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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-06
ST. ANTKONY'S
 PARISH PLANS NEW EDFICE

Even as the ashes of st. Anthony's church in Litch- field continued to shoulder this morning after yester- days disastrous blaze, tenta- tive plans got under way to erect a new church on the same site on South Street,
 Though visibly grieved by the distraction of the historic edifice, Rev. James F. Egan, the pastor, said this morning that an architect was being sought to lay plans for a beautiful modern church which would be In keeping with the town and street, although he doubted work could be started until after the war.
 Father Egan conferred yesterday with Rt. Rev. Maurice F, McAulttfe, bishop of Hartford, who aocompan- led by his secretary, Rev, John Hayes, watched the fire for two hours in the afternoon,
 This morning, tho First Friday, Masses were said ct the rectory ct 6 and T;S0 Q. m, The Center school auditorium will be utilized for sum day Masses. Clergymen of Liteh- a.tSsa akA.aa akNNelaao uyhtlA AhA Arc was still under way, offered taoi- ities at their places of worship Tor use by St, Anthony's parish mem- berss
 Bremen of four towns fought tho blaze which broke out suddenly in the rear of the church Nt 10 Q. m, yesterday and spread rapidly through the walls to Q blind attic. Damage was estimated at Sl00,o0o The church carried S70,000 in. suranee policy,
 Two firemen were overcome by smoke and heat, several others ex. hausted, and one slightly injured In fighting the blaze, Kenneth Driscol and James Beaumont, both of the Litchfleld company were trented for smoke inhalation by pr. Q. Norton Warner, Jr,, and Bud Jennings of Bantam, who was hit by falling slate from the roof, was treated for Q wrist laoeration. All three returned to duty,
 By 3 p. m. aN that remained of tho church was Q shell, all the walls having collapsed except portion In the front. The one ton bell fell from the church steeple as the flames ate away It's support.
 More than 200 feet away Q gar- age caught fire from Q hot ember, but the blaze was quickly extin- -gtalslea. Pireman were kept busy all afternoon in protecting the reotory and nearby buildings from catch- ing ire.
 Destroyed in the blaze were ir. rcplacahle memorial windows, valu. able paintings, and church equip- ment. Rev. George McAndrew, the curate, and volunteers carried the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-06
Germans Fire Biggest Gun
 Yet At Patton s Positions

meter under cover of darkness to open 8 counter -attack at T:l6 Q. m.
 The counter apparently was undertaken in an effort to ease the pressure of the main American penetration, which still WIS pound- ing into the southwest corner of Driant within 100 yards of the main fortress.
 The Dourhboys were battling the Germans in small arms and hand to hand clashes both inside and out side Driant. U. q. infantry went into the fight after almost l2 hours of of continuous shelling from enemy guns.
 The shells started coming about 6:l0 p. m. yesterday. Between 500 and 500 were fired during the night. Most of them came from batteries concealed in the wods on the west side of the Moselle or from Driant's protective forts on e semi- circle to
 At least two hours after the the northwest.
 counter attacks began, the Ameri- cans were reported holding all the ground they had gained inside the fort area, and the Germans were unable to shake them from their foxholes, captured pillboxes and gun supplements.
 Other U. s. forces pushing into tho parroy forest northeast of Luneviile had cleared the woods with the exception cf the northeast corr ner. The cleanup was accomplished by an infantry flanking movement from the south.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-06
BY ROBERT c. RICHARDS United Press War COrrespOndenl

With U. s. Third Army before Metz, Oct. 6-(UP)-German artil- lery laid down probably the heaviest enemy bombardment of the western campaign on the Third Army front yesterday, last night and today, in- cluding the fire or perhaps the big gest gun yet turned or. It. Gen. George s .Patton's positions.
 The German cannon thundered along the entire Third Amy front by daylight yesterday and during the night. From midnight until 6 a. III. today the artillery fire was all most continuous in the general area os Lezey, 2l miles du eeast of Nancy.
 A "big Bertha" (its size was not SpecifiedD hurled several shells into an American sector beginning about $40 p. m. yesterday. The gun was believed mounted on railroad car.
 There were increasing indications northeast of Nancy that the Ger mans were struggling desperately to stabilize and maintain the front for fighting like the trench warfare of l01e.
 All along that sector the Germans were seen working with picks and shovels, constructing trenche' and duRouts. They were reported to have dug in l3 tanks along a ridge IS miles northeast of Nancy.
 As the battle of Fort Drlant went irfr its fourth day. German tanks and infantry moved through the woods from tho forts northern per-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-06
Rochester Typos Stage WoIkout

