further unless the strikers
went back to work, Ray Carroll,
International representative of the
ALL unions involved. threatened
to have the Detroit Federation OF
Musicians called out.
When il was brought 10 his
attention that the Terrace Room
had been closed for two weeks
and that the AFL had no musi.
clans employed in the hotel. Car.
roll walked out of the conference.
His threat to call out operators in
other Detroit hotels had not ma
terialized this morning.
WANT HEARING
John Anhut, attorney for the
Detroit Hotel Association, repre-
senting the Statler and IL other
Detroit hotels. said that all the
association asked was an oppor-
tunity TO present the employers
side TO the national WLB.
Z. w. Miller, federal conciliator.
today certified the dispute to the
national board. While the hotel
management said that II was will
ing to abide by the WLB decision.
Carroll was noncommittal.
DAG LAKE LINES to BUFFALO
=
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-24
FINE AIRFIELD

Tinian possesses a fine airstrip
for carrying on the war against
Japan.
The Guam operation passed the
"beachhead' stage as Americans
consolidated their positions and
virtually closed a pincers around
strategic Orote Peninsula in their
drive to encircle Port Apra.
NimitZ disclosed that substan-
tial gains were made all along
the front on Guam. The town of
Pitt has been occupied by Ameri-
cans and the main airfield has
been nearly cut off by marines
advancing northward along the
western side of the island from
shattered Agat
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-24
New Jap Isles
Invaded by
j. ). Forces

PEARL HARBOR, July "a
(INS) - American assault
troops battled on Tinian
Island today in the invasion
of the third major Jap strong
hold in the Marianas chain.
Adm. Nimitz announced the in
vasion and disclosed that landings
were continuing.
Already smashed by weeks of
bombardment by American air.
craft, naval gunfire and field
artillery based on nearby Saipan,
Tinian was ripe for conquest by
American troops from Saipan
three miles away.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-18
Ask For
 SchooIinq

Indianapolis, Nov. 18. (UP)-More than 24,000 veterans had applied for additional schooling under the educational program provided in the "G. I. bill of rights" up to Oct. 3l, Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, admin istrator of veterans affairs, reported today.
 Addressing the fall meeting of the American Legion's National Executive committee, Hines said that 17,723 of 24,021 veterans applying for additional education had been found eligible and schooling allowed.
 On Oct. 31, Hines added, there were total of 5,681 veterans all ready in schools and another 91 being trained on the job in various occupations.
 The veterans administrator said the government had allowed 270, ,795 claims for disability pensions up to the end of October, 18, 353 or seven per cent of which were for direct combat disabilities.
 He said in 76 per cent of the cases received the degree of disability was 30 per cent or less while seven per cent of the claimants wer awarded total disability.
 Hines said that s2,872 pensions were being paid on claims due to service-connected deaths as of Aug. IS, 1924. and that death claims have materially increased due to the ex- tension of our fighting fronts.%
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-18
No Signs Of
 Leigh Mallory

London. Nov. 1S-UP)-Allied planes and ships searched France and the Mediterranean area today for trace of the aircraft in which Air Chief Marshal Sir Traford Leigh-Mallory vanished while flying to southeast Asia to take up his new post as commander of Allied Air Forces there.
 LGgh-Mallory and his wife took of from Britain in the marshal's personal plane last Tuesday on the standard route to the Mediterran- can area, but failed to arrive at their destination.
 With the couple were the crew which Leigh-Mallory had selected personally to work with him in his new command. Fighters escorted the plane for as long as considered necessary, then headed back to their bases after receiving a thank you" message from Leigh-Mallory. Leigh h-Mallory was appointed to the Southeast Asia Air command after serving as air commander on the staff of Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- hover in the invasion of Normandy and opening of a western front.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-18
.Groton Head
 Passes Awoy

