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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-28
TANKS HAMMER PATHWAY TO THE ROER
 LAST WATER OBSTACLE TO RIVER RHINE
9th Is Now Only 21 Miles
 From Cologne At 2 Points
BY ,. EDWARD MURRAY

BY J. EDWARD MURRAY Limited Press War Correspondentl Paris, November 28. (UP) - The American Ninth and First Armies today ham, mered their way to the ROer river, last water barrier be- fore the Rhine, in fighting advances that carried the ninth Army to the river at two points only 21 miles west of Cologne.
 Reports circulated that the Rhine had been forced by Allied troops at a point three miles north of StrasbOurg, but there was no official confirmation and the French war ministry issued 3 denial that French forces had crossed the Rhine.
 The drive up to the Roer went forward in bitter sav- age fighting with German broadcasts warning their Nazi listeners that the first and ninth armies appeared about ready to launch a fresh large-scale offensive to conn plete the clearance of the Roer banks and carry Amer ican spearheads to the open plains before Cologne.
 Lieutenant General Courtney H. Hodges First Army slashed for ward up to mile and quarter along an 11-mile front to within three miles of the fortress city of Duren. A front dispatch said the Germans were rushing up their strategic re- serves to meet the attack. On the central front Lieutenant General George s. Patton's Third American Army swung northeas6 along 60-n1ile sector advancing up to four miles and bringing his spear heads within eight and Il milA1 Of the German border city of Saar- brucken.
 Lieutenant General Alexander III. Patch's Seventh Army widened its corridor across the Alsatian Plain to Strasbourg and mopped up Nazl forces still resisting in pockets to the rear.
 RAF heavy bonlbers also con- tributed to the disruption of Ger man communications in the south ern Rhineland with Q heavy attack on Freiburg, strategic German railway junction 40 miles south of Strasbourg through which any re- Inducements for the area presuni- ably would pass,
 American fighter -bomhers yes- terday bombed a German railway bridge across the Rhine at Brei- sach, F miles west of Freiburg, and an enemy pontoon bridge in the same area.
 The American First and Ninth Armies pressing relentlessiy east toward the Roer and the Rhine at the northern end of the front were
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Rains Holt
 In 
BY WILLIAM F. THREE

United Press War COrreSpOndent)
 Pearl Harbor, Nov. 28-(UP)- Ground activity in the Philippines came to an abrupt halt in drench- ing rains today, while a Pearl Har- bor communique added another 25 vessels to the toll of Japanese ship ping sunk or damaged in Fridays carrier based raid on the invasion marked Capital Island of Luzon.
 Gen. Douglas MacArthur reported the enforced stalemate on the Leyte front in one of his briefeSt communiqueS since the invasion of the Philippines Oct. 20. His troops presumably were awaiting clearing skies before closing in for the final assault on the enemy's Ormoc pocket on the northwest coast of Leyte.
 GA Tokyo broadcast heard in London said Japanese planes sank four American battleships or heavy cruisers and damaged six transports in Leyte Bay about noon yesterday, while a Japanese communique rec orded by OWI reported that three transports had been set af1re and two unidentified warships damaged Friday night in the bay0
 Admiral Chester w. Nimitz's re- vised figures on the Third Fleets carrier assault on Luzon Friday dis I closed that 20 ships, including 8 heavy cruiser and three destroyers, had been sunk, nine wrecked and 19 damaged. The original tally for the raid had shown IS ships sunk and five damaged.
 In addition, 119 enemy planes were destroyed or damaged.
 The extent of destruction along a stretch of Luzon from San Fernan- do, 150 miles north of Manila, to Martinique Island, 100 miles south, indicated that Admiral William F. Halsey, commander of the Third Fleet, had thrown as many as 1000 planes into the assault.
 Purpose Of Raid
 The raid, like the four others this month on Luzon, were believed primarily designed to reduce the enemy's shipping and aerial poten-
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Allied Ship Losses
 Amount To 5, 758
BY EULALIE MCDOWELL

