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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-05
II More Jop Ships Sunk by U. s. Subs

Washington, Oct, B.-(Up) --AmeFlean submarines have sunk ii more Japaness ships, Including three waFCFaft, the Navy announced today.
 Todayb Rnn Ouneensent brought Co 772 the number of enemy vessels sunk by United States undeFBea craft,
 Last month the Navy ans nOunCed c total Of 56 slnkings. The bag disclosed today indi. CatOs c maintenance Of the high average Of Japanese ships ping losses by U. <. submarines.
 The vessels announced sunk today were one escort vessel. one destroyer, one converted seaplane tender, enc cable ship, five cargo vessels. one medium caFgo transport and c large tanker.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-05
No PoIIbeorors
 At Smith Rites

New York, Oct. E-CUP) - The body Of former Gov. Alfred E Smith will ue ir state at St. Pas tricks Cathedral e long as is nee. essaFy for his millions Of mourneFs to pay final tribute.
 Msgr. Joseph ?. TlannOIly, admin- istrator Of the cathedral, said ttse body Of the former Democratic presidential candidate, who dIed early yesterday, would Do placed in the Lady Chapel ct 2 ?. m. Friday, and icy before the main sanctuaFy and the cathedral would roElaaiIi open ail night an unprecedented honor.
 4 solomn high requiem Mas vii Do held ct ii c. m. saturday alsd c quiet burial, Wlth neither n0wa .eys n0g naiiboageEgb WiA feiiews
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-05
Fort Driunt
 Compared To Verdun Fight
By ROBERT RICHARDS limited Press War COFrespOnde

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 With Third American Army Be- fore Metz, Oct, 6-tuP)-Weary American CTS blasted their way today at least 100 yards into one of the main underground chambers Of Fort Drlant in Q bloody man.to-man combat remiscent of the Verdun battles of World War I,
 1t was the third day of eontln- uouS assault on the massive citadel which is protected by concrete walls 50 thick that shells bouce of them like tennis balls against bNekstop,
 The advance Into the suhterran- can fortress was made at the south. west corner of the fortress area which in oil represents Q square about 470 geet wide and about the same length.
 The underground U, s. troops had relief from German artillery fire for the first time in 30 hours. They hammered into the corridors seek. Ing Q passage which might lead into the maln Driant fort which Is in the center of the square,
 They were hampered by thick steel doors reinforced by massive steel gratings, The steel was 30 tough that 30 far it had been almost impervious to the explosive charges ranmed against the walls by the Americans,
 Above the surface other trooLs slowly ground their way in on Q line extending from the southwest fortress corner almost to the soutn east corner, But 90 far they had been unable to wipe out gianl pillbox almost completely buried lr the east at the southeast corner oi DFiant,
 The giant plllbox poured Q deadly sain of machinegun fire Into tAE Americans as they inehed forward It was supported by moFtaFs iron the forest across the Moselle ant by artillery fire from Driants SistSl fortresses.
 At the closest point the AmerieanH
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-05
Litchfield Church
 Destroyed d By Fire
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Historic St. Anthony's church on South street in Lltchfield was Co. tally destroyed this morning by . fire of undetermined origin.
 Fire companies from Litchneld and TorTlngton and other surround. Ing towns battled unnecessarily to save the church aS the blaze made It's way through the walls and Into the partition between the ceiling and roof.
 The e0-year.old building, built or- iginally at Q cost of e70,000, had recently been renovated.
 Only one worshlppar was in tho church when tho fro broke out at about 10 Q. En,, Rev. James ?. Egan, pastor of tho church, told the Demo- crat when contacted by phone in the church rectory, which then was being threatened by the blaze,
 The worshipper, Mrs. Richard Pei. vin of Lltchfield, was kneellng at the altar when she heard on ex. ploBion in the rear of the church, She ran to the rectory to notify the curate, Rev. George MeAndrew, who went back to find the church eblaze and flames spreading Fap- idly.
 Father MeAndrew rescued the Blessed Sacrament from the church ane notified the Litchfield Fire Dc. partment. Father, Egan, who had been in the church c few minutes before the explosion, returned from the post office to find tho fire well under way and telephonod c second alarm to the Torrington Fire Do. pRrtment,
 State Police Lieut.. Paul Lavin of Canaan barracks said the fire ap- pGrentiy started in the rear Of the building. He said there was c fur.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-05
StoIfi Mode Legal Voter

