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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-06
Yonk Planes Sink Ships

Chungking, Dec. 6. (UP)-Four- teenth Air Force Bombers and fighters sank four Japanese fright CTS, probably sank a fifth, and damaged II others in a series of attacks off Shanghai, Annoy and the southern tip of FormoSa, a communique said today.
 The most successful attack of the series was carried out Dec. by P-51 Mustangs against heavy con- centration of enemy shipping at Pentsei One freighter was sunk. two others were left sinking and eight were damaged.
 Liberators sank 8 large freighter east of Shanghai on the same day. Another probably was sunk and one damaged by another wave of hber- ators which attacked Japanese ship ping l20 miles west of the southern tip of Formosa.
 Two freigheters were damaged in Annoy harbor on the China coast south of Foochow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-06
3OO,OOO Additional War
 Workers Direly Needed
By ELMER WALZER
United Press Financial Editor

United Press Financial EditOr)
 New York, Dec. 6.-(UP)-More than 30OO00 additional workers are needed immediately to bring the nations war program up to sched- ule, It. Gen. Brehon Somervell, con- manding general of the Army Serv- ice Forces. said today.
 Somerven told 4,0OO industrialists at the opening session of the War and Reconversion Congress of American Industry that victory was in the balance and still needed the full weight of American production.
 He said bfuntly:
 Munitions are not being made as fast as munitions are being used.
 The present shell shortage is ex- plained partly by the fact that while Gen. Dwight Eisenhower has asked for two thirds of the present mortar shell output, Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur has used more mortar shells on Leyte than in all his previous Pacific action. In addition there are the demands of other Pacific and Mediterranean fronts.
 Not all war production is tagging but 27 per cent of all the programs are in critical category
 The Japanese still has to be driven across half the continent of Asia.
 It will cost $71 100000, GOO a year to fight Japan after Germany is defeated.
 The war against Japan will be the biggest war this country or the world ever fought before the present war.
 This is the most important speech I have ever made" Somervell told the industrialists. If l fail today to get this situation across to you and these workers, will have failed all America-the twelve mil lion in the armed forces, and the ten times that number on the home front"
 Lives Are at Stake
 If we don't throw this extra weight of production into the scales, right now" he said, i've may have to risk lives tomorrow that we never should risk. The lives are those of your sons and your brothers"
 In an emotional appeal to the congress which is the 49th annual meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers, Somervell stressed that flor the first time industry and its workers are not making munitions as fast as munitions are being used up"
 Germany, he added, with its undeniable fiendish skill and ef- ficiency is right now training thou
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-06
Japanese Utter Neuv
 / Threats OF RepriSaLs

April le, leA2.
 A Tokyo broadcast by the of. flcial Japanese Dolnel Agency sQid Japan had replied officially last Friday through the Swiss Legation to inquiries received from the United States government Sept. % and Britain Sept. c. No reason was given for the delay Of nearly three months in answering the inquiries,
 Details of the reply were said to have been disclosed today by sadao fguehl, spokesman of the Board Of Information, at . press confers ellee in Tokyo.
 He said that the Japanese gov. ernment in ils reply reiterated that ila basic policy in dealing with the various affairs aFlsng n the cone duct ok tlle War lss as you knoWs to
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-06
US SWorksOn
 Huge Plane

Washington, Dec. 6-(UP)-The United States is developing a gar gantuan long-range bomber even bigger than the giant B-29 super- fortresses which have enabled Am erican airmen to drop heavy bomb loads on Tokyo. testimony before congressional committee revealed today.
 The new colossus, referred to as the B-36, was reported by Dr. George W. Lewis, director of aero- nautical research for the national advisory committee for aeronautics, during recent hearings before a House Appropriations Subcommittee on supplemental appropriations.
 In addition to the B-36, Lewis mentioned Q B-35 and a B-42-all long-range bombers-but comment ed that the B-36 is the largest alrplane that has been attempted in this country"
 Lewis also revealed that the army and navy were Investigating the possibilities Of planes and guided mlsSiles"-which he described as ''non.man.carTying missiles"-pow- cred by Jet propulsion units includ. Ing rocket propulsion.
 The reference to guided missiles apparently alluded to weapons such as the Naxls' VI and V.2 rocket bombs. Lewis reported work on both jet propulsion and power units for guided missiles. which might make both rocket types and pllot- less planes operating with engines and possibly controlled hy radio.
 Lewis aald that some cf the new types ef planeR were in pros dugtlnn, ofliers ln tae wina-itinnel
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-06
Jap Counter Blow Beoten
BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON

BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press War COrresp0ndentg
 Allied Headquarters, Philippines. Dec. 6.-(UP)-American troops beat off a tank-led Japanese nigh9 attack against the northern end oa Ormoc pocket on Leyte Island. communique reported today, While United States planes and warsnipS added & destroyer and seven other vessels to the growing toll of en- emy shipping sunk in Philippines and southren waters.
 Torrential rains continued ta slow the tempo of the ground fight ing on Leyte, butt he JapaneS9 madeo ne strong effort to hreah through the American road hloch south of the Leyte river bridge, la miles above Ormoc, Saturday night The enemy threw number Qt tanks into the attack but weEs turned back by heavy AneFicap gunfire.
 Other Yank troops hammered out small local gains along the mudG$ ridges directly south of Linlon an& continued destruction of Jap pccks cts in the mountains east of tHs Ormoc road.
 On the eastern side Of the AmeKis can front, other doughhoys pushed ahead through Japanese defenses n the high ground southwest of Dag ami.
 A lone army Liherator bomber on patrol off the southwest coast ok Luzon intercepted and sank the Japanese destroyer Sunday. Wllil4 naval bombers followed up aftsz nightfalI with Q series Of attackA on enemy airdromes in the Mans ila area and destroyed . troop hes& racks at Fort stotesenburg to th* north.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-06
SoIons Give Army Slight Headache

U. S. Third Army Hg., France, Dec. 6.-(UP)-Seventeen house mil- itary affairs committee members ar rived in the Third Army sector to- day for a quick tour that included lunch with It. Gen. George S. Pat ton.
 The Army was trying to figure out some way of showing the com mittee the front without getting them shot at The problem was solved when they settled for a tour of liberated towns in the Third Army area.
 Rep. Clare Boothe Luce. R., Conn.,. wore a WAC uniform with slacks, & fancy kerchief around her head, a matching scarf, and fur-lined boots that were the envy of the other congressman who clumped around in CT overshoes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-06
CRASH INTO OUTSKIRTS OF
 BIG FORTRESS
BY J. EDWARD MURRAY Limited Press War COrrespOndentl

BY J. EDWARD MURRAY
 United Press War COrrespondentl
 Paris, December 6.-UPl The American Third Army. striking along a 50-mile front at the central gateway to the Rhineland, swept across the Saar river at four and perhaps five more points northwest of Saarlautern and crashed into the outskirts Of the German border fortress of Sarreguemines today.
 The new crossings gave It. Gen. George Sam Pat tons armor and infantry six to seven bridgeheads across the Saar between Saar- brucken and Merzig, 25 miles to the northwest, and prob ably shattered the last nat ural defense line in the rich Saar basin beyond repair.
 The Third Army took over the main hrunt of the winter offensive as other American armies to the north spared with the Germans in minor actions on the Cologne Plain and the Sixth Army group to the south punched to within seven miles of Colmar, heart of the Ger man pocket on the Alsacian Plain
 Front reports asserted that the Allies have knocked out 160,O00 Ger man troops = the equivalent of lz full-scale divisions in the flrss three weeks alone of the winter 0f- fensive. This amounts to an average of 5000 Germans killed, captured or wounded daily on each of the three major sectors of the western | front.
 Patton's 90th Division knocked the new holes in Germany's Saar line. under cover of darkness early today. pushing across tIzs zsslz lol- l len stream in assault boats at four points along a two and 8 half nails front between Merzig and Saar- lautern.
 German small arms pierced the night with a hail of bullets ana small caliber shells, but the dough- boys reached the east bank and carved out their assigned bridge heads.
 Farther north, in the Merzig area itself reconnaissance pilots Of the 10th Armored Division also slipped across the Saar in small patrol formations, but there was no inul- cation whether these later were re- inforced in strength or withdrew.
 Infantrymen of the 95th Division
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-06
Britain Will Not Cancel
 Sforzo Veto
By PHIL AULT United Press Staff COrespondent)

United Press Stan COrreSponoent)
 London, Dec. 6 - (U.P9 = Bri- tain refused to withdraw it's veto of Count Carlo Sfroza as member of the Italian government today des- pite the United States call for AL lied non-intervention ill the Italian and, by inference, the Greek politi- cal crises.
 The House of Commons will hold full-dress debate Friday on the situation in riot-torn Greece where British troops were under orders to help the Papandreaou government put down leftist ir1Surrection.
 Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden asked whether he would reconsider his condemnation of Sfroza in the light of yesterdays statement by U. s. Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., told Commons:
 T have nothing to add to my pre- vious statement. assure you my answers are reviewed up to the very last minute"
 The queStioner, Sir Richard Ac- land, indepertdent, pressed Eden whether he seriously meart to maintain" that the attitude of Sfroza worked against Italian Pre- mier Ivanoe Bonomi when Bonomi himself denied that such was the case.
 Eden insisted he had nothing to add to his statement of last week, when he said Britain regarded Sfroza as unreliable" because he had worked against the Bonomi and Badoglio governments with which Britain had very friendly re- 1ationS.
 Laborite Ivor Thomas rose in Common to describe Stettinius' statement as "very serious" When Eden still refused to be drawn out on the subject, Thomas said he
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-06
TANKS MAKE NEW SAAR R. CROSSINGS Reds Roll Through L. BaIaton Defenses
British Capture FAM Hdqts. h Athens Fight