6x EOAAL1E N1cUOWELL United Press Staff COrrespondentD
 Washington, November 28.-(UP) The United States and Britain, in the first complete report on war; time shipping losses, revealed today that Allied and neutral countries have lost at least 5,75S merchant ships A- an average of between three ana four q day from the start of the war in September, 1889, to the end of 1943.
 The losses, which included 753 American vessels, represented 22.- 161 900 gross tons, or some g per cent of all merchant shipping afloat in the world just before the out- break of hostilities.
 Based on official figures from the British government and the U. S. War Shipping Administration, the report was issued through the office of war information. It gave the first overall picture of the price of war information. It gave the first overall picture of the price in marchant ships paid by the Allies to keep a steady stream of supplies to their forces on far-flung battle fronts.
 The report listed no losses beyond the end of 1943, but an unofficial United Press tabulation showed at least IT sinkings this year, 13 of them American ships. This would raise total losses to SITS.
 Included in the official report were losses from marine risks as well as from action by the enemy. No separate breakdown was given for any enemy weapon, including the Nazi U-boat that accounted for hundreds of thousands of tons of shipping before the Allies gained mastery of the sea.
 Staggering Loss
 Though the total number of ships sunk since the start of the war-5,- SIS = was staggering, American shipyards alone since 1889 have built 4,306 vessels, with a dead. weight tonnage of 44.082,000.
 The black year for the Allied merchant fleet was 1942, when l.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-28
CIO PIons No '3rd Purty'

'No local official demand, as yet for formation here of Third Party by the c. I. O. was today given as reason for denial by John J. Driscoll executive secretary of the union to heretofore expressed statements by c. I. O. P. A. c. of flcials that the party would be or ganized in Waterbury.
 In @ statement released to all papers today MT. Driscoll charged "misinterpretation and misunder- standing of the State c. I. o. con- vention resolution.
 The resolution had contained the policy that the State c. I. O. should, in conforming with nation union political policy, endorse the most liberal candidates of both parties. Democrat and Republican, in all future elections. However the resolution did state, according to the statement released today that, 'only in the event of local c. I. O.. demand should the state council assistance be given.''
 The national council has gone on record at its recent Chicago con- vention as opposing third party, nationally.
 As reported here previously, Harold Senior organizer for the C.. I. O. and other officials had de- clared to The Democrat that a third party would be formed here next year and possibly at the next regular meeting of the local Coun- ell scheduled for next month.
 At the time MT. Senior declared that it was likely that the policy of the organization would be to 'indorse the most liberal candidates of either the Democratic or Re- publican party" He added, how ever, that in the event no candi- dates of these parties proved to be qualified, 'the o. I. O. party would enter its own candidates into the picture"
 MT. DriScoll has just returned from the national c. I. O. conven- tion where he had gone shortly
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Of British Wor
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Rx R0RERT DOWSON

London, Nov. 28.-(UP)-Great Britain, revealing the staggering measure of her war effort, reported today that one-third of all the homes in the United Kingdom have been wrecked by Nazi bombs with almost 750, 900 men, women and children casualties, but that never theless the nation has produced 102, 900 planes, 25,000 tanks and A. 500,00O tons of shipping in the first five years of war.
 Lifting the ban of military secre- cy for the first time in an official white paper, the government made public complete details on the cas- ualtfeS and war production of the empire, withholding only such in- formation as might affect the war against Japan.
 Information Minister Brendan Bracken, commenting on the gov- ernment report, cited its findings as proof that Britain's war effort has outstripped that of any other bel- ngerent power.
 Britain, he said, not only provided most of the arms and munitions for the empire, but also, through its early expenditures, helped the United States to enter the war with her industries on something like a wartmie footing"
 When the war started, we had large gold reserves in the United
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-28
Japs Raid Saipan
 71Uice m One Day
By MAC JOHNSON