Michael stoin, former Republican selectman who recently was acs auitted il superior court Of charges Of fraudulent voting, yesterday aps peaFed at the regular session Of the Board of Examiners and took the electoral cath.
 Rtolh who had appeared before tho city court and superior court to defend himself against charges Of fraudulent voting brought by Re. publican registrar of voters Albert o. F'alier and subsequently, was ac' quilted, took the oath last night on advice Of his Attorney John Cassidy, so as to avoid any future question Of his right to vote."
 Mr. Cassidy today declared that ile had advised the former c. o. P. gelectman to appear before the beard en the basis that such c move mot only will deprive MT, TalleF of the opportunity to question stols fib right to vote, but any one other leader Of the Republican party, for which st0lh has always SO aFduouS" y worked"
 MT, Cassidy further clarified the motives for iiiS advice by citing the belief that the prosecution raised the question Of StoihB right to vote and rather than have that question raised again, he should go before the board Of admissions and take the oath,
 MT. Cassidy added;
 Up to the time Of his arrest no one questioned 9toih's right to vote And the courts decision could be interpreted to mean that he had the right"
 Mir. Stoih who has been 6 party district leader will undoubtedly vote this faii, t waN declared today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-05
|Germons New VIZ Secret
 Weapon Flop
FFank canceliare for War Picture PooD

London, Oct. B--(UP)-The Daily Mali reported today in 6 sensatiofls ally displayed dispatch from Stock holm that deFmany's V.2 secret weapon has already been launched against Britain from Dutch firing sites but that the German high command iS disappointed with the results,
 The dispatch attributed It's in. formation to 70 neutral observer who served iH tho German army"
 It asserted that tho new weapon had been fired against England from the Dutch coast but that t travelled 50 rapidly that 1t had no terror effect since the popuiace was unaware Of its approach,
 It was also said to penetrate the earth at such c speed that Us dee stFuctiys force is less than that Of tic Robotsbomb
 (N0 reports Of the use Of Va have passed the British censorship in London. Fleet street observers, commenting on the Daily Mail Stockholm dispatch, said they "marVeIled at the good fortune" Of Daily Mails Stockholm cofFespon. dent in finding what they called such c Weil.infoFfned Feadymade neutral observer" They also exs pressed wonder ct how long Stock. hoim datelines would Do employed to "cOVer Allied censorship Sins")
 The Daily Mail resfnade its front page to give smash play to the Va dispatch, switching It's play from on early banner line saying tanks widen giegfried breach" to one which said "dermanS decide Vs2 hes faiied".
 The dispatch said that due to the Iinreliabiiity Of Vs2 the neutral
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-05
Nazis Desperate ResistanceTops Intense Battles
BY VIRGIL PTNKLEY (Unlted Press War Correspondent

United Press War CoFFeapondenO
 Supreme Headquarters, AEF, October s. - (UP) American shock troops stormed into the under ground chambers of Fort Driant today and a British Second Army attack on a six-mile Dutch front below Arnhem battered within two miles of the Rhine bridge for which the Red Devil para troopers fought their gal lant but futile battle.
 U. s. First Army tanks and troops slugged slowly for. ward through mud, rain and intense German gunfire be. yond the main Siegfried Line above Aachen in Q drive which now can be described as preparing the way for big ger things to come.
 Patrol Activity, sklrmishes and battles of mounting intensity were reported from scattered sectors of the entire western front curving around from the Antwerp area through Holland, Germany and France down to the Belfort Gap.
 The siege of Fort Driant. anchor of the defenses of Meta, roarod through It's third day. Third Army troops burrowed down from one ot their footholdS on three corners Of the fort Into the maze of under- ground passages where the 0or- mans were putting up desperate re- Sistanee.
 United Press Correspondent Wal. ter Cronkite reported from Lieuten- ant General Sir Miles 0, Dempaeyd Second Army front that the British struck out up the Nijmegen-Arn- hem road In the Rhine triangle yes. terday and the initial impact ci the attack carried forward Q mile
 AatteFlng ahead yard by yRrc agaiunst heavy resistance, the Brit. ish forces by nightfal again stood within two miles of the bridge be. yond which the paTAtroopers fought nearly 10 days before the survivors were forced to withdraw across the lower Rhine.
 On the right flank of the six. mile front ct this northeFnmost point of the Allied advance, British infantry driving east toward the pennerdenseh canal two mileA away ran Into Q stonewall German defense backed by heavy artillery mortars and machine guns,
 To the southwest, troops attacking at the Elbow of the German c0rri- dor out of Western Holland cap. tured Hilvarenbeek and pushed on through Voort four miles south of Tilhurg. German eounter-attael along one of the roads to Tilbura pushed back tho Allies, but 6 new onslaught restored the line hS nightfaii,
 Canadian forces pushing out from Antwerp had advanced the front
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-05
Reds 10 Miles From Capital
BY HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent

(United Press Staff COfFespOnuenU
 Moscow, oct. B.~(UP)=The Red army swept to within 10 miles Of Belgrade today, bringing the Yug0s BiaV capital within range Of it's mo. bile artillery.
 Jumping of from Banat Kraije. Viceyo, i4 miles northeast Of Bel. grade, Marshal Rodion Y. MalinoV. skys 2nd UkFainian army was ex. pected to oVeFrun Pancev0, last efies iny stronghold above the capital, sometime today in dash for the north bank Of the Danube opposite its goal.
 Marshal Tito's partlsans yesters day were reported fighting Inside panceVo, eight miles from Belgrade, and it was possible the outpost ai. ready has fallen under c combined assadit.
 Th0 rapld pace Of the Russian advance On Belgrade indicated that Red army would free its third Bai. kan capital within c matter Of days, possibly before the end Of t.ie week.
 The Danube was not expected to prove q formidable obstacle to troops Who already have fofded the river farther east and have cofi- auered the DnestF aIld DnepF against far stronger enemy forces
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-05
Greek Mainland Taken As Allies Seize Patrai
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD IInIlaA PrAaa War CoTeapOndenI

United Press War CorrespOnaenU
 Rome, Oct. b.--(uP)-Aliied tro0us, opening the second battle O. Greece have invaded the Greek mainland by air and see, seized several alrfiolds and driven into the fortified medieval port Of Patrai, Q comnntinique announced today.
 Virtually the whole Of the pel0. ponnesus, comprising c quarter Of the Crock mainland, was believed already in Allied hands or under Allied control. Embattled Patrai, od the north coast of the Pelop0nnesus, was described as one of the en' emys last strongholds on the pen' fnBula.
 The communlquo reported merely that Hand forces Of the Adriatle' had entered Patrai during Tuosday night, and 1t was possible that the port, once the principal seat of Greek commerce, since had been captured.
 Germans EncireIed
 The invasion opened the final phase of the liberation of the souta- Orn Balkans, completing c throe- quarters encirclement of some i00,s 900 Germans in Greece, Albania ard Yugoslavla. Red army forces and Marshal Tito's partisans in Yugo. siavia rapidly were cutting across tho enemy's last routes of escap1 to the north.
 "somo Greek isianaS" also were invaded by the Allies, it was re. vailed, and the speed with which the campaign was developing was indicated by c Cairo dispatch res porting that on Allied military ffils. sion in Greece had sent c surrender uitImatum to German and pro-Axis forces Oil Evvoia (Icubea), largest creek island in tho Aegean only 90 miles north Of Athens.
 The Balkan cir force communiqie announcing the invasion came only q few days after disclosure that British Commandos had seized q stepping stone to the mainland with the occupation of the island of Kys thoFa, i've and mali mics of
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-05
AutoWorkers Back On Jobs
RY IlEIlDEnT s. LEWIb

