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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-03
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Yunk Troops Score Gain
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CContlnued from Page D ing th road to fmola, but were beat- en off each time,
 The communlQue reported that bad weather again closed over the Adrlatlo coast sector and prevented any major action by the British Eighth Army, The rNln-sWollen Flumlclno river made impossible crossings by other than patrol units, and Eighth army positions thus re. malned substantially unchanged from the coast Co Tribola,
 British Indian Division troops, however, captured the village Of Borohl, Ave and Q half miles South- west Of Savlgnano, and nearby Mount Regiano,
 Deadlock Broken
 Indian troops on the extreme right flank of the Fifth Army fin- ally broke the deadlock at MarrNol on the Florence. .Faensa highway by selElng Monte Cavallara, three miles east of Marradl, and Monte b'Alto, ono mile northwest of CNvallara, paving the way for new advances In that area,
 Tn the hlgurlan sea coast sector, advance clements of the All-Negro e2nd division fought through some of the most difficult terrain of oil the Fifth Armys front to drive up the Lucea- Modeschgto Q point 9l miles northeast Of Luoca, near the town Of Cutigliano,
 Italian partisan forces reported ia oommunique today that 0 hard fought battle lasting several days had Just ended in the Monte 0rappu area Of northern Italy, about 4( miles northwest of Venice, in which NaEi- Fascist forces lost 1000 to 2,00( dead and wounded, while the Pa triotS lost more than 400 men dead wounded and taken prisoners,
 The communique reported thAt the Patriots repulSed Q number oi counter. r.attNoks but finally wer( forced to withdraw and take ul favorable positions elsewhere"
 (The British radio, quoting thu German DNB Agency, reported tha' tho NaGis now consider the great city of Turin, in Piedmont some At miles from the French frontier, [ "near-front area" The radio quot cd the agency thu tthe city's FNs' elst commissioner, recently appoint cd by Benito Mussolini, was killed by Patriots while enroute to hi poSt,)
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(Centinued from Page D ing day when he failed to return home, and a canvas of relatives homes yielded no trace of him,
 The next day, two grammar school boys reported to police hav- ing seen c man of ZukauskaS de. seriptien disappear Into tho Lake. wood reservoir on Sunday after noon,
 Police and flremen, assisted by Hukauskas' son, T.sgt, Bronis zu- bauskas, who returned home on on emergency furlough arranged by the Red CreaS, partially drained and dragged the reservoir for sev- eral days before abandoning the search, Sgt, zukauSlsas also eomb- cd the woods in the vicinity with tho assistance of 70 boy scouts,
 Coroner stephen A, Homiek said this morning that he did not be- lleve an inquest would Do necessary in the case, but that no was await ing Q formal report from tho med- leal examiner,
 The funeral will Do held from Deliniks' funeral home l7 Congress avenue, time and other arrange mentS to Dc announced
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-03
Fighting In Ubach
 Is Hand-To-Hand
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depth of the main 9iogfried belt in the area of the offensive was quest. ionAble. but the .. S. wedge had been driven half way through the p!llbox belt.
 Only . handful of Germans prisoners were taken in the first onrush yesterday, but more than 100 surrendered during the night. Most of them were members Of Q single unit, and ono of them was oneseyed.
 Prisoners said they had been told that if any unit retreated the elite guard would execute one man of every i0-a possible clue to the ?stlFnnoss? of resistance encount- cred by the Americans.
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 Tn ono sector covered by Frank sh's dispatch, 1Eodges' infantry had dug in for the night Q little less than 6 mile inside tho Siegfried line, and advanced about Q third of R mile by ii Q. m. today.
 "The going is rough aS the doughboys battle to weed out tho deFmanS from their foxholes around and behind tho siegfried piiiboxoS," doFTell reported. ~fhe enemy b counter attacking freq uently In strength up to a platoon or cofns pany as the battle gee.saws."
 Fog banks obscured the targets of Allied planes and artillery. and tho weather generlaly was bad.
 The Maxi commend brought in reserves of cannon and n1ortar0, and were laying down . carpet barfage in support of their hard fighting troops.
