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Evening star., 1944-10-03
Downey Advocates
Raise, Severance Pa\
For Federal Workers
Boost Of IS Per Cent
With True Overtime
Rote Is Proposed

A boost of at least Is per cent
in the basic pay OF all salaried
employees of the Government, along
with a 90-day severance pay plan
and adoption of q permanent and
true" time-and-one-half rate for
overtime, was advocated last night
by Chairman Downey of the Senate
Civil Service Committee.
He announced he would place the
three-point program before his COM
mittee Immediately on the recon-
vening Of Congress November IA
"as a matter Of fairness to Gov.
ernment workers and to prevent 9
high rate Of turnover that would
interfere seriously with the wal
program"
The California Senator declared
the basic pay increase was needed
by Government salaried workers to
meet the increased cost Of living
He said aside from adjustments in
the lower grades, there had been no
increase in basic rates for salaried
Federal employees since July. 1890,
or for postal employees since Febru-
ary, 1925.
Need Generally Recognized.
Throughout the war period" he
said, there has been a general
recognition that private employees
should be granted Is per cent pay
increases over basic rates as Of
January /. l941, In order to allow
for increases in cost Of living.
To-day there seems to be a grow
ing recognition of the fact that these
increases should be permitted to ex-
ceed Is per cent Under existing
laws, as these adjustments are
made for private employees, COM
parable adjustments are made for
Federal workers who are paid on an
hourly or daily basis, and those
whose rates are fixed by wage
boards.
"Salaried Federal employees are in
identically the same position as
those employees whose rates of pay
have been adjusted, insofar as the
cost Of living Is concerned, and
there certainly would appear to be
no reason why they should not be
granted pay increase Of at least
Is per cent"
Proposes Compromise.
Senator Downey said he was pro-
posing 90-day severence pay for all
Federal workers dropped because
Of reduction in staff, in lieu OF
the proposal to bring Federal en-
ployes under unemployment COM
pensation. He said he still favored
the unemployment compensation
plan, but If Congress was unwilling
to grant the Federal worker such
protection, it should provide 9o-day
severance pay.
As to his third point, Senator
Downey said the Overtime Pay Act
does not provide genuine time-and-
one-half compensation for salaried
workers. He proposed that before
this act expires next June 80,
Congress extend the overtime pay
system as q permanent part Of the
Governments policy and provide for
payment of true" time -and -one-
half for those compelled to work
over 40 hours q week.
Evening star., 1944-10-03
Andrew w. Clarke Heads
Alexondrio Seul Sole

State Senator Andrew w. Clarke
will head the annual seal sale OF
the Alexandria tuberculosis Asso-
citation, Mrs. Ruth Powers, execu-
tive secretary, said today.
This will be the third successive
year Mr.. Clarke has served as
chairman. The campaign will open
November 20 and continue until
Christmas.
The Ale xandria Association's
quota last year was $12,500, and the
campaign raised $14,756. This years
quota has not been announced.
Evening star., 1944-10-03
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shipped overseas. Every pound
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have your paper picked up.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
ON
 E. MAIN ST.
 LEASED TODAY

Recent sales and leases on valuable property sites corn- bined with announced post war plans indicate that Wa terbury's Broadway, East Main Street, will undergo many changes in the near future. The latest portent Of that coming event was re- corded today in the an- nouncement that the estate of Ellen E. Hayes had grant ed 6 63-year lease on the business and studio building at 67-73 East Main street.
 No immediate changes will be made, but when restrictions are re' moved on necessary building mae terials the present structure will Do razed and in it place c larger and more modern structure will arise to become the home of 6 nationally known business firm.
 The lease was given to Dryco, Connecticut, Inc, affiliated with the Dreyfuss Properties of Boston. rec. ognized as one of the largest real estate firms in the United States, specialists in obtaining long. range leases on attractive businesS. blocks and after converting them into modern structures Rub.ieaSing them to firms of national Fepute.
 Incidentally the DreyfusS Proper ties recently bought afl adjoining building 77.e6 East Main street from the Hayes estate, The prop. erty numbers among itS present tenants the Anchor Grill, Schnei- der's bakery, on amusement cefls ter, Q number of offices and apart- ments. This site was bought out- right for c sum reported to have been over 9i00,000. It is believed that this particular investment will be linked with the plans in mind for todays purchase.
 The present occupants of the building involved in the lease nlen- toned are the Waterbury Public Market, Eddy's Sea Food Store, Re. gina Leonard Dancing School. C.. Fl. Mathes, photographer and Leon Institute of Hair Dressing.
 The plans of the DreyfuSs Prop critics will undoubtedly effect a big
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
Dewey Plans
 4 Prosperous Free Country
By JOHN L. CUTTER (Unlted Press staff Correspondent)


