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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-28
Argentina
 Puzzles U. s.
Rv RORRnT '. MANNING

By ROBERT J. MANNING United Press Stan CoFrespondent)
 Washington, Oct 2e = (UP) - Diplomatic quarters were frankly puzzled today ct possible motives behind Argentina'S sudden request yesterday for an inter- American conference to discuss the attitude assumed toward her byq some" of her sister republics.
 The State Department declined immediate comment on the Arge1- tine request which was made through the Pan-American Union the only remaining tie between the Buenos Aires government and other American countries since their gys- pension of formal diplomatic rela- tions.
 Both United States and Latin American diplomatic circles, how ever, showed great interest in the accompanying Argentine statement that the present state of things is fomenting an atmosphere of dis unity heretofore unknown and which seriously threatens the spir- itual solidarity of American cour- tries"
 These quarters said that if Argen- tina made her request as result of c basic desire for reconciliation and cooperation with the other Amer. lcan republics. the reception un- doubtedly would be cordial.
 On the other hand, it was sald the reception would be cool lf Ar. gentina's deslre 6 only to bring into
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Toll or Jap War; Ships Now Ouer 40
pY FRANK TREMAINE

VnAWc0 EEeo8 WbE SVFESSyOuUGub
 Pearl Harbor, Oct. % -(UP)-The unofficial toll of Japanese warshipl sunk or damaged In the battle Of the Philippines rose today to between C and 42--including five battleshipl almost certainly wrecked and tht stage appeared set for Q triumphant coniniunique detailing one of the greatest American seq victories iri history.
 In addition to 10 enemy warShipG reported sunk, 14 to 16 probably sunk and 16 damaged. three rier- chantmen in one ok the fleeing task forces probably were blasted to the bottom in the South China seq by China-based bombers to bring the grand total for the four-day air. sec battle to 43 to 45 enemy ships hit
 A later comnlunlque from Amer ican army headquarters in Chung king said China -baSed Liberators probably had sunk q Japanese de. Stroyer and damaged another, c tanker and c cargo vessel 76 miles East of Llichow Peninsula in the South China sea, but did not indi- cate whether these vessels also were part of the enemy fleet withdraw ing from the Philippines.
 Admiral Chester w. Nifnitz, com. niander of the Pacific fleet. said in Q Navy Day speech yesterday that Japanese losses in the battle were "so great as to render the enemy fleet incapable of challenging any sizeable portion of ours for some time to come"
 These losses, he said, came on top of some 900 enemy ships and 5000 plapes destroyed or damaged by the PacAic fleet in the past five months. However, he warned that the "Su. preme test of our fighting forces, of our weapons, of our strategy and Of national resolve will come in the year ahead"
 At New York, Admiral Ernest ]. King, Commander in Chief of the United States fleet shid in another Navy Day speech that the Japanese
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FDR Spikes Charge
 Of Unpreparedness
(NEA Telephoto,
BY LYLE 0. WILSON


 Aboard President Roosevelt's cam. paign train enroute to Chicago, Oc- tober 2e. - (Up) President Roosevelt entered the farm belt to- day where the anti-New Deal trend has been strongest to supplement his Philadelphia Navy Day address with Q Chicago speech discussing tax inducements to enable business to create post-war jobs. He speaks in Chicago from Q to 9:45 p. m. (EWTl over the Blue and National Broadcastlng Company networks.
 Last night he bludgeoned . charge that certain Republicans were putting party nbove patriotism in this campaigtl. He speaks tonight in Soldiers Field, Chicago, and re. turns to Washington tomorrow.
 His campaign advisers said the President would discuss, in addition to tax-inducements to business. cer- tain individuals, Including President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers, the Rev, Gerald l.. K Smith, America First leader, Senator Gerald P. Nye, R., N. D., and Joseph N. Pew, JrY president of the Sun oil Go.
 Last night MT. Roosevelt was wel- comed by crowd estimated at 50. 900 in Philadelphia's Shibe Park after 0 46 mile perade which po- lice estimated attracted upward of 100000 persons.
 Firing statistics and scornful rec joinders against Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's campaign charges, he told the wildly enthusiastic. shivering ball park crowd last night that we have more than 4.000,000 soldiers overseas and that the war in Ger many is In It's final and decisive phase" The great crowd screamed It's approval as the president di- rected It's emotions like c sym. phony conductor.
 Charges
 He charged Republican campaign- CTS with "deliberNte and indefenS- ible" efforts to put party advantage above patriotism. They have done that, he said, by implying that Con- gross would not cooperate here- after with Democratic president in an effort to set up world peace guarantees.
 But he was gaily confident as he told of the war and the war effort,
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Good Hunting On Maxi Front