 The German controlled Sean. dlnaVian telegraph bureau report. cd from Berlin that the AEneficans had driven eight and half miles into tho German lines on 6 e as9 mile front, but Allied sources were much more conservative.
 United Pr0Bs War Correspondent Henry. T. doFreil, tn c dispatch from list Army headquaTteTS, said the rate Of advance would hinge largely on tho weather. Though mist and low visibility at mid-niorning prevented medium bombers from supporting the renewed attack, scores of dive bolnbers joined artillery batteries in pouring steel and explosives into enemy positions.
 Bombs and Shells
 Bombs and shells ranging up to eight inches in diameter smashed German piiiboxes and cremated their defenders, blazing . trail Of advance for American infantTynlen who raced forward and dug out gur- viving Germans from their fcxholeS with bayonets.
 The main. weight of the assault was being directed against Q six to geven-miIe sector Of the sieefried line before Herzogenrath, Merk. stein and 0eilenirchen some eight to 10 miles north of Aachen. bus other American forces also lashed out eastward farther north and cap- tured the Dutch town of Oyerloon, B4 miles above Aachen.
 1st Army headquarters officially reported that progress up to last midnight had been satisfactory" with the deepest penetration Of the eiegfrfed wall at the northern end Of the American line of attack, where the German defenses were thinner than those iInmedlately north og Aaphsn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-03
Small Aid lIs Admitted
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@ eventually free china,
 The Chinese spokesman said the strength Of tho U. 6. i4th Air Force 1n Ohlna was "s0 small t would hardly be credited if it could Dc
 WhateveF its strength, officials here said, the i4th Air Force had supported chinese ground forces and effectively bombed Japanese ship. sing in hte South China Sea. Tt 6mnk, probably sank or damaged eyer a,O00, 600 tons Of Japanese ship. nane from March 10, i043 to Aug Hi, 1e4l. During recent ground support operations in China it de- AtS0ged aSl average Of % Japanese g6hieleg. daily, At the same time Bs20 sIapeFf6ftFesses attacked Japanese Industry at long range, carrying out gIsht geperate missions since June g
 11ae chinese comment resulted &som bitter resentment of state- aaents by Primo Minister Winston Churchill t0 Commons that Chinese military FevefseB were "Hlost disap- NelHtlElg and vexatiols" despite tInvlsh American help"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-03
Reds Drive On Riga Front
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German casualties have been Sd heavy that companies of % have been reduced to 20 and some ifi- fantry battaiionS that oIice totaied 1000 men now comprise only 50. 4 captured German order of the day threatened immediate execution for any German soldier leaving hia trench voluntarily.
 Pravda did not soy from which direction the goviets penetrated Riga'g suburbs, but it was presumed to be from Kekava, seven miles south of the capital which was cap- tured last month.
 East of Riga, the Soviet high command said in Q supplement tc the midnight coEnmunique, Russian scouts broke into 6 first line of 0er- man trenches and replilSed ell efie- my attempts to re-captuFe them.
 German infantry, supported by tanks and sels-propelled guns counter attacked along the Rigaps- kov highway several times, but were thrown back with loss of 100 men the supplement said.
 There were no fregh reports from the southern fEont, where ths Russians Were advancing on Gzeged Hungary; Ciuj, Xrnnsyiyania, and 1lin. xuspslavis.
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knocked out 6 heavily fortified an- cient castle at Rimburg, more than Q mile east.Southeast Of Ubaeh, which tho enemy tried to defend with small arms an dautomatic wea. pohs.
 First Army clements "contlnued their advance" after overwhelming resistance at the castle, the front dispatch reported,
 Hundreds of cannon Fained more than 90000 shells on the German positions ahead of tho attacking Americans yesterday. The Lombard. ment was resumed thlS morning, and 300 shells were sent into Beg. gendorff,
 FTankiSh reported that the exact
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Greeks Grob Own Lands
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 half miles south of the Greek main. land-the night Of Sept. 10.
