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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-04
BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON limited Press War CorreSDOndent

OuALCu 1ICSS war OO1ICSROiUCAS
 Allied Headquarters, Philippines, Dec. A. (UP)-A barefoot, straw hated Filipino Guerilla Army has captured Taft and Oras, two of the most important towns on the East coast of Samar, front dispatch revealed today as rains stalled American operations on Leyte, to the southwest.
 (Japarese Premier Gen. Kuniah Koiso told munitions workers in Tokyo, according to a Japanese broadcast, that the Philippines were a vital area in the war strategy and warned that the enemy must be crushed completely and the Philip pines held secure" At the same time, however, he. conceded that the war situation was critical and called for increased war production)
 GA Japanese communique claimed that Japanese planes and naval forces between last Thursday and Saturday sank an American de- stroyer and seven torpedo boats ard damaged four other torpedo boats. The communique admitted the loss of Japanese deStroyerO
 Apparently taking over offensive operations on Samar from American troops who liberated its capital, Catbalogan, more than month ago, the guerillas surged down from the inland hills last week and liberated
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Draft BiH To Kill Book
 Censorship M Boston

Boston, Dec. 4-CuP)-The i945 Massachusetts legislature will be asked to eliminate the system of private censorship of books under which banned in Boston" has bee come Q by-word of the literary world. it was announced today.
 A bill drafted by the Massachu- sets library association, composed of the states public librarians, would transfer obscene" book complaints from the criminal to the civil courts, and would call for court action against the book itself rather than against some bookseller.
 At present. book stores sell all books at their own risk, and impose c voluntary ban fl they suspect a certain volume to violate obscenity laws. Occasionally police adludge 6 book GA obscene and prosecute au
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JUL|Ch IS REPORTED IN ALLIED HANDS
 Bombers Fire Tokyo Aircraft Works
Filippino Guerillas
 Capture 2 To1Ons

Taft after a two-day battle.
 Taft, with pre-War population of 5000, lies at the eastern junction of the main east-west and north south roads on Samar 38 miles east of Catbalogan.
 The story of the liberation of Taft and Oras, IT miles to the north, was told by Frank Hewlett, United Press War Correspondent with the gueril- la army, in delayed dispatch from Samar.
 Oras, Hewlett said, was captured by some 35 guerillas just before General Douglas MacArthur's in- vasion forces landed on Leyte Oc- tober 20. The 27 riflemen, four Tommy gunners and several re- servists, some of them armed with captured Japanese rifles, were credited with killing 137 Japanese in the battle for the town.
 Rearmed by the Americans, the guerillas attacked Taft November 26 and penetrated the village in fierce street fighting. The Japanese drove the Fiipinos out, but the guerillas captured the village the next day.
 The bulk of the Japanese garrison of 25O men fled across river for a last stand on fortified hill on which a radio station is situated (Continled on Pare A
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individual bookseller. If he Is con- victed all Of the states booksellers remove the offending volume from their shelves lest they too be prose- euted.
 The proposed new statute would work this way:
 i.--Whenever there Is reasonable cause to believe book obscene, the state attorney general or any dis. trict ttorney could bring a petition iil equity in superior court against the book by name, rather than against some individual
 2-Notice Of such action would bi sent to the publisher. the holder 0i the copyrights, the author oF ans other interested party.
 3.-Anyone interested in the sale (Continued on Page A
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Fight Looms On SeoWoy
BY ALLEN DRURY United Press Staff COrreSpOndent

Onlteu FreSS StaLI COrreSpOnuent Washington, Dec. 4-(UP)-A bit- ter battle loomed in the Senate to- day as packers of the proposed St. Lawrence Seaway threatened to fil- ibuster to include the project in the pending $498, ,784,93l rivers and har- bors bill.
 Charging that the opposition ap- parently intended to ignore the mer- It's of the plan and resort to slick" technicalities. Sen. George D. Aiken, R., Vt., author of the $285, 1000, ,000 St. Lawrence authorization amend ment, indicated h.s forces were pre- pared to talk the rivers and harbors bill to death In this session Of Con- eress if they could not get 6 vote on the controversial amendment.
 We are going to keep on fighting If lt takes one week pr 10 years for this plan to benefit l35.00O.000 peo- ple." he said.
 Aiken, whose amendment would authorize the president to proceed with the project under an executive agreement with Canada, said Il would be called up as soon as the Senate disposed Of othor controver- sal sections of the bill. possibly latG
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Drastic Lavs Are Laid DouOn By WING h Boston

