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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-17
Hull Answers Cows Charge

Washington, August i5. - 0UP) - Secretary of State cordell Hull said today that he hopes the prelim. mary international security talks which start here next week will be followed this fall by a fuii-dress United Nations Conference to form ulate a new international security organization.
 Hull expressed this hope to a press conference soon after he issued Q statement describing as "udefly and completely nnfOupded" fears eks pressed by Governor Thomas E. Dewey that the four great powers plan to subject the great and small nations permanently to their eoerc' i've power,
 Hull said no arrangement such as described by Dewey "ls eontemplat. cd or has eyer been e0Dtemplated" by this government or any Of the other goyefnnlepts,
 Jn saying that ne looked for q full-dress security conference bDls fall, Hull confirmed 2 statement
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-17
5000 Flee.
 Boot Strikers Back On Job

Grot0n, Aug. lT--(UPl-Striking employees of the Electric Boast Co. today were told by their union to return to work tomorrow, flowing receipt of blunt orders from the Navy Bureau of ships in Washing ton to resume production on sub- marines immediately at the risk Of "je0pardizing paiDstakingly . won military advantages"
 Arthur Ward. president of tine Tn- dependent 6hipbuilding and Marine Engineers union. announced that he had notified the l2I000 idle men to end the four-day walkout, while union and company officials met in Hartford in an attempt to settle the dispute.
 The unions decision to comply with Navy orders came shortly af- ter strikers gathered outside the spragling boat yards. heard a i0ud- speaker announcement in which the Navy told the men ''it is imperative that production of submarines and eaissOns recently assigned. be re- stunned immediately. Current sched- ules are vital and must be main tained."
 Failure to meet such schedules. the Bureau Of ships warned, will offset past fine performances Of both company and employees, and
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DSNARROW GERMAN WEDGE
 NEAR WARSAW

Moscow. Aug. l7--tUPD-Russian aEInored forces narrowed the Ger man wedge in their lines in the eastern suburbs of Warsaw today as the greatest tank battle of the sO- viet summer offensive continued in- to its third straight day.
 Red army counter-attacks on the German Hanks were revealed to have cut the German salient to a narrow spearhead reaching into os- SOW, six and one-half miles east northeast Of Praga. warsaw's east ernmost borough. the Russians &C., knowledged the loss Of ossow in their Wednesday midnight commu- nique.
 SS Panger Grenadier units still were streaming across the Vistula from the cente rof Warsaw in a desperate effort to hold and widen the Ossow wedge. but the army or gan Red Star reported the situation was fully under control"
 Red Star said the Germans were attacking uninterruptedly with fresh waves of tanks and infantry enter ing the battle almost every hour. The enemy changed the direction of his blows at frequent intervals in an effort to catch Marshal Kon- stantin K. Rokossoysky's list White Russian army off balance.
 Military observers did not attach lnucA significance to the slight withdrawal in the Ossow area, con- tending that the effort cost the GeEmans a disproporti0nate quan- ttty of men and material.
 T.he setback--first suffered by the Russians since the start Of the sum- mer offensive June 23--alsO was off- set by the Soviet breakthrOugh into Eandomierz, Vistula river stronghold ii5 miles south of Warsaw.
 The Russians penetrated Sando' mierZ and engaged the garrison in frience street battles after estab- fishing several additional bridge heads on the west bank of the Wis., tllla both north and south of the city, thus besieging it from three sides.
 With sand0mierz in their hands, the Russians again would be in a position to maneuyer extensively northwestward in the direction of Radon and Warsaw.
 Tine Germans also were attacking
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-17

