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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-16
ETH HAMMERS OUT NEW HOLD
 ON HOLY SOIL
BY JAMES McGLINCY United Press War Correspondent

NONW 4 ANSS WEI VAASOPOAV
 Paris, December 16. - (UP)-The Germans rushed crack Panzer reserves into battle in the upper Rhine land today in an effort to halt the latest American pen etration of the ''holy soil" of the Reich, but the Seventh Army hammered out new gains against almost point blank fire from the Siegfried Line.
 At least two and probably more of It. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's Seventh Army Divisions already were across the German border at the Wisembourg gate near the eastern tip of France, and other units were rapidly ap- preaching the frontier along a 19-mile front.
 To the north. battles of attritlon = which It. Gen. Omar N. Bradley, commander of the 18th Army group, said were costing the Germans four to five men for every American lost ragged on in the other two Ameri- can bridgeheads inside Germany,
 The German First Army frightened it's siege arc around the Roer river stronghold of Duren on the Cologne plain by smashing the last enemy resistance in Gurzenich, Birgel and Kufferath, all one-half to three and one-haf miles south of Quren, and won high ground in that area over looking the Roer.
 Other First Army troops liqui- dated the last two German pockets along a 16-mile stretch of the Roer north of Duren, mopping up fac- tory area southeast of Mariaweiler and capturing castle near Schop- hoven.
 It. Gen. George s. Patton's Third Army, holding down the center of the western front, won another city block in Saarlautern in the face of stiff enemy resistance and ground out advances of up to mile and half along an II mile front near Habkirchen, to the southeast.
 Elements of Patton's 35th Division entered the burning German village of Nieder- -Gladbach, six miles north east of Sarreguemines, and nearby Erchingen. Fighter -bombers sup ported the ground forces in the Saar Valley. striking defended positions and communications behind the en- emy lines.
 A supreme headquarters spokes- man revealed that the German com- mand had shifted clements of a crack Panzer division from one of the northern sectors into line op- posite Patchs Seventh army boring into the Palatinate, historic invas- ion corridor to central and southern Germany.
 Collision
 Colliding head-on with the ad- vancing Americans, the Germans fought bitterly, but gradually were falling back into the Siegfrled line
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BY BRUCE w. MUNN
 United Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 London, December 16. = 1UP) = Russian tanks and CosSack Horsemen broke into the broad plains of southern Elovakia in a new threat to Vienna and the Slovak capi- tai of Bratislava today as Berlin broadcasts hinted that a powerful Red Army winter offensive was getting under way in the south of Poland.
 Tightly censored accounts from Moscow and Berlin gave only the barest details on the battle for Budapest, where freezing rains and strong German reinforce ments combined to slow the Russian assault almost to a standstill at the gates of the city. Nazi SS Elite Guards were reported holding sway in the terror-ridden capital to prevent an uprising by the Hungarian population.
 On the slavak Hungarian from tier S5 miles northwest of Budapest, however, Cossack cavalrymen and armored units of Marshal Rodion Y. Maiinovsky's Second Ukrainian Army froced a major break in the German defenSes covering the direct road Co Bratislava and Vienna.
 Smashing across the Ipoly river barrier after five days of ferociouS fighting, the Soyiets stormed ana captured Sahy and pushed on through a two-mile-wide mountain gap into the Bratislava plain.
 German shock troops counter-at- tackled repeatedly in a desperate at tempt to hold Sahy and flghtlng swirled from house to house all ThurSday night, but they were rout- ed early Friday, leaving more than 300 dead and the burned-out hulks of 13 tanks in the streets.
 Malinovsky's troops thrust west ward into the rolling plains, where they were in position to drive d. rectly ahead from Bratislava and the Austrian capital, S4 and ll6
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-16
Thieves Abondon Stolen MuiI

Boston, Dec. 16- (UP) Thieves who left a sack of Christmas mail and presents in Harvard Square apartment entry were sought by police today.
 The sack was found last night by Cambridge policeman. Police believed the mail may have been stolen from the Cambridge mail depot by extra workers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-16
9th Extends Bridgeheod