With Q U. 6. Tank Destroyer Unit in Germany, Oct. 90 - (UP) = There Is plenty of good shooting In this part of oormany-of one kind or another.
 The men of this tank- -bustlnk oiit- fit have had little trouble finding enemy targets to shoot at recently, bu just about everyone has been able to bring in c few quail, pheas- ants, rabbits or even deer. The hunting for tho most part s done with strictly CT weapons.
 lieutenant John A. Reese, Wor- cogter. h1ass., one Of the of hunters, borrowed a shotgun from a loCal ros- ldent and Q hifd dog from 8 Dutch Count wio lives nearby, and 6 now che units top quail hunter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-28
Father Of 5
 Gets Divorce

4 father of Ave children, includ- ing two sets of twins, was granted . divorce following Q hearing before Judge Robert |. Munger in superior court yesterday. The divorce was one Of six granted ct the short calendar session.
 Lester Helm of Ansonia, who was granted c divorce from Bernice Woodley Helm of Trout Run, Pa, disclosed there were five children by their marriage, Lester, 10. Leon and Larue. l7-year-old twins, and Harold and Albert, iS-year-old twins. No action was taken on awarding custody.
 The couple married Sept. i6, 1924 at Lockhaven. Pa.. and the peti- tioner claimed he was deserted May 90, I030.
 Edith Cryder eciacca of Nauga. tuck was granted e divorce from James !. 9Ulaeca e Williamsport, Pa, gn the ground of cruelty. Tho couple married Oct. ios ie2T ct
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Dewey Scores  Exploitation
BY JOHN L. CUTTER United Press Staff COrrespondentl

NUmlteu FreSS SthLt COtteapouuentl
 Syracuse. N. r., Oct. 2s.-(Up)- Gov. Thomas E. Dewey charged to. day that the Roosevelt adminlstra. ton has exploited for political profit" It's farm programs of the last i2 years and promised that Q Republican victory in November would bring farmers Q safeguard against extreme price fluctuations as well as freedom from dicta- ton and control.
 Tn speech prepared for deliv- cry over the Blue network tl2:90- 1900 p. m. EWTl from .Syracuse Central high school, the Republi. can presidential candidate chal- lensed what he called tho scarcity theories and shrinking economy of the New Deal years" and demand. cd that the nation "go forward and develop the great American market for our farm products thorugh i'm. proved diet for American people"
 He said there was mo hope" of achieving such results under the Roosevelt administration because after 1t had been in office nearly eight years in io40, the New Deal had still failed to achieve anything like fair prices for farm prod. ucts. It took war to get decent farm prices, just as it took a war to get jobs,' Dewey charged,
 He linked the failure to what he said was quarreling and pickering over overlapping responsibility as well as Inability to stabilize agri. culture on 0 par with industry and labor.
 Prom the very beginning of the New Deal" Dewey charged, farm programs put forward by the farm. CTS have been set up. only to Do ex. plotted for political profit and to gain control over the operation of our farms"
 Prime Example
 As 0 prime example, he cited op. eration of the soil conservation service, which he conceded has done good job in some parts of the country"
 But this program will fail Hf 1t is used as an excuse for regimens
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BRITT ISHERS CAPTURE BERGEN OP zO0N
 Yank Troops Drive Closer To Luxor
TIGHTEN TRAP
 ON MORE THAN 5O,OOO NAzIS