Jackson, Wy0y Aug, H-luP-A savage m0tlleF bear weighing 700 pounds and attaektlg to protect her two cubs, vas elubbed to death by Bernie Cole, Gb-yeag-0ld TRDeheg, Tuesday morning after the animal knocked him down and left him for dead, friends Of Cole reported today,
 Cole, q husky, l7byp0und baeheloF employed as eaEetaker 0t q Eapeb owned by EleanOg ", Patterson, publisher Of the Washington, D. o. Times Herald, was attacked by the bear while cleaning out 2 beaver dam on Q stream that runs through the property. ie miles north eg Jackson,
 Cole told Homer Richards, 2 neighb0E, that be had seen the tw0 cubs playing in the vicinity but he gent about hls work, 4 few minutes later the mother beaT jumped hlm with Q savage roar, Cole had . nves foot WateE.s0aked aspep in ms
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-17
Demands Threaten
 Atlantic Charter
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Washington, Aug. l7.-(UP)-In- ereasing demands for new territory by members of the United Nations caused concern today among Amer ican officials who believe the spirit as well as the latter of the Att lantic charter should be followed in the postwar settlements.
 Spokasmen for France, Poland, Holland and Belgium have been clamoring for several weeks for "straegic froMtieB' at the eK- pense of Germany. Their demands increase as the moose around Ger many tightens and follow eonsid- erable discussion this summer Of various plans for partitloning Ger- many into three or four states,
 Most of the demands for Ger man territory are accompanied by plans to move millions of Germans out of East Prussia, eastern Ger many, the Sudetenland and the Rhlneland into shTunken Ger many,
 Last spring there were demands in many Allied countries for re- vision or elaTiflcation of the Att lantie charter, Russian writers have often attacked the charter as a bar to the territorial dismem- berment of Germany, Russia never has considered that the charter ap- piled to the land in eastern Europe Soviet Union before the charter was which had been incorporated in the signed,
 The concern about the future of the principles of the Atlantic char ter was noted here this week on the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-17
PhiIc. Lines Go Boek To Owners

Philadelphia. Aug, l7-lUP) -rThe Army Felinguished control today of the Philadelphia Transportation Company facilities, seized two weeks ago to break 8 strike which seriously crippled war production tn this aFT senal city,
 Maj, Gen, Philip Hayes, in charge of the transit system under presl- dential order, said evacuation Of troops, brought here to end the strike Of $500 operators, would be- gin immediately,
 The strike started Aug, l, when the UTC upggaded eight negro ems pl0yes in an 0perat0rrtTaining pro. gram. It continued for six days and resulted in the arrest Of four strike leaders on charges Of violating The Rmlth- -cOnnally ants-stFike law, and a federal GFaHd jury investigation, which atill is in progress.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-17
Last Important Capital Defenses Are Preached; Orleans Captured; A Seaports Fall In Southern France

Rome, August l7. - (UP) - The Allied 7ht Army has linked all its beachhcads along a 50-mile front on the south coast of France, driven g miles inland. liberated 800 square miles Of territory and pushed tO within 10 miles of both Cannes and the big French naval base of TOulOn, a special cOmmuniqne all- nOunced today.
 At least four seapOrts - St. Raphael, Ste. Maxine, St. TrOpez and Le LavandOu - and five inland towns have been captured, the cOnlmun- ique said.
 "The swift advance of American and French troops inland continues, it said, land numerous additional towns and villages have been taken.
 "A junction with strong air-borne units dropped far behind the enemy lines be- fore dawn on D-Day has been effected. French and American endorsements, iIl- cluding ArmOr, are pouring ashore. Casualties continue exceptionally light"
 lA German TransOcean agency dispatch said Allied air-bOrne troops have broken into Cannes and enc gagged the German garrison in fierce street fighting. The Nazi-cOntrolled Scandinavian Telegraph bureau re- ported from Berlin that the Allies had occupied both Cannes and Nice. I7 miles to the northeast, but this appeared to be prematureD
 The eOmmunlque disclosed that the Allies made their deepest pene- tratiOn of southern France at LOrgues, 25 miles north of the liber- ated port Of Le LaVand0u. which lies 2i miles east of TOulon. Air- borne troops captured Lorgues. then linked up with fr0und forces farther south.
 The strategic road junction towns Of c0ll0brieres, 7ls miles north of Le Layandou, and Le LIc, II miles
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German RiUiera Defenses
 Weaker Than Expected

