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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-28
New EnsIonder ToIks Disaster

Boston Sept. 28.-(UP)-0enoral Chairman William II. Day of the New England shippers advisory board warned today that any further let- down by New England shippers and receivers will "spell disaster" for the region.
 Addressing the fall meeting of the organization, Day said that there "ig . growing feeling of complae- ency because of the favorable war news which we read, but I can warn you now that VIC still have c long way to go and there are many ifs fl we are to keep the situation from getting out of hand this winter"
 He told 800 transportation officials that any let-doWn by railroads in their efforts to load and unload freight cars promptly would bring trouble ct once.
 Day said that New England rail- roads have succeeded In getting through the summer without trouble despite c tight lnanpower situation' bu efnphagiEed that the "coming oi winter with it's oWn transportation difficulties might well spell disaster for Us here in New England" He urged shippers and receivers to stir themselves and to get back to the efiieieneles which produced the re- iiaFkablo job done since the start of the war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-28
Soop Firm Buys
 New EnaIond MiII

Sanford, Me- Sept, 2e,-(UP)- Lever Bros O., Cambridge, Mass soap manufacturing firm, has pur- chased for on undiselosed price tho controlling interest in two large tex. tile mills here, it was announced today.
 william IT. Marland. president Of the Sanford Mills and Of the doodal Worsted Co,, tho companies involved in the deal said, that Lever Bros Co was represented in the sale by the United Securities Corp. Of New York and W. Q, Langley & Go of Boston.
 Through tho transaction, Lever Bros. Go, obtains the majority stock which has been held by Merland and three other members of the fa. nous doodali family of Sanford ft was announced that other stock holders In tho two eombanieg would be permitted to soil their stock at the prices paid in tho deal annoufle. cd today-96b Q share for doodall and e40 for Sanford,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-28
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cepted by the Guerrilla generals.
 The arrangement was made at Q conference presided over by Gen, Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, su. preme Allied commander in the Mediterranean, Greek Premier George Papandreou, the two guer. rilia generals and other officials.
 'The decisions were taken with complete unanimity for the coor- dination of the struggle for the speedieSt possible liberation Of Greece and the maintenance Of complete order" the conmunique said
 The announcement indicated that most If not oil Of the internal strife in Greece has been elimifi- Ated. For long periods during the resistance movement tho country had been virtually in state of civil war, with the various guerrils ia groups contending against each other for power rather than deVots ing oil their efforts against tho Germans.
 The agreement follows closely Q recent reorganization of the Greek cabinet to include four coFnmunibt members as well as one each from the other two most important ouer- rlila parties. It was interpreted to mean that oil Greeks now arc rca- dy to coperAte with the Allies to drive the Germans from their country,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-28
Cotton Shortase Mov Continue

