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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-13
ESCAPE ROUTES TO GERMANY
 CLOSED TIGHT
BY ELEANOR PACKARD United Press War CorrespondenO

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 Rome, September 1S. - (UP) - French troops from the Seventh and Third Armies forged a solid line through central France to- day and the Allies threw two other columns across the escape routes into Germany, sealing the fate of thousands of Nazis hopeleSSly trapped in southwest France.
 A headquarters spokesman said the junction in force of the two armies at Chatillon, a miles north. west of Dion, left the Germans In southern and western France facing the alternative of death or capture
 There was no official estimate of the number of enemy troops trap ped by the two Allied armies al- though unofiicial sources said earlier this week they exceeded 10000,
 Prisoners in southern France already total 75,000 and are expected cd to Increase swiftly as result ot the juncture, which communique said was made 'tn force" on the Seine river.
 Due east from Chatillon, Lieuten- ant General Alexander M, Patch swung two other armored French ana American columns across the roads and railways leading east to the Belfort Gap.
 French troops, moving northeast from Dion, maintained their rapid advance against slight opposition and swept past Longeau to within less than five miles of Langres,
 The two French forces were only 35 miles apart and at Langers, the one unit would be 20 miles south of the American lines at Chaumont and 6S miles southwest of Nancy.
 While the French were meeting decreasing resistance, American troops operating 35 miles farther east ran into heavy German de- lenses at Port-sur- -Saone, seven miles above Vesoul.
 Severe fighting was reported from the sector, with the Germans ate tempting several counter-attacks, supported by tanks and self-pro- pelled guns. The enemy resistance extended east of vesoul to as far as pIsle.
 On the extreme right flank, one column of French troops made ad- vance up to five miles north of Dam belin and were driving rapidly, with little opposition towards the Doubs river and Montbeliard, Il miles southwest of Belfort.
 This unit apparently was attempt ing to swing in back of the German forces stubbornly holding out in the vicinity of Ponte de Roide, only a few miles from hte Swiss border and l6 miles due south of the Belfort pass.
 The French at Ponte de Roide have been stalled for four days by the Germans who have been fight ing desperately and so far success fully to keep open the five mile corridor between the town and the Swiss border.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-13
BOttIeships Aid s. p. Hits
(By United PresS)


 U. S. Battleships were revealed today to have joined in the stepped up offensive in the Philippines area as warplanes struck at the long belt of Japanese protective bases.
 Japan reported 100000 of Tokyo's population of 100000 had been evacuated under an air raid decentralization program.
 The battleships from the Third Pacific Fleet, took part in the Philippines theater campaign for the first time Monday when they joined in bombarding Palau Islands, 560 miles to the east.
 Land-based and carrier-borne bombers dumped hundreds of tons of explosives on bases from Palau in the east to Talaud, Halmahera and Celebes, south of the Philip pines.
 A Japanese Domei agency dis patch said 23O American carrier planes, from a task force operating in eastern waters of the Central Philippines, attacked Cebu anC seyte Islands in the central Philip mes Sunday.
 Planes of the Far Eastern Ali orce also struck at Palau anc ,uthern outposts.
 Southwest Pacific bombers con sntrated on Celebes south of the hilippines. Shipping was hit again if Celebes and Ceram Islands witt i've cargo vessels totaling approx nately 10000 tons sunk or damaged
 Various types of planes droppet l2e tons of bombs CT cernIn ans eoerdo Sunday and Monday. N Japanese inkerceptors were encoun cred but three Allied planes wcls lost to antl=aircraft nye,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-13
Planes Do Huge Damage
By LEO S. DISHER