 Aboard Governor Dewey's Cam paign Train, Sept. 22 - (U.P9 = Governor Thomas F. Dewey, proni- islng to find Q middle road between "new deal regimentation" and 70 reactlonary philosophy of dog-eat. dog in order to provide postwar jobs and security for oil without loss of personal or political freedom, carried his campaign for Califor. nia's 26 electoral votes to Los An. geles county today.
 The New York governor winds up e four.speech Pacific coast cam. paign tour tonight in Los Angeles huge memorial coliseum. He will outline the Republican program for expansion of unemployment com. pensation, old age pensions and minimum wage laws in on address ct 8 p. m. Ql D. ra., EWT) to De broadcast on the National Broad- casting Company network.
 Accompanied by Governor and Mrs. Earl Warren, the Dewey party will arrive in Los Angeles ct i0:30 e. m. Q:sO p. m, EWT0 to be greet ed by Lieutenant Governor Fred. erick F. Houser, Republican scna- torial candidate, and Mayor Flet- cher Bowron. A round of meetings with leaders of the aircraft and motion picture industries, labor or- ganizations and political groups will follow.
 Speaking from San Francisco's Civic Auditorium to a nationwide radio audience and an enthusiastic overflow crowd of l5,000 last night, Dewey charged that the Roosevelt administration has failed utterly" to provide both political freedom and economic security.
 Saturated as 1t is with the de- featSit theory that America is past its prime, the new deal can see only two possibilities for America-ever increasing regimentation as one ale formative, and reaction as the other" he charged. Tt believes that economic security can only be pur- chased at the price of freedom.
 That argument is false. Our peo- pie do not want to see this country dragged further and further toward complete government control over every aspect of our lives. Neither do we want to go back to the reaction
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
Best Mon For Job Is Issue
 Wallace Soys

New York. September %, = (UP) Vice President Henry A, Wallace said last night the only Issue in the presidential election was whether President Roosevelt or Thomas E. Dewey was better quali- fled to lead the nations return to peace-time living,
 "The problem in this campaign" |" Wallace told 10000 persons who damned Madison Square Garden, 1s not one of irdiSpensability. The ofi- ly issue confronting us is who Of the two men can better handle the fol- lowing two problems:
 "i. Who can better cooperate with Churchill, Stalin and the Gen. eralissimo in writing c lasting, lib. eral, democratic peace which VIII preserve American interests without being unfair to any nation big or small?
 "2. Who can best make sure that there are jobs for everybody, and therefore good incomes for farmers. white-collar workers, business and professional men?"
 Wallace made his first formal speech in behalf of President Roose- velt and Senator Harry s. Truman, who replaced him as the chief executives running mate, at a rally sponsored by the independent voters committee of the Arts and Sciences for Roosevelt.
 "Even the most ardent Republican knows that Roosevelt has the pre- cious asset of long acquaintance as he deals with Churchill and Stalin. !" Wallace said.
 Even a reactionary will not light ly vote to toss such knowledge into discard"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
Reds Reported In Warsaw; Advance Also On Tallinn
(NEA Ielepnoto)
By ROBERT MUsEL y..iA.A Dmasa VRyaw Fmwuaa VNAaA Ant