Boston. Dec. {. (uP)-In probably the most sweeping wartime labor controls yet instituted in the ma. ton male workers in greater Bos- ton today were left with the altern. atlves Of remaining on their present Jobs or accepting war work.
 In q drastic move to provide more employees for critical war industries, Leon ]. Kowal, area war inanpower commission director, announced yes. terday that workers leaving their positions after next Monday must accept war jobs if qualified and physlcally able.
 fIe also disclosed that the u. g.. Employment Service would take over al hiring for every industry and business ln greater Hosteiis @ come nunities.
 only hospitals which may cone llnGle hiring without reference tQ
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the U. s. employment service women workers In non-essentlal tn- dustries. and honorably- discharged World War II vetersans are expected from the new regulations, Kowal said.
 Specifically. the ,new rules mean that:
 l. Men leaving nor. essential jobs must go into war work.
 g. Men released from essential work can take new jobs only in equally essential industries.
 3. Women employed in essential industry must remain ln similarly rated jobs.
 Approximately 2AOO0 employers not previously subject Co manpoWer regulations, including those hiring fewer than eight persons, must con' gConilnued on Page s
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5th Attacked
 Near Bologna

Rome, Dec. 4-CUP) - German troops launched a half dozen local attacks against Fifth Army posi- tions below Bologna but succeeded only in capturing a hill feature near Bombiana, 9 miles southwest of tbe city, headquarters said today.
 Other attacks, including a strong thrust at Mount Belmonte, eight miles south of Bologna, were re- pulsed with losses to the enemy.
 Indian troops on the Fifth Army right flank gained locally while Eighth Army forces consolidated their positions against Heapu Ger man defenses before Faenza and Ravenna.
 The Mediterranean Allied Air Force reported seven aircraft mis- sing after more than l,l000 sortieS yesterday.
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BIG INDUSTRIAL
 CENTERS ARE THREATENED
BY J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press War COrresp0ndentD

United Press War COrrespOndent)
 Paris, December 4. - UP) - American armies threat ening Germany's two great est industrial areas wiped out all but scattered enemy pockets in flaming Saarlau- tern on the far bank of the Saar river today and massed farther north for a compan- ion smash across the Roer toward the Ruhr valley.
 A Brussels broadcast said the Ninth Army had struck across the Roer river at Julich and was fighting through the streets of the eastern portion of the town, but late front dispatches aS- serted there had been no crossing as yet. The western half of Julich on the west bank was entirely in Ameri- can hands except for a single enemy pocket.
 CA Blue Network broadcast from Paris said Julich was entirely in American hands."l
 The British Second Army in southeast Holland; also aimed a spearhead toward the Ruiar with a breakthrough to the MaaS River in the western suburbs of Venl0 a half mile from Germany and % miles west of the war production center of Duisburg.
 | Le.-Gen. George s. Patton,s American Third Army rapidly was nearing complete conquest of its First German city at Saarlautern | five miles inside the Saar Basin. second in importance only to the Ruhr as an industrial center geared l to Germany's war effort.
 Front dispatches reported the western half of the town on the near bank of the Saar already had been completely cleared of enemy resistance. and other troops were mopping up scattered enemy pockets on the east bank.
 The thrust across the Saar at Saarlautern gave the Americans a springboard for drive into the heart of the Saar Basin with its huge coal mines, blast furnaces and war factories on which Germany must depend for arms and other supplies for her last months and weeks of battle.
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Kai Shek Battles
 Crisis In China
By WALTER BUNDLE United Press War Correspondent

