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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-12
BRITISH SEEK
 END TO GREEK
 POSSIBILITIES
BY PHIL AULT United Press Staff COrrespOndent)

United Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 London, December 12. = Harold Macmillan, British resident cabinet minister for the Mediterranean, and Mar shal Sir Harold R. L. G. Alex ander, Supreme Allied Com mander for the area, were re- ported rushing to Greece to- day as the, battle of Athens took a grave turn.
 Diplomatic sources under stood the British war cabi- net had given the two off cials "wide discretion" in taking whatever military and political steps they deemed necessary to end hostilities.
 The London Daily Sketch said they already had arrived in Greece and had invited British-supported Premier George Papandreou and leaders of the revolting left-wing FAM to confer with them. but. this was not confirmed immediately.
 The situation inside Athens was obscure today. No direct word was believed to have been received from the capital since last night, when United Press War Correspondent James E. Roper reported that ELIAS armies totalling 25,o00 men had surrounded British forces in the heart of Athens in a major of- fenSive.
 Roper,s final dispatch was filed at $40 p. m. Athens time (S:40 p. m. EWT), but did not reach Lon- don until nine and a half hours lat CT. The United Press Listening Post in London said no Allied correspon- dents had been heard broadcasting over the Athens radio since 5 p. m. (noon EWT) yesterday.
 The Daily Sketch's Listening Post said it had intercepted a massage from Athens to the Montreal Standard stating that because of an indiscretion," no further core spondents would be permitted in
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BY ROBERT MUsEF.

bY KObEKT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent
 London, December 12. (UP) = Tank-riding Russian shock troops, opening tho grand assault on Budapest. broke into the outskirts 0A the flaming capital today and Moscow declared that Soviet Armies have collapsed the entire German front iz1 Hungary and are pouring through a 185-miIe breach on the southeastern road tG Austria and Germany.
 "The German defense in Hungary has collapsed radio Moscow declared in a triu mphant broadcast beamed to Germany. 'sBudae pest can no longer be held Its fall is imminent.
 "The threat to Vienna, tI1a rest of Hungary and Czechue slovakia has grown many times over.
 Russian shock armies izS the southwest have broken open the, west Hungariau gate into Germany and ara smashing through a breach 300 kilometerS wide"
 Soviet field dispatches said thun~ dering artillery duels and viOlenA hanud-to-hand fighting were raging over and in the outskirts of Buda@ pest.
 Russian shock troops, shootinN from the tops of their chargin& tanks, drove intot he northern and northeastern edge of the city ana ran head-on into a great concen& tration of German artillery masse& in the streets.
 Levelling great areas of the 0ncep glittering capital to clear fire lanea of their guns, the Nazis hurled saIu0 after salvo into the attacking Rus~ sian ranks in desperate attemp1 to wipe out the Sovie penetration
 Roundabout Berlin accounts said the Soviets already had surrounds ed strong covering forces left inc side Budapest and were pursuin~ the bulk of the German-Hungariai4 army northwest toward Vienna.
 Late Moscow dispatches said. howe ever, that narrow escape corridor way
 along the Budapest-Vienna raize way still was in German hands and that the main Soviet assault col@ umnS were smashing down alouN the east bank of the Danube and from the northeastern flank into (Continued on Page 4)
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WING Clamps Do1On
 On Transfer Permits
NEA Telephoto from OWI.

Issuance of statements of avail ability in the Waterbury area will be further restricted as 8 necessary factor in proSecutinn of the war, # was announced today by Mrs. Mary M. Dewey, area War ManpoWer di- rector, who revealed that 11,546 re- quests for job-transfer certificates were made at the U. s. Employment Service during the 18-month period ending October 31.
 Declaring that the transfer of workers from one job to another is a serious detriment to the war ef- fort, Mrs. Dewey revealed the WING labor committee at it's appeals hearings last night refused to issue a single statement of avail ability and indicated it will continue a strict policy of denying all such requests except in extremely urgent and forcful cases.
 Announcement of the increasingly strict watch over the stabiliZation program comes in the midst of ef- forts by the WING to secure add itional workers for the new ammu- nitionS program in this city, and to supply the demands of local essen- tial industry for 2,000 additional workers.
 Of the 11,546 persons who placed their cases before the USES, total of 1,067 tok appeals to the WING, and 85 took further appeals to the regional WING office in Boston, it was disclosed in detailed WING report which covers the 18-month period from April 2, 1943 to Octo- Der 31, 1944.
 The WING labor management committee, which heard the 1,067 appeals, sat at 153 sessions anc used 383 man hours to hear the cases, Mrs. Dewey pointed out.
 Of the appeals heard by the WING 659 were for statements of avail ability, while 4O8 were based on re. fusal of the USES to refer the workers to jobs they desired. The WING upheld the USES decisions in 72 per cent of the job-transfer cases, and in 50 per cent of the referral cases.
 Numerous Appeals
 It was pointed out the referral
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-12
Yanks Battle Japs
 Into Deadly Trap
By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON

United Press War COrrespOndent) Allied Headquarters, Philippines, Dec. 12-CUP)-American troops battled the survivors of Japan's Leyte Island garrison into tight ening death trap north of Ormoc today after @ savage assault that carried away the southern flank of the YamaShita line and wiped out a strong Japanese force pocketed below the port.
 GA Domei News Agency dispatch, recorded by FCC, reported indirectly that Allied troops had landed on Biliran Island, just across a nar- row Strait from the northwestern arm of Leyte.
 (The dispatch claimed that Jap anese planes on Sunday had 'at- tackled enemy forces on the western coast of Biliran Island, north of Leyte," and heavily damaged two enemy motor vessels. The report was not confirmed by any Allied Source)
 A communique from Gen. Douglas MacArthur,s headquarters revealed that the bulk of the enemy garrison, considerably reduced from last weeks estimated 10000 to 5000 men, has been herded into single pocket extending from @ point just above OrInoc to the Tolibaw area l 18 miles farther north.
 Veteran dough aboys of the 77th Division sprang the trap yesterday when they effected a junction with the Seventh Division below Depo- sito, three and one-half miles south of Ormoc.
 Thousands Of crack Japanese troops, caught between the two forces, were killed or captured in the final thrust and only handful were believed to have esceped into the hills in the interior.
 There was TO immediate an- nouncement on the number of en- emy troops destroyed in the action, but front reports said great amount of Japanese arms and sup plies was taken.
 (Tokyo broadcasts asserted that the Japanese troops south of Ormoc not only were still holding out but had received endorsements and were carrying on fierce counter offensive" against the 77th Dtvis- ion).
 At the same time, other units of the units of the 77th showed north of Ormoc into the crumpled rear oi the Yamashita line in pincers attack coordinated with the south ward drive of the Sand Division from Tolibaw.
 The 32nd was reported advancing slowly over almost impossible Ter rain and meeting furious resistance from the main Japanese forces thrown across the line in that area It was indicated, however, that the enemy would soon be forced te divert a considerable part of his force to meet the threat of the 77th Division pounding up in the rear.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-12
Reporter, No Nijiinsky And Actress Anuse As Dancers

with Miss w. in one of the capitals fanciest saloons, surrounded by gen. erals sprinkled with gold braid, ad- mirals with ditto, one justice of the supreme court with a bald spot, some prosperous congressman and numerous slinky- looking ladies who probably were international spies.
 Miss Williams, who'd been on . tour of army hospitals in the south. looked good in clothes. (Back In Hollywood used to call on her frequently in the regular course of business, when she looked all right in a bathing suit) She wore Q dress with glittery stun on 1t. two orchids and c $5.Oo0 mink coat. lent her by the Metro Goldwyn-Mayer ward robe department. She was 2 sight to see.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-12
Bishop McAuIiffe Still GroveIV III

Hartford, Conn.,, Dec. 12 - (U.P0- There was no great change over night in the condition of Rt. Rev. Maurice F. McAuliffe, Bishop of the Hartford Roman Catholic Diocese, according to his physicians early today.
 Bishop McAuliffe is gravely ill at St. Francis hospital where he has been a patient since December 3.
 While we have every hope for his recovery" said 8 chancery statement issued late last night, i've most earnestly request the prayers of the people of the diocese and of the state for his spiritual and phy- sical welfare"
 His physicians said bulletin on his condition would be issued dur ing the morning.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-12
REDS CRASH BUDAPEST SUBURBS 1ST BREAKS THROUGH R0ER DEFENSES
CRACKS STAND 0R-DIE LINE
 NEAR COLOGNE
BY JAMES McGLINCY United Press War COrrespOndent)

