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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-08
Rebel FeIons Surrender

Atlanta, Ga, Dec. 8-(UP)-Order and discipline were restored in the sprawling Atlanta Federal Peniten- tiary today as prison officials planned the trial of 25 vicious" felons who barricaded themselves and four guards in the segregation building for 72 hours.
 The four hostages rested at their ohmes, the rebels were securely in- prsoned and federal officials were reviewing what "couid have result ed in a very dangerous situation. |"
 Tn Washington, Atty. Gen. Francis J. Riddle said the convict's mutiny over grievances" including shar- ing the penitentiary with Nazi saboteur, was intended to spark 8 general rebellion of the entire prison poulation-2,01 inmates.
 This could have resulted-if it had been successful-in the burn ing of buildings, loss of life and generally would have created very serious situatoin, " he said, admitting that he and federal prison director James V. Bennett were "very nerv" GUS" durng the revolt.
 The mutineers, led by kidnaper and several thieves, filed out of the prison segregation building yester- day afternoon under terms of deal arranged with an Atlanta newspa- per columnist who published their grievances as a condition of their surrender.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-08
50 Per Cent Cut
 In Butcherinq |Of Steers Here

Rationing affecting local butchers has been made effective today by a directive of the War Food Admin iStration limiting the slaughtering of $50 pound steers to fifty-one per week at the focal slaughtering- house.
 The directive further orders that two-thirds of the total poundage, slaughtered over the 51 limit will be claimed by the government for use by the armed forces and elsewhere.
 Dr. E. J. Godfrey city health of- ficer today declared that at present a total of 100 steers of this poundage and over, are being slaughtered here weekly. Curtailment of the numbers has been placed into effect immed- lately the city health officer de- clared.
 The directive has no bearing on animals under the $50 pound weight such as calves, COWS, etc.
 It is expected that the directive will sharpely crrtail the meat sup. ply of local butchers dependent on activities at the local slaughtering- house.
 Constant indulgence in slaughter ing in excess of the 51 limitation is likely to result in federal assump- tion of the operations of the entire slaughtering house, local authorities have been warned.
 No exact reason for the directive has yet been made known but it seemed likely that its measure was intended to take effect on black market operations of various nature. Unable to attack the actual source of black-market operations authori- ties are believed to be endeavoring to attack it's inroads by sharpely curtailing the legitimate market, such as local butchers and slaught- $xI0g houses.
 It is expected that authorities will soon receive more detailed ac- count of the new directive and its terms of butchering control.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-08
Chinese Rout 4,0OO Jops

Chungking. Dec. 6. (UP-A Chinese Army spokesman said toe day that 4,0O0 Japanese troops who entered Knelchow province had been routed" eliminating at least tenis porarlly c threat to Kweiyang, the provincial capital and strategic transport center ln southwest China.
 The Chinese recaptured Pachai, Hanho. shihpanehai and Tushan said.
 ''The thread Co Kweipoung la tems porarily removed, but the situatl0n continues seFioua," he said. "tio should not Dc too optimistic"
 The Chinese reported the toas of Ttishan tw0 days ago. Yesterday they said the Japanese, advancing a mlleS from Tlifhnli, hnd taken Tiiyun. ilohthern tefminiia oi the KIaneGl- KeWlehoW railway.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-08
Patent Office Makes This
 World Better Place To LiUe

2,3o3.724 and Q cold hot dog slides into c pre-Rliced roll. Then 1t Journeys through . high-voltaee, high frequency diathemy coil and pops out of the slot hot enough, probably, to blister the roof Of your mouth.
 Howard D. WeFts of La sallo. III, Is the man who solved Q problem for people who're always losing the hands of their clocks. His clock doeant have any; e dot Of light moves around Q translucent dlal and tel the time Of day.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-08
Greeks Move To End heir Civil War
By PAMES E. ROPER