tOAhtCu HICoS wal SVAACSPOANS"S'
 Chingking, Dec. 4 - (U.PD - Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to- day took public cognizance of the extremely difficult military situ- ation but called on China to rally and annihilate Japanese forces which have driven into Kweichow Province, a bare 200 miles from China,S capital
 Chiang then summoned his new cabinet ministers and in an address called upon China to rally against the Japanese,
 The present war situation" he said, 'is extremely difficult but it is near the stage of final victory"
 Chiang said that the military de- velopments at the front, including the dangerous penetration by the Japanese of Kweichow Province were within our anticipation.
 The enemy inside Kweichow must be given a crushing blow and completely annihilated,' he said.
 SOong Appointment
 The appointment of Soong came at time when experienced obSerV- CTS in Chungking were predicting that the next 60 days warfare in China may be the most critical of the conflict with China facing the possibility of being knocked out as an effective land fighting force.
 The move was described official ly as a continuation of the process begun on Nov. 20, when Chiang re- moved six cabinet ministers, includ- ing Kung, who lost his finance ministry in that re-shuffle.
 Further changes also were re- garded as possible in view of the frankly alarming situation created by the fast-rolling Japanese offen- sive in Kweichow province.
 The influential independent news paper Ia Kung Pac openly criticized
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Bogort And Wife Ready To Breok

Hollywoo Dec. f(UP)- That on-again, off-again romance be- tween Humphrey Bogart and his wife, Actress Mayo Methot, appear ed definitely off today as Miss Methot announced she had retained Attorney Jerry Giesler and the mo- vie touch man said he wasn't con- ing home any more.
 Miss Methot said, however, that she had no plans for immediate le- gal action.
 T don't want a big settlement" {" she said. T just want him. It's become a habit to love Bogey and it's hard to break it."
 Giesler said the next move was up to Bogart. Miss Methot and Bo- gart separated a month ago but made up again.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-04
Liberated Greece Teeters
 On Edge OF Ciuil Conflict
BY WILLIAM R. HIGGINBOTHANI OUniked Press Staff CorreSpOndent)

 United Press Staff Correspondent London, Dec. +OUP) Athens dispatches said today that the Greek capital had been placed un- der martial law to strengthen the position of authorities dealing with a general strike call and riotous demonstrations which carried Greece to the brink of civil war.
 At least 16 persons were killed and more than 150 injured in Athens, and defiant left wing lead CTS called for a country wide gen. eral strike.
 All public utilities were paralyized in Athens, leaving the city without street car or electric service, when a group of workers walked out pre- maturely.
 Even before the invocation of martial law, reported in an ex- change telegraph dispatch from Athens, British tanks and troops stood ready to support the govern ment forces, and tight military curfew was clamped on the capital last night.
 Official sources here said that British policy in Greece was to stand firmly behind the Papan-
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Huge Bottle May Seal
 Austria Fate
BY ROBERT MUSEL United Press War COrreSpOnd


 London, Dec. 4-(UP)-A thun- dering battle that German strate- gists predicted would seal the fate of Austria was joined along the eastern shores of Lake Balaton to- day as ,Cossack flying columns smashed head-on into a powerful Nazi defensive screen thrown across the invasion gate" barely 50 miles from Austrian soil.
 The German DNB Agency said major Soviet tank forces broke through to the northeastern rim of the lake, but asserted that German reserves were attacking them on both Hanks and that the penetra- tior had been sealed off.
 Farther to the south, DNB said the German center and right wing were holding firm, although it con- ceded the Nazis had "evaded a de- cision" yesterday and were picking their own ground for a counter-at- tack-a roundabout concession that the Germans still were falling back on the lake shores.
 Alarmed G erma n SpokeSmen warned their people that breath taking military events are imrnin- ent," and indicated that the Soviets were hurling everything at their command into two-fold attempt to break open the gateway to Vienna and outflang Budapect from the west.
 An equally critical situation faced the Nazis along the Hungarian Slo- yak border northeast of Budapest, where other Red Army forces fi- nally shook their armored divisions loose on the flatlands about 19O miles due east of Vienna. after breaking through the twin German strongholds of MiSkolc and Satoral- jsujhely.
 Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhin'S s third Ukrainian army overran moro than 80 towns and villages in west
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MUSASH|NA THOUHGT
 TO BE RUINED
BY FRED SCHERFF United Press Staff CorrespOndent)