Rochester, N. Y, Oct. 6.-(UP)--A dispute yesterday halted publica' ton of the only newspapers here The Democrat Chronicle and The Times Union, morning and afte'- noon papers of the Frank E. Gan- nett group.
 The newspaper issued a statement which said that the men left the composing room of The Democrat Chronicle last night after demanding reinstatement of Q man who was discharged for refusing to obey a foremans order to reset an aover- tisement.
 The walkout affected 177 members of the Rochester Typographical Unions Local No. IS.
 Bertram Kelly, president of the Io- cal, issued statement in which he charged the dispute was a lockout Under the unions interpretation Ol it's agreement with the papers, he said, failure to reinstate the dis- charged worker amounted to similar discharge of all union members, since they had been issued the same instructions by the local.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-06
2,2O0 Planes Roid Berlin

London, Oct. 6-(UP)-More than 2,200 American warplanes made 6 l,4o0-mile round trip into Germany today to raid Berlin and numerous other targets over @ widespread area.
 Formations of l,200 flying fort resses and liberators, accompanied by approximately 1000 fighter planes of the Eighth air force made the raid in favorable weather con- ditions and with good to excellent results, the U. s. strategic air force announced.
 (The German DNB Agency rec ported the bomber formations struck Berlin during the noon hours, at the peak of vehicular and pedestrian traffic)
 In addition to hitting a tank as- Sembly plant, military depot, an ordnance depot and an aircraft en. zine plant in Berlin, the American boTbers struck oil refineries at Har- burg, g miles northwest of Lune- berg on aircraft engine plant and ordnance depot Q tHamburg, and airdromes at Stargard, Neubranden- burg and Wensedorf, near Hamburg.
 It was the first time since Aug. 6 that American bombers 4Iad plunged so deeply into the Reich.
 The eleven targets subjected to pounding from the American bomb- CTS today extended across e 200 mile stretch of northern Germany from Hamburg In the west to Der. lin and stargard, about 100 miles northeast of Berlin, in the east.
 Later in the day squadrons of RAF fighter planes, mostly Spit fires. crossed the straits, some fIy- ing in the direction of Dunkerque and others in Q more easterly di- rection.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-06
Reds Set To Hit Belgrade
BY HENRY SHAPIRO YnAAaI nmaaa GAaAA GnwwAaWauA. |.

\Quhteu EEesS Stukk OVEEespVuuSVtI
 Moscow. Oct. 6.-(UP)-RussiaH troops surged to the north bank fo the Danube river opposite Belgrade on 0 26-mile front today and un'' limbered their siege guns for an impending assault,
 The Army organ Red Star said several crack German SS regiments were routed on the approaches Lo the Danube and their remnants pre- sumably were hurled back into the river, second largest in Europe.
 The Germans were reported to have blown up the bridges across the Danube to Belgrade, however, and 1t was possible that Marshal Tito's Partisans closing in from the south and west may liberate the capital before the Russians can mass sufficient strength to force tho river.
 The Partisans at last reports were only six to 20 miles west and south of Belgrade.
 Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky'S 'S End Ukrainian army reached the Danube opposite Belgrade after an all-night march from the capitals north bank suburb of Pancevo. eight miles away, captured yesterday with the aid of Tito's Partisans.
 The Russians quickly cleared the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-06
Hitler Wants Longer Wor
BY VIRGIL PTNKLEY