 His delayed dispatch significantly referred to kythorE as . possible Allied stepping stone toward tho Greek inalpland," . hint that the iGnding might Dc followed by an Allied invasion of Greece itself.
 Tn addition" Conger said, "the islgnd's fishing ports, coveB and in- lets afford moderately good hides outs for light warcraft immediately on the flank of German ship lanes from Crete to tho Greek mainland"
 British broadcRbts said commans dos also had landed on two other Greek islands unopposed and radio Paris asserted "strong Allied forces" had gone ashore in northwestern Crete, but none of these landings was confirmed immediately.
 Allied military sources believed the Germans already has abandon cd most of peloponnesus, ,southerns most part Of Greece, with tho pose Siblo exception of the Ports of Pa. trei and Corinth.
 Greek sources only yesterday 70. ported the liberation by patriot forces of Lepanto on the Gulf Of Corinth and 0argaliAnoi on the west coast of Peloponnessus. dargalianol was said to have fallen after . 3s. hour battle.
 The Germans also were believed to have abandoned most of noun. tajnouS EpiruB below Albania in Q general withdrawal northward to- ward Macedonia and the Vardas valley into Yugoslavla. Best eStls mates placed the retFeating garTi- B0n at B0,o00 Co 7b,00o men.
 The dermans' main route of re- treat, tho Athens. .nelgrade trunk railway, already was threatened by Red Army forces advancing on the strategic Yugoslav junction of Ms and by Greek and YugoBlav patriots.
 Greek patriots also were reported ln firm control of the northern Aeg. can Islands of Thnsos and 6amoth- fTake, formerly occupied by Bulgar. ian troops, and the central Aegean Islands of Mytilene, skyroS and KliioB.
 Though the Germans still held most of the islands between Crete and Athens, they were believed tc have evacuated one of the two Gt visions garriBoning Crete.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-03
WorWork Snog

Detroit, oct. 3=tUPO-Whr pFo' duetIon in this greatest of the na' tieTa'A industrial eenters was threat. efed today by c blanket strike that could affect an estimated l'eo0OOC workers whom the Maintenanet Workers' council of tho United Au: tomobIle Workers (CfO) presented an ultimatum to the War Labor board. .i
 The council voted to strike 2! i2,0i c, m. tomorrow ifi some Sou Detroit plants unless the VILE Setf up Q fact-finding board immedi.. ately to study the wage rates os maintenance workers,
 Sentiment at last nights meeting of some 1000 delegates representing the maintenance workers was oveF- Whelmingiy in favor of strike action despite pleas of several council ofii- cIais to give the WLB "just one more chance" Six representatiVes loft by plane for Washington to make . final attempt to avert the strike.
 The vote was taken after industry and AFL members on tho War Labor Board vetoed tho Cfo pleas for panel to investigate alleged wage in0quIties between inainten' ance and production workers
 The union asserted that APL maintenance workers receive highs CT wages for identlcai work per. formed by UAW.CI0 members and cited q case ct the Ford Motor co. where wages for AFL electricians were said to Do as much as co cents on hour higher than those paid CtO maintenance men.
 Charles Casepeer, international representative who headed the Washington delegation, expressed tho hope that the strike might Dc ayerted by c change of attitude on the part Of tho VILE or action by higher government oiiiclals, includ- lng Presldent Roosevelt.
 MT, Roosevelt, War Production Board Chairman ]. 4. Krug, Under Secretary of War Robert F. Patter- son, Secretary Of Navy James V, WOFrestal and VILE Chairman Wsl- Ham E. Davis were advised Of the s'BeFi0usneesv Of tho situation lll telesralns sent by the unions exoc- ntlpe boaga.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-03
Urge Wor
 Plant Freeze
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 yertible to peaeetime production. :.
 In contrast, tho report pointed out, tho iT western and 10 southern states received 6 "disproportionate- iy large number" Of war plants 'iseareely FeeenVertible on any aps preelablc scale to poaes.timo pros duetlen,'
 Besides freezing government war plants in the ii eastern states, the committee also proposed a broad program for encouraging laFgo'seale Standardization of tho west and tho south.