(Nnited Press Staff COFFesp0nGent)
 Detroit, Oct. B-(Up)-RepreBefls tativsS Of striking maintenance workers voted today to return to jobs in Detroit war plants on the next shift.
 walter ?. ReutheF, United Auto Worekrs (CfO) International Vice President, announced that the back to work proposal was passed by los cal JAW presidents and delegates to the JAWS Maintenance Work. sgs Council.
 '~'ho vote was adopted by an overwhelming show Of hands, Als though t was not unanimous" nc sald.
 The back.to-work vote followed c meeting addressed by Reuther who came to Detrolt from Atlantic City, M J,, by army plane. Leaders Os the United AutUFfiObiie Workers Union (Cfo) meet with Mainteiia afICe WOFkefs' Local officials today Co urge Afi immediate end to G strike which has halted or gi0wCd production Of plano engines, guns, truck paFts and other waF niateFiais At moro than % Detroit plants.
 international JAW President @, 2. Thomas told the strikers iil 6 message last night tiaat iEi the ifi- soFegt Of the WaF program "tiiis tfike, however just the grievances, Iafinot be supported by the Inter- aAtionai Uni0n.D
 Latest checks showed taat E3e wnik0nt Of some A,0O0 maikt6naEiee employees elnee tic 1tsfke began oii
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-05
Oddities M The NelUs

Springfield, Mass. Oct, b.-(UP)- A chemist reported that mari. huana" cigarettes which police said were smoked in "wild orgies" in the Eastern avenue district actually were mint.fiAvor0d cigarettes con- tainlng no drugs.
 NewbuFypoFt, Mass, Oct. S.--(UP) Repeating . World War I custom, the city council voted Co present c medal to oil NewburypoFt service. men and women after the war.
 Drookfleid, Mass, Oct. B.-(Up)- 4 month ago e.y0ar-oid Robert Col- fins sustained c compound fracs ture of the right arm. Yesterday he suffered . compound fracture Of the loft arm.
 Brunswick, Me, Oct. B.-WPl- When Ellsw0Fth DFeekett Of East MeFpsweil complained that his son John to0k his automobile without permission, the youth was fined e1b. Then the father Felentea amd paia Che llne himself.
 Rcme, oct. b-(Up)--The only casualty ct enc aiFfeid where aiF- bcsne forces landed in Greece Waa c which was kilold when a e6 stop it. The plano was not night-Aglng Dakota iEanspoFs iands
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-05
Movie Actor Visits Girl

Yittsbzufgh, Oct. Q - (UYJ == IEandSofno Victor Mature arrived here today for c personal appeafs ance1 ct the bedside Of iisyeaF Fscld Isliniee KinzeF, who yesterday ufl. deFwent ail operation for removal Of c brain tufnOf.
 Tie movie actor, now c chief boatswaif's mate in the Coast duafd, tFayeied by train from Iils dlanapCIls, where ile ig appearing in tlae Coast 0uaFd production, "raFs And DtaFS", to b6 with his young
 Nature prepared to co to the hospital, where Eunice, wh0 was described e resting easy but still at tte crisis stage" called cut his flaflle ag gie recovered gradually fFona the operation. The surgery, described as c l000-tO-i operation, Wag characterized as . tentative
 Mature, Wflo conferred with the eiKYs fatheF, John KinseF, befesU f fNnaffnaseA nR wnNa NA
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-09-29
Coughf NoPPing

Irtensification of the Political Action
Committees drive to get all ClO members
registered for the November election
caught the Board of Elections mapping this
week when hundreds of workers, sacrItlc-
ing their lunch hour, went to the Board to
qualify for the November elections.
Remarks by Republican members of
the Board that the registrations on Tues
dav of this * were but "flash in the
pan" and tha 1T was just "bunch of hill
billies" indicate that the Republicans are
not in favor of large registration.
The "flash in the pan" continuing on
Wednesday brought about large number
of traffic tickets and the arrest of one
worker for blocking traffic, situation
brought about by the Board itself for its
unpreparedness in handling the large
crowd of workers and its refusal to set up
registration places where the workers
could be conveniently and efficiently
handled.
Location of the Board of Elections on
a crowded thorOfare does not lend itself
to effective handling of a large number
of registrants. This, combined with the
small number of people employed by the
Board to do the work of registering the
voters brings about bad situation which
impedes the rapid flow of traffic and
causes great CONFUSION.
What happened to the CIO this week
in getting out the voters to qualify for
the November election could happen to
any organization which might attempt to
get its people to register. 1t is not too late
for the Board to make better arrangements
for registration, or to even give the Clo
a registration place for the people in its
organization.
One thing is certain, registration OF
large number of Working men and
women this week is beginning to worry
the politicians. Their every act and word
indicates that one thing they do not want
this year is a large vote. The sight OF wor-
ried politicians should be a stimulant to
every worker in this city to go to the
Board of Elections and register regardless
of the efforts made to discourage them.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-09-29
Regional
Views
By Richard Gosser zk
Director Region 2B, UAW,CIO
GETTING RESULTS