BY J. EDWARD MURRAY (Unlted Press War comespondeniy
 Supreme Headquarters. AEF, Paris, October 20. ~. (UP)--British Empire Forces frightened their trap on 50,000 or more Germans in southwest Holland today with the capture of Bergen Op Zoorn, one of the last two enemy strongholds in the area, but yielded Meijel in the east to a Maxi counter@ attack.
 Though the German colill- ter-thrust dented the eastern side of the British corridor into the Netherlands, front dispatches said it had failed utterly to east British pres sure rapidly crumbling enemy lines between the Maas and the Schelde estt1> ary in the west.
 Bergen op Zoom, four miles forth of the Beveland Peninsula and pog~ slble coastal anchor of the NnEi lillos fell to the igt Canadian army, which pressed on several hundred yards Co the north toward the Holland Dieps
 Other BritiSh empire forces open~ cd 6 two-pronged drive on Brendas central anchor of the enemy line and the last large southwest Holland town still firmly in German hands One column seized XundeTt, ei9l1a miles southwest on the highway from Antwerp, while the other slashed across the highway oo1lilecba ing 1t with Tilburg, lS miles e the east.
 Fighting Tn Tilbure N
 Latest front reports said IIitlsu empirO forces had surrounded and were fighting. thxnilgh the oentoE eg T'ilburg. Earlier front dispatches he'd sAid fortified town was entirely H British hands, but thees apparently were premature.
 Another British column was Witlzs in a mile Of Roosendaal, 6 junction on the east-west road between Beg@ gen Op Zoom and Breda.
 United presg War Correspondent Walter CronIEito reported from Mare shal Sir DeFnad L. Montgomey's 9lss army group headquarters that the entire German fine in southWosa Holland appeared to be cfarnbkIn9 under Allied hammer blows.
 Virtually oil main lateral hishNay9 south of tho Maas already had beozz cut CT brought under Allied fire ana the enemy faced c hazardous re- treat over secondary roads. Cross Canal
 On the north shore of tho eeheGs nle estuary, Canadian forces pu8ile4 across the Bevelandsch Canal 1a lea miles southwest of Bergen Of xoolz l to within six miles or iesg Of q junction with British troops wll0 steadily were reinforcing and eila iarging their beachhead on tho southeast coast Of Deveiaud itgclzs
 Once these two forces havo hnke4
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Jops Form New Cabinet
Dv United RFeaa

Premier Klniaki Koiso nnmn6 $ dozen men todny' to form Q mNB cabinet advisory group "bscafaso tl'N war situation has efOwm mf4F# pressing'' and obtained iFnmoaltnN approval og Emperor xzlEohito. t8 Japnaese Doniet Agency said ln N dispatch reported by zCo.
 Prominent among the new o41 visorS gro HAchir0 AFita W1ao eogNA in three proSwaF cabinets ae 1oIeigA minister, Admiral NobuMag4 @N9&& sugl, former commanders Of tA8 combined Japanese fleet, end Yu#o4 tarO Ytiki, president eg tho Hank r4 Japan.
 otheFD included: Admiral x.'||s Toyada who served as foreign NIINs ister iEa tho third KonOye cabin Matsutaro DloEiIEi, pgesid0nt ~ IsE Tokyo Daily, Xoualuri @nlH& Kaniesabur0 Yamaahita. iEdlAn igt: 0isuke Aysilgawes 1ziFotAxo AN* do: Ncbu10 XoiNlEnis 81ta1Igo <Hss EiFil: and Di1unfiosuke xoesI11
 Doenii said the neW group H11 Dc given ministerial rank end cod be accorded the @pgiyile8s of 0|s4N1z iy participating iza tlas eos1nGl q state instead og merely ssNi4N NH vice on limited afbiecta@ (
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-28
No Room In |HospitolFo
 Wife Of Cob
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BY AMMAN ". NTCHOLg

United Press Staff Correspondent
 St. Louis, oct. 2e-(UP)-"Want. ed: Practical nurse to care foI mother and twins. 1e2o casS ave. lue.
 This routine classified advertise ment, carried in todays editions of St. Louis newspapers, told only half the story of twins born Wednesday in the offices of Dr. Harry Rich, who claimed he provided the only refuge for an emergency maternity case after seven local hospitals had refused c sailor.wife admittance.
 The day.old pair lay in c dresser drawer, unaware that their plight may preclpitate 6 battle over the attitude of hospital administrators toward the governments maternity program for servicemen's wies, and perhaps socialmed medicine in gens eral.
 pr. Rich contended that hospitals feared, if they admitted service. mems wives attended by other than staff physicianA and accepted the $50 federal maternity allotment, they would yield to an entering wedge of sociaiized medicine.
 This attitude on the part Of hoS- pitais, said pr. Rich, an advocate of sociaiizcd medicine, Ifs Q con- spiracy to defeat the governments maternity plan for servicemen's wives.
 Besides the twins in the doctors restroom, arl ifnpFovised ward on c narrow cct-ley the mother, Mrs. Lucille NovaclI, %, the wEse of c
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Stossen Not Bv Ball
By HELENE M0NBERG United Press Stan COFreepOndent)