Washington, Sept, 20, - tuP) -- Tine OfIlce of War Information res ported today that the present shortage of cotton textiles iS ex- pected to continue from one to two years following 0ernany'B collapse
 OWI said the basis for the fore- cast was the expectation that inill- tary requirements will 90 ID to meet demands Of the war in tho Pacific and that cotton goods for rehabilitation work in Europe will Dc needed in great quantity.
 Availability Of basic cotton goods to the civilian market, the owl said, would Do influenced by the rate at which workers return to textile mills-tFadltIonally . lows wage industry.
 The report gaid tho most critlcs ally short cotton items now were duck print cloth, popllnS, broad- cloths and denifns. Also in in. adequate supply arc towolings, chainbrays and shiFting coverts.
 Wool and Tayon production now lS tho heaviest on record, but ls not expected to make Up for the cotton deficit, oWf said, Wool de- Iaands for the armed forces will drop sharply after tho end Of the European phase Of tho war.
 OWI notad that Director Herbert Lehman, Of the United States Re- lief and Rehabilitation Adminis' tratIon has estimated htat UNRIsA will require 300,000, 900 yards Of U. Q. cotton textiles in the first six months after the sail Of Germany.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-28
Red Devils Are
 Licked In Big Drive
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Southwest of Niimegen, British torees steadily extended the west wall of their corridor to the Rhine, capturing the villages of Heesch and Nistelrode just south of oss.
 At the base of the corridor, the British pushed across the Antwerp Tirnhout canal near Ryckevorsel, eight miles west of Trnhout, and uneonfirmed reports said they linked up with Canadian lst Army clements on the left flank.
 Nasi fighter .bomhers attempted Go raid Allied concentrations around Nijmegen yesterday, but ~ of the raiders were shot down in Q plas- ing air battle that cost the Allies eight aircraft. Two other German planes were probably destroyed and i7 more were damaged.
 German reports of Third Army assault in the Metz area were not immediately confirmed, although United Press War Correspondent collie Small reported that Amer. lcan Thunderbolts dive-bombed the Metz forts yesterday in contunc- ton with Q heavy artillery oom' bardment.
 Delayed Dlspltches
 Other delayed field dispatches said action elsewhere on the lst and Third Army fronts yesterday was limited to sharp patrol fighting and steady American smelling Of the German battle lines.
 Third Army troops beat off sev- eral local German counter-attacks cast and northeast of Nancy, knocking out ct least six enemy tanks In one sector alone. Chateau- sailns, one of the most hotly con- tested towns in the area, was dis- closed to have been recaptured oy the NaSis, although American forces were operating both east and west of tho town.
 The bulk of the German armor was believed scattered through the dense forests east of Nancy, partic- uiaFiy in the Parroy forest, salying out at intervals to harass American infantry units.
 sinall. l.scale street fighting eontin-
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Butter Points Go Higher
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 u-------s-u.sl---.-u--. The civilian nllocatlon of butter for october will be 10000 900 pounds below that of September, when the supply was SO preeariouS that the OPA decided -- but later deSeind. cd the decision after charts were printed - to give the item c 2t point value. Civilians during Octo- ber will receive e5,000,000 pounds compared with i00,000,00 pounds in August and ob,o00,0oo in Septem' Der.
 Bowles pointed out that produc' ton trend will continue downwart through November and will begin tt rise again in December and janu' ary toward tho spring and early summer production crest,
 Since butter b tho only rhtlonee commodity for which point value will be changed next month, OpA will not print new point value charts. drocers will write in the new 2o-point butter value and keeE the old charts. civilians will receive 272,300, ,00t pounds of meat q week in October aS compared with An estimated weekly average of 2e4, 4,i2o,0 900 pounds in Septembcr-a decline Of about { Der cent
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-28

ued in the mortimer noutskirts ot stalberg, i.2 miles southeast of Aachen, although the city Itself was held by the .. g. ist Army, Other ist Army troops probed Into the pillboxes and blockhouses of the Siegfried line near Hurtgen, eight miles southeast of stolberg.
 Furious fighting continued in the immediate outskirts of Calais, on the channel coast, where Canadian troops overwhelmed the last enemy resistance west of the port and drove to within 1000 yards of the harbor. Two thousand Germans were captured in the western fort- ifleations yesterday, along with six giant i0-inch guns that had been hombarding southern England.
 Observers on the English side of the Dover Straits reported hearing e dozen or more violent explosions from the Calais area this morning, The blases rocked buildings along the English coast and aroused spec ulation that the Germans might be blowing up the harbor works in Calais before surrendering,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-28
Dewey Home Confident
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(ContInued from Page D have begun Q fight which will cul. minate next January in the hnes' housekeeping Washington has seer in ib0 years" ,.
 with those words the New York governor summed up his own feeling of the temper of the people with whom he talked,
 He aiso asked his audience along the route homeward to give him Q Republican congress to carry for- ward his program of repeating new deal laws which he charged created confusion, eliminate "repressiVe' tax laws and release the nations indus. trial machine "so that it can create jobs instead of the 10000, 900 uneia- ployed we had in io40 after seven years of the new deal"
 Confidence
 Dewey's confidence was supported by c Columbia BroadcaBting system poll of correspondents who accom- panied the Republican candidate,
 The poll was completed c lew hours before the special campaign train reached Albany and was de- signed to reflect the opinions Of the writers as to the success Of the three weeks tour.
 Thirty-seVen correspondents ex. pressed belief that Dewey had strengthened his bid for tho White House. Five said he lost ground and six said he had neither gained nor lost popular support,
 duesses as to Republican chances In November ranged from 60 per cent of the popular vote for Press ident Roosevelt to b8 per cent for the challenger.
 Dewey will return immediately te his executive offices to clean up ottl- cial New York State business which has accumulated during his abs senee. He hopes to spend the week. end at his PaWling, N, r., farm and make his next major campaign speech at Charleston, W, Vap oc' tober c.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-28