 This included shifting of oil war production at tho end of the Euro. I,Aan war to the west and south and giving special attention to freight rates, patents and the problem or bringing teehnologieal assistance 70 small industFialists In order 70 bring "long.Fange and iaFge.seale aaslstanco" to new industries ih the west and south.
 Other proposals include reelama' ton and eleetrifieation projects in order 10 ineresae and stabilize the agricultural population and to Icy the foundation for new agrieultuFal- iy.based industries,
 MoCarran said development Of industries in the west would result in a building boom that would een' eft the whole country and provide work for on additional 100000 men. The west, he said, could eass fly absorb i0,000000 more people 1and by so doing would bring us c wave of general prosperity"
 On tho other hand, he deelaFed if Rreater concentration of industry in the east were permitted it would FetaFd industrial development Of the west, force their new wartime pop. uiatlon to migrate and undermine the economic position Of b,VOO,OOO to 5000 900 people.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-03
Ammunition Gone,
 Lost Men Lose Fight
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causing the deaths of ct least 260,. 900 poles,
 osubka Morawskl called Komo- rowskl Q criminal and . traitor who must he brought to trail" Gen. Miehal ola-Zymierski, commander ln-ehief of tho liberation commit. tees armed forces, charged that Komorowski had not been inside Warsaw since the revolt began and at present was i8 miles outside the capital,
 Refutlng the charge, the Polish daily newspaper in London, DSlen. nix Uolsk, said in on editorial that Komorowski twas and Is in War; saw, remaining in constant contact with his superiorS in London" DElennik Polsk generally reflects the views of the exile government.
 Tho editorial also oontended that Komorowski had established liaison with Marshal Konstantin K. RokoS- soVsky, Soviet commander on the Warsaw front,
 Because soviet-based planes fall. ed to drop supplies for the patriots, the editorial added, l0S Polish flyers were killed while bringing aid from bases in Italy.
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(Continued from Page D the White House, as reported. in an attempt to suppress publication of the incident.
 Dickins, who did not Identify the other Navy oflcer in the incident, said he and kiS companion were ac- costed by Q group of men who seemed to get rather angry when the Navy men declined to answer questions about their political pref. erenceS.
 He said several men were knock cd to the deck" in tho melee that followed.
 Navy officials too kthe view that only personal affairs" were involv. cd and said there was no "ofticlai docketing" of the disturbance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-03

jetty where assault craft were dis- embarking troops and supplies.
 Several columns pushed out on reconnaissance and others went from house to house Summonlng the villagers SO the commanding offieer could tell them through an inter. preter, American Corporal George stathis of (e3 Henry streeO Brook iyn, N. r., why the troops landed and order and cooperation were exs peeted. We seem to be getting both,
 Five youthful Partisans checked their rifles and pistols until morn- ing and served Rs messengers. A farmer offered two horses for tFans- port and most of the 30 odd Vil- lagerS assisted in unloading the aS. sault craft.
 Good Food
 An old woman whose store room became temporary commando hoad- quarters said she was glad food had been brought. She had not eaten bread for six months and sometimes sho had to make one cab. bag0 last R full week.
 All Of the villagers looked and talked aB if they woeF hungry but they did not show the starvation the Allies expected to find on the dreeiI mainland.
 Kithera is roughly ii miles wide and 10 miles long and iS large enough, although rock and noun tainous, to feed It's several hundred inhabitants as well aS the few score of Germans garrisoned there witns out much famine.
 Having recently been in France, l noticed immediately that liberation ceremonies did not include wine but there was food. The inhabitants told Us the Germans were bad" but did not commit atrocities.
 PaFtisans claimed they had av tillery on the island and used it re- gently to sink boat load Of Ger man troops returned to the nains land from Crete but this seemed unlikely as the villagers dld not mention reprisals,
 Unhindered Cruise
 All afternoon Friday our task force sailed along in sight of the PeloponnesuS and in the remaining hours of daylight we crulsed uu' hinderod barely mile off Short rounding Kithera.