 Washington, Oct. 2e.-|(UP) -sen. Joseph II. Ball, R., Minn, today dis- inisSed suggestions that his decision to support President Roosevelt rather than his own partys nom. inee would jeopardiEe ie48 presi. dental prospects Of CmdT. Harold D. etassen, former Minnesota gov- ernor.
 "What ! do or any other lndlvid. ual does will not affect the career of etaBsen," Ball said. He has taken his stand clearly and honestly in political affairs, and he is head and shoulders above political leaders in both parties"
 Balls declaration for Q fourth term brought angry denunciationB from Minnesota Republicans. one party leader who fought for Stags sens nomination ct the COPS Chi. cago convention charged that Ball had not only double crossed hiin- self but the one man who made him. Cmdr. Harold Stagsen."
 Bail, asserting that the country is in need of "Gtassefl's kind of leadership" said the former gov. eraor would Dc judged on the "prins cipies he repFesentS' and not what anyone else says or does.
 Tlle 3e-yeav old senator, worn and weary after one of the most tlrbus lent weeks in his career, said he had not had c chance to look through the avalanche Of mail that resulted from his anncvncement for MT. Roosevelt.
 Have you received any word from the White Houge?" he was asked.
 "Not that I've geen," he replied. "1 didn't expect any. Tine PTesident is e little busy hfmgelf.s
 Aaked Co comment oa assertion that he he'd beell offered the Demos fconilnued cn Pnso a1
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ALL RESISTANCE IS CRUMDLNG
 ONSOML FRONT

BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON (Unlted Press War Correspondentl
 General MacArthur's Head quarters, Leyte, October 28. -(UP) - American invasion forces raced up the west coast of Samar to within nearly 65 miles of Luzon and 320 miles of Manila today and General Douglas Mac Arthur announced that the Japanese all along the &C., mile Philippines front were bordering on complete dis organization and disintegra- ton"
 Dismounted clements of the 1st Cavalry Division already were 10 miles beyond Catbalogan, liberated capital of Samar, after a 32-mile ad- vance in a little more than 24 hours. With the aid of organized local guerrillas, practically the whole of Samar, third largest island in the Philippines, lis now un- der our domination" Mac Arthur reported in a com munique.
 The speedy advance carried to within 67 miles of narrow San Bernardino Strait, separating samar from Luzon and one of two ship passages through the central Philip pinel It was In San Bernardino Strals and adjacent waters off Samar that one o fthe three Japan csc naval forces which challenged the American fleet came to grief earlier this week.
 on Leyte, just southwest of Hamar other American forces heightened their hold on the east and north coasts to at least 0b miles and were pursuing the beaten, des cimated enemy garrison toward the west coast and in the mountain ranges paralleling the Leyte valley on the southwest.
 There was some evidence that the Japanese may be preparing 70 abandon Leyte except for suicidal rear guard resistance. American patrol torpedo boats, boldly dashing into the Camotes seq under cover of darkness, Sank 10 ilerny barkes loaded with troops and two coastal freighters in Ormoc Bay on the west coast of Leyte.
 Troops
 It was not immediately clear, however, whether the troops were leaving the island or landing to rec inforce the garrison.
 Gen. Shiro Makino''s infamous Japanese 18th division. which mar Slialied American war prisoners in the March of eDath" from Bataan in iO42, already has been thor. oughiy defeated" on Leyte, Mac. Arthur said.
 He estimated Japanese ground casualties in the first week of fight- ing on Leyte ct i4.046, practically half the enemy's entire strength on the island, while American casual
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BIG BATTLE
 RAGING FOR KON|GSDERG
BY HENRY SHAPIRO

United Press War COrrespOndent)
 Moscow, October 2S. - (UP) = East Prussian front dispatches said today that the Germans had thrown several crack Panzer and Grenadier divisions into a roaring battle for the Gum binnen Insterburg Gateway to Konigsberg and they were counter-attacking upward of 20 times a day.
 General Ivan D. Chernia- khovsky's troops, supported by new 24-barrel Katushas and artillery massed to a density averaging one big gun for every 3 1-2 yards, were beating down the coull- ter-blows, slowly but steadily broadening the front between the Masurian Lakes and the Baltic, and deepening the westward penetration.
 The Russian vanguard slugged forward within 10 miles or less Of the Inster river which angles through Insterburg and threatened dumblnnen from the northeast and southeast.
 Red Star said the battle of East Prussia was growing flercer by the hour after at least four fresh pail- ger divisions and . number of greI1- adler divisions went into action.
 Other dispatches said the Ger" mans were losing upward of 60 per cent of their electives in some sec. tors as they counter-attacked re" peatedly but only succeeded in slow Ing down the Soviet juggernaut.
 gtromger FOrtlhcasl0ns
 Chernlak khovalkyswas erleounteri progressively stronger fortiacations, ocheioned in great depth. settle- Ynents along the railrad to Konigss berg had been converted into briSt. ling fortresses, where each house and hilock reinforced by crossfire, trenches, mine fields and harbed wire entanglementS.
 Pravda reported that the Soviet northern fleet in the first 10 days Of october sank 50 German ships and 20 motorboats carrying troops. It added that the day when German
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Oddities M The NelUs
By UnItoA Press