Groton, Mass, Nov. IS = U.P0 - The Rev. Dr. Endicott Peabody, 87, founder and former headmaster of Groton school, teacher of many famous figures, died yesterday of 8 heart attack while sitting in his au- tomobile in front of the school.
 President Roosevelt heads the list of notables who attended the school Dr. Peabody started 56 years ago. The list includes the Presidents four sons, diplomats Summer Welles and Joseph c. Grew, publishers Col onel Robert R. Mccormick and Cap ain Joseph M. Patterson, Payne Whitney, w. Averell Hartman and many others.
 He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Fanny Peabody, his first cousin whom he married in 1885.
 Dr. Peabody was 8 deacon in the Protestant Episcopal church when he founded Groton in 1884. He served as headmaster until his re- tirement in 1940. His influence reached far and he was once char acterized as 'the greatest natural force in the United States with the possible exception of Niagara Falls and the Mississippi river"
 Known to his boys as The Rec tor", Dr. Peabody had been living near the campus with his wife since his retirement, engaged in quiet study and writing. He was born in Salem. studied in England and at Harvard, then started Groton as 6 school where boys and men could
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-18
CRUMBLE
 OUTER LINES ' AT BUDAPEST
BY HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff COrrespondent)

United Press Staff COrrespondentl
 Moscow, November 18.- (UP) = Powerful formations of Russian planes smashed today at German and Hun garian positions around Bu- dapest, softening them up for the final assault on the Hungarian capital.
 GA Nazi broadcast said the defensive front in Hungary was 'torn open by the Soviets at some points, but was closed again by German and Hungarian counter-attacks yesterday.)
 The Nazi command threw aerial achievements into the defense of the Hungarian front looping around Budapest, and big air battles were fought as Marshal Rodion Y. Ma inovsky's troops hammered the out skirts of the city.
 Soviet mobile units of tanks and artillery, closely supported by planes, sortied deep into the enemy positions, wrecking rear communi- cations and spreading disorder in the Axis ranks.
 In some sectors the Germans and Hungarians counter attacked viz orously, but front dispatches said the aerial support gave Red army tanks teh edge in heavy armored battles.
 Stormovik assault planes and machine-gunning fighters were re- ported disrupting the movements of enemy endorsements behind the lines and silencing large numbers of gun batteries.
 The air attacks were focused near the center of the 10O-mils front stretching northeast from Budapest in support of Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky'S drive to cut the rail and highway routes between the enemy forces in the capital and northeastern Hungary.
 Improvement in the weather, which had turned Hungary's open plains into quagmires. enabled the Soviets to throw large air forces into the offensive, and communi- que disclosed that Russian pilots shot down 36 German planes yes terday.
 (An Istanbul dispatch said reli- albe reports from Budapest dis
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-18
ALLIES LAUNCH GREAT METZ ASSAUL7 T Humiliation Faces N. ". Leyte Japs
3 900 TRAPPED IN POCKET ARE
 WITHOUT HOPE
BIZ WILLIAM B. DICKINSON Limited Press War COrrespondent)

BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press War Correspondent
 Allied Headquarters, Philip pines, November 18.-UP) = The American 32nd DiviS- ion wedged deeply into the Japanese pocket at Limon in northwest Leyte today and complete annihilation of the trapped remnants of a force once estimated at 5000 ap- peared imminent.
 Other American forces 900 miles to the southwest fin ished the mopup of the southern half of Bras Island in the Mapia group off north wese New Guinea in a small scale action. Nearby Pegun Island was cleared Thursday, only 24 hours after the Amer ican landings in the Mapias to knock out enemy air warn- ing stations.
 General Douglas Mac Arthur s bombers sank or damaged nve coastal vessels off Boetong Island in the Dutch East Indies and dropped 182 tons of bombs on six enemy air. fields in the Philippines.
 Three airfields at Davao on Min danao, southeTnmoSt of the Philip pines, were rendered unseviceable by 120 tons of explosives, while two ! others on Cebu and one on NegraS also were hit hard.
 Encirclement of the enemy regt- ment at the northern end of the Orn,oc corridor was completed by the 94th division Thursday with the establishment of a strong road block across the Ormoc-Limon highway three quarters of a mile south of LimoI1.
 Francis Mccarthy, United Press war correspondent with the 24th division, reported the Japanese made three separate attempts on Thursday to force the road block from the south and get through supplies to the beleaguered force, but all were repulsed "bloodily" and four enemy trucks were captured.
 Another 300 Japanese were killed within the pocket as they thrashed about seeking means of escape.
 The 32nd division, composed ot veterans of the Aitape and other New Guinea campaigns, leap-1roggeo over the 24th division to drive a deep wedge into the salient. Its final liouidation appeared only a matter of days at most. ~
 Southeast of Limon, other 4th division and 1st cavalry division troops mopped up isolated enemy
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-18
G E Strikers
 Back At Work

Lynn, Mass, Nov. 18.-UP)- More than 250 workers at the Gen. eral Electric Co.'S River Works plant returned to work today following settlement of the first strike at the plant since 1917.
 OfhcialS of the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of Amer ica (CIO) announced after a mass meeting last night that "all griev- ances had been satisfactorily set- tied" The strike, which lasted only three hours, began when 20 turbine workers walked out in protest against unfair computation of hours and forced the idleness of some 250 others.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-18
mpIoyment Here Shows
 Decrease
Navy Telephoto from NEA Telephoto.