United Press War COrrespondent)
 Paris, December 12.-(UP) = First Army Forces broke through to the Roer river, Germany's Stand-or-die de- fense line before Cologne, on a 1,O00-yard front today, but fierce Nazi artillery fire farther north stalled another column less than two miles from the Roer stronghold of Duren.
 The American Third and Seventh Armies knocking at the central gateway to the Rhineland plunged on through the last crumbling Ger man resistance in northeastern France to within mile to 12 miles of the enemy frontier on a 50-mile front.
 It. Gen. Beorge s. Patton's Third Army swept across the Blies river and captured Biesbruck, five miles east of Surreguemines and 8 mile from Germany. Third Army guns already were smelling the Saar basin industrial centers of zwei- brucken, B miles northeast of Bliesbruck and St. Ingbert five miles northeast of battered Saar- brucken.
 Smashing the hard crust of Ger man resistance at the eaSternmoSt tip of France, the Seventh Army rolled up to eight miles beyond the captured enemy anchor bastion of Haguenau in little more than F hour opposition in some sectors was described as "astonishingly light"
 It. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges American First Army won its first foothold on the west bank of the Roer river in a sudden thrust east ward from heights in the Branden- berg area seven miles south of Duren.
 Armored units attacking Duren frontally, however, ran into a wall of fire from self-propelled German guns and tanks between Echtz and Mariaweiler, the latter only 8 mile from Duren and q miles southwest of Cologne, and ground to a tenn porary halt.
 Heavy artillery fire also held up other First Army units attacking Hoven, a mile east of Echtz and two miles north of Duren, and Schop- hoven, four miles farther north.
 Elsewhere along the 13-mile of- fenSive front, the First Army cleared three quarters of Merken in bitter house-to-house fighting, battled in the streets of Pier and Gey for the third straight day and captured the by-passed village of Merode.
 Penetrate MerOde
 Two American infantry companies first penetrated Mcrode, three miles west of Duren, last week, but were cut off and wiped out by German counter-a attack. Doughboys fought back into the town over the week.
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GuIe Loshes
 New England

Boston, Dec. 12 - (U.Po = A full gale out of the southeast swept up through New England today bringing rain in the south, heavy snow in the north and flooding tides over coastal lowlands.
 The storm, 8 segment of one that moved northward from Virginia into Pennsylvania, was centered over Providence, R. l., at a. m.
 In special advisory, the Weather Bureau warned that the gale would lash its way northward through the day and by sunset probably would be centered in the vicinity of BaI Harbor, Me.
 Rain and sleet fell intermittently in southern sections of the region while in western Massachusetts the fields and highways were covered with half-inch of snow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-12
Jops Say B-29s
 Killed Allied PWs
Rv TIuitAd PreSS

ny OHAtcU HECSS
 A Japanese Domei dispatch said today that American B-29 Super fortresses killed 18 American and British prisoners of war and wound ed 29 others last Thursday during raid on Mukden, Manchur1a.
 The B-29s broke formation and "perpetrated irdiscriminate bomb ing" when intercepted by Japanese fighters, the Doemi dispatch from Mukden said. Bombs which fell in prison camp killed 16 Americans and Britons instantly and severely wounded IS others, two of whom lat- CT died, Domei said. Twenty prison CTS were wounded less seriously, the dispatch said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-12
Hopkins Kno1Ds Story OF Nominations Says Chandler

ever, that Chandler would have an opportunity to question Hopkins. Committee Chairman Tom Connally, D., Tex, called Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., and the six nominees as the first witnesses and left to the committee whether it should summon others, such as Hopkins, or permit questioning by non- members such as Chandler.
 The nominations in question are those of Joseph c. Grew to be un- dersecretary of state and William L. Clayton, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Archibald MacIeish, James c. Dunn and Brig. Julius Holmes to be assist ant secretaries.
 Chandler, 8 leader in the senate floor fight which sent four of the nominations back to committee for
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-12
By JOHN L. CUTTER United Press Staff Correspondent

NOAASCsA CSS OStSAA OOAA SSE
 Washington, Dec. 12.-(UP)-Sen. Albert B. Chandler, D., Ky, sug- gested today that the senate for eign relations committee call on presidential adviser Harry Hopkins if it wants "the whole story" behind President Roosevelt's six new ap- pointments to high State Depart ment posts.
 Hopkins probably knows as much as anyone how these appointments were made" Chandler said as the committee opened hearings on the six nominations. ''He probably could give the committee more in- formation than anyone else. If they ask me for suggestions, I would suggest Harry Hopkins as a witt ness"
 There was little prospect. h0w-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-12
By FREDERICK c. OTHMAN