A4N SeAAaNN4 8aN8N
 Newburyport. Masg., October 90. - (UP) = While the saugus High school football team was beating Newbury port 3i to 6 last night, someone entered tho locker room and stole nearly 4i00 from the playors' bllisoidg.
 Boston, october %. = (UP) - Floyd Bell is publicity director for the MassachuSetts Republican State Committee and for c back Bay hotel. Yesterday Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt was guest at the hotel, % Bell gave the Democrats 6 hand by arranging her press conference.
 Vitchburg, Mass, October %. - (UPD = Trapped for two hours in the crotch of q tree he was pruning, Joseph Solotnento, oO, finally was rescued by firemeEi.
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BULLETINS

London, oct. 2e-- (UP) Allied planes flew against the contingent tocay. and Berlin reported bombers over west, northwest and southwest Germany.
 British MosQuitoes attacked DeE- lin twice last night and stabbed .4t otker targets in western Germany without loss
 Rome, Oct. 2e-(UP)-Allied am- phibiouS troops have occupied the Mediterranean Island of Piscopi, northeast of Rhodes, 6 communique reported today.
 The occupation forcs was landed on Pisccpi by the BTitlsh cruiser Sirius during the night of Oct. 26s27, the colnmunique said. London, Oct. 2e-UP)-The Der- lin radio said today that the Red Army had opened an offensive east and southeast of Liepaja (Libau), Latvian Baltic port 50 miles north of Memel.
 0eKIyp Gs RsD SCts 9o-kOEy~-1ukA. ned by . stiff north wind, . general alarm fire swept through two fac tories and seven houses here today leaving 50 persons homeless. Dam age was estimated ct 176,000.
 London, Oct. % = CUPl - Capt Esuvo Kurihara. chief Of the maya press section of Japanege impeFia headquagterg, said in Q brondcas over Tokyo radio today that anotliel decisive" battle Was expected in thl Philippine waters.
 Knrlhara said Japanese aiF on submarine units were coneenlyatinl east of the Philippines and ''8Eeat CT results are expeele9 soon"
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Sergeant Joseph Legere, hus- band of the former Janet Mol- Icur, of 20 George street, was wounded in France, Oct. lS, Ac. corllng to Q War Department tele. gram hts wife received this morn. ing. He Is tho son of Mir. and Mrs. Cyril Legere of 90 East Lib. erty street. He has been in the service two years and previous to joining the cOl0rs was c crane operator at the American Brass Company.
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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-01
Million Dollar
Band Scores
Hit i'm City

Approximately 1000 music
lovers we're richly entertained
by the fine band playing and
singing of favorite old and new
songs, and baby in the audi
ence was serenaded 10 the song
II Can't Give You Anything But
Love, At the concert of the Mos
lem Shrine Million Dollar"
Band and "Chanters' last night
in the auditorium at Mount
CIemens high school,
Besides the scheduled num-
bers. the "Chanters" sang en-
cores which delighted the audi
ence one of which. a nautical
song. kept the patrons in laugh
ter as the singers went through
various antics. High spots of the
evenings program were songs
sung by Salvatore Cucchiara,
tenor, Harry Mcdonald, bari
tone. and the old favorite "Wag-
on Wheels, sung by Mcdonald
with the chanters humming IN
the background.
Proceeds of the concert Will go
10 the Shrine's fund for crippled
children of destitute families,
United States and Canada.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-01
Mercury
Plunses
Downward

Winters first cold wave
brought low Official tempera-
ture of % degrees in Mount
Clemens last night, the lowest
Of the 1914 winter season.
According TO an Associated
Press survey, most Michigan
communities recorded the start
Of winter"
In Detroit, the mercury crept
upward only few degrees from
last nights official minimum of
81 degrees, and the forecast was
for even colder weather to-
night, with a low reading of
perhaps Is degrees, and con-
tinued cold Saturday.
Coolest spot reporting in the
state last night was Sault Ste.
Marie, with an official low OF
Is degrees, but the cold weather
was general. 1t was ID at
Houghton, Saginaw, Gladwin,
Cadillac, st. Ignace and Jack
son; 19 at Grand Rapids and
Flint; 20 at Alpena, Battle
Creek, Lansing, Marquette and
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