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Evening star., 1944-12-03
BY the Associated Press


MIAMI, Fla, Dec. 2.-Attendance
and parimutuel play almost were
halved exactly at Gulfstream Park
today in comparison with figures set
at yesterdays opening.
Official attendance was announced
as 5,036 as compared with some
l0,500 yesterday. Parimutuel wager
ing reached S280,135 as against the
s429209 which fed the betting ma
chimes on opening day
Not scheduled in the celebration
of Florida Day" at the track was
a spill in the first race in which
Bobby Permane, high ranking
jockey. suffered a slight fracture of
the left shoulder.
The accident will keep Permane,
second leading jockey in winners
for 1914. idle for about three weeks.
Evening star., 1944-12-03
Sports Program
For LocuI Fans

TODAY.
Football.
Redskins VS.. Giants at New
York.
Lions VS.. Camden Blue Devils,
Griffith Stadium, 2.
TUESDAY.
Hockey.
Washington Lions VS.. Baltimore
! Blades, Uline Arena, $50.
WEDNESDAY.
Wrestling.
Weekly wrestling program,
Turner's Arena, 8:45.
FRIDAY.
Hockey.
Washington Lions VS.. Boston
Olympics, Uline Arena, $3.50.
Evening star., 1944-12-03
Havana Eleven No Match
For Presbyterion, 24-O
By the Associated Press.

bE lHt ASSOCldIeu PfeSS,
SPARTANBURG, S. c., Dec. O.
The Caribes of the University of
Havana were no match for Presby-
terian College today in South
Cardinals first international foot
ball game and lost $40.
The South Carolina eleven scored
in each of the first three periods
while the visiting Caribes, losers to
Miami Navy and Chatham Field in
previous games in this country,
never threatened seriously.
Evening star., 1944-12-03
Soldiers Face Grid Pros
In Contest for Churity

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2 R.--
1ntersectional football with a char
ity background will be put on dis
play here tomorrow in a game
bringing together the Fort Warren
(Wyoming) Broncos and the San
Francisco Clippers of the American
Professional League.
The contest will be held at Kezar
Stadium and is expected to attract
some 25,000 fans. Part of the pro-
ceeds will go to the war wounded
Christmas fund.
Evening star., 1944-12-03
Sunday staf Reduction Of Night Baseball by Majors Unlikely
Grid Lions Bottle
Cumdens Toduy

First place in the Eastern
Professional Football League
will be at stake when the Wash
ington Lions and Camden IN. j.
Blue Devils clash at Griffith
Stadium today at 2::30 with
large attendance expected.
Seven former National Foot
ball League players are Blue
Devils. The Lions are banking
heavily on Polly Phelps, triple
threat recently obtained from
the Annapolis Brown Bombers.
Evening star., 1944-12-03
GonsIen Is Army Coptoin

Dick Ganslen, former national
AAU pole vault champion, has been
promoted to captain in China, where
he has been training and fighting
with the Chinese troops as a men,
Der Of the American SKY force"
Evening star., 1944-12-03
Young Gridder Packs Punch

CHATTANOOGA, Dec. P.-
Eddie Mallary, 155-pound funback,
is Baylor Schools gridiron Sunday
punch. Held in reserve until it's
time to score he has produced IA
points in 1873 minutes of play dur
ing two seasons.
Evening star., 1944-12-03
Sheriff on Michigan Team

Milan Lazetich. Michigan tackle,
is "a years old, an Army discharges
and ex-deputy sheriff at Anaconda,
Mont.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-09
American
  Support FDR
(NEA Telephoto)
BY LYLE 0, WILSON

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Washington, Oct, 9-(UP)-AIner- lean Communists replied to Presi. dent Roosevelt'S repudiation of their campaign support with weekend party organ editorial exholting the members to get out the vote to help the president carry New York, Mi- chigan, Pennsylvania and Illinois.
 It appears, therefore, that the Communist vote. which hit 0 high of lO6,000 in New York State in 1888, has not been jared over the bandwagon tailboard by the shock of another dlsavowal.
 But the fact that Mr, Roosevelt did repudiate American Commun- ists suggests that their loud and un- welcome support has become em- barrassing to the administration. The newspaper PM" always loyal to Mir. Roosevelt, last March cited dangers ahead in a Washington dispatch reporting that high ad- ministration figures" were alarmed by the developing prominence of Communists and left wingers in the campaign to renoimnate and re- elect MT. Roosevelt.
 The Communist press, however, still is whooping 1t up for the Roosevelt Truman ticket. The ex- hortation to get out the vote ap- peared in yesterdays Sunday Worker" Communist weekly, along with articles approving the Demo"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-09
AH Nation Mour1s
 WlLkie's Demise