tCOntlnuUu kFOm RuBU v
 Am I and those who think like me not to Do allowed to choose whether to live for our own ideals or die for the negative ideals of two tired old men7
 "The same old men who demand that he should fight regardless Of our private beliefs, condemn ders man officers and men for doing like- wise. Oh judgment, thou gro fled"
 Douglas.Home said when he was ordered to attack To Havre he re- fused "becauSe rightly or wrongly, 1 could not bring myself 70 take part in an operation against troops who admittedly did not want to fight but whose commander, showing as he did the code of honor, refused to accept unconditional surrender
 Douglas.Home concluded that he might "ianguish for years under the pleasure of the home secretary who once had views more idealiStic than me-" Tie referred to Herbert Nor" FIson, iahorite and . conscientious objector ia the last war, now serving In Prime Minister Winston Church. ifs cabinet.
 Military authorities declared to comment on the captains situation, although they pointed out that when c person resigns 6 commission, he becomes subject to tho service draft depending on his age.
 It was believed, however, that Dougiassf9ome because Of his beliefs may Dc classified c e eumseAentaous VbsessOs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-28
Mon Gives Up On Charges
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 Cyr was hammering in the bescs ment of the house, and CauScla went down to toll him Co stop bes cause his wife was trying Co sleep A violent quarrel enSuod, and CauScia ran upstairs and took hk shotgun out Of the closet. KiS wi:G tried to stop him but he shook hel off md ran downstairs,
 Meanwhile Cyr had come up from the basement and had locked hiIn' self in his apartment.
 Causcia battered in . door panel thrust the shotgun throus:i, and shot Cyr.
 Police found the gun in tho closet of Causeia'S home where his wife replaced 1t after the shooting, A i2 gauge shotgun shell was found out on Washington avenue.
 Assisting in the police invcstiGa- ton were: Lieut.. Patrick Hobart Captain Foley, Detective sorgt Anthony MGriano and Detective Jos Seph Dunphy.
 Investigating for the states at' torncys office were tho states at' torncy, William Fitzgerald and his assistant Walter SBlyth and County Detective Thomas Laden,
 Coroner stephen A. Honiick spent tho morning questioning witnesses.
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 He said there must be territorial changes on the frontier of Poland, adding that Russia has the right to British support in this matter,
 Churchill predicted that Hun" gary would turn her weapons against Hitler when the NaEi grip on that Balkan satellite is broken.
 Churchill entered the house at noon and began speaking ct l2'oo D, m, (7:0b Q, ri., EWT)
 He said that during the five weeks Commons has been in recess the face of the war in Europe has changed completely,
 Piunging immediately Into the military situation on the western front, he said 1t may well be that 100000 Germans are cut of in the coastal areas and their destruction or capture Is highly probable.
 "The vast and brilliant encirclinS g movements of the American Armies will ever be e model of military and and an example of the propriety Of FullHlHk rlbkb IlC bUluI AHS HBHV- ming advance of the British Armies has not been surpassed anywhere"
 Paying tribute to the British First Airhorne Division which fought the battle of Arnhenl, he said;
 "The casualties have been gricv- ous, but for those who mourn there is the consolation that the sacrifice was not neediessly demanded, Not in vain may Dc the pride Of those who survive and the epltaph of those who fell"
 He said tho Seventh Army cam. paign through southern France and It's Joining with General Dwight D, Eisenhower's command was accom-. plished in less than half the time prescribed and expected,
 The Allies now have between B. 100000 and 3,00o,000 men In Fganes, Churchill said, In the first a hours of the invasion, 260oo0 were landed and by the 9oth day 100000 were ashore. AlA
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off and hurtled into Q nearby field, and although his head was not in. iured he received only Q couple Of mild laceratlons Of the neck caused by his chin strap breaking from tho shock.
 The party had just left Q field cannon company engaged in shell ilnR enemy tanks behind the Sleg. fried line. They were under Ire De- fore and immediately after the ace cldent, and could hear enemy shells whlstllng overhead and crashing m the vicinity even as an army first aide group treated their bruises.
 It was necessary to take the three men back to the front lines for ex- animation and this was done by medical orderlles who happened on the scene in 0 Red Cross jeep.
 Fast Driving
 The bumper of the correspond- ents car was smashed and the tree it hit bent the jeeps radiator into w"
 The wrecked Jeep was the one used by the late Teddy Roosevelt after D.day, and there were sev.. eral bullet holes in the windshield'
 m the following Jeep were Unit cd Press war Correspondent Henry T, dorrell and It. Paul 0authier of Corning, To-, who saw the crash.
 Baillie said he was "okay," and asked for his helmet. Brandt was unconscious,
 Today naillie was llmping slight iy. but insisted he wanted to remain at the front several more days
 Haillies' first dispatch from inside 0ermany was carried in afternoon newspApers yesterday--a description of American soldiers in action against the Germans and on esti- mate of German resistance which left little room for hope or an early surrender,
 The U, P, executive returned to Europe early this month, and aiter several weeks in London diecussins news freedom with United Nations Statesmen, proceeded to parts ana then out to the front,
 This is his third trip to Eprope aimee the war began. He was m London when war was declared m in30 Last year he visited war theaters in England, North Africa and Sicily, living the life Of the war Correspondent and sending back Q series of dispatches vlVidly des- cribing the action he had witneSseo'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-28