(United Press WAT COrrespVnuehU
 London, Sept. 22 - (U,P) = A Polish communique reported today that Marshal Konstantin K. Rokos. Sovsky's Red Army had BtorFned across the Vlstula liver into War saw and joined Polish Patriots in wild street battles against the Ger. man garrison.
 As the battle of Warsaw was joined in the streets of the Polish capital, Berlin acknowledged that the German army had begun Q rec treat in EStonia, where onrushing Soviet forces had brought the big escape port of Tallinn, Estonian capital, under artillery fire,
 GA Finnish broadcast recorded by the FCC said the NaziS had started evacuating Tallinn.
 A Moscow dispatch reporting Tallinn under Soviet artillery fire indicated that Marshal Leonid A. dovorov's army had raced almost 30 miles through Estonia within l2 hours from the last positions res ported by the Soviet high command.
 The first non-Nazi word of the Red Army crossing of the Vistula at Warsaw came from General Bor, commander of Polish troops who emerged from their hideouts nearly two months ago to tackle the Ger mans in Warsaw as the Russians approached from the East.
 Units of the Soviet army yes- terday crossed the Vistula river in the face of fierce German resistance and have established liaison with our forces in two districts, Zoliborg Gin northern Warsaw and Mokotow Gin the souht part of the city)," Bor's communique said.
 Soviet planes again dropped food and ammunition to the Patriot Army, Bor reported, adding that the food situation lis still precarious."
 Tn the heart of the city, he said, the Poles gained ground in the di- rection of the Vistula, and were aid- ed by strong Russian artillery fire.
 A Moscow dispatch said the bat- tie of Warsaw probably would re- main unreported there until Rokos- sovsky was able to announce the entry into the city.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
Huge Tank
 Bottle Roges
By ROBERT RICHARDS United Press War CoFFespondeni


 With American 3rd Army, France Sept. 22. CUP)-A great tank battle perhaps the biggest of the European invasion, was resumed today on the fiat plains northwest Of Dieunze.
 American gunners had knocked out at least 13O German tanks ir the Third Army drive toward thi Siegfried line.
 Despite heavy losses. the Gnrmars armor and the strength of the enemy counter-thrusts was the grcatesl encountered by the Third Army.
 espite heavy losses, the 0erEnanf were fighting viciously in desperate attempt to halt the full-scale Amer ican armored advance on the Sies- fried line. onl y25 miles away.
 The battle ended momentnriiy early yesterday when the bruised Germans retired to recoup their forces, but returned to full fury last night and the Nazis stilI were aim. ing heavy blows at the American lines today.
 Tabulations of the battle from last night and today were not get coifs- pleted, but the toll of German nrnnnz was likely to go well above the 19t figure.
 The savage engagements ranged from the flat plains, where the tainlEs butted head on, Co the wood mfzzH
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
Goss Resigns Presidency Of ScoviII's

John II. dosg, who celebrated 50 years of affiliation with the ScovilI Manufacturing Go, Tuesday, Sept. i2th, resigned today as president and general manager of the scoyili Manufacturing Go. His resignation was accepted at 6 special meeting of the board Of directors, who iill- mediateiy elected Mir. Gosg as chair man Of the board. This position t newly created for MT. Goss.
 LeaVenwoFth P. sperry, who fe. signed his position today as eXecus tive Vice-pregident was chosen to succeed MT. dogs as president and general manager. William M. dosD was chosen executive vice presi' dent.
 Although the resignation Of MT. doSs may come as c surprise to the general public 1t was quietly known among his intimate associates that he had decided to relir1u's'1 f'e great responsibilities of the position. His resignation was rune. ~ i4ss spring following his return from Florida and his discharge from Q New York hospital.
 MT. doss succeeoed his late broth- CT, D. o. ooss, aS president and eer- eraI manager in 1882, cliinaxing a stesdy rise in influence in the exec' utive circles of the company over Q perioS of years. He entered the service of the Scovill Company as an apprentice of the button depart ment in 1894.
 On the occasion of his observance of his 50 years of service, officials paid high tribute to Mir. GosS' exec utive ability and his general efi. ciency. Tn response to speeches and
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
Coruso Is Executed

Rome, Sept. 22.-(UP)-Pietro ca. {. ruso, first Italian to be convicted as Fascist criminal, was executed today by firing squad which sho: him in the back as he sat astride a chair in the courtyard of an old fort near Rome and fumbled with a rosary.
 Long live Italy" Caruso shouted a moment before the squad of IS Metropolitan police in black and blue uniforms raised thleir rifles and fired.
 Caruso was seated in the clumsy homemade chair as though astride a horse, and guards shackled his legs, one of which he had fractured in an automobile accident attempt ing to flee from Rome before 1t was occupied by the Allies.
 The former police chief of Rome caught sight of the firing squad lin '. ing up as he swung on his crutch. es toward the chair. but he looke'i quickly away. He refused bandage and sat down.
 AS he was being tied to the chair, he talked calmly with Q priest, who patted him on the shoulder a mum. Der of times. The guards then stepped away, followed a moment later by the priest. In the inter vening silecence, Caruso shouted:
 Viva Italial"
 The commander of the firing mmaad rave the order Co take atm, and Caruso turned his head as far
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
By LYLE c. WILSON