Rome, December 16. CUP) - Canadian troops of the Eighth Army extended their bridgehead over the Naviglio Canal west of Ra- venna against stiff German resist ance and beat off number oi counter-attacks, headquarters an- nounced today.
 Southwest of Faenza British and Polish units of the Eighth Army hammered out gains after day of hard fighting.
 In the Fifth Army sector fierce fighting was reported continuing in the area of Tossignano where Britt ish troops repulsed a number of German attempts to recapture the village. 13 miles west of F'aenza and
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-16
PreIate Known In Waterbury

churches in memory of the late Most Rev. Maurice F. McAuliffe, bishop of Hartford, who died last night after a long and lingering illness. -s-
 At press time today no formal plans for ceremonies of tribute to the late Bishop had been completed but local clergy were scheduled to meet in session soon to determine the time and place for memorial services.
 The Most, Rev. Bishop was wide ly known here both among the lay men as well as the Catholic clergy and was a visitor to the city or numerous occasions both in the capacity of his high ecclesiastical of ice, as principal participant in church dedications and similar func- tions, and as the honored guest of various religious and civil organiza- tionS.
 Many expressions of sincere sor- row were heard here today coupled with that of Governor Raymond E. Baldwin. The Most Rev. Bishop was widely active in progressive social reforms throughout the en- tire diocese and the conidant of state and national notables.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-16
CIGARETTES BY MAIL

Boston, Dec. 16-(UP} In the latest wrinkle to cigarette rationing, a Boston store has the customer fill out form and pay for carton which he receives few days later in the mail.
 The carton must last the cus- toner 10 days.
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Evening star., 1944-12-11
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significant damage.
The broadcast was unreliable
in places, but apparently the
enemy claimed some interception
had chalked up victories against
the Super-Fortresses.
The Japs said that there were
abou so Super-Forresses attack
ing in force and claimed to have
downed five, and that t hey
probably damaged q others.
The Japanese war minister,
Sugiyama, interrupted his report
to he Diet his afternoon to make
a statement that the Super
Fortress raid was then in prog
ress over the city.
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commanding

eral H. S. Hansell, commanding
general of the 21st Bomber group.
The raid was the fifth in the
war of the B-29's. /
The last visit to okyo was on
December 3rd, when the force is
described as making substantial
hits on the Japanese capital.
Tokyo radio said that giant
planes dropped explosives and in
cendiaries at random causing in
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1944-12-27

Tokyo industrial targets in a
daylight attack oday, it has been
reported.
The announcement was made
by Gen. H. H. Arnold, command
ing general OF the goth Airforce.
who said that communioue
would be issued when operation
al reports were received in
Washington from Brigadier Cen
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man Clayborn-
December 26th they departed
with William Button, Harold
Bayne, James Pappas, ole
Shureos and James Sutton.
Alaska Airlines
Harry swanton came In from
Kotzebue and Deering with
mail. He plans to return today
on the regular mail run with
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NOTICE: LOMEN CONNER
cTAL co. EMPLOYEES:
Your Withholding Receipts
for Income AK withheld on your
WAGES for 1914 are ready.
Please call for yours at our
general office:
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TOKYO HAS
BEEN BOMBED
AGAIN!

WASHINTON, Dec 27.-(AP)
-Superfortresses of the 21st
Bomber Command, flying from
bases in Saipan Island, bombed
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ANYWAYS

Pan American Anyways
December oath the PAA ar
rived with a load of Christmas
Evening star., 1944-09-03
Moves
Continued From First Page.)

there went up roar Of delirious
approval as the condemned were led
to stakes in front Of the bare fac
tory wall. All young, they walked
quietly, without protesting or faiter-
ing. They looked straight ahead as
guards tied their hands securely to
the stakes.
The trial at which these men were
condemned this morning was \
straightforward affair. The men
didn't deny they were members of
the militia. They said they had be-
lieved militia and Vichy represented
French law and order.
I was 20 feet from a 17-year -old
boy tied to the right-hand stake. He
was the youngest Of the group-the
oldest was ~. At the trial he had
stated he joined the militia because
he believed what Petain said. Now
he was very pale. He seemed to be
looking out over the heads of the
H-man firing squad rather than at
them.
A man went at him with a piece of
paper in his hand and asked q ques-
ton 1 couldn't hear. The boy shook
his head without looking at him.
The man stepped aside. A moment
later, as the crowd hushed for the
first time, the soldiers raised their
guns and fired. The boy slumped
to a sitting position, q look Of hurt
and surprise on his face.
Evening star., 1944-09-03
Veterans Of This War
10 Discuss National
Group This Week