 United Press Staff Correspondent
 Washington, Dec. 12 = (UP0 = This is my first report on Othman and bride in high society. Probably my last, too, for reasons herein after to become apparent.
 What happened was that Esther Williams, the lady who made the bathing suit what it is today, hove in from Hollywood to auction oil a peach-colored wisp - @ Williams bathing suit-in the war bond drive.
 As Miss Williams says (and has demonstrated time and time again in technicolor) you only get from Q bathing suit what you put into it. The Bond Department ought to get couple of million dollars for hers However. that may be, she said how about us having dinner with herr Ny bride and ! found oyrselxe.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-12
Soviets Collapse Entire German Defenses In Hungary; Fall Of
 Capital Is Believed Imminent
BULLETIN

With U. s. First Army, Ger- many, Dec. R-UP)-Americazl troops drove within 1,OOO yards Of the outskirts of Duren today ila advances which captured Pier Merken and HOven.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-03

different direction. Tie present war
might never have occurred and Hess
today would not be a prisoner.
Madness, aptly enough, forms an
other interesting link between the
two cases.
Frau Hess bases her second charge,
the charge Of insanity, on the official
German communicate, issued after the
Nazis had recovered from the first
shock of surprise over he deSertion
of their exalted Deputy Fuehrer
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-03

rEE flight-to Scotland Of Rudolf Hess, Hitler's
l No. 2 boy-to date. the most fantastic episode
j Of the wal has now, after three years, ac-
CURED an almost equally fantastic sequel.
His wife, Frau Use Hess, has brought suit for
divorce alleging desCTton and insanity.
Sometimes humorlcssness can be carried 10
point where il becomes funny. The occasions are
rare, but this charge OF deserion would certainly
seem 10 be one of them.
Herr Hess went off on what ne and other top
flight Na2is no doubt considered mission OF earth
shaking importance, nothing less than an attempt
10 conclude separate peace with Great Britain.
The mission went avIy, and the Great NaH be-
came Just another prisoner OF war 50
~ ulls. tnoaCl ncredible, was on VERY high
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-03

lack OF stomach for the manly art @
war, his avoidance OF profanity, anCS
his first words on arriving In Scot
land, 81 have come 10 save humanity
(who but mailman, they asked
wouI want 10 save humanity'l were
all fair game.
Ulysses, for his part fecucd mad
ness, Homer says, in order 10 csCypc
being drafted for The Trojan war.
When his pal, Paldmcdcs, came 90 an.
nounCc that, his number was up,
Ulysses yol.cd an ass and an oN 10
his pillow and began 20 sow field
with salt.
But PalamcdcS was no moro Of a
sucker than most draft board exam
incrs Of today
Placing the would be SCrcWhall'e in
FAINT son, Tclcmachus. i'm the way Of
the pillow, he stood back 20 see what
would happen. Ulysses vccrcd around
the child and so betrayed himself.
Later, on his way home from Troy,
his long stay on the island Of The
nymph, Calypso. is supposed TO have
indicated a arrangement OF sorts.
However, Homer's lush descriptions
would seem 10 cast some doubt on
this Interpretation.
So far as is known, Hess has en-.
countcrcd no Calypso.
Nor, thanks 10 his Wifc'S impctuOS-
ity, Will ne now ever have a chance
to wind up his sara with mass
shaving of her suitors.
That is particularly sad, since, II
there are any such, 'they.arc probably
NaH Gauleiters, than whom il is hard
TO think OF any mugs more ripe for
mass.slaying.
Millions are ahead Of Rudolf, wait.
ing TO lay their hands on them.
SO, no matter how YOU look at il.
Frau Hess inopportunc divorce plea
has struck "A sour note.
OF course, if il turns out when ant
if the details OF her husbands
Quixotic exploit are ever fully re-
Vcaled-that his real purpose in co
ing to Scotland was really just 10
get away from her then her Squawk
will seem less homogeneous.
Failing that, it surely deserves
place we'll up among the major anti
climaXes of history.
THE NNEnICtN WEEKLY
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-03