United Press Stan C0rreSpOndent)
 Washington. Sept. 22 - (UP) = A movement of tremendous peace- time significance to break down inc ternational news monopolies by agreement among all nations is under way today by unanimous vote of the United States congress.
 Congress has committed the Uni- ted States formally to a news phil osophy calculated to support every where the men and women of the world who seek to obtain and pre- serve world peace and prosperity. It is hoped that other governments will commit themselves similarly.
 The commitment Is in the form of Q concurrent resolution adopted unanimously yesterday by both hualsee SrUpUNang that this govern inenr aeeg an international cogn- pact which would guarantee iioEi- discriminatory access Co news
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
~. Y. Man
 Killed ByC Cor

George Alfred douze, 27, of Ridge. wood, ". Y., was crushed to death tn Q Ledgeside avenue driveway early this morning when he at- tempted to stop Q moving autonlo- bile.
 It took the efforts of three detec. tives using Q heavy plank as lever to extricate 0ouze from be- tween the car door and the automo- bile where he was trapped when the front wheel went off an embank- ment, throwing the side of the car against 6 tree.
 Eleanor Derench, i03 Ledgeside avenue, the owner of the car. told Detective Raymond Grady, Paul Moynihan, and James Stack that the accident happened just after 0ouze drove into the beginning o' the driveway and got out of the car to open the door on her side.
 douze apparently neglected to pull the emergency brake, and as he rounded the car, 1t began to roll forward down the slight grade which had been made very rough and slip- pery from recent rains.
 Seeing this, Gouze ran back to the drivers side, jumped on tho running board and opened the door to pull the emergency brake. Bu. as he did so, the car veered off the driveway toward . six foot em- banknent on the left hand side. The left front wheel went off the em l. bankment throwing the car side' ways against a tree just opposite the door. The door jammed against Gouze who was caught on the run ning board between the door and
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22

 LAPS DECLARE
 MARTIAL LAW
ny FRANK TREMAINE yUnited Press Staff Correspondent


 vUnited Press Staff cOFrespondent)
 Pearl Harbor, September 22. = (UP) - New American carrier plane raids on the Manila area were reported by Radio Tokyo today, In the wake of heavy attacks on shipping and airhelds that prompted a declaration of martial law by the frenzied Japanese puppet government of the Philippines.
 Tokyo said the American planes, whose strike on We'd nesday (Thursday, Manila time) was described as "su- perlatlvely successful" in Q special communique Issued by Admiral Chester W. Nlmitz, had returned again tor 0 second day of assaults. As American forces ranged over Mas nila Bay for the firse time in more than two years, President Jose P. Laurel of the Quisling Philippines government proclaimed martial law throughout the islands due to "Danger of momentary invasion" Nnd for preservation of peace and order"
 The proclamation suggested Q popular uprising in Manila, actual Or potential, as the appearance Of the powerful American aerial fleet over the capital stirred hopes of liberation,
 Vice Admiral Marc A. MitacherS eask force launched the great fleet of carrier planes which delivered Wednesday's blow, in which s7 ships were sunk or damaged and 2ob otle- my planes destroyed,
 Shipping in Manila Bay and in susic Bay and ground installations At Cavite Naval base Clark Field and Nichols Field oil were blasted by the laundering barrage of rockets bombs and machine gun fire laying tho foundation for Gen, Douglas Mac- Arthur's return to Bataan,
 The attacks may have gone far toward neutrallzing Japanese air strength in the entire Philippines, it was believed here, NimitE alrea-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
Fierce Fight In Arnhem