A move by veterans of this war
to form their own national organi-
cation here was revealed last night
when two World War II Veterans
Clubs announced a meeting at 8
pm. Wednesday at the Ambassador
Hotel.
The two clubs, the Veterans Club
of Washington and the Veterans
Club OF George Washington Uni
versity, are open only to veterans
OF this war. They first joined
forces yesterday when they spon-
sored a party for servicemen at
Service Club No. /.
Both our clubs have received
letters from similar clubs all over
the United States" Elmo Keel, act
ing chairman of the foundation
committee for the national group,
said. Nearly all asked if we were
interested in forming a national
organization"
1t is easy to see our problems are
different from those of World War
1 veterans, and the only way we
can solve our problems is by or
ganizing ourselves" Mr.. Keel said.
The foundation committee an
nounced that choice of a name
would be one of the main points to
be discussed at the meeting.
Several members of Congress, in
cluding Representative Kelley, Dem
ocrat, of Pennsylvania, the father
OF five sons in the service, have
promised to be present. Temporary
officers will be elected.
Evening star., 1944-09-03
Bronze Workers FIou1
|WlB Order 10 Return
lin Cleveland Strike
By the Associated Press,

CLEVELAND. Sept. 2.-Striking
members of the Mechanics Educa-
tional Society of America, disre-
garding q Regional War Labor
Board back-to-work order. voted to-
day to strengthen picket lines At
two plants of the Cleveland Graph
ite Bronze Co.. maker Of engine
bearings for BIO Super Fortresses.
About 1000 have been idle since
Thursday.
Matthew L. Smith, national MESA
secretary, urged members to attend
q mass meeting in front Of the
company's main plant Monday
night. Il want 1000 pickets out
there" Mr.. Smith said.
James L. Myers, company execu-
tive vice president. announced the
firm Is preparing to resume opera
tions on the Q pm. shift Monday.
Eve are confident that our people
will return to work." Mr.. Myers said.
The Regional War Labor Board
yesterday ordered al employees, ex-
cept the one whose discharge for
breaking an inexpensive lock on
his locker precipitated the strike,
to return to their jobs Immediately.
However, a shoulder-to-shoulder
picket line in front of each plant
kept all but a few supervisory en-
ployes from entering.
Evening star., 1944-09-03
-Four Fatally Hurt
During Week in
| Falls at Home

The District Red Cross Home Ac-
cident Prevention Service yesterday
reported four deaths from falls in
District homes last week, bringing
home fatalities to 81 since the flrst
Of the year.
A recapitulation of nonfatal home
accidents last week reveals 48 per-
sons treated at local hospitals for
falls. II for burns, for accidental
poisoning, 8 for foreign bodies in
ears, nose and throat, cases of
severe bruises, % for cuts and ~
for injuries of a miscellaneous ma
ture-a total of 116 cases.
There were four cases of rat bites
and four of dog bites. Two children
bit their tongues in falls, one s.
year-old girl was severely scalded
when she pulled a pan of hot water
from stove and a 3-year -old boy
suffered second-degree burns on the
hand when he picked up a hot po-
tato.
A 26-year-old woman drank TO-
dine thinking 1t was cough medi.
cine, two women suffered severe
cuts while cutting up chicken and
two cut their fingers on broken
glass while washing dishes.
Evening star., 1944-09-03
Independent Union Defeats
Clio in Shipyard Ballot
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Sept. a
The Peninsula Shipbuilding Associa-
ton, an independent union of en-
ployes of the Newport News Ship
building and Dry Dock Co. won
over the CIO in an election conduct
ed at the yard yesterday to select
the bargaining agency for employees.
Eugene A. Curry, representative
of the National Labor Relations
Board. reported today 9,240 votes
were cast for the association and
1888 for the C1O Industrial Union
OF Marine and Shipbuilding Work.
ers. Mr.. Curry said the approxi-
mate eligible vote among produc-
tion and maintenance workers and
clerks who physically handle ma
terials was 15,497. and of these,
1888 actually voted. A total Of
l89 votes were challenged and 341
were cast for neither" union.
In a concurrent election to name
the bargaining agent for plant pro-
lection employees - watchmen - the
independent union received o. votes
and the CIO 64.
Evening star., 1944-09-03
By the Associated Press.