Continued from Page D diers at the front.
 Explaining the situation, Stars and Stripes said;
 "Whether reports of the cracking are premature depends on your conception of the Gothic line. If you are talking about prepared detenses, then the line is cracked ct two places on the Fifth Army front Futa pass and dlogo pass, This would In effect constitute Q break through -. but if you are talking about the natural defenses which are Q backstop to prepared defenseS of the Gothic line, then 0 break through has not occurred,
 In addition to capturing Castel Del Rio the Americans took the peak of Monte CarneVale, two and one-half miles east of the town while other units captured the VII. lage Of Bocconl, 20 miles southwest of Forli on the F1orence.Forli highway,
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(Continued from Page D East Prussian or Hungarian fisht- ing, c customary Russian practice during the initial stages of 0 major campaign.
 Bolt Shot
 Moscow dispatches indicated strongly, however, that the Germans haG shot their bolt in the Baltic states and were fighting only to cover the withdrawal of their main forces Southward into East Prussia,
 Mere than 200 derman.held towns and villages fell to the ad- Vahcing Russians north, northeast, east and southeast of Riga yesterday iu c series of armored thruStS that carried As much as % miles through the eityB main outer defenSes,
 Attacking behind . rolling artil- lery barrRge, Soviet infantrymen broke through c ring of German trenches in the marshes west Of LiInbaSi, advanced i2 miles to the Gulf of Riga and linked up with 0 second column moving down the coast. The combined force cleared c 2e-mile stretch Of tho shore and captured SEulte, less than a miles north of Riga.
 Other Soviet units drove 10 miles down the PskoV-Rlga railway below C0sis to take Ligatne, an anchor position in tho German fortified line 3B miles northeast of the cap- ital. Nitaure, 70 miles eastsnortheaSt of Riga, and darsaB, 30 miles to the cast, also were captured
 Farther south, the Russians push. cd 10 miles up the north bank Of tho Dvina river and drove the 0er- mans from Kaibala, 90 miles South- east Of Riga,
 5000 Killed
 Two thousand or more Germans were killed and 300 captured on the Rige front yesterday and tho Soviet comnunique said tho NaSiS were throwing in their very last reserves, including 1900 Luftwaffe pilots who were rushed into the line as iflfans trymon.
 Farther to the north, units Of the Soviet Leningrad army mepped up scattered German elements west Of the captured Estonian port of PaFnl and crossed the marrow Vornisi straits to occupy VormSi Island, ono of tho four main islands off the west coast of Estonia.
 On the Polish-siovak border, the Russian 4th Ukranian army hai1' mered out small gains against wel!- entrenched German troops holding the Carpathian Mountain passes leading down through Slovakia into eastern Hungary.
 ono Soviet spearhead drove Into the entrance to the RoStok Pass capturing Rostokl dorni, while oth. or units farther east took the fronts for town of WolsoSate and link, IT miles to the east,
 rho Hungarian war bulletin on. ,,ouncing the Russian invasion said Soviet troops were across the border nt several points on c 4S.inilo front above Arad,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-28