New York. October 2. - (UP) - The body of Wendell L. Willkie, the smalltown Indiana boy who bee came Q nationally-known corpora. ton executive, Q presidential candi- date and, later, America's most in. fluential private citizen, lay in state at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church today.
 Willkie's death of coronary thron- bosis early yesterday came with Q suddenness that stunned Q nation which always had regarded the tousle.haired husky-voiced Hoosier as the epitome of health and vigor.
 The reaction was spontaneous and swelled in volume all day yes- terday and today as thousands of telegrams of sympathy poured in from friends, supporters, political opponents and admirers in all walks of life.
 Only 52, the former Republican standardbearer entered the LenoX Hill Hospital for routine treatment of a stomach disorder September 6, but had been seriously i'll only since last Tuesday, when streptococcic throat infection and a lung conges- ton developed. His temperature scared to l04 degrees and then sub- sided, but his heart weakened un- der the strain. The last of three violent heart attacks was fatal at 2:2O e. m. yesterday. Mrs. Willkie lefe her own sickbed and arrived at her husbands side five minutes be- fore his death.
 Funeral services will be held at 3 D. m. tomorrow but the time of Willkie's burial will be determined by the return of his only son, It. (jg) Philip Willkie. USNR, who is on convoy duty in the Atlantic. Willkie will be buried at Nashville, Ind, only few miles from the little frame house at Elwood, where he was born Feb. IS, 1892.
 Willkie's death came less than a week after that of another great
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-09
D. Coscio Is Held For Murder

City Court Prosecutor Albert w, HuInnel this morning Issued Q war rant charging murder for Domenic Coseia, S2, 4ie Washington avenue, who on Sept. % killed his brother in.law, Rdolph Cyr, SS, with . shotgun.
 Mir. Hummel issued tho warrant after Coroner stephen A. Homick handed down Q finding holding Cotcia criminally responsible in the staying.
 Coscia will be arraigned before Judge Charles R. Summa in City Court tomorrow on Q charge that 'she with force and arms, unlaw- fully. deliberately, premeditatively, and with malice aforethought, did feioniously kill and murder Adolph Cyf." s
 In the event that probable cause of guilt Is found by Judge Summas or if Coscia valves examination; he will be bound over to the next ses- sion of the Superior Court.
 States Attorney William B. Fitz- gerald would then appear before Superior Court Judge Robert L. Munger on Friday, Oct. l3, to re- quest the convening of a grand jury and appointment of a time for 1t to sit.
 Text of the coroners finding in the case follows:
 The deceased and Coscia were brothers-in-law, married to sisters, and occupied the first and second floor tenements respectively in the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-09
New Cabinet For Egypt

Cairo, oct, O-(UP)-A new E9yp- tian cabinet under the outstanding pro.Allied leader, Ahmed Maher Pasha, was formed today, replacing the government of Mustapa Nahas Pasha which had held otice since l942.
 In an interview with the United Press toraly today Q few hours af- ter he took ofiice Maher charged the former regime with the organ. ization of concentration camps on the Nazi model.
 "Nahas," said Mahern, "likes to boast of what he has done for Dern- ocracy. He does not know the mea1- ing of the word himself. Unlike Mussolini and Hitler he did not have the courage to admit his dic- tatorship openly but hid his acc tions behind parliament conn., posed of yes-men."
 Nahas was dismissed abruptly yesterday by King Farouk.
 Maher was the only Egyptian political leader in the early days of the war who openly urged Egypt to participate actively and to aid the British in the western desert campaigns.
 Maher said his accession meant "the end of this yelled dictator ship"
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-09
Exec. Branch or Fed. GoUt. Chaos PatchtUork :--Bricker
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But all these attempts to reor- ganization have been insufficient, i" he said. ''The executive branch of the federal government still is a patchwork of disorder and confu- sion."
 A wise reorganization of govern ment, he continued, must contain a relaxing of power in Washington and a delegation of that authority to the local agencies, scattered far and wide over the land."
 Bricker opened his drive for Mon- tana's fourteen electoral votes, which have gone to President Roosevelt in the last three elections. with e rear platform talk at Boze- man. followed by his address here.
 Another rear platform appearance at Helena, the state capitol. was scheduled before he goes Co Great Ealls for his principal addgers og dass
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-09