Employment of 49,241 persons in Waterbury during the past month of October was decrease of 2,780 from the total of one year ago the same period, it was disclosed today by the Monthly Business Survey of the Chamber of Commerce.
 Frank J. Green, executive secre- Iatary of the local Chamber today res leased the first of these reports to- gether with yearly compilation of statistics to be published since Jan- uary, 1942.
 The October overall employment figure was an increase of 329 over the September total of 1944. Fig ures relating to the eight largest manufacturing concerns in the city show a total employed of 29,625. a 2,262 decrease within one year.
 Other October statistics revealed within the report show bank clear ings in amount of $6,984, 400 a $291 500 decrease over the October figures. Bank debits were in amount of $49, ,380, ,9O6 and bank savings in amount of $69, 9,167 ,682, an increase.
 Bank savings increased by over $9 million dollars locally in October, 1914, with a total of 69,167, ,689 as compared with the October, 1943, figure.
 The general industrial and busi- ness activities of the city may be seen within the report submitted by MT. Green in the statistics showing that during October a to- tai tonnage of 19,814 carload cars of freight left the city with 67.99O of the same received. L.CL. cars ton- mage forwarded from here in amount of 4,437 as compared to the same type tonnage received in amount of 3,317. These all consti- tuted decrease over the October period for the year before and in general for the preceding month.
 A total of 29,246,814 XVII of electricity were utilized here during October 1,820,051 decrease over the period year before while 134,- 253, 900 GU. feet of gas were con- stunned decrease of 7y674,000 for (COntinued on Page 9
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-18
9th Edges To New Gains

Rome, Nov. 18.-(UP)-Eightf army troops, fighting against strong infantry, tank and artillery forces edged toward Faenza on Q broad front today and reached within four miles of the city at two points.
 The Allied thrust against Faenza 30 miles east of Bologna, was made across heavily-mined areas by twC British forces moving along ths main highway to Bologna and the other just below the road.
 The drive, supported by swarms of Allied bombers and fighters, was augmented by another Eighth army clumn which moved up from the south to capture Monte Fortino, six miles west of Fcrli, hold the new positions against sharp German counter attacks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-18
MoyAsk FDR
 To Intervene

Boston, Nov. 1S-(UP)-With vast stores of perishable foods and eS- sential goods piling up there, Pres ident Roosevelt may be asked to 1n- tervene in an effort to terminate 8 wildcat walkout of 5000 AFL truck drivers which entered its sixth day today.
 incensed by the continued def1- ance of the drivers in the fact Of a series of back-to-work orders. the Regional War Labor board promised it would invoke stern measures" unless the holiday was terminated by Monday.
 Despite attempts to solve the intra-union dispute by Gov. Lever cit Saltonstall of Massachusetts, the National War Labor Board, and of- fcials of the International Brother hood of Teamsters, ChauffeurS, Warehousemen & Helpers of Amer ica (AFL), the strikers representa- tives voted at a mass meeting to support their committee and remain out. They agreed, however, to de- liver without pay certain foods to hospitals and essential war mater ialS.
 In an effort to halt business losses which food dealers claimed in the last three days had totaled more than $10O,000 daily. the Boston Ter minal Go. obtained a temporary re- straining order prohibiting drivers from interfering with the delivery of periShable foods.
 The injunction, granted by Super for Judge Raoul H. Beaudreau, was returnable Tuesday at which time the strikers must show why 1t should not be made permanent. It was extremely unusual since state labor relations laws forbid the issu- ance of such a writ unless it can be proved that ''irreparable injury to
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-18
Phone Strike May Spread Out In Ohio