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Washington, December 4. = (UP) - A major portion of the big Musashina aircraft works in the western suburbs of Tokyo was believed in smoldering ruins today fol- lowing yesterdays heavy at- tack by upwards of 100 B-29 Superfortresses.
 Striking at the Japanese capital for the fourth time and the Musashina works for the second time in nine days, the Giant raiders laid their bombs in perfect strings across. rectangular factory buildings and saw eight to 10 fires burning as they headed back to their Saipan bases.
 Near-gale winds probably turned the fires into more than one confla- grafton. The raid was considered one of the most if not the most, suc- cessful yet made by the 20th Air Force on Tokyo.
 The attack came simultaneously with an admission by Japanese Premier General Kuniaki Koiso tha the war situation was critical for Japan with her most urgent need ERne increase irr pfanesy arms and other material fighting power"
 Conditions of our materla! fighting power do not permit any optimism whatsoever and are liar from reassuring," Tokyo radio quoted Koiso as telling a confer ence of government munitions su- perintendents. The broadcast was recorded by EGG monitors.
 The B-29s ran into heavy fighter opposition over Tokyo yesterday and returning crews told of battling enemy planes for as long as 50 min utes at attitudes of up to six miles. They told United Press War Core spondent Mac R. Johnson at Sai- pan that single and twin-engined fighters dived on them with blazing guns in groups of three and six.
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Courses; Bookkeeping, Accounting, shorthand. Typina, Comptemeler. Post JF. College of Commerce.
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Evening star., 1944-09-01
'Mexicons Hope for Latin Sweep
In u. S. ennis to Boost Game

traction. In the local championships,
where Armando and Rolando have a
monopoly on the finals. Most Mex
ican players are handicapped by
the fact that they seldom can take
time OH for full day Of tourna-
ment play. Even the Vega brothers
had to arrange their vacations to
coincide with the American cham
plonships.
Segura was troubled only by q
slow start yesterday as he whipped
Freeman, 8-6, 1l, to enter the
quarter final round. Today hes
slated to meet Maj. A. H. Gam
Carver, an Army flyer who recently
returned from II months of over
seas duty and is celebrating be
lated honeymoon" by playing in the
Nationals. Carver provided the daily
upset by conquering eighth-seeded
Jack Jossi of Oakland, Calf, 6-1,
+6, 8-6. If Segura wins, he likely
will meet his chief summer rival,
Billy Talbert, in the semifinals.
McNeill's Win Unimpressive.
In the other half Of the draw
Navy 1t. Don McNeill, 1910 cham
pion, pulled out another unimpres-
sive victory, beating the newly
crowned veterans champion, j. Gil
bert Hall, IS. Ga, while the other
favorites advanced with him.
True to form, the women's division
reached the quarter final bracket
with all eight seeded players, headed
by Defending Champion Paulin,
BetZ, still in action.
Evening star., 1944-09-01
Three Ace Softly Tens
Enter Tourney Here

First entries in the Central At
lantic regional softball champion
ships scheduled for Ballston Sta
dium September Gil are three of
the areas strongest teams. In the
mems division, the Cummins Blues
of Baltimore will represent Mary
land and the Reynolds Metal ten
of Richmond will represent Virginia
Only entry in the women's bracket
is the Danville (Va) DR.. Pepper ten.
The District tournament still is
in progress at Ballston, with the
winner automatically entered in the
regionals. Victor in the regionals
will represent the Central Atlantic
area in the Cleveland nationals,
starting September 16.
Winfree Johnson, District Softball
Association head, announced today
that the regionals will open with
night games Saturday, followed by
afternoon and night games Sunday
and night games Monday. Tourna-
ment will be on double-knockout
basis.
Evening star., 1944-09-01
Girls Promise Warm
Battle in SoftbaII
Twin Bill Tonight