Intense fighting ragged in half a dozen sectors of Athens, with Brit ish and Greek government forces struggling to put down an uprising by the Elas, military section of the FAM or National Liberation front.
 FAM Headquarters surrendered after putting up only nominal re- sistance when the British tanks and supporting forces moved in. The offices of the EAM's youth organiza- tion, ,EPON, also were occupied, as were communist party headquarters. Few arms were found in the build ings.
 At 2::30 D. m., skirmishing was go- ing on in the SolonuS and Trikouti districts, in Canning Square where ElaS and police forces were engaged, in the Plaka area at the foot of the Acropolis, around the Metropolis hotel, and in the region of the Athens cathedral.
 Greek troops were deployed across
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-06
Ragged Embassy Flag And
 CarteIs Puzzle Reporter

So the new Secretary Of State Hull; he's reoreanizing the depart. ment all the way down to the snb- basement; and he's keeping his finger on many q touch interna- tional spot. For instance:
 He issued yesterday e statement which said that this government believed the Italians had the right 10 govern themselves. He said it lancler, but that is what he meant, The State Department reporters, who talk the diplomatic lingo like natives, began reading in other meanings. Some Of 'eni aAid it sounded as though ali newly freed countries should have an tmneHl~ hie lgy at self government. oihefa insisted that NteftiHlns tl4seNts4lt Was Q fshHH ~ W|ntltn NENHNli'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-06
TROOPSIESS THAN 50 NILES
 FROM AUSTRIA
BY ROBERT USEL United Press Staff Grespondent)

tOmted Press Staff 4reSpOndent)
 London, Decerber 6. = (UP) - Russian armored columns rolled unchecked through the crurpled Ger man defenses at Ake Bala- ton less than 50 liles from Austrian soil todayand Mos COW dispatches Sai. Nazi re- Inducements were dreaming up from Italy andthe Bal kans to join in a ast-ditch fight for the Southrn ram- parts of the Reich.
 In a great surge pf power that drove tens of thousands of German and Hungarian troops reeling backin pan icky retreat, Soviet tnks and mechanized infantry famed out along the eastet shores of the lake on a ront of more than 20 mics and hooked around the ppesite corners of the 48-mR water barrier.
 The German Transoan News Agency said 8 massiv Russian envaloping attack on Butpest from the west, south and cit was in progress, and asserted thg German coIlnter-measureS are iiprogress."
 There was no confirmAon of the enemy report, which sai6he assault opened yesterday mor1ag in the Hatvan area east of thF1ungarian copital and on Csepel Ishd directly to the south. Soviet Formations crossed the arm of the lnube from CsepeI to the rivers vest bank, transocean said.
 VanguaTds of Marsf1s Feodor I. Tolbukhin,s Third Ukinian army stormed through mot than 120 Hungarian towns yestnay in ad- vances of eight to IS HIes, killing more than 2,0O0 Axissear guards and capturing anotherb0.
 The Nazi defenses vre breaking wide open under the fl,ous Russian assault and Moscow Heated that the enemy had abandled his an- nounced plan to waG an all-out battle along the marsh lake shores.
 Soviet dispatches afroundabout Berlin reports, hower, indicated the Germans were hcing for desperate stand in th31 mile cor ridor extending soutlfrom Bala- ton to the Drava river
 The Russians said steady flow of German reseyet was being drained of from ths1talian and Balkan fronts in an Tort to stem the Red Army sweeMoWard Aus tria, and Berlin dispehes relayed through Stockholm clned units of Marshal MaximilianROn Weich's Balkan army alreadthad crossed the Drava into the iIleriled gap.
 A Swiss broadcast slaimed that
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-06
lRy United Pressl