Columbus, O., Nov. -(UP)- Long distance telephone service throughout Ohio was imperiled to- day as an all-woman strike of oper- ators in nine major cities threaten ed to spread momentarily to Cleve- land and Akron.
 The strike, an outgrowth of in- dignation on the part of Dayton members of the Ohio federation of telephone workers over the import ation of out of town workers at ex- tra pay, had little effect on local calls in Dayton, Columbus and Tol- edo, which have dial systems, but all service was hard hit in smaller cities with annually operated switch boards as the strike spread to Find lay. Tiffin, Wellsville, Sandusky, Xenia, and Urichsville.
 Clevelands 1900 operators called a mass meeting today to decide whether they will join the estimated l POO workers already on strike. The 400 operators at Akron voted last night to follow any action taken in Cleveland.
 The union defied all efforts of the War Labor Board to negotiate a resumption of service pending arbi- tration of the dispute. A Spokes- man announced that R. G. Pollock. president of the union, and Miss Jeannette Reedy, vice president of the traffic employees union would ignore a request by the WLB that they go to Cleveland today to ex- plain the unions defiance of 8 back to work order.
 '"The regional VILE cannot com- pei the union officers to attend the meeting" the spokesman said.
 The Dayton operators claimed that the Ohio Bell Telephone Con- pany, which operates the systems in the II cities, had paid newly hired out of town operators cost of living" bonus which put their wages SIS above the home town workers, and refused to raise the wages of the latter. They had served notice Of intentions to strike on December 3, but walked out unexpectedly yesterday. The strike spread rapidly as women left their switchboardS in other cities in sympathy.
 The strike spread to the Western
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-18
British Fleet NeuU
 Menace To Japs
By COURTENAY MOORE United Press Staff Correspondent

Washington, Nov. 18-(UP)-Tht Japanese fleet, driven into hiding by victorious American forces, today faced the unpleasant prospect of having to cope with sizeable Brit ish units as well as the huge U. s. fleet which during three days in October sank upwards of 14 enemy warships and damaged at least 34 others.
 British officials have indicated that sinking early this week of the 42,OO0-ton German superbattleship Tirpitz will release from guard and patrol duty appreciable segmentS of Great Britain'S sea power.
 Some of those ships, they hinted, may wind up in the Western Paci- f1c, augmenting the Great Ameri- can fleet already operating there. Large British Naval forces already are harrassing the Japanese from the Indian ocean.
 The extent of the Great Ameri- can victory in the three-day second battle of the Philippines and the breadth of the damaged wrought up- on the Japanese fleet in that series of engagements were recapitulated by the U. s. Navy last night in a long communique. In language un- usually forceful for an official com- munique, the Navy said. among other things:
 'The victory may turn out to be among the decisive battles of our times.
 ''The Japanese are still wonder ing what hit them.
 'The enemy fleet sustained losses and damage which materially weak ened their overall Naval and air strength against the final drive of United States forces against the empire.
 "The victory" the Navy said, mot only made possible the con- tinuing supply of men and muni- tions to General Douglas A. Mac Arthur's successful invasion forces, but up its magnitude can conserva- lively be said to nave greatly re- duced future (American) casualties
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-18
Foked Victories Keep Hitler Alive
 Rumor Says
By ROBERT DOWSON Limited Press Staff COrreSuOndeu


 London, Nov. 18.-CUP)-Adolf Hitler was reported still alive but in rapidly falling mental and phy- sical health at Berchtesgaden today, kept from insanity only by a fam tastic stream of false news reports telling of Nad military victories and imaginary demonstfations of loyalty to the .fuehrer by the German people.
 (Stockholm press reports said Heinrich Himmler, gestapo chief and commander of the German home army, had issued an order strictly forbidding the Germans to discuss Hitler's health, according to the FCC.)
 The Exchange Telegraph, quoting Information just received from a neutral capital, said the NaN party chieftains had erected an elaborate wall of silence around Hitler to pre- vent his learning the actual extent of the military reverses suffered by Germany since midsummer.
 On the advice of Hitler's physi- clans, a special news staff was said to have been set up at Berchtes- gaden under the personal super vision of Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Himmler,S right-hand man and chief of the reich security office, to edit a special good news" edition of the Volkischer Beobachter.
 Printed daily, the Berchtesgaden edition of Hitler's favorite news paper was reported to contain only the most favorable news" from the fighting fronts and carefully doc tored stories picturing the German
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