United Press War COrresp0ndent)
 London, Sept. l3 - (U.P) - More than 2,500 American heavy bombers attacked synthetic oil plants and industrial targets in central, south ern and western Germany today, continuing an all-out aerial offen- sive which has destroyed 326 NaZi planes in two days.
 The Flying FortresSes and Liber- ators were escorted by approximate ly 800 Mustang, Thunderbolt and Lightning fighter planes. Weather was good and all the targets were bombed visually.
 Targets for the 1000 bombers in- cluded synthetic oil plants at Merse- burg and Luzkendorf, both near Leipzig, and another just south- west of Stuttgart, an armored truck plant at Ulm, an airfield northeast of Stuttgart where jet-propelled planes are made. and an oil storage depot at Weissenhorn near Ulm.
 At dawn today. before the offen- sive was resumed. Germany had undergone the worst 120 hours of death from the sky ever endured by any nation.
 In the five days of the all-out. perhaps final aerial campaign against the Reich, more than 7,3O0 British-based heavy bombers have battered Germany with approxi- (Continued on Page 4
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-13
"Generous"
 Peace Terms For Romonio
BY M. $. HANDLER United Press Staff Corresponds


 Moscow, Sept. l3.-UP)-An armistice agreement was signed by Romania and Russia yesterday and 1t marked the first time the three major allies have jointly formulated terms for defeated mutual enemy, it was announced today.
 Unlike the Italian armistice, of which the Russians were informed and consulted at long distance, the Romanian terms were drawn up in face-to- face discussions among So- viet and Anglo-American represen- tatives. They reached full under standing before the terms were sub mitted to the Romanians.
 Another innovation was the fact that Marshal Rodion Y. Malinov- sky. one of the Soviet conquerors of Romania, signed the agreement in behalf of Russia, the United States and Britain.
 The terms were not disclosed and may not be for some time, although there was no reason to believe they were harsh.
 The Romanian commission which left Moscow today, declined to com ment, but indicated its satisfaction and intimated the Allies had been generous.
 Various representatives of the United Nations attended the nearly two weeks of discussions, including U S. Ambassador W. Averill Har- riman.
 (An Ankara broadcast, reported by London newspapers, said the terms included return of Bessara- bia and Bukoyina to Russia; Ro- mania to furnish transport of So- viet troops through Romania: pay ment of indemnitics to Russia; So- yiet control of Romania for the duration of military operations; Russian support to Romanian claims for Transylvania.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-13
Yonks Push North AIonq Gothic Line
BY CLINTON B. CONGER Limited Press War Correspondent

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 Rome, September iS. = (UP) - American troops drove northward despite renewed German resistance along the western sector of the Gothic Line today. advancing three miles beyond the former seaplane base at Lago Di Massaciuccoi to reach the outskirts of the Tyrrhe- nian summer resort and fishing port of Viareggio.
 Fighting was continuing through five main passes into the Germans Gothic Line, although the Allied communique failed to reveal the location of the passes, except to say the British Eighth Army was within mile of one pass northeast of Flor ence and the U. s. Fifth Army with in two and a half miles of another heavily defended gateway through the line somewhere north to north- west of Florence.
 Eighth Army troops, who previ- ously had crossed the Sieve River northeast of Florence, have ad- vanced five miles in the last 24 hours, an Allied communique dis closed today. There and elsewhere along the Italian front, however, the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-13
STRONG FORCES REACH SIEcFRIED LINE Nazi High Command Admits Lon1Za Fall
 THOUSANDS OF FOE TRAPPED IN s. ". FRANCE
Other United States Troops May Be
 Pouring Across Border At New Points
BY VIRGIL PTNKLEY

BY VIRGIL PkNkkEX
 United Press War C0rrespondeneD
 Supreme Headquarters, AEF, September 13. - (UPl - Strong American armOred forces, leading Q general ad- vance against Germany, reached the Slegfrled Line to. day, while indications grew that other United States troops might be pouring across the border In new crossings at unidentified points.
 A dispatch from It. Gen Omar N. Bradley's 12th Army group headquarters said American tank and in- fantry forces were in contact with the Siegfried Line, which was taking one of the heaviest aerial poundings of the entire war from thou sands of Allied planes.
 The first spearhead was driven against the Siegfried line, the headquarters dis patch indicated, by one of the armored forces smashing steadily deeper into Germany after crossings from LuxeHn- bourg and Belgium, with ad- vanced clements reaching within some 35 miles of the Rhine.
 A new u. s. Army-the Ninth commanded by It. Gen. William 1T. Simpson--was revealed to have landed in France to join in the climactic assault on Germany. It's location was not disclosed.
 The 18th army group headquAr- ters dispatch emphasized that the announcement that the Allies had crossed the German border in "at least" two places-eight miles north- west of Trier and east of Eupen-- appeared to imply that other cross ings may have been made.
 For whatever 1t was worth in that connection, Q Nazi-controlled Oslo broadcast reported crossings east of Malmedy, Belgium, between Trier and Eurpen, and southwest of Tier.
 Invasion Under Way
 '"The invasion of Germany itself appeared under way in force as general advancn continued east ward toward the Siegfried line, which on the First Army front lies about five to 10 miles behind the frontier" the headquarters dis- patch said in reporting advanced clements in touch with the last great fortified belt before Berlin. (Continued on Page 4)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-13
Presidential Election To Be
 Close Run For Popular Vote