Japan. sniarting under the i'm. pact of mounting auperfortress raids on Tokyo. uttered . yelled new threat today against the lives Of captured American aIrmen.
 Radio Tokyo said Japan, in for. nal replies Co American and Bri. tlsh inquiries about the treatment Of Allied ar prisoners. had made it clearly that she would hold rec sponslble under international law those enemy airmen who are eleRr- ly found to have deliberately breached established practices of warfare"
 ft was on the same ground of breaches og established practices of wafiaFHs tlsnt Japan tried and asHonlaN several cl fse fiYeka Who Participated Ir l.ss f4|d ita kY kt s|tn. }sNAt 1eQIll.se eH Ne'sfQ
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-06
By FREDERICK c. OTHAtAN (United Press staiS Corresp0ndent)

kOhMANl hNNA@ ReeEas
 Washington, Dec. 6 -- (uP) s- While the experts are cleaning out the State Department and Bhufils Ing up the lads in the striped pants, they better go whole hog and get e new flag for the American Etn- baasy in Mexico City.
 one of my special correspondents says the flag that Secretary I'd. ward R. Stettlnius has there nov is ragged dirty and Q disgrace. stetGinlus. Of course, is q new man and maybe he'll set around to that Situation later.
 As Of this writing, be is a huay fsiieF. lie has q alow ok new ae- slalanlr, including q poet lse's razaln4 iiie haf fn hulId 4 HANI'ie q sfsEreSs1@fx eI #faA4 Stef|'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-06
BY GEORGE ANDROULIDAKI,S United Press Staff CorrespOndentl

United Press Staff COrreSpOndentl
 Athens, December 6. UP) = British and Greek forces supporting the government of Premier George Papandreou opened 8 general as- sault today on rebellious Fam left ists, and in the first onrush cap turned FAM headquarters and the central offices of the Communist party.
 The government forces seized the Yannaro buildings in Constitution Square, the last center of resistance by the Elas, the military arm of the FAM, in this part of the city. The buildings fell after a violent Strug- gle, in which an Elas lieutenant colonel and 8 major were arrested.
 An official announcement said the general assault aimed at sup pressing central offices had been oc- cupied. Four hundred Elas mesn- bers, including some bulgars, hoist ed the white flag.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-06
Gl's Murder Trial Set For Jon. g

Feltham, Mlddlesex. Dec. 6 co. (u. P,) -- The trial of Private Karl Gustav Hulten. 22-year-0ld Boston parairooper, and Elizabeth Marina Jones, ie, British strip-tease artist, on charges Of staying q taxi driver was set today for January Q in Lon- dons old Bailey.
 The new trial date was fixed when the couple appeared on remand be- fore a magistrate. They gre accused Of Killing 34-yeaF.old George Ed- ward Heath, known e the man with the ''clsft chin"
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Full wsher Report Page 2.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-04-05
JOHN FAJDIGA So
o OBlSKU V CALF.

John Fajdiga IL Leadvilla,i
Colo, XII je v Proletarcu v izka-,
zih veckrat omenien, piSe, ola sta
bila z zeno ma obisku v Califor-
Mil. e.
Najvec sta Sc zadrzala pr
Richterjevi druzini V F~ontani.
Pomenkev je bio mnogo, kot je
obicaj, kadar Sc snidejo liudje
s tako oddaljenih krajev. Pa mu
je OBJ eni taxi priliki rekel An
ton Richter: John, ker 81 prisel
tako dalec ma obisk, 81 bonn pa cd
tebe Proletarca narocil." In mu
je dial So.
Dale pise Fajdiga:
V tenn kraju California Sc mi
je zelo dopadlo. Use zeleno in v
cvetju.
Dne 25. marca, ko sem bill V
Denverju pa je bio 18 palcev
snega. "Med tam in tukaj je We
lika razlika," sem 81 mislil.
Nameravala sva obiskati tudi
Big Tonyja pri San Francisco in
wee drugih, pa je prometa toll
ko, da skoro ne moreS nikamor."
V Leadvillu, kjer je lima sko-
70 tako dolga kakor Ieto, zivi
John Fajdiga re kakih 40 let, pa
Sc je MENU in zeni prileglo, da
sta Sla nekoliko ma oddih oh to-
phi Pacifik. :
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-04-05
NEKAJ O HITLERJEVIH
TOVARISiH