It was the first surface attack of the war on the pinpoint island bastion guarding the eastern ap- breaches to the Japanese homeland, and preliminary reports flashed back to Ad- miral Chester w. Nimits'S Pacific fleet headquarters indicated the surprtsed enemy offered only feeble resistance.
 The communiQue revealed that Adm, William ?. HAlsey detached units of his powerful third battle fleet, which was last reported nah- neuvering off the Palau Islands al- most 1900 miles to the southwest for the strike on Marcus,
 The number and type Of the At- tacking warships were not immedls dately disclosed, put 1t was inals lsatod the raid was carried out n Considerable strength, in view ok tn eeyer-present possibility Of inter- ference by units of tho Japaneso grand fleet-based little more than days sail from Marcus,
 Tactical Surprise
 The communique pointedly mado no mention of Japanese aerial op- position throughout tho day-long bombardment, suggesting that the attack had achieved complete tAeS tical surprise and that the enemy had been unable to got any imports ant number of planes into tho alT.
 "Consideraele damage WAa iE~ flocted and the greater part Of thc coast defense batteries WekW slienced," the communique sAld. Buildings were hit and fires werO started"
 Marcus was hit previously three times by carrier task force and has been bombed 1B times by 7th AAF Liberators since last Septefl- Der 3, but the oomnaunique made no mention of U. 6. aircraft in this attack, indicating that only sur- face craft probably were involved in the actual bombardment.
 It was the first report by action by Halsey's third fleet since the last carrier strike against the phiiip- pines on Sept. %, and since the pre- invasion attack at Paiau fleet war; ships reported since the pre-iEas vasion attack ct Palau early last month.
 Another Daring Move
 It appeared that Halsey, in an~ other of the daring moves for which he has become famous, sent Q last task force from his third fleet bold-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-09
Big Four Reueal StiH-To-
 Be-COn1pLeted NelU Charter
nR R.H. RHACKEORn

(Unlted Press stan Correspondent)
 Washington. Oct. S-(Up)- Tho Fig Four nations, determined that "the sacrifices of this war shall not be in vain," today unveiled Q still- to. o.be-completed charter for e world peace organization backed by the armed might of its members and empowered to call on special air force units for urgent military measures"
 The proposed organization would be called "The United Nations" Briefly, 1t would consist of Q policy making general assembly of all peace-loving nations: an economic and social council of IS nations to deal with Humanitarian" aspects of international relations; worldl court of justice: and a security council of II nations-including the United states, Great Britain, Rus sia, China, and "in due course" France As permanent members whose primary responsibility would b emaintenance of peace through pacific, economic or military means.
 The recommendations did not go into the vital matter of just how the security council would order "the United Nations military pow. CT into action in the event of . threat to peace.
 Stiil to be resolved, presumably at ''higher levels," is the all-important issue of voting procedure in the se- curity council if one of the perma- nent members should become Q party to Q dispute. The question to be answered is: could such a mem her veto an emergency organization to function only when world peace was jeopardized by overt aggression. It would concern itself with tun- damental economic, social and other Humanitarian stresses and strains.
 Armaments
 It also would concern itself through the security counctl-with plans for regulation of ornaments so that international peace and se- curity could be promoted with the least diversion of the worlds hue man and economic resources for armaments."
 Individual members of '"rhe Uni-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-09
COUNTER HITS
 SLOW UP BOLD
 ALLIED ATTACK
BY VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press War CorrespUndent)