United Press War correspondent
 Athens, Dec. 8. CUP)-Elas parti= sans and the Greek government have opened preliminary negotia- tions aimed at ending the civil war in Greece, 1t was learned today on the sixth day of the violent and un- abated battle of Athens.
 Elas representatives made contact with Premier George Papandreau's government, a feeler for conditions under which the war could be ended was rendered. and some small prog ress was made.
 But informants< emphasized that the negotiations still were in the preliminary stage, and so far car- ried no definite promise of recon cling the viewpoints of the gov- ernment and the FAM leftiSt fac- ton, of which the Elas is the mill tary arm.
 Meanwhile, British artillery bracketed Greek hospital with shells in an effort to wipe out an Elas mortar position on the grounds. British planes again shot up Elas positions south of the Par thenon.
 watched the battle from the roof of building formerly occupied by the Communist party, but now by swarm of British paratrooperS fighting as infantry and snipers.
 Elas units, firing at extreme range, sent slugs whizZing over the heads of the paratroopers, who fired be- tween their sandbags. The ElaS men were only half mile from the building which is almost in the center of Athens.
 A. mile and a half away great clouds of yellow dust and smoke billowed up from Elas-occupied buildings. Then heavy detopatioc:S were heard, indicating the British had fired their mortars.
 Government quarters hopefully suggested that order would be re- stored completely within the capi- tai tomorrow, when it expects to re- sume electricity service, open streets to traffic and lift the curfew, but I found the Elas forces well-armed, well-munitioned and holding strong defense positions when I visited the portion of Athens under their con- trol yesterday.
 British beaufighters shot up the area 6 few miles south of the Par-
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Jops Admit Ouoke But DenyDomoqe
Ry United Press

The Japanese admitted today that an earthquake, described by British seismologists as even more violent than the 1923 Yckahama disaster that killed almost 100000 persons, rolled up huge tidal waves and loosed landslides yesterday across 150-mile belt of central Japan ex- tending through the teeming Tokyo area.
 After withholding all word on the temblor for more than 24 hours, the Tokyo radio finally broke its silence early this morning to announce that the most populous center of the Jap anese homeland had been hit yes- terday afternoon.
 The Tokyo broadcasts insisted, however, that only slight" damage had been caused and that practical ly none of the capital districts crowded war plants were affected.
 The Japanese Domei News Agency said the earthquake centered in the sea of EnShu about 100 miles south east of Tokyo and reported that a great wall of water rolled inland over the coastal areas of Shizuoka district, flooding some houses"
 Tokyo reports relayed by Berlin said a number of houses crashed down in Shizuoka Province during the quake.
 Farther inland and extending up to the Tokyo-Yokohama district. landslides caved in streets and houses over a wide area, Domei said. The agency carefully refrained from mentioning that Tokyo itself had been damaged although its &C., count indicated strongly that the capital was within range of the shock.
 Domei said the principal districts convulsed by the earthquake "in- cluded" Hamamatsu, Shizuoka. Na- gano and their vicinities. lying in an arc extending around Tokyo from the southwest to west.
 Seismologists at the powerful west Bromwich observatory in Eng land reported, however, that the shock, coming ironically on the third anniversary of the sneak ate tack on Pearl Harbor, was one Of the most violent recorded thus far in the 20th century.
 The west Bromwich instruments recorded 6 tremendous shock that
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OAAn DAOlV UTTEVOIvE V6AnO OLlWAA TROOPS CLOSE IN ON LAPS AT 0RM0C
 Red Blows Buckle Nazi Hungary Lines
One And a Half Mile Wedge Made In Barrier; 10000 Japs Trapped
 In Pocket On Northwestern Leyte
BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press War CorrespOndent)

BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press War CorrespOndent)
 Allied Headquarters, Leyte, December 8. = (UP) = The battle to wipe out the last Japanese defenders of Leyte roared to a climax today with fresh U. s. amphibious troops closing in on the Ormoc pocket after General Mac Arthur'S forces had tended off fierce air attacks and sunk to the last ship a 13- transport reinforcement con- voy carrying an estimated 4,000 Jap troops.
 The American troops were closing in from all sides against the 10000 to 50,000 Japanese still holding out in a semi circular position around the west coast Leyte port of Ormoc.
 The attack was paced by the 77th Division of Guam fame which car- ried out Q surprise landing only three miles south of Ormoc, stream ing ashore virtually without opposi- ton from the startled Japanese outposts. It may already have pen- etrated Ormoc.
 Desperate at the threat to their forces the Japanese sent swar1ns of planes into the attack-after the U. s. troops were ashore. In the ensuing Melee they succeeded in inflicting some damage on the 10O- ship U. s. invasion armada but at 8 cost of 62 planes lost.
 American airmen had 8 field day. Mai. Richard Bong, Poplar, Wis, leading U. s. ace, bagged two more Jap planes to raise his total to S8.
 Simultaneously, the Japanese rushed the 13-transport convoy. crammed with troops, in an attempt to reinforce their fading garrison at Ormoc. U. s. planes caught the convoy offshore, and sank every ship in it.
 We will end it and we don't ln- tend to take too long about it, eli ther. It. Gen. Walter Kreuger. commander of the Sixth Army, told
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-08
BY JAMES NEcGLTNCY

United Press War Correspendsntl
 Paris, December 8. - (UP) = The American Third Army wedged a mile and a half into the Siegfried line belt of pill boxes and drove into the sub urbs of Saarbrucken today as the battle of the Saar basin neared a blazing climax.
 Germ an propagandistS already were preparing the German people for the loss of the great Saar region, which provid e d 1000, 900 tons of coal and 10 per cent of the Reich's iron and steel for the Nazi war machine last year.
 With It. Gen. George s. Patt0n's tanks and infantry eight to 10 miles inside the Saar basin, many coal mnies already had been captured and German front reporter indi- cated that number of it's smelling furnaces and war factories also had been abandoned.
 Nai broadcastS also reported that the American First and Ninth armies on the Cologne plain were re- grouping for imminent large- scale attempts to break across tho Roer river line onto the inmedlate approaches to Dusseldorf and col ogne itself.
 At the southern end of the front. It Gen. Jacob l. Devers sixth army group pounded through tnG eastern tip of France to within sEx- en miles of the Siegfried line and advanced to within four miles of Colmar. heart of the shrinking Ger man pocket on the Alsatlan plaln. Patton,s 90th division broke mo the Siegfried iine to 8 deptn oz a bile and a half in the face ox saE- age resistance in the Pacntenez Buchwald forest four miles nortn uA Saarlautern.
 The Germans laid down wlther- ing blast of artillery and small arms fire from their concrete defensss and even counter-attacked in onA sector with three tanks and l00 in- fantrymen, only to be hurled back PiIlbox after pillbox fell to tns Americans in their relentless ao- l vance.
 Other Third Army D0ughboys cracked into the west bank sllhiirnA of Saarbrucken, on tine east banA of the Saar river, after capturlna Furstenhausen, three and nan miles west of the big industrial cen ter.
 Other columns were within four miles southwest of Saarbrucken as Forbach and si miles south of 1t ab Volkingen. American long-tom ana medium artillery hurled their shells into Saarbrucken for the Eiglatn straight day and fires could be seen burning inside the city, capital ana largest industrial center in the Saar (Continued on Page D
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-08
Canada Okoys King

Ottawa, Dec. = (U.PD -Ine House of Commons gave Prime Min ister Mackenzie King two to one vote of confidence early today that carried a mandate for a more viz orous'' prosecution of the war ef- fort, then weary from two weeks ot debate on the compulsory military conscription issue recessed until January 31.
 The House approved Kings mo- ton for a vote of confidence in his government 143 to 70.
 The governments triumph after weeks of bitter give and take over Kings compulsory conscription or der came early today in a dramatic session of the House.
 King made one of the most pow erful speeches of his career in a bid to save his government. Turning his back on the opposition, King faced his liberal party supporters with im- paSsioned plea to stand behind his challenged ladership.
 King sat by while the house turn ed back by 8 vote of ITO to A an amendment by the opposition criti- cizing the governments conscription policy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-08
Confidence Asked
 By Churchill
By PHIL AULT