(Un1ted Press War COrreSpOn0entD
 Saipan, Nov. 28 = CU.P0 - (Via Navy Radio) = Japanese flyers, des- perateg seeking retaliation for raids on Tokyo by U. s. Superfortresses based on Saipan, raided this strong hold in the Marianas twice yester- day, losing 13 planes in the second attack.
 The second attack, which came at 1915 p. m., occurred at the same time that a sizeable task force of B-29s was raiding Tokyo for the second time within three days. Re- turning pilots said they were much safer oyer Tokyo where they met no fighter opposition.
 Only two or three planes parti- cipated in the first attack at 12:12 a. m. but the second wave, which zoomed in by broad daylight, con- tained much stronger force. It was completely destroyed, authoritative sources said.
 Army pilots flying speedy P-38s and P-47s destroyed six of the enemy fighters, chasing some as far as Two Jima, while island anti-air- craft batteries were credited with shooting down seven.
 However, officials still were screen ing reports with indications that the total destroyed by anti-aircraft may be increased by several planes over the seven announced in yester- days communique by Admiral Ches- ter w. Nimitz.
 I was just going to sleep shortly after midnight when was nearly jolted from my cot by firing. Hitting the floor of my Quonset hut until the fire slackened, I went outside I just in time to see a Single-enginec Jap fighter swish by heading for the seat at an extremely low altitude The alert lasted for more than an hour.
 Plane ExplOdes
 During the noontime attack counted seven Japanese single-en- zine fighters, all Zeros. One, mak- ing full power dive to low level was caught in the crosSf1re of our automatic anti-aircraft weapons and started trailing smoke and flames.
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Tokyo Still Smoulderinq
By FRED SCHERFF ,itAd ProSS Staff C0rroennnd d

(Unlted Press Stan COrreSpOndenC)
 Washington, Nov. 28 - (UP0 - Tokyo'S crowded waterfront, through which pass war supplies for the far flung Japanese Empire, was believed still smouldering today from the second American Superfortress att tack in 72 hours on that key objec- tive
 (The Tokyo office of the Japanese Domei Agency said transmission of all news had been delayed for about an hour because of transmitter trouble" but gave no details.)
 Heavy clouds prevented the crews of perhaps 100 B-29 four -engined bombers from observing the results of their attack yesterday, but the cloud-piercing precision instruments with which they aimed their bombs left little margin for error.
 The waterfront area itself is so packed with installations and ship ping vital to the enemy war effort that any bomb dropped in the gen. eral vicinity almost certainly would hit some strategic objective, air force authorities said.
 In addition to harbor shipping, possible targets included piers, ware houses and aircraft and other war factories. The same area also was hit in the first Superfortress raid on Tokyo last Friday.
 A War Department communiuue said the Superfortresses met virtu- ally no opposition during the ar- tack and all planes returned safe- ly to their bases on Saipan.
 The fact that the raid was car ried out in the face of a heavy cloud cover demonstrated to the Japanese that the weather no longer would protect their capital from American vengeance from the skies.
 While the Fist Bomber Command was striking Tokyo from Saipan, a perhaps equally large force of B-29S from the 20th Bomber Com mand in India was attacking rail- way marshalling yards and repair facilities at Bangkok, capital of Japanese occupied Thailand.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-28
Mortensen Will Not Run Aqoin

Hartford, Conn. Nov. 28-(UP)- Republican Mayor William H. Nor jensen said today that upon the ad- vice of his hpysiclan he would not be a candidate for reelection next year.
 Mortensen is serving his first term, and was elected in 1S4S while member of the State Senate.
 He said he had intended running again but that after the sudden death of Corporation Counsel Jo- sqph n. Griffin Saturday night, he had reconsidered. Griffin was one of the mayors closest friends mad political advisers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-28
Reds Widen Offensive
Bv ROBERT MIISEL