 Supreme Headquarters, AEF, October 9. - (UP) = American First Army forces fought into the outskirts of Aachen with flame throwers and narrowed the escape gap to the northeast to three miles today, but the Germans were counter attacking flercely in an attempt to pre- vent what appeared to be imminent encirclement of the city.
 American artillery already was pouring 0 torrent Of steel and ex' ploSlveS into the marrow enemy corridor out of Aachen and 0 high staff officer told United Press War Correspondent Jack FTankish at the front that anyone who attempted to get out of the city was apply ing for Q death warrant"
 Apparently, Aachen's garrison is going to fight to the death" he said. "We hope so. All those we kill don't have to be fed and guarded"
 It. Gen. Courtney II, Hodges northern spearhead jumping of ct T Q, m, from Herzogenrath, six miles north of Aaehen, closed to within three miles of their comrades to the southeast this morning with q thrust to the vicinity of Gardens, four Q half miles north of Aaehen.
 The southern column was on the northern slopes of Crueific Hill just north of the road from Verlauten- hOide, three miles northeast ot Aachen.
 German veterans fighting on the eastern front threw c strong counter attack against the right flank Of tho American spearheads iil the early morning darknseg today fii un at- tempt to drive Q wedge between Verlautenheide and Eilendorf, one mile to the south.
 The attack was beaten of after several hours of heavy fighting, Frankish said. but the Germans launched Q second counter attack with tank support just before il am,
 It. Gen. George s. Patton's American 3rd Army also resumed It's offensive soon after dawn striking out on a 20-mile front between Nancy and b0leaguered Metz after capturing at least 10 towns in the first phase of the attack yesterday and last night.
 Pattons offensive appeared de- signed to pave the way for pos- sibie encirclement of Metz, gateway to the Saar Basin and one of the strongest baStions on the eastern front.
 On the northwestern front, Can adian forces advanced 2,000 to B. 900 yards and captured Calmp- thot, IA miles north of Antwerp, and held firm to their bridgehead across the Leopold canal in the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-09
By CHARLES B. DEGGEs

(On1te0 EEeSS Sbau CUEECSpOMuemsJ
 Butte, Mont, Oct. g = UPJ = The executive brancn of the fed- eral government is a patchwork of disorder and confusion whcih must be unscrambled in the postwar era, Governor John w. Bricker of Ohio said today.
 Despite all the war pofers grant, ed President Roosevelt, congress ''has had to take into its own hands the abolition of useless agencies" l" the Republican vice president cane didate said in 6 speech prepared for delivery here.
 Congress hquldated the Civilian Conservation Corps, the National Youth Administration and the Nae tional Resources Planning Board, and pressured the pre1ident into '.flnally" aholishing khe works pro- jects administration. Hrlcker as- serted
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-09
Churchill
 In Moscow
RY M. s. HANDLER

Limited Press Staff COrrespOndenC
 Moscow, Oct. 0-(UP) - Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden with a large party of military and diplomatic aides arrived today.
 They were met at Moscow air. drome by Foreign CommiSsar V. M. Molotov, Vice. Commissars Andreyev Vishiinsy and Ivan Maisyk, British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, Q. s. Ambassador W. Averill Hartman and members of the Brit ish and American military missions.
 Churchill was welcomed at the modernlStic airport with the great est pomp and ceremony ever acc corded a foreign dignitary under the Soviet regime.
 A crack detachment of the NKVD civil guard of honor was drawn up and presented arms as Churchill and his party stepped from their plane.
 The Soviet flag and the Union Jack fluttered at dozens of flag poles around the field and a Rus sian military band played the New Soviet Anthem and God Save The King"
 (An official statement in London by Deputy Prime Minister Clement Attlee described the trip as a ''Se- quel'' to the Quebec conference of President Roosevelt and Churchill. It was believed Churchill and Sta- lin would discuss speeding up a final all-out assault upon Germany from east, south and west. Church. i'll was also expected to iron out with Stalin the security phases of the Dumbarton Oaks proposals whi, . were made public simultane- ous with the prime minister's ar rival in Moscow.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-09
REDS WITHIN SHELL RANGE
 OF MEMEL
BY HENRY SHAPIRO Limited Press Staff COrFospOndent)

United Press Staff C0rFospOndent)
 Moscow, October 9.-(UP) Two Soviet armies plunged forward today within smelling range of the Baltic port of Memel, threatening Major Nazi forces with entrapment, and the Soviet press asserted that "the day Is not far off when the battle will shift into Reich territory"
 The first Baltic Army of Gen. Ivan 0. Bagramian and the third White Russian Army of Gen. Ivan D. ChernIakhovsky slaBhed forward on Q front of nearly 200.miles to points about % miles from Memel, They were blowing ahead about l0 miles Q day.
 The advance was rapidly wtplng out the dangerous German Baltic salient which for two months has hold up Cherniakhovsky's troops poised ready to drive Into East PftlSSih,
 Germans troops in Western Latvia and Llthuania were faced with i'm. mlnent threat of encirclement and annihilation. Already, the Soviet press reported, two German infan" try divisions, one armored division and five security regiments have been knocked out.
 Pravda, CommuniSt party organ, said:
 "The day is not far of when the battle will shift into Reich Terri: tory. The Red Army's powerful new blow, combined with the of: fensiye in the direction of Riga and the landing of Oesel Island. have cut the ground from under the NaN
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-09
Dewey Asks China Aid
BY KIRTLAND I. KING