London, Sept. 22-(UP)-The Ber- lin radio said today that more vie clent than anywhere in Holland is the fighting in burning Arnhem," indicating that Allied troops had driven into the strategic town above the Rhine.
 A Nazi broadcast also implied that air-borne British forces captured Arnhem soon after they landed Sum- day It said the British had an or- der to ike the town at any price, but owing to heavy losses the di- vision was not able to hold the town"
 Most of the troops dropped on an airport north of Arnhem, the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
By DEAN ". DITTNIER

United Press Stan C0rresp0noenD
 Washington, Sept. 22 = (U.P0 -- Australian Minister Sir Owen Dixon denied today that he had informa- ton of Japanese naval task force being about to strike at American territory just before the Pearl Har- bor attack.
 Dixon was drawn into the con- gressional debate on Pearl Harbor when Representative Ralph E. Church, R., Ill., read to the house an affidavit quoting Dixon that he had such information.
 Dixon authorized a statement that he had had no such information of a Japanese task force being about to attack territory belonging to the United states, that he had had no information of any warlike meas- ures by Japan against the United States. and that he had never said he had.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
TROOPSENTER SOUTHERN END
 OF 20 VALLEY
BY CLINTON B. CoN0ER United Press War COrrcspOndent)

DA CGANAVN Di SSEObN United Press War COrrespOndent)
 Rome, September 22. - (UP) = British Eighth Army troops captured Rimini today and entered the southern edge of the Pc valley to out flank the Gothic Line and begin a sweep up the corri- dor between the Apennine Mountains and the Adriatic Sea to northern Italy.
 Simultaneously, American Fifth Army troops, pouring through the preached central sector of the Gothic Line, captured the important road junction of Firenzuola and pushed on to take several dominant hills to the north.
 The Americans also occupied the village of Santa Lucia, three miles southwest of FirenSuola, and ad' Vanced to within 6 mile of Futa Pass, gateway through the Apen' hines.
 FirenZuola and Futa Pass are on roads leading to Bologna, 20 miles north, and fmola, 90 miles northeast, the latter on via Emilia, airline highway from RimSni to Bologna,
 Rimlni was captured by Greek troops of the Eighth Army, while Comedians operating two miles east of the coastal city took San For tunato village and an adjoining ridge which had been bitterly con- tested for days, :.
 The Eighth Army's Indian di.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
Dixon Denies KnotDing Japs Planned U. s. Attack

Some congressional quarters, de- clining to be identified. suggested that 1t may be significant that Dix on did not specifically deny having had knowledge of Japanese task force being in an area of the Pacific where it was a threat to American security.
 Church read to the House yester- day what he said was a notarized statement by Sidney c. Graves, Washington insurance man and West Point graduate, saying that at a dinner on December ., 194s, Dixon told him. Senator Homer Ferguson, R., Mich, and others in substance: 1:
 About T2 hours before Pearl Harbor. I received a flash warning
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
Congress Votes To Break International NelUs' Gags

sources everywhere for all news gathering and distributing agencies and individuals. It also calls for non discriminatory rates and charges for dissemination of news and for equality in distribution.
 Unanimous congressional action reflected the unanimity of the American Press for free and open news channels. The resolution said:
 Resolved. that the Congress of United States expresses its belief in the worldwide right of the ex- change of news by news-gat1ering and ews-distributing agencies, whether individual or associated, by any means, without discrimination
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
BY VIRGIL l.. PTNKLRY United Press War Correspondent

tUnited FFess war C0ffeSpOn0enD
 Superme Headquarters, AEF, September p. = (UPl - British armored forces were reported holding q pre-. carious link with Allied air borne troops beyond the up- per arm of the Rhine ct Arnhem today but were pour. ing a flood of tanks and fighting men through ths narrow corridor north of Nijmegen for a great drive into Germany.
 More than 200 miles to the south, It. Gen. George 6. Pattcxl's veteran American Third Army was locked in 6 swaying tank battle east of the Moselle that outmatched in fury anything yet seen in the western campaign.
 After five days of reckless cour~ ter-attacks that cost at least i9O tanks without hating the eastward progress of Patton's spearheads, the NaziS hurled fresh panzer divisions into the fight this morning and wheeled Up strong artillery forces to support the counter-bicW.
 Equaliy-desperate fighting swiFled through the maze of Eiegfried iills Notifications along the U. 6. ist Army front and on the Seventh Army line facing the Belfort gap as the Allies and Germans threw fn
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