United Press War COrreSpOndentl
 London, Nov. 28-(UP)-The Red Army broadened its offensive front in EaStren Slovakia to more, than 75 miles today, wedging five to nine miles into the formidable chain oi mountain defenses linking the Ger man armies in Poland and Hun gary.
 Elsewhere on the long eastern front, gale-laShed rains enforced an uneasy dull in the fighting, with both Berlin and Moscow predicting that the stalemate might be broken at any time by the long-awaited Russian winter offensive.
 Tough mountain troops of Gen. Ivan I. Petrov's 4th Ukrainian Army hammered out the only important gains reported in Moscow's early morning war bulletin, swinging their northern flank down across the Polish border into Slovakia in a bold maneuver that cut oil the southern entrance to the Dukla Pass and virtually isolated It's Nazi defenders.
 Lunging down across the towering Beskid mountains, Petrov's rifle men advanced nine miles south westward from the Polish border village of Ciechania, outf1anking the German garrison holding the mouth of Dukla Pass and capturing the Slovak town of Ladomirova, on the pass road.
 TNH kl,a{V. Ixnonno tha CnVyiotC olCn captured Dolhona, F miles east of the Presov-T -Tarnov road which forms the main highway communications link between the German forces in southern Poland and those in cen- tral Slovakia and Hungary.
 PetrOv's Thrust
 Petrov'S thrust appeared to be 8 major preliminary to the expected Soviet general offensive, aimed at interposing his divisions between the Nazi northern and southern forces and hampering the movement of enemy reserves between the two fronts.
 Velikye Stasgovce, six miles south east of Ladomirova and 29 miles northeast of the big railway center of Presov, also fell to the advancing Russians, along with Nizna Okla, 10 miles farther to the southeast
 At the center of Petrov's front, the Russians pushed forward as much as five miles in the Humenne and Vysne- Cabyny areas, clearing almost all of 17-mile stretch of the przensys -Budapssk railroad between the two towns. On the southern
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-28
Congress Wants Its Pay Raised; 1t Works So Hard
By FREDERICK c. oTHMAN

By FREDERICK c. OTHNTAN Limited Press Stan COrrespOndent)
 Washington, Nov. 28-(UP)-Con- gress wants it's wages raised. Claims $10,O0O a year isn't enough for 8 man in Washington. Says a Con- gresSman works too hard, anyhow, to be collecting such mediocre fee.
 You don't catch me arguing with him about his paycheck Q'm open minded), but I did drop by the House of Representatives to watch the boys earn their living and l claim there ought to be time clock by the speakers desk.
 At 12 noon, Monday, November 27. there were 28 members on the job, ready for business. Seventeen were Republicans and ll were Dem ocrats. The other 403 Congresmen obviously were working hard some place else.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-28
9th Crosses Lomone River

Rome, November 28. = (UP) = Eighth Army Forces, attempting to cut the Bologna highway and trap Germans inside Fanenza, crossed the Lamone river in driving rain storms north and south of the city and were reported closing in today for battles with enemy troops holding high ground beyond the stream.
 All enemy resistance along the east bank of the Lamone river south of Faenza was cleared as Indian troops of the Fifth Army advanced through heavy mine fields to oc- cupy three important heights north- west of Modigliana.
 Eighth Army troops extended their positions north and south of Faenza east of the river.
 German troops counter attacked Fifth Army positions south of Be- logna but were repulsed. In one attempt the Germans drove 8 flock of sheep into the American lines and attempted to follow the ani- malS.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-28
"A Killed In English Blast
RY RRuCE MUNN

United Press Stan COrrespondent)
 London, Nov. 28-CUP)-Seventy- four persons were listed officially to day as killed, injured or missing in the earthquake-lik explosion of a Royal Air Force dump at Burton on-Trent in the Midlands yester- day.
 Though early estimates ranged as high as 250 dead, authorities said only 20 bodies had been recovered from the devastated countryside by 7:30 a. m. BST. Twenty-two persons were missing and believed dead.
 Twenty-nine others, comprising 19 civilians, four soldiers and six Italian prisoners, also were unac- counted for, but hope was held that they merely had left the scene without reporting to authorities. Three persons were injured.
 Cause of the explosion was not disclosed immediately, but author 1ties said it was not due directly to enemy action. (This suggested that the possibility of sabotage of the work of enemy agents was be- ing considered)
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PEARL HARBOR
 COURT MARTIAL HELD UNLIKELY
BY LYLE c. WILSON Limited Press Staff Correspondent