Cleveland, o. - Ko sem CT
tai, da DO v tenn in tenn kim
predstavljen Conrad Heiden, av-
tor knjige der Fuehrer", sem
bill radoveden in Sc udelezil. Pr
satelj pozna Hitleria cd |. 1920.
ko (Hitler) Sc nj bill nemSki dr.
zavljan.
Knjige nisem cital, a IL vpra-
sanj, ma katera je odgovarjal,
sem spoznal, da je bill Heiden
nasprotnik Hitlerja re cd ia
KRAFT, ko ga je prvic spoznal.
Imenuje ga fanatika in sposob-
mega "a meniha ne pa "a ljud-
skega vodjo.
V knjigi je tudi povedano, ka-
ko Sc je rodila ~nacisticna orga-
nizacija v Monakovu, kjer je bill
MEN zacetek. Pozneie sem pa Sc
drugje izvedel, kako sta bila
brata Strasser glavna krmarja,
Xxi sta Hitlerja dovedla tia kjer
je.
Otto Strasser je sedaj baje ne
kje v Kanadi, vsaj tako je bio
porocano, je pa kjer re je v stall
nih stilkih S komentatorii in pu-
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-04-05

nimajo v Italiii nobene liudske stranke, a opirajo pa Sc ma vlada-
joel sloj, XII pa mu je lie "a ohraniev privlegijev, ne pa "a de-
mokracijo.
Sovjetska vlada sporoca skozi svoj omenjeni list amerBki in
angleSki vladi, ola z njuno politiko " Ital.i nj zadovoIjna. Klce
ju v trojen sporazun "a mobilzranje vseh protifaslstcnih sill v
Italiji "a vojno proti Hitlerju, nanesto da trosijo energije z med
sebojnimi prepiri. In ker angleska vlada, in z MO ameriska, pod
pratt sedanji rezinn, je v to sedaj pristala tudi Russia, in kot pravi
je to storia v Interest," sloge in vecje skupnosti v vojni proi Hit
lerju, XII ga je treba napasti z vseh strani, da DO porazen,
Italia ie bila mnogo let pod ~angleskim vplvom, tudi takrat,
ko je bia pred prejsnjo vojno .zaveznica Avstro-O grske in Mem
CHE. Vpliv mad MO 81 hoce pridobiti tudi pc tel vojni, kajti Sredo-
.zenlje je angleska zivljenska Ella. Nacin, S kakrsnin je prisla
sovjetska diplomacja v Itaijo, Londanu brzkone nj vsec, in tudi
Washingtonu ne. Politcni in ekonomski interest med mimi SO 81
pac proved v n~avskrizju, neglede kako Wade teh treh velesil go
wore 0 enotnosti v vojnih naporih in 0 vzajemnosti, ki DO vladala
med mimi pc voni.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-04-05
THOMAS IN WiLLKlE
v SHEBOYGANU

Narocnik IL Sheboygana nam
pise 0 brezobzirnosti roiakov "a
socialisticni pokret in oh enem
poroea:
"Tu in drugod v Wisconsin,
je bio v tel volilni kampanii re
precej shodov. Sc vec pa iih DO
pc nominacijskih konvencijah.
Pred nekaj tedni je govoril v
Sheboygan Fallsu Norman Tho
mas. Ideje ina dobre, toda v
svojih izvajanjih ne prijema ma
cistov, pac pa Stalina in MCCOY
rezim, Churchilla in Roosevelt
tovo administracijo. zal, da S Ia
kim govorom napravi wits, da
Hitlerja in njegovega nacizma
ne smatra "a nevarnost in iu ig-
norira, toliko boil pa seka pc
Stalinovi politiki. Russia pod
Stalinom mu je vecja nevarnost
- sal tax Wis napravi n kot pa
karkoli drugega, cato 10 ie treba
reorganizirati, da DO postala de-
mokraticna, civilizirana dezela.
PRAY tako Sc huduje ma Roose-
velta in njegov kabinet, in ma
Churchilla ter njegovo Anglijo.
Nedavno pa je v Sheboyganu
govoril Wendell Willkie. Udri-
hal je pc start gardi republican
fske stranke, Timed ME pc R. R.
Mccormick, XII izdaja Chicago
Tribune, in pc drugih slicnih re-
publikancih, XII delujejo, da
Willkie ma prihodnji konvenciii
ne bi dobil republikanske nomi-
nacije "a predsednika. Mlatil ie
seveda tudi pc Rooseveltu in po-
liticnih hibah in grehih njegove
administracije.
Udelezba: ma Thomasovem
shodu $50 oseb, ma WiIlkieievem
4,200.o ~.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-04-05

kamor je pobegnil, in .sedai v.
Kanadi. ceprav je on strasten
sovraznik Hitlerja, nj mic boljSi
cd MEGA. Tudi on veruje, kakor
kajzer, v geslo, "Jaz in Bog.
Oba brata sta pomagala S svo-
jim sodckom smodnika svetu V
drugo svetovno vojno. Otto, XII
je Sc xiv, bi pomagal v tretJo, ce
Sc Sc kdaj prikoplje do moci.
Frank Barbich.