Washington's top girl softball
players, many of them nationally
famous, take the spotlight tonight
at Griffith Stadium in the first game
of a softball double-header staged
by the Connecticut Avenue Citizens
Association, which is raising money
for the purchase of library site.
The All-Star ten, only team to
hold two decisions over the cham
pion United Typewriter team, will
take the field aginst the Typos in
the third game Of hotly-contested
rivalry that's scorched every dia-
mond they've played on
The An-Stars originally were
formed when the Typists we're riding
high with a 24-game winning streak
and no competition was in sight to
give them any action. Choosing the
best players from most of the local
girls teams, a ten was put together
that waloped the Typists.
For tonight's clash, the All-Stars
are fielding the following lineup:
Ell Toby. catcher; Ev Toby, short
stop; Mildred (Spot) Stout, pitcher
Dot Mcdonald, second base; Renee
Prybyscien, right field: Boo Var
brough, third base; AL Houldsworth,
shortfleld; Edy Houghton, left field !;
Lou La Rochelle, center field;
Margie Clarke. first base.
1t will be the clubs last appear
ance under the All-Star banner.
After tonight's game they will call
themselves the D. c. Dominoes.
The nightcap. a mems contest,
will be battle between Briggs
CHARTERS and the high-ranking
Engineering and Research Corpora
ton ten. First game is at 8:15.
Evening star., 1944-09-01
Mats Incoming Material Offers
Little Hope; Drop 2 to Yunks

hits of Al Carrasquel and an error
by George Myatt beat the Mats in
the second game. Bluege's band
made nine hits OF Mel Queen and
twice held a lead. Myatt's walk,
Kuhel's single and Gil Torres fly
got a first-round score. The Yanks
went ahead in the second when
Nick Etten's homer backed Lindell's
single. The Mats forged to the
front again in the third with
Kuhels single, Torres triple and
Stan ,Spence's long fly.
The Yanks tied in the sixth that
Metheny opened with a single. He
darted toward second on the next
pitch, but Mike Guerra's throw beat
him to the bag. Myatt, hit by the
runner, dropped the ball and after
Horschel Martin rolled out Metheny
carried q run over when Lindell
singled.
In the ninth with two out, Frankie
Crosetti homered into the left field
stand and the second ball game was
gone.
Vaughan complained Of . sore
arm after the first game, 50 Torres
was sent to third for the nightcap
X. Woln has an ailing shoulder
and may not pitch in this series
Case played in the second game
batting in sixth place After
walking in the first inning, he was
helpless at bat . Stirnweiss made
his 42d sand 43d steals to increase
his league lead over Case to five
thefts :. jug Thesenga. fresh from
the semipros. was to pitch against
the Yanks in today's singleton.
Evening star., 1944-09-01
BY JOHN B. KELLER,
Star Staff Correspondent.

NEW YORK, Sept. Looking at
the Mats these days. one wonders
how they've managed to win SO Of
1913 ball games this year. And look
ing over the material with which Os
Bluege is expected to rebuild
broken-down OUTFIT, one wonders
how low the Mats may sink next
year.
In addition to a run-of-the-mine
lot that includes two players yanked
from semipro ranks-one only II
already brought in and a couple of
little-known purchases yet to report,
the Washington front ONCE has an
nounced 1t Is recalling trio of
pitchers with possibly some chance
of making the grade and seven
Cuban players who at the College
Park training camp last spring ap-
peared about three years at least
from even consideration as big
league ball players.
The three pitchers are Vernon
Curtis from Minneapolis, Lewis Car
penter from Atlanta and Bob Al
bertson from Williamsport. Curtis
has done well in the American As
sociation and may be ready to help
the Mats. Carpenter wasn't at train
ing camp last spring but 1t Is under
stood he has gone along pretty good
in the Southern Association. The
Washington Office gives no record Of
Albertson's work in the Eastern
League, but it was thought at camp
that he might prove a likely pros
pect in another year.
Could Be Much Better.
But the Cubans, coming back from
Williamsport and Chattanooga -
well they could be much better than
they showed at College Park and
still be far from helpful to the Mats.
The Mats yesterday, as they
opened a six-game series with the
New York Yankees by dropping a
double header, 9-4 and 4-3, were no
worse than they have been for the
past six weeks. They couldn't be.
In the first game both Mick Haef-
ner and Walter Dubiel, the Yank
hurler, yielded 10 hits. Dubiel,
though, allowed the Mats to score In
only two innings. Joe Kuhers third
homer of the year, a drive into the
right stand, came after Haef-
ner had singled in the third, and In
the eighth three singles were
punched with the third by Rene
Monteagudo knocking over two
more runs.
But the Yanks had piled up five
runs, three of these unearned as
the Mats helped with four of their
five errors, and after two were out
In the eighth Haefner weakened to
allow four hits and as many tallies.
Johnny Lindell tripled with the
bases crowded to send across the
last three runs.
Two home runs among the eight