Some sectors were "defended' by old war zig-zag trenches with baFbT ed wire,
 There were a number of liked coastal guns but these had not been sufficiently protected and some ol them were knocked out by air bonn hardmeDt before p-pay,
 The Germans also stuck poles and sawed of tree trunks ln fields- poles to impale paFaehutlsts and trunks to crack ID gliders, lotheF dispatches indicated that despite these measures the parachute and glider forces suffered very light easualtiesl
 Private Paul Fanion, Jamaica, h' Y., who worked 6 flame thF0weF that wiped out plllboEes, told mei 'The KFaut pIllboSes are just Are traps" M
 Nature herself teamed up wlth the
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Man Kills Wild She-Bear Armed Only With q Stick

hand, He was felled by one swlpe Of Q huge paw, Cole vas knocked about Ib feet by the blow, he said, but did not lose consciousness, He played dead, hoping the bear would 90 away,
 Instead, she pressed the attack, biting him Eavagely on the sboul. deTs and Legs, Knowing she would crush him to death N he made 2 single move, Cole ley stu despite the pain,
 Convinced llnslIy that be waS dead, the bear wandered 0n, Cole waited about lb minutes and thee got up, still holding onto the w9ters. soaked aspen, The heRF TusDee 0ut Of e elDmp of bushes charging,
 "E swung with my club and lalles ad Q lucky blow on her head, knock. ing her down and stunning heF.' Richards quoted Cole. "AfteT that,
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FOR Home; Insists On Full
 Surrender Before Peace

Washington, Aug. i7-OP)-Pres- ident Roosevelt, determined that Germany and Japan must be com- pletely occupied by conquering AL lied forces, returned to the White House today and immediately began conferences with top military and home front advisers.
 The president told correspondents who accompanied him on his l5.OO0- mile trip into the Pacific that we won't let the Germans quit as they did when the Allied reached thelr boundaries in the last war Thls means that even though the enemy agrees to unconditional surrender before his homeland is invaded, con- auering Allied forces nevertheless will march in and occupy the coun' try.
 If We fail to drive right on until we have completely captured the whole of Germany, he said at a news cOnierenee shortly before his special train reached Washington. the next German generation would be told that their nation actually won the war, The same, he said, goes for Japan.
 Within a few hours after his re- turn, MT. Roosevelt spent 2 half hour taking with Secretary of State C0rdell Hull Then he met with Gen. George C. Marshall, army chief of staff, He was believed to have discussed with Hull plans for the IDteFnational security conferences which open here next week
 White House Secretary stephen T. Early said the president had ar- ranged to confer with congressional leaders and with his f0urtbrterm mate, Sen, Harry s. Truman of Mis- sOuri, tomorrow, Early said the president asked about Vice Pres, ident Henry A, Wallace but found
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Ry REYNOLDs PApKARn

BY HEthubNtb VAAAAhv lUnitad Press War Correspondents Representing The GNmblnfa Ailleg
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 With American Troops on the French Riviera, Aug, l6 TT luFJ VI During the past 2f hours ] have ln' speeted German defenses along pe French Riviera and found them very much weaker than Allied olll' eers had expected,
 several Frenehmen told me thal the Germans had bluifed about the strength of these defense positions and had even published lengthy ees counts ln the Nazl-eontFolIea French press Of how they had made this coast impFegDable, Except for . few concrete ana steel plllb0Ees ct distant intervals the main defenkes consisted os baFbed wire entanglemeHts, beach mines and underwater obstacles, ha- eluding mines stop billings.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-17
Soroh DOIy Will Filed