seem to make the state safe for Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, the COP presidential candidate.
 If Maine is to be given any poli- tical barometric significance at all, the big Republican margin there suggests bigger Republican votes elsewhere. But it is a fact that Maine voters this year cast 76.600 fewer ballots than four years ago when the states election was cur- tain raiser to a presidential poll. This show of comparative disinter- est O. indication of a failure of abe sentee voters to send in their bal- lots offers something for all carn- paign managers Co consider.
 Landslide Returns Politicians were interested to which the CTo political action com. <Unn1.naaN on NaNe el
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-13
TDorseyAnd Wife To Face Jon Hall Assault Charge

oomph girl, Ann Sheridan.
 This action started perhaps Hol- lywood's most uproarious court &C., tion yet, threatened the defendants with 10 years imprisonment if con- victed, and held them each on $5,O00 bail. They'll be arraigned tomorrow and along about Christmas jury will hear about what high society is like in Hollywood when the party gets little rough.
 Dorsey's jamboree at four a. m. last August s in lis Sunset Plaza apartment was, by all accounts, a lulu. Everybody was happy, doing the rumba and drinking something mixed with soda water. until Hall, the movies man of many muscles, decided to pat Miss Dane, the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-13
"Modmon Was A Myth

Mattoon, Ill. Sept. i3 = (UP0- Police today buried the mythical "Madman of Mattoon" in an equal ly mythical cemetery, branding the phantom who has terrorized this city for two weeks a hoax whose "gar6enia gas' that "paralyzed" his victims was carbon tetrachloride fumes from a war plant.
 Police Commissioner Thomas ". Wright and Captain Harry Curtis, head of the State Police called in to aid in the hunt for the ''phan- tom", said that after checking and re-checking the stories of 35 vic tims," they were convicned he was non existent.
 Mattoon, however, refused to let the mysterious anesthetist die so ignominiously and the mass hys- teria so evident only yesterday im- mediately turned to mass indigna- ton against police officials who re- fused to believe the victims"
 That statement is ridiculous" said William Kidwell, states attor-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-13
Depression Is Predicted By R. Bobson
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By ESTELLE BOND
United Press Staff Correspondent

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 Wellesley Mass. Sept. 1S - (U P.) -- Economist Roger W. Babson who IS years ago this month acc curately forecast the 1929 stock market crash, today predicted an- other major depression about lS4e or 1950."
 As Babson sees it, here is the outlook:
 1. Germany will collapse some. time between November of this year and March 2, l945.
 2. Time element of the victory over Japan depends entirely on Russia.
 8. Temporary slumps in prices and employment will follow the collapses of Germany an l Japan.
 4. These slumps will be followed immediately by a two or three-year period of excellent business"
 5. Anyone willing to work for a market wage at what he or she i' fitted for will be employed during the postwar period of prosperity.
 6. Stock market prices will soal only to collapse about l949 or 195O due to a satisfied consumer demand and fear of Communism
 The white-haired statiStician, who forecast the 1929 crash 48 hours after the Dow-Jones averages went to the highest point on record fol the continuous bull market, said ir an interview that the next depres- sion will be a nightmare of "unem- ployment and failures and trouble of that sort"
 When the consumer satisfies his pent-up desire for all the commod- ities he can't get now, the economic structure will fall in," Babson warn (Continued on Page 4)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-13
Drive Toword Hungary Rim
By HENRY SHAPIRO