Allied leaders now consider It
probable that Germany viii fall
apart piecemeal, army by army,
rather than In . single surrender,
1t was learned yesterday.
Armistice terms have been fully
agreed on by Russia, the United
States and Britain and are ready
for use in either case. Starting
with unconditional surrender, they
provide In effect that the Reich
must become prisoner nation for
an indefinite period Of strict mill
tary occupation.
The fate of the country after that
period-there has been considera-
ton of placing it on trial for sew
eral years-its relation to the rest
Of Europe and its place in an or
ganized world may provide q prin-
cipal topic for President Roosevelt
and Prime Minister Churchill In
their imminent conference. The
problem Is complicated by the fact
that II Germany is defeated piece
meal it will end up in a state of
political chaos out Of which the Al
lies will have to build q new struc-
ture OF government.
Collapse May Come Seen.
Some authorities here would not
be surprised to see the collapse of
Germany get under way while the
President and the Prime Minister
are in session.
But in the absence Of Premier
Stain, arrangements for European
affairs can only be laid out tenta-
lively.
Final decisions are expected, how
ever. on the place OF British forces
in the closing stages of war against
Japan.
Under the circumstances it seems
likely that the British will have the
assignment Of reconquering the
Evening star., 1944-09-03
Germany May Fall PiecemeoI,
Allied Peace Planners Soy

SlpGapOre-Dutch Indies area. This
II = sphere Of primary British in
terest just As the Philippines-For-
mosa section Is one of American
concern.
So far Is reliable informants here
are able to say, there are no more
important military problems for the
British and American top leaders in
the European theater. The Job now
is . technical one.
Anti-Nazis Needed.
Should there grow up inside Ger
many an anti-Nazi force capable
OF surrendering the country, the
political question OF an interim au-
thortty would be settled. Even If
the old German military command
had some power left, it might be
able to make a surrender and would
at least be force to deal with.
But all evidence here Is that
the Nazis have = stranglehold on
the country, that the German peo-
pie are politically apathetic under
a reign Of terror, and that there
is no hope for the emergence Of
any group capable of surrender.
Ofhcials advised the Associated
Press categorically yesterday that
no kind of German peace offer
and no peace inquiries from any
responsible parties in the Reich
have come through. Months ago
there were frequent unoficial in
quiries from German diplomats and
businessmen in neutral countries
but even these recently have be.
come infrequent.
The belief of officials here Is that
the Nazi leaders, already without
hope, will seek to hold the German
people in line until the armies are
destroyed
If it turns out this way it is cer-
tain to leave Germany in q condi-
ton of chaos unprecedented In any
large modern European state.
Evening star., 1944-09-03

thesda, Md, has been wounded in
action in the European area.
Sergt. Francis L. Martin, %, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. r. F. Martin OF
zoos Gibbon street, Alexander, re-
ceived q fractured jaw and face
wounds in France around August l,
he has written his mother. In q
letter she received yesterday, he
said his face wounds have healed.
A native of Alexander, Sergt. Mar
tin graduated from the George
Washington High School where he
was a member of the baseball team.
He also was active in the Alexandria
Boys Club. Before he entered the
service about % months ago, he
worked as an electrician in Alex
andria. He went overseas last Oc-
tober.
Sergt. Martin has been awarded
the Purple Heart.
Decorated
Marine Col. Henry d. Linscott,
formerly of Alexandria. has been
awarded a Gold Star in lieu of a
second Legion of Merit Medal in
ceremonies at San Diego, the Asso-
ciated Press reported yesterday.
Col. Linscott was decorated for
meritorious performance while serv-
ing as assistant chief of staff to the
commander of the Sd Amphibious
Force from July Is. 1943, to March
81, 1914. According to the citation,
he planned the operations for the
amphibious actions which resulted
In the seizure of Vella Lavella,
Treasury and Cape Torokina on
Bouginville. Green and Emirau Is
lands in the South Pacific.
Evening star., 1944-09-03
Shortage Of Labor
Spurs Plan 10 Check
New D. T.. Contracts