United Press War Corresnondent,
 London, Oct. e-(UP)--Adolf 4lt- Ter appears to be attemptlug to pro- long the war into the winter If l944-46 in belief that Germany Win be able to face the Allies noxf spring with fresh forces of posslblv three.quarters of Q million troops.
 This iS the conclusion of several excellent sources who believe tl1a next six weeks may be the moat critical period of the war-tla teaf- ing time of Hitler's hopes for ali- other winter and spring of strueeIc.
 Allied tactics and strategy are designed to counter Hitler bF mounting and releasing guch poWu erful offensives in the next few weeks that German resistance ls swamped despite it's fantlcai char- acter.
 Gen. Dwight D. EIsenhvwusss plan Is to end the European war this year. But if these plans fan short he can be counted upon to up- set the Nazi plans by iaunchlnR a spirited winter campaign, especlal- ly once the Rhine Is crossed.
 Eisenhower's plan now-as for months before D-Day--is to capture the Rihrland, thus tearing out oermany's vital war production facilities.
 Hitler's strategy, as seen hogA embraces these considerations;
 Livery year about i,2O0, 600 Ger. mans reach military age. ie eHee ualties in the autumn battIss eaa
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-06
BY VIRGIL PINKLEY

CUnlted Press War CorrespOndent)
 Supreme Headquarters, AEF, October 5. - (UP) - American troops deepening the Ubach break-through advanced half a mile beyond captured Beggendorf today and the British Second Army extended its Dutch salient to the area of Opheusden, on the south bank of the lower Rhine IS miles west of Arn- hem.
 The German high com mand reported that Allied Paratroopers were dropped in the area of Wageningen, on the north bank of the lower Rhine two miles up stream from Opheusden, re- inforcing a "bridgehead gar rison." The enemy report of violent fighting in the area of Wageningen did not make clear whether an Allied cross ing of the river was implied.
 A second army front dispatch said the Germans counter-attacEed the British salient above Nijmegen a: three places yesterday. The strong est was against the northwest cor ner of the salient in the region ol Opheusden. Showed back 1000 yards, the British struck their own counter. blow and by nightfall yes :. terday and regained all lost ground and restored tho line.
 Ubach Gap Wldened
 Pushing through the widening Ubach gap in the siegfried Line, the armored forces resumed theG advance soon after dawn against savage artillery and anti-tank fire, Latest front reports placed van. guards Q half mile beyond Beg gendorf, Sl miles west of the great industrial center of Cologne on the Rhine.
 United Press War Correspondent Henry T. 0orrell reported from the front that the offensive to tear . decisive hole in Germany's west wall was gradually gaining mos mentum" as 1t went Into It's fifth day.
 To the south. the battle for Fort Driant, key outpost of Metz, dc veloped into Q bitter hand-to-hand struggle Inside and outside the for- tress area after German tanks and infantry launched Q fierce counter attack with massive artillery sup- port against besieging American doughboys.
 Reports from the front said It. Gen. George s. Patton's Srd army
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-06
Catholic Church. Pays Rare
 Tribute To Happy Warrior

small chapel behind the altar to il front of 1t, and 1t is there that Coy Thomas E. Dewey, enroute from thC state capital to make c speech ii Charleston. W. Va, will stop briefly to pay his tribute.
 Before the doors close on the last visitor, the Archbishop's commlt- tee or the laity of the New York Catholic charities, Of which Smith was chairman, will recite the ros- ary for the repose of his soul. The honor guard will keep vigil.
 Funeral services will be the final tribute his city and the nation can pay Smith. They will climax Q week in which the low cnd mighty of- fered prayers for his recovery. As Smith neared death Tuesday night, his old political friend and later opponent, President Roosevelt, sent roses to the sickroom.
 Almost as soon as the news went out that the 70 year old elder state- man of the Democratic party had died at 6:20 Wednesday morning messages of coincidence and trib- utes came in from politicians of every party, from people in all walks of life.
 They came from Senators, from statesmen, from the Pope. and from the little people to whom Al Smith and his brown derby were symbols of New York.
 His funeral tomorrow will also be held at St. patT1ck's Cathedral where Msgr. Joseph ?. Dcnahue, Diocesan Vicar General will con- dutc