years waiting for her wandering hus-
band. Suppose, like Frau Hess, she
had given up after a mere three
years. Imagine the consequences!
Homer would have had 10 stop
composing his Odyssey and, as a re
suit, Greek mythology and legend
would have lost its spinal column.
Moreover, since ancient Greece has
served as a model for England, the
whole current Of English literature
and history might then have taken Il
10 September 3. 1874
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-03

q a n e.. way up
among the lofty
peaks OF interna-
tIonal statecraft.
Then all of a
sudden - b i n & o.
With one shot Frau
Hess brings | h c
whole fancy struC-
turc tumbling down
10 the level Of ham
and eggs, squallinc
babies and of or
binary family rows.
Echoing the cry
OF abused house
wives the world
over, she claims
her husband &c.
serted her,
Not only has her
complaint tackled a
pooGlc's tale On
what looked llke an
elephant, but, D. TIE
same token. Ia s
ruined her chance
Of becoming the
modern Penelope.
Ulysses pa lent
wife, it viii be rc.
called, spent 10 long
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-03

led 10 fears that Party Fellow Mem.
Der Hess was a victim Of halluCina-
tons
Fellow party members Of Party
Fellow Member Hess thercupon 10y
ally recalled that he had always been
a queer sort of duck However, the
fact that many Of his eccentricities
resembled Hitler's kept their criticism
within bounds.
But his nickname, "Fraulein," his
coquettishly carmined toenails, his
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-03

Party Fellow Member Hess,
il read in part, who because OF
his falling health has been strictly
forbidden by the Fuchrcr 10 be
active in aviation, was able, con-
trary 10 these instructions, 10 ac-
quire an airplane again recently.
ION Saturday, May 10, about
6 p. NJ, Party Fellow Member
Hess started on a flight at EuEs-
burg from which he has not re-
turned TO this day
"a letter deft behind unfortu-
natcly shows in its confusion the
trannS Of rrnnnfal disnlAnr NAhinh
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-03

The Nazi SerewboII Who
Flew to Scotland Finds Frou
Hess Unlike Penelope OF
Greek Legend. for She Hos
Token All the Drama Out Of
His Fantastic Flight by
Suing Him for Desertion
Evening star., 1944-06-18

DoTrIE BoRRows one from the tea
experts brisk" is their own word
to describe the fresh, lively, full
bodied flavor of Upton Tea.
Lipton's tastes better because it's
brisk. Zestier, smoother, refreshing,
Evening star., 1944-06-18

~&a1 u,z EN-
A news question answer game
l. BULI'S-EYE How does the bopbardier
k'soO that he has hit the target?
Acamera electrically connected with the bomb
sight, automatically takes pictures every time
bombs are released
I. BAD NEWS FOR ToJo =. Before Pearl
Harbor il took Uncle Sam 81 months to build a..
craft carrier. II months for destroyer. Hov long
does it take today?
Carrier: Is months Destroyer months. +
A. C., Boston, Mass
:. WOW! :. What is one of the importam reasons
for conserving fuel oii'
modern batteship takes enough oil at a
single fuelng to heat an average home for $50
years. Mrs. 6. E., ST. Louis, Mo.
I. SKY PILOTS How many chaplains
serving in Amy to comfort and counsel the boys?
There were 6 1893 at the end of 1943; the number
is higher now
5. WEATHER -. The Amy Map Service charts
the rainfall temperature and humidity Of every part
of the world Where, in this country would you find
,ceather like that Of Toxic? Of Moscow?
Toxic weather is similar to that of Washington
D. c.; Bismarck N. D.. is like Moscow.
6. SHARK MEAT .. How has science helped
to sace liees in shark-tntested waters?
Scientists have discovered that sharks will not
eat dead shark meat. So they have made repellent
of decomposed shark meat - cake about the size
of small bar of soap which is pinned to the Mae
West life Jackets. H. S. X, Keene, N. H.
I. ROLL on >. How can ,oe breserce the life
of our precious automobile tires?
By maintaining normal imitation As air pressure
drops more heat is generated. This increases
tread wear and weakens cord carcasses.
conaass.a by N A..~
NOTE: We pay 81 in War Savings Stamps for each
question and accepted for in this column Proof
WEEK. 24OO Graybar Building, 42o Lexington Avenue
New II, N. Y. Unacceped contributions cannot be
acknowledged or returned
Evening star., 1944-06-18

Aavory-so different from teas that
are listless, and hat-tasting!
Lipton's is America very favorite
brand of tea because it's brisk =.
Borrow an idea from Dottie
a delicious cup of Lipton's today!