BY LYLE c. WILSON
 Limited Press Staff Correspondent)
 Washington, November 28. - UP) - The gist of the Army and Navy Journals re- port that no one will be court martialled for the Pearl Har- Dor disaster is that the un- fortunate Army and Navy commanders on duty there on December ', 1941, prob ably would beat the rap if they were brought to trial.
 That point of view is sub- Stantially supposed by the report of the Roberts Com mittee which investigated our humiliating military de- feat and reported to the na- ton a few weeks after the surprise Japanese attack.
 Congress, however, IS golng through the motion of extending before Dec. 2 the statute of 1in1ita- tionS period in which Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Maj. Gen. Walter c. Short may be tried. The Senate completed work on an extension resolution yester- day and sent it to the House.
 Both Kimmell and Short have waived any protection the Hnita- tions statute may have given them and it is a fact that Attorney Gen. eral Francis Riddle months ago advised his administration col- leagues that congressional resolu- tioFlS on the subject were without legal significance.
 Tine Army and Navy Journal, authoritative but unofficial re-
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Some of the missing lawmakers filtered into the chamber later and I kept record of what they did to earn their pay. Several of them made flattering speeches about ex- Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Rep Chester H. Gross of Pennsyl- vania (you can get one guess as to his politcis) said that since this was the season for cabinet resignations, how about Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes turning in his? Mo- body answered.
 Killed Off
 Rep. Edith N. Rogers of Massa- chusettS, in a green suit and a dou- ble strand of pearls. ended the eulo- gies for Hull by Killing him off. She referred to him as the late sscEDsasy of state.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-28
Oddities h The NelUs

Springfield, Mass, November 28. - (UP) = John E. Brunette, IT, of Springfield hung by the neck for 20 minutes when he became caught between a freight elevator and its shaft. He suffered a bruised cheek.
 DanverS, Mass. November 28. - (UP) = Town officials voted to es- tablish 8 youth recreation center after the Municipal Electric Light Department disclosed stone-throw- ing youths had destroyed $3,0OO worth of streets light bulbs and shades in one month.
 Fort Devens, Mass, November 28- - (UP) = Soldiers at Fort Devens decided "this isn't the Army" after post authorities moved reveille from 5:45 a. m. to 6:20 8. m.
 Kingston, Mass, November 28. - (UP) = A wall of water which in- undated Kingston highways and meadows and flooded several homes was attributed today to a pair of busy otters who gnawed their 15- foot dam at Lucas pond until it burst yesterday and sent tons of water cascading into the countryside.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-11
SALLIE JOHNSTON

Funeral services for Miss Sallie
Bishop Johnston, who died at home
on Masonboro Sound early Satur-
day morning, were held Monday
at II a. m. at the chapel of An
drews mortuary. The Rev. Alexan-
der Miller was in charge. Burial
took place at Masonboro Sound.
Active pallbearers were H. j.
Ottoway, James McCrary, Jr., Carl
Brown, Frank Hollis, Charles D.
Lewis and B. E. Hollis.
Miss Johnston is survived by a
sister, Mrs. J. H. Ottoway Of Will
mington five nieces, Mrs. B. E
Hollis, Mrs. Charles D. Lewis,
Mrs. Frank Hollis, Mrs James M.
McCrary, Jr., all of Wilmington,
and Mrs. c. ]. Holloway of Greene
New York, and two nephews, N. R.
Ottoway of Boston and H. J. Otto
way of Wilmington.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-11

many elected to 60 ahead rather
than return to their families and
repeat possibly in a few days
or weeks. their goodbyes again.
Generally, boards were trying to
push along the induction of men
under 26 but there seemed little
likelihood that the drafting Of those
men would long delay induction OF
older registrants. Estimates rang
ed from a few days to 80 days.
In Virginia, STATE Selectlve Serv-
ice Director Mills F. Neal report
ed that several industries, includ-
ing shipyards IN the Hampton
Roads area, are getting ready to
turn loose about $4,000 men under
26. In ohter Virginia communities,
however, boards reported as few
as eight or 10 men under 26 avail
able for the draft.
Considerable confusion was re-
ported among boards that had
scheduled inductions today and to-
morrow prior to receipt of the
new order.
In many cases, in the South,
boards had exhausted the supply OF
men under 26 years old and filled
quotas with men in the old brac-
kets. Some boards preparing to
send off sizeable groups, dlscov'
cred they had only a few under
26.
In many states, it was predicted
the new program would mean
delay of between 80 and 10 days
in induction of men over 26 who
are essentially engaged.
All men &c and over whS have
applied, or want to apply, to city
Draft Board No for voluntary
induction into the armed forces
are asked to Immediately call a.
the board office in persons to dis
cuss their draft status. Men ovel
26 who do not volunteer will moi
be indicted, even though oreder