Limited Press War CorrespOndent)
 Moscow, Sept. 13-(UP)-RIssian an Romaniaa armored forces broke across the last mountain~ barrier protecting the Hungarian planes to- day and drove down into the broad Muresul river valley in a fast-mov- ing drive for the pre-war borders of Hungary. 88 miles to the northwest.
 Tn a two-day fighting advance that carried 40 miles across the western shoulder of the Transyl- vanian Alps, the Soviet -Romanian spearhead captured Deva and de- ployed into the Muresal valley astride the broad motor highway into Budapest. PIP airline miles away.
 Simultaneously, other Russian units in central Romania advanced 10 to IS miles along l00-mile front in o drive aimed at Cluj, capital of Hungarian-occupied Pennsylvania.
 Far to the nth, Soviet tanks and infantrymen hammered out yard- by-yard advance into the outskirts of Lomza, the main German bastion guarding the southern approaches to East Prussia.
 Arniored units of arshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's And Ukrainian army, supported by Romanian troops, launched the Lew drive on Hungary, pushing through strong German and Hungarian defenses in the mountains northwest of petro- seni, which fell to the Allied column Monday.
 The capture of Deva gave the soviets space in which to deploy their armor for a swift invasion thrust up the Muresul valley in
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-13
Pershing Is 84 Years Old

Washington, Sept. lS. (UP)-Gen- eral of the armies John J. Pershing observed his 84th birthday ami versary today and the best gift all was the newspaper headline sounding the approaching defeat Germany.
 Pershing, who unsucceSsfuIly a' vocated unconditional surrender Germany when he led the AEF i 1918, was cheered by the knowl edge that Allied soldiers dread were on German soil and this time would occupy the reich.
 He observed the anniversary in his suite at Walter Reed hospital. Today was really & double anni- verSary. It was 26 years ago todsy
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-13
 4 PLAN FULL
 COORDINATION
BY MERRIMAN SMITH (Unlted Press Staff COrrespOndent)

dent Roosevelt isshrdlotinotin otu
 Quebec, Sept, lS,-(uP)-Presi. dent Roosevelt issued . statement today saying that Britain and the United states are coordinating their efforts in China, the Pacific and in Europe with those of China and Russia,
 The statement read by White House Press Secretary stephen T, Early at Q news conference, said;
 "rhls is 6 conference to get the best we can out of the combined British and U, s. war efforts In the Pacific and in Europe. We are working in consonance with the situation in China, the Pacific and in Europe, coordinating our efforts and those of our Allies, particularly the Chinese and the Russians"
 From the citadel, where the President, the Prime Minister and their combined chiefs of staff are in victory conference" MT. Roose- welt authorized stephen T. Early his secretary, to say In the Presi' dents name:
 ,s'This is q conference to get thu best We can out of the combined British and United States war ef forts in the Pacific and in Europe We are working in consonance witt the situation in China, the Pacific and in Europe, coordinating our ef' forts and those of our Allies, par tlcularly the Chinese and the Rus slams"
 Ties In With Theme
 This statement tied in with thC basic Pacific theme of the meeting and disc sSions on establishment oi a new super-comman to direct thu final assaults on the Japanes' homeland.
 MT. Roosevelt was believed to b. urging at the conference table at the citadel the selection of ar American naval officer-probably either Admiral Ernest J. King, com' l@nNAlnuaI -ny1 paGA A
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-13
RY LYLE 0. WILSON

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Washington, Sept. lS-(UP)-The test bet as the political campaign .ccelerates today is that the pres- ,dential election will be close con- est for popular votes.
 Political events in Maine. Texas and Ohio variously comforted Dem ocrats and Republicans but without producing conclusive evidence of national trend either way.
 Maine's jump-the-gun state cleo ton yesterday gave the Republican gubernatirial candidate TS per cent of the vote and a plurality of 00,- poo, the largest in recent state rec lrda. Democrats win find some off- ct Co the returns in the fact that ,nly l05.e0O or So ovtera of approx :nately S50O0O qualified resistrants vent 10 the polla. But the returns
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-13
By FREDERICK c. OTHAEAN Limited Pres Hollywood CorrespOn United Press Hollywood
 C0PreMn0ndent