NOmteu EEeas Sstskt OVEEeoPVHueHV
 Albany, N. r., Oct. 9-(UP)-dov. Thomas E. Dewey, placing more emphasis on foreign policy as his campaign for the presidency hears the final stages, said today the United States must speed Ian even greater degree of aid to China aS soon aS possible"
 Dewey made the declaration in a proclamation designating tomorrow Free China Day" It followed closely his assertion that Poland must be made a free and indepen- den nation after the war that se- crety of present Polish discussions should be lifted for the American people.
 we in this country. for the last three years comrades in arms with the people of China, have sent mil- itary aid, however inadequate, to out Allies across the Pacific,' he said. "The people of America have come forward also as private cit- izens with contributions for China relief. Nevertheless, today China finds herself in Q more desperate condition than at any time since the beginning of the Japanese in- vasion."
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-09
sTRTKE IN sHTPYARD

Quincy, Mass, Oct. 0-(UP)-Sev- eral thousand day-shift war work CTS at the Bethlehe mSteel Co.5s Quincy shlpyard went on strike to- day. The reason for the walkout was not disclosed immediately.
 Oficlals said the workers include pipe filters, electricians, sheet metal workers and ship filters. A strike hy i.z0O welderB over c wage dis- pnto was settled only last Friday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-09
Bologna
 Drive Gains
BY ELEANOR PACKARD Limited Press War Correspondent

(OMAtGU ET~N3 Wux OVfEsoN81AA@AV
 Rome, october g. (UP) - American troops, experimenting the Fifth Army drive on Bologna, pushed to within 10 miles Of that key city of Italy's 20 valley today and the Germans were reported hastening defenses in the foothills of the Apennines against the steady Allied advance.
 The Americans, moving nearly two miles a day, were driving north~ ward along Q triangular front straddling the main highway from Florence with the apex thrusting directly at Bologna.
 The foremost troops continued their steady advance on the high- way and swept to within 70 miles of the city. A mile on either side of the road, two other American columns were keeping pace and swept through Barbarolo and Mon- te Castellazi, both about l2 miles from Bologna.
 Other American forces, thrust ing northeastward toward Tmola. captured the village of Monte AGor- osino and POggio Del Falchetto Co bring their lines within eight n.iles
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-09
Nozis Admit Triple Drive

London, Oct. 9-(UP)-The Ber- lin radio quoted a German military spokesman as saying today that the general offensive against the inner walls of fortress Germany was launched simultaneously Sunday on the western, eastern and Italian fronts"
 The Berlin spokesman said the in- termediate stage of the war in the west has ended and that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is striking to win a decisive victory before winter sets in.
 The intermediate stage. he said. began with the German high com- mands decision to go over to the defensive following the American break-through at Avranches early in August.
 This pause was exploited by the German command, following the re- treat to the inner line, for building up better and shorter defense posi- tions and quicker supply and com- munications while the Allies had to regroup their armies and build up a net. of supply nnes," the spokes- man said.
 He boasted that the interval was used inside Germany to complete the total mobilization" of the na- ton and predicted that the Allied grand offensive twill be shattered by
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-09
Oddities m
 The NelUs
By United Press

Chicopee, Mass, Oct. 9.-(UP)- T-Sgt. Gerald T. Paquette wrote to friends here that his New Guinea based bomber dropped everything on the Japs-including a kitchen sink found in the jungle.
 Lewiston, Me, Oct. 9-(UP)- When @ heavy rain-storm flooded streets outside a theater, 200 patrons walked out and stepped in- to police patrol wagons which transported them to dry ground.
 Newport, Vt., Oct. 9.--(UP)-A bolt of lightning which struck a power line knocked Adelor Gosselin, 36. of Newport, who was fishing, into Lake Mempnremagog where he drowned in 12 feet of water.
 Worcester, Mass, Oct. 9-(UP)- Firemen dragged hoselines into Q smoke filled second floor apartment where they were greeted by Mrs. Anna Ragstead with Q oheery: Sorry, no fire. just Q burned pie"