Limited Press Staff Correspondent
 London, Dec. B. CUP) .- Prime Minister Winston Churchill brought the entire question of Britain's con- tinental policy to a showdown on the floor of Commons today and de- manded in blunt, fighting speech that the house return vote of con- fldence on the governments inter- vention in Greece, Italy and Bel gium.
 Boldly challenging Commons to uphold his European policies or vote him out of office, Churchill de- clared that the British government will continue its armed support of the Papandreou regime in Greece and of Permier Hubert Pierlot's Bel gian government.
 The house broke into a storm of applause when Churchill hayed the Greek leftists as ''mutineers' against the Allied supreme com mand and proclaimed his intention of putting down the revolt by force of arms.
 "If am to blame for this action, will gladly accept dismissal of the House." he said, but if am not dismissed, make no mistake about it, we shall persist in this policy of clearing Athens and the Athens re- zion of all those who are rebels to the constituted authority in Greece"
 There was little doubt that Churchill would win the vote of con- ldence, and at one point in his speech he silenced a heckling com- ment from Communist member Wil- (Continued on Page Q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-08
B0n1bers Giue IlU0
 Gn,a Super-P Fasting
BY FRED sCHERFF

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Washington, Dec. 8-(UP)-Strik- ing back at bases from which Jap anese bombers have raided Saipan, a "sizeable force" of superfortress- es dropped record loads of bombs On Japanese military installations on TWO Jima today, the War De- partment announced.
 The bombing was done by inStru- ments through heavy clouds and re- suits were not observed. No ene- my opposition by fighters or anti aircraft fire, was encountered and all the superfortresSes returned safely to Saipan, 750 miles to the southeast.
 The Superfortresses carried the largest individual bomb load that have been dropped by the bombers to date in their operations against the Japanese. This was possible because of the comparative short range of the operations.
 The superfortress attack was CO., ordinated with a combined surface unit and Liberator bomber attack. Warship of the Pacific fleet bom- barded shore installations on Two Jima and @ heavy force of Libera- tors from the 7th Army Air Force and fleet air wing one dropped bombs on the volcano island. The Liberators were escorted by long range Lightning Fighter planes.
 Meanwhile the Japanese radio re- ported that B-29's carried out two more nuisance raids on Tokyo.
 Radio Tokyo admitted g. small number" of the giant four -engined raiders appeared over the capital at 2 p. m. (6 a. m. ewt0 yester- day and 2 a. m. today q p. m Thursday, ewt). but asserted Jap- ans "airtight defense" drove them off before they could drop their bombs
 The Japanese made similar claims in first reporting raids Wed- nesday night and early Thursday, but later admitted ct least one fire
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Plans ':Pick-Up Up Passenger Air Service Ln NetO EngLand

Boston, Dec. e.-.-(UP)--All Amert- can Aviation. Inc, the nations only feeder service now in operatino, told Q Civil Aeronautics Board hearing today that they planned Q 'plckup- passenger" air service throughout New England, linking such points as Boston, Springfield, Bangor, Me, Pittsfield. Albany, N. Yp and New York city.
 Testifylng at Che CAB hearing Of i4 companies seeking poAtwar alr expanalon in New York and New England, President Halsey R. nnzs Icy, Of Al American described the proposed route and type of equip ment to be used.
 Ilhisey proposed the following EontHHi-~
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9th EnI0rges Brideeheod

Rome. Dec. 8.-(UP)-British and Polish troops of the Eighth Army had enlarged their bridgehead over the Lamone River southwest ek Faenza today with the capture px Castel Raniero and Olmateilo| within three miles of the town.
 Other units took Pideura, a nlll4 and half west of Castel Ranei1Q' while to the southwest Polish troops beat of Q strong c0untek=af tack in Monte San RlnaIdo.
 Eighth Army patrols, operating north of Ravenna, captured hy Czs madam troops three days aso, ze ported that the Germans wefe ate tempting to establish poaitl1ne iN bogs south of tho shallow inland sea of Wall di Commachio.
 Troops of e Fifth Army Indian division continued to advance sol'A'S of Bologna and occupied eeQnzaI features, including Monte H'1aI previously held hy the enaHaV.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-08