NSOhhhdSA hOhh "BS " river under Q mufderous barrage ufl' der cover of the night,
 (It was assumed that the same froce which made the ill-fated last effort to take relief to the Red Devils ferrIed the survivors across the river 20 hours later)
 The surviving Red Devils were not disheartened. They bitterly regretted that their bridgehead had not been held, but they knew that their stand had made tho capture of the Nijmegen bridge possible and by denying the bridge to tho Ger mans, compelled them to send their reinforcemerlts 10 NiJmegen by Q roundabout way causing them to arrive too late.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-28
GI TroinOes Tell About Mules

Fort DeVenS. Mass, Sept. 2e,- (UP)-T1ie traditional obstinacy oi tho mule iS nothing but "piain common -sef1ge," according to dI trainers at Fort DeyOnB under the command of It. Jackie searic, foF- fiier boy movie actor.
 It. Doarie, juvenile menace" in such movie classics as rom Saw. yer" and "fIuckiebeFry Finn" said today that his trainers ct the Agy training center agree that c mules back may Do brawliy, but insist that his mind Is far from weak.
 When . mule goes on c gitsdown strike" added beaFIe's CTS, ''he usually hes ( MaFned GO0d TOAsoil-. ovcFtiFed oF cvoFburd0ned = which is more than you can say for hu- fnafls."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-28
BREAK TO PUBLIC

Washington, Sept. 2e-(uP)-The treasury has lowered iB sights for the forthcoming sixth waf loan drive and viii ask the public to subscribe to about ei4,OO0 900, 600 ifi bonds, or e2,O00, 900 900 less than the goal in the last drive, it was learned today.
 The opening Of the sixth war loan has been set tentatively for Nov. %,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-28
U. $. Officials Make Plans
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ing Of 6 world organization plan could Dc held this fall.
 Nothing has happened to change the earlier plan to try to hold such c conference before the end Of the year, American Chairman Edward R. gtettlnius, JF. told 6 press con- ference late yesterday. He also rec VeaIed that to date the delegates have made extremely satisfactory pscgresS toward . basis for c world Esgahlsatlcn plaE.
 if the Ohinese talks 60 AA seheds uIed, they should Do completed by the end Of next week.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-28

North smithfeld, R I, (UP)- Lucky, c shaggy little inongrel dog went through the London blitS, but failed to survive New England traf. fic hazards. He was killed In front Of the home of Capt. John T. God. frey, fighter pilot ace, who brought him from EnRlAnd,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-28

London housewives hays been promised postwar "dEeam" Kitchens.
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Slippery Rood

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Britisher Ponders View

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Paratroopers GiveUpStond

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War May
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-25
COMMUNICATES
By Bob Hope

SEE Hitler has paid huge to Viennese surgeon
for performing critical operation his throat That's a
shame l know country who would have
been glad to nothing understand that the operation
was Hmmers idea Himmler get Adolf in first
physical going TO take him down to the
board remember when Adolf used to chew rugs
because he he's hungry won't
say things Germany right but understand they
are making bread from imitation saWdust.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-25
PAMPHLETS SPREAD

Every house and every family
has been circularized with pamph-
lets stressing the need for CO.
operation. Early Sunday morning
Boy Scouts with wagons and carts
will transfer the paper from
curbs and doorsteps TO dumps on
every other corner.
Each dump will be guarded so
AS TO eliminate theft of the paper
by phony collectors. Approx
mately 35 trucks with drivers and
crews furnished by the Monroe
Waste Paper Co. 1918 Hastings,
viii make the collections.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-25
Foil Paper
ThieVery

Air raid wardens and house
holders will guard piles Of waste
paper on every other corner in the
Is, 0O0-family OCD Area ) Sunday
morning before the waste paper
pickup starts.
The pickup. under the direction
of James A. Bellon, is expected TO
net the greatest paper tonnage
yet attained in Detroit section.
In the area, there are an esti-
mated 10000 persons, Bellon
said.