Two daughters, Helen v. Daly and Mrs. Marion Daly Hayes, and a grandchild have been named prip. cipal beDefieiaries Of the estate Of the late Mrs. Sarah Frances Daly of Middlebury. who died August 6. Mrs. Daly was the widow Of the late Jeremiah N. Daly partner in the N. J. Daly Co, of Waterbury.
 The will of the late Mrs. Daly was today filed at the office Of Probate Judge Patrick EIealey and names the Colonial Trust Co, Waterbury, as trustee and executor 0f the es- tate.
 The principal terms Of the will state that the trustee shall "use the said principal and net income of the estate tn accordance with their best judgment for, or pay same to, my daughters and grandchildren as are living at the time Of my death. and for a period of 2i years next following the decease Of the last survivor Of such Of said daugh- ters and grandchildren tn such amounts and proportions as trustee deems for theiY best interests; and at the end of 2i years or on de@ cease, before then, of both daughtFs and grandchildren, the trust shall cease and terminate and principal and increment of trust fund, as then existing, shall then be trans ferTed to next Of kin"
 Also, according to the will, the entire net Income of the trust fund Is to be padi quarterly to the daugb. ters as long as they live, Also that each daugbter should receive 2 Ta- table share of the principal Of the estate on her will considered OI
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-17
GIs Abgoed Know
 Wev Is Not Over Yet

Washington, Aug, IT-lUPl-As- sistaDt Secretary Of War John ], Mccloy told . press conference toy day that it Is sometimes repugpapt tO soldiers to hear that the war Is oyer or nearly over" He cited q ease of ef soldier iD western France who received from home . letter to this effect,
 aThe soldieE wrote back; The Heinles down the road don't seem 10 know about t yet"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-17

Supreme Headquarters, AEF, August IF. - (UPl - American ArTnOred Forces, closing On Paris with blind- ing speed and power, smashed through the Ger man battle screen less than 32 miles southwest of the old French capital today and split all France with a second thrust tO the south that cap- tured the strategic railway center of Orleans.
 Rampaging A m erican tanks and mechanized infaT. try columns tore the German lines to shreds all along the approaches to Paris and ull- confirmed enemy reports said the thunder of their big gums could be heard in the streets or the capitai.
 The last important natural defenses barring the western roads to Paris were preached and official sources indicated the city was now at the mercy of the onrushing Yankee troops.
 The Americans stormed and captured Dreux and Chartres, 39 miles west and 46 miles southwest of Paris, early today and raced on to plant their battle flags on the east banks of the Eure and Aunay rivers-the latter S2 airline miles southwest of the capital.
 Simultaneously, another powerful doughhoy column swept down on the Loire river, seized chateaudup and St. Calais and drove on to take the railway hub of orleans, 70 miles
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-17
Allies Failed In Trop Try

EDITOR's NOTE The follow ing dispatch from the Normandy battlefront is from . veteran war correspondent who has been transferred from Supreme Allied headquarters OR London to France to cover She climatic battles for the liberation Of Europe, tte has had Q years Of seasoning On the battIefieIds Of EtbiOpia, China, CEeehasl0vakia, Poland, France and England,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-17
BY EDWARD W, BEATTIE m.aa, KUaR GApraSnnlahaHl

On the Normandy Front, Aug, IT. -OUP)-The combined British, can- adiap and American armies have failed in their primary purpose to crush Field Marshal GuentheF Von Kluges Pan2ers and once again Allied strategists must set a trap to obliterate the one major force between the Allies and conquest Of northern France,
 It is evident that the hard Pans ger core of VOn Kluge's Seventh Army has slipped out Of the Falalse pocket and today lies somewhere
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BULLETIN

Supreme Headquarters, AEF. Aug. 17 OUP) - The Canadian Army. launching . new offensive between ThOarn and Falaise, ad- vanced one to six miles, Q eom- munique announced today.
 The Canadians occupied the towns Of St. Piere- Sur Dives, Mex idOn and Courcy, reached Cr0is- sanville, and were engaging the Germans in heavy fighting in the vicinity of Barou and Damhlaln- vile. the com m n 1 q ne said, Thoarn. however still was in Ger man hands.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-17
Svn cewses Fire, Helps Put It Out