Warning that Washington indus
tries and services will face short
age Of 1000 workers by November l,
Area War Manpower Director Ern-
est v. Connolly disclosed last night
that a modified Production Urgency
Committee had been set up under
the War Production Board to in
vestigate new contracts entering the
Washington area.
At the same time, he announced
that the United States Employment
Service placed 80 District men on
a super secret" project for the
armed forces elsewhere in the coun-
try last week.
Mr.. Connolly explained the COM
mittee under WPB had been estab-
lished as a further step to con-
serve labor for the most important
| jobs in the area
Most Workable Solution.
With the addition of this restric-
ton over new contracts, Mr.. Connol-
ly said, the controls already in ope-
ration here appear to offer the
most workable solution to the labor
shortage problem which faces us in
the immediate future"
He added, however, that the rising
demand for workers in depleted la
Dor market Is straining the facili-
| ties of VINO to supply workers
without cutting employment CELL
ings or allotting the available labor
on a percentage basis
Figures supplied by 78 employers
on their present and anticipated la
Dor needs, Mr.. Connolly reported,
show they will need 5000 additional
workers by November l, of which
about 1000 probably will be avail
able.
Many of the required workers, he
explained, must have specialized
skills which are no longer to be
found among the supply of workers,
with the result that in the face of
an acute shortage of labor, there is
still some unemployment, and es-
sential plants are seeking workers
from outside the District.
In his first report on the Districts S
part in the nationwide program to
hire workers for must" war pro-
duction Mr.. Connolly said the USES
had referred SGT workers to jobs on
the must list during the first four
days of last week, but only 1893 we're
placed
The super secret" project had the
greatest number of workers referred
to it and put the most to work. The
project interviewed 22O men to Sc
lect the 80 who were hired.
Difference Is Explained.
Mr. Connolly said placements ran
so far behind the number of work.
ers referred to the jobs because of
salaries, physical requirements,
living conditions and insufficient
skills Some of the workers were
turned down because they had a
police record or were liable to be
drafted
Many applicants, he reported,
particularly those with homes and
families here, felt the wages offered
would not enable them to move
their families or maintain their
homes here and support themselves
in other places
Other applicants failed to pass
the physical examination required
while still others rejected the jobs
because of inadequate housing or
poor living conditions, he said.
In addition to the secret project,
firms recruiting here for work else
where in the country on must
programs include Carnegie Steel
Corp, Atlas Powder Co., Alaska
Highway, Norfolk Navy Yard, Sun
Oil Co.. California Ship Yards and
Kaiser Shipbuilding Corp.
Evening star., 1944-09-03
WaIkouts
Threaten 10 Cripple
Soft Coal Industry
BY the Associated Press.

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 7.-The pos
sibility of 4 crippling strike faced
the soft-coal industry tonight, with
Is mines already idle, walkouta
threatened at IA others and strike
polls by supervisory employees on
schedule for next week at ~ pits
in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and
Kentucky.
Only Government control of the
mining properties appeared likely
to head OF further work stoppages.
The supervisors - firemen, fire
bosses, weigh bosses and others
seek recognition of their newly or
ganized union, the United Clerical,
Technical and Supervisory Union
of the Mining Industry, District so,
United Mine Workers.
10 Pits May Reopen.
Although only a few supervisory
employees are involved, their refusal
to work already has closed Is Penn
sylvania mines since, without safety
inspections for which they are re-
sponsible, production miners do not
enter the pits.
Nearly 10000 miners are idle but
more than half Of them are expect
ed to resume work Monday at 10 OF
the pits. John McAlpine, president
of the Supervisors Union, said he
had instructed the men to resume
work following seizure of the mines
Thursday by the Government.
Six other Western Pennsylvania
mines, not seized, employing 3,s3S
men and producing 1880 tons daily
are idle in the same dispute.
Strike Voted at IA.
Supervisors at IA more mines,
in West Virginia and in Penn
sylvania, voted yesterday and toda,
to strike If necessary to enforce
the demands.
The West Virginia mines, which
voted yesterday, operated today
but If they suspend 1885 men will
be made idle and . production loss
OF 12,800 tons of coal daily will be
involved. The Pennsylvania mines
which voted today employ 2,777
men and produce 1880 tons daily
Supervisors at four other Penn
sylvania mines voted today not Il
strike.