Hollywood, Sept 13-(UPl-Tom- IT Dorsey, his sloe-eyed rife, and a Hollywood character in the horse race gambling business arranged to- day to surrender to the sheriff on charges of felonious assault upon Jon Halls classic nose.
 Technicolor hero Hall said they came within a wink of slicing off the end and thereby turning him into e snub-nosed comedy actor.
 The grand jury also charged the genial gentleman of swing, Mrs. (Pat Danel Dorsey. and gambler Al Smiley with knocking unconscious and then kicking in the face Eddie Nok1is ons=tlme hnehand ok the
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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-03
1000 Bonlbers
Hit Dusseldorf
Greet German
Arsenal AfIome

LONDON. Nov. 3 - (P) -
A thousand British heavy bomb
erS laid 4,480 tons Of explosives
and fire bombs last night on
Germany's greatest arsenal of
Dusseldorf after day in which
u. s. fighters of the Eighth Air
Force won their greatest vic
tory Of the war over the Luft-
waffle
A special communique from
u, 5. strategic air force head
quarters gave this description to-
day and told of the destruction
of 208 German aircraft over the
synthetic oil center of Merse-
burg 1t scaled down American
losses to 40 heavy bombers and
10 fighters. One bomber and
nine fighters, previously listed
as lost in yesterdays operations,
landed safely at French bases.
Fighter pilots destroyed 1870
German intcrceptors in the air
and IS aground. some on Berlin
airports 100 miles from Merse-
burg BomberS shot down SO
while attacking the great Leuna
synthetic oil plant. which once
SEE RAF-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-03
The President
BY HOWARD FLIEGER

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3-(PD
President Roosevelt, ready for
a campaign home stretch drive
through New England tomorrow,
appeals to the voters to beware
of "hysterical, last-minute' po-
litical whispers.
This campaign has been mar
red by even more than the us
ual crop Of whisperings and
rumorings," he said in a cam
paign speech broadcast from the
White House last night. IL do
not propose to answer in kind. )"
Mr.. Roosevelt will make his
last major address of the cam
paign tomorrow night at party
rally in Boston. Enroute to
Boston he will speak informally
at Bridgeport and Hartford,
Conn, and at Springfield, Mass.
He also plans an election eve
message TO supporters.
1--WE have been told he said
last night, that unless the Am
erican people elect the Repub-
lican Presidential choice, the
Congress will not cooperate in
the peace. That is threat to
See FDR-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-03
How Machine
Sucker Vote
May Be Cast

Macomb county voters on
Tuesday, for the first time III
several years, will have an
avowed sticker candidate TO con-
slider when they cast their bal
lots for the office of register of
deeds.
William Lawson, Ware
township clerk, who was defeat
ed by William c. Tegeder, COP
nominee, in the primary cleo
tons, has revealed that he will
have workers on hand distribu-
ting stickers bearing his name
at all precinct booths in the
county. Henry Bruncel is the
regular Democratic candidate
for that office,
The expanded use Of voting
machines Throughout the county
has complicated the use Of stick
ers but sticker votes can easily
be cast by persons desiring to
use them, election official have
pointed out.
On the voting machine ballot
number appears above each
office and a similar number APP
pears over a slot directly above
See STICKER-Pagc 3
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-03
Photo-Finish
Is Probable,
Polls Reveal

NEW YORK, Nov. 3 - (P) -
The Presidential polls indicate
today that it may be photo
finish between Roosevelt and
Dewey.
Three nationwide polls re-
port the President leading in 20
states with a combined electoral
vote of 1913. Gov. Dewey, they
say leads in l3 states with
total Of 143 electoral votes.
All three, failing to agree on
who's ahead in the Is remaining
states, decline to forecast when
candidate is likely to get the
266 electoral votes that arc
needed to win.
A fourth poll, conducted for
Fortune magazine by the Elmo
Roper firm, finds Roosevelt fav-
ored by 53.5 per cent Of the
civilian voters, but this poll does
not 20 into the electoral vote.
See POLLS-Page 3