Thanks to the shop chairmen, stewards
and members of the shop PAC committees,
we beginning to get better results in our
drive to register all members of the CIO for
the November election.
l don't want to fool anyone about the
registration far to the point where they
think that its all over but the shouting. We
have still many thousand workers. at least
10000 of them whom We must get quail
fled before can view the November cleo
ton with confidence.
Right now, would say that the most i'm
portant job all of us have is to get every
one, including our wives mothers and fathers,
sisters and brothers and friends to go to the
Board of Elections, 217 Superior st. and
register for the fall election.
WE CAN JUDGE
Make no mistake about it, unless we get
out large number of voters and have them
register now, before October 9, this election
will be lost and we will be in for times that
will make us think that the present congress
is hot bed of liberalism.
We can Judge after October what our
chances are going to be to get the people,
elected to offices whom believe will be
friendly to labor. If we can have 1876, 900 to
100000 registered voters in Lucas county
after registrations are closed, l will venture
to say that we will elect the people whom we
are SupPOl IhS'
If we can only qualify 10000 to 10000
for the November election I am going to be
in plenty of doubt about the results. The vote
will be close and we may lose.
This is not painting the picture black, but
merely facing the situation realistically. | can
see no point in kidding either the workers or
myself and then waking up on November to
discover that we have reactionary president
and reactionary congress elected.
CEpUnTrC uUCINECC
Getting out the vote, which means getting
people to register first and inducing them to
vote for the candidates which are favored by
labor is serious business.
All of us know what has been going on
for the past two years since the workers failed
to exercise their sacred privilege of voting.
Most of us can imagine what is going to occur
during the next few years if labor again sits
back and lets the other fellow vote.
want to ask every voter who has not yet
qualified for the November election to go at
once to the Board of Elections and get set for
the November election. We have everything to
lose and additional gains to make as a result of
the number of people who vote and the way
they cast their ballots this fall. If you want to
maintain and advance your own social and
economic we'll being if you want to guard
your gains from the attacks of the enemies
of labor and the plain people, then GO
AND REGISTER IMMEDIATELY.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-09-29

No better illustration of the power
of suggestive example could be found than
the imitation of Sewell Avery by the
management of the Farrell Cheek Steel
Co., in Sandusky.
For over one year, the Sandusky
plant stalled, needed its workers, APP
pealed and did everything it could to de-
feat the UAW.CIO union which had won
the plant bargaining rights.
Finally, when il could not advance
its cause further, il refused to comply with
a modified directive issued by the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board and was
ordered before the Board in Washington
TO show cause why il should not comply
with the directives.
Again il was ordered to comply, and
again il pursued its anarchistic way de-
spite the protests of the workers and the
holding up of critical war production.
Finally, the President, at the request
Of the National War Labor Board was
forced to send in the Army to take over
the Sandusky plant.
Here the similarity of the Farrell
Cheek Steel Co, management TO Seweil
Avery ended. No one had to carry Indus
trialist Farrell out of his office. No hot
words of protest were spoken. Mr.. Far
rell submitted like tame cat. The an
archist was converted into law abiding
citizen. He offered to cooperate with the
War Department.
Beneath the acts of the AveryS and
the FarrellS and their kind of industrial
anarchists lies the true issues of this poll
tical campaign. Defeat of Roosevelt and
election of Dewey will put the Averys
and Farrells in the saddle. Their out
spoken and frank hatred and contempt
for labor and labor unions will not have
the opposition of government friendly to
labor.
Under reactionary government,
industrial anarchists would become law
abiding citizens, because they would have
laws written in their interest with which
they could comply. In the face of this situ-
alton, it recalls to mind the sad fact that
Alvin Weichel, reactionary congressman
from the 18th Ohio congressional district,
is unopposed for reelection.