Dark IEaTh0T, Me-, Aug, lJ- lUPD-The swn's rays, passlRg through . glaas bottle of spring water 0n 2, V. Igateh's GFWek, set fire te the fie0T q the vellI' ele,
 Bws tlae heat caused anethsF battle tO eEplade naa the Wns Isg axslnguelHhea the blaae.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-14
Naomi Chapter Annual BaSGGr

The annual bazaar sponsored by Naomi chapter, No. g, Order of Eastern Star, will be held Thursday at Temple hall starting at II a. ID. Mrs. Marian Meister assisted by Mrs. Lillian Rodeck are in charge.
 A plate luncheon will be served from 11:30 to 1 in charge of Mrs. Mary Messenger and Mrs. Edna Wolf; dessert card party at 1:30, Mrs. Mary Neill and Mrs. Lima Jubelt; dinner, 5:30 to 2 p. m, Mrs. Fife Willits; dining room, Mrs. Olga French; dinner tickets, Mrs. Lillian Rodeck; aprons, Mrs. Louise Brown; handkerchiefs, Mrs. Olga Trash; food, Mrs. Ruth Vining; greeting cards, Rainbow Girls; fancy work, Mrs. Hazel Wilkenbach; fish pond, Mrs. Anne Nichols; country store, Mrs. Louise Clark; flowers, Mrs. Julia Ford; white elephant table, Mrs. Florence Chamberlin; novelties, Miss Alice Lorenson; miscellany, Miss Ethel ziglatzki; surprise at traction, Mrs. Mary Lasher; and evening bridge, Mrs. Neill and Mrs. Jubelt.
 Tonight a class of candidates will be initiated at 8 o'clock at Masonic Temple. Mrs. Charlotte Stell will preside and Mrs. Elizabeth Wenzel will be in charge of the social hour following.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-14
Contract Bridge
CORNELL BRIDGE CLUB N

Top scorers in the Monday after. noon tournament of the CorneA Bridge Club, conducted by Mrs. John c. Moriarty, 60 Linden street, were: north and south, Mrs. George Brennan and Mrs. E. J. Nelson, l22; Mrs, Lawrence Ryan and Mrs. Jonll Collins, 118; east and west, Mrs. George Largay and Mrs. William Moffet, 121; Mrs Matthew Doyle and Mrs. John Dillon, tied with Mrs Hector Bernier and Mrs. Lewis Cat = rington, 120 1-2. The official stand ing: Mrs. D w. Roseburgh and Mrs. w. G. Bailey, 555; Mrs. Louis Sch midt and Mrs. James Bulger, 549 1-2; Mrs. William Andres and Mrs. Asa York, 543; Mrs. Nelson ano Mrs. Brennan, 541.
 High scorers in the Monday even- ing tournament were: north ana south, Miss Loretta Vance and Miss Eileen Cruess, 99; Mrs. Harry Van Horsten and Mrs. Clayton Winters 90; east and west, Miss Arlene Crean and Mrs. Kenneth Alderman, 87; Miss Harriet Cone and Mrs. Thomas Norton, 85 1-2. The official stand ing: Miss Lillian Castaldo and Miss Julie Orsini, 286; Mrs. Henry Alter and Miss Margaret Meehan, 272 1-2; Mrs. Edward Meehan and Miss Margaret Coughlin, 271 1-2; Miss Vance and Miss Cruess, 264 1-2.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-14
Social Notes.

Sergeant and Mrs. Edward T. Dodd, Oak street, announce the birth of son, Edward Thomas Dodd II, on November II at Waterbury hospital. Sergeant Dodd is stationed in the Dutch East Indies. Mrs. Dodd is the former Helene I. May of Oak street.
 Miss Jean O'Rourke, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Martin c. O'Rourke, Cooke street, took part in the plan ming of the International Relations conference sponsored by the Col lege Forum of Teachers College of Connecticut, New Britain, Miss O'Rourke is also serving as chair man of the College Theater produc- tion Wild Nell, the Pet of the Plains" pantomime to be given at the college tomorrow.
 Misses Helen McGoWan, West Porter street, Fannie RoSsi, Bank street, and Katherine DelGaizo, Bennett avenue, are in New York City for few days.
 Misses Catherine LaWlor, Ann Walsh, Alice Nolan and Christine Costello, this city, are spending a few days in New York City where they are registered at the Barbizon- Plaza Hotel.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-14
Auxiliary To Hold
 Initiation NoU. p

Plans for the initiation of class of candidates were discussed at a meeting of Lieut.. Shea Auxiliary, Veterans of Foreign Wars, held last night in Mechanics Hall. The ini- tiation will take place at the next meeting on November 27. The group also made plans for it's annual Christmas party on December II, it was announced by Mrs. Pauline Conlon, auxiliary president. .
 It was voted at the meeting to send Christmas cards and gifts of money to about 30 Waterbury serv- icemen who are sons, brothers and husbands of auxiliary members.
 A delegation from Lieut.. Shea auxiliary will attend the testimonial dinner to Mrs. Germaine DeZinno, state department commander of the Disabled American Veterans aux Hilary at The Elton December 9.
 Reports were read by Mrs. Helen Brophy, state department president of the VIEW. auxiliary. on her visit to Newington Veterans Hospital on Armistice Day and by Mrs. Conlon on the auxiliary visit to the hospital on October IT, the recent Armistice Day ceremonies at the honor roll and the Gold Star Mothers dinner.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-14
Ma1yMinerUinO
 ShOwer Guest

Miss Mary Mineryino, Drake street, who will be married Novem- Der 25 to Ellery Brayton, Hillside avenue, was honored recently at a personal shower at the home of Mrs. Louis Ziello, Wood street. Mrs. Ziello and Mrs. Donald Pinto were host esses. A bridal cake and tall white tapers formed the table centerpiece,
 Among the guests were: Mrs. So. flo Semeraro, Mrs. Alfred Ziello, Mrs Herbert Davis, Mrs. Anthony Far rar, Mrs. Morris Tyler, Mrs. Selma Hackerman, Mrs. Elizabeth Kessler, Mrs. Harry Liebeck, Mrs. Della Bean, Mrs. Mary HaSsel, Mrs. Robert Williams and Mrs. Ralph Minervino.
 Also: Misses Nell Salem, Helen Sandore, Claire Zello, Mildred ziello, Marjorie Luccarell, Brigida Biondi, Angela EspoSita, Catherine Pugliese, Teresa Guzzardi, Marion Iorio, Ethel Mutton, Winifred Case, Betty Genovese, Betty Lionell, Flor ence Buccemi and Jane Uhacz.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-14
SOCIAL
 FUNCTIONS
Sorority Meets
 In NOrw0Ik

Miss Bertha Paolini, president. presided at meeting of the Sweet Briar Sorority held recently at the home of Miss Ida Yannetta, Ewing ton place, Norwalk.
 It was voted at the meeting to send gifts to various servicemen dur ing the Christmas season. Mystery pals for the past year were revealed and presented with gifts and names for the coming year were drawn
 A party and supper in honor of Miss Yannetta, who celebrated her birthday, followed the meeting.
 Attending were: Misses Bertha and Dolores Paolini, Rae B. Datalle, Anna Polonis, Marie Leon, Ida Yan- netta, Connie Morea, Rose Guerrero, Polly Puzzo, Tina c. Raunado and Jennie Doyon.
 The next meeting will be held at the home of Miss Anna Polonis, Willow street.