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i St0biIizotion ] UnsfobiIizes
 | Girl Job Seeker

War Manpower Commission. hur- ", hurryl
 A young woman, Q prospective lok holder, wrote Go . local firm In Wa. terbury today in answer to an cd as follows:
 "WhRt are the wages2"
 "What are the hours7"
 "What do you mean by stablllgn- ton plan7 Does that mean l have to 10 out with the boas7"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-08
MANY CHRISTMAS TREES

Augusta, Me, Dec. 8-(UP)-De- spite the abor shortage, Maine woodsmen expect to cut 100000 Christmas trees, near the normal output, according to the Maine de- velopment commission.
 The commission reported sizable shipments of the yuletide decora- tions have been made to New Eng land, southern and midwestern states.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-08
By FREDERICK 0. OTIIMAN

 Limited Press stan COFFespendentl
 Washington, Dec. e.--(uP)-Wars may come and wars may 90, but the Patent once runs on forever, making this world q better place. With no further diliy.dallytng lot lls consider the hot doe with the artificial fever, the handless clock. the ambldetrous water pitcher and the three-legged stepladder.
 Let lis not forget the nose protec. tor for near-slghted bellleeFents. nor the Fnin-proof snail bait for Calls lOrnia's frustrated gardener. All these articles we're patented today and ll they don't make your J moro beautiful. then kgoEelt V. FnEo of efn NIaneI1eo. Zoe instance. ln'I, fA IH vein 6M invention nAlMh4f
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4O,OOO NAzI
 RESERVES ARE
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BY ROBERT MUsEL NUnited Press War COErespondent)

Limited Press War COFrespondent)
 London, December 8. = (UP) - The German battle lines across central and southwestern Hungary buck led under a succession of Red Army blows today and Mos COW dispatches said 10000 newly arrived Nazi reserves were being cut to pieces in a vain effort to stem the twin Russian advance on Buda- pest and the Austrian from tier.
 Soviet and German reports indicated that the battle for Hungary was mounting hourly in fury as both sides threw in more and more men and armor, with the Soviet commanders appar- entIy striking with every thing at their disposal to force a quick decision.
 Berlin reported that the Soviets drove into the area of Kalus, 43 miles south of Budapest between the Danube and Lake Balaton, where extremely bloody hand to hand fighting" was going on.
 A United Press dispatch from Moscow said two fresh German tn- fantry divisions from Italy and a third from the western front had just gone into action south and southwest of Budapest, along with other units drawn from the Nazis' strategic reserves in Germany.
 Their arrival momentarily slowed but failed to halt the pace of the Red Amy drives. Many of the new reserves were overrun by the ad- vancing Soviets beforc they had time to alight from their troop trair and were slaughtered or cap- tured.
 More than 1,400 enemy troops were killed and another 1000 cap- tured by Marshal Feodor I. Tolbuk- hin's Third Ukrainian Army Forces in the Austrian Gate" below Lake Balaton yesterday. Thousands more
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PLANE CRASHES

Allentown. R. l.. Dec, 6 -- tU.p)
 A Navy fighter plane on Q night operatlonai training flight crashed and burned last night in c heavily wooded section about Q mile from here, the Navy disclosed today.
 The pilot was dead when rescue parties reached tho scene. iils name Wae withhold pending notification of kin.
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-02
Commons Told Of
Soviet TriumDhs

London, March 2E(UP)- War
Secretary Sir James Grigg told com.
mons today that the red army ap.
peared within measurable distance"
Of clearing Russia Of the Germans.
1T looks as II the master hand
Of Hitler, which produced the disas-
tor Of Stalingrad Is OF 1t again." he
said In introducing army estimates.
1T Is easy to see that Germany
Is bound TO be defeated In the end.
Sooner or later she must crack, but
at present she Is fighting with the
utmost resolution, and, except pos.
hibly where Hitler's intuitions have
been at work, with cor1sumate skin"
0rigg said that O good part Of the
eastern pattern Of the war stu was
covered, but enough has been re.
vealed TO show that in the end il.
pan must perish before the weight
Of resources that can be brought
against her."