 Commandos finished their dinner and tsroiied out on deck buckiing on their equipment as if going to . movie instead of making an aS' Bault,
 Then we dropped anchor c hall miles off shore. Except for [ EiiS. hap when one landing craft broke loose from its davits and sank WILL no one aboard the routine was with out incident and the work Of shutting men ashore beganu.
 Appropriately, the first man t7 land was commando Capt. Harry KitheFa of sherborne Dorset, Eng lend.
 The stealth of the approach wcIu out the window when Greek fish' erSnan standing on the shore began yelling, "Welcome". Two others liI bonfiFes and lights began glowing is al the houses.
 In the first wave wag Lance Cor poFai Lloyd Ross of 2a Circuit avc nue, Worcester, Mass. He worke1 his way to England cii c Norwegian tanker to join in ie4i.
 Four hours aftre the landings be gan everything was ashore.
 T say, correspondent" ono of- ficer said to me. ''When this bloody war ig oyer would you mind aw. fully dropping Into the war office to make sure they haven't fOFgotten We ere still here7 Thanks aw. flslly.p
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-03
Walter WinCheII ' To Ne1O York

, every move made by the rasckl chiefs At thO casa RoeadA (ArEon' tlnaS pink White nouse), Ht prints documents suppressed bS offlclaldom, tells the facts deletec by censors and exposes tho %. la-la secrets of Juan peron, Mus sollnl imitator and No, 1 man lr ArRentlna, The blg~shots AR golne loco trying to learn wheiN thl' new 'Wincher gets his stuff, 0aughl reading him means the ooncentra' ton camp at Patagonia, This t' your monument In Argentina"
 Tn Other WOrdss The RepWbs don't llko the Idea of FDR "cam. paignlng In the usual sense"
 They mean that they don't like the idea of him winning m tho usual etc,
 No Wonder, An airllner loaded with flyers hopping from Holly. wood to Laouardia Field had one civilian on board George jeSsel He was warned that fierce stormS ahead would bo All right wltt, members of the ferry command ln the plane, but not for An actor "Youll be terribly sick, You'd bet ter cancel" But JeSSel said hC had to 60,
 All tho flying heroes, including the crew, couldn't recall being oC air sick and miserable. Jessel, how. ever slept through 1t Nll,
 Upon arrival they had to shake him to wake him, How Is it," they asked him, that evorybodl was sick but youS You slept llkS Q baby"
 II guess" said George, stifllnr yawn, 1t must have been my clear conscience and oil those sleeping pills"
 Not So Hot. one of the three newSpapcrmen cited m the Hey wood Broun Memorial Awards bA the Amorelan Newspaper Guild wa, city editor Arnold BeiehmNn, whC started clubbing on the Colunhis (Univ1 Spectator.
 A friend was telling c VlenneSI refugee that 1t was quite . fea to be a city editor of A big burI newspaper at the age of only Si,
 "Hmf," hmf'd the European, "a toity.ono already Schubert wNI deadl"
 The RetoFt Proper. A politician rushed Into state convention yer, tardy. With typical brutality hc sNit (withln earshot of tho elergyman) II suppose the only thing 1VI missed was the invocation"
 And that" said the Man of doC sweetly, twas not addressed to you,
 Form of Throat. Sitting. A visi tor in town was grumbllng abou how New York always claims tt have tho utmost in everything,
 Lots Of us where I come from, he said, "reSont your claiming Han Fish aS being the most worthless member of Congress - without studying our mans qualifleationsl l
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-03
Teen-Asers
 Begin Terms

Boston, oct. 3 - tU.p) = Four teensage youths began Concord lte' formatory sentences today after DO" Iag convicted of assault and robbery ots Harold L. Weller, 24, of Utica, N, M, a merchant marine BAilof' in the FenWay last August 10.
 William D. Cavanaugh, ie, oi .Jarnalea Plain and Warren Cobb, ib, of Roxbury were sentenced to nye years and a day after . superior court iVIFy deIibeFated only % mine IItes yesterday. Alexander Thomson, i7, and Thomas Burke, i7, both oI RoxbuFy were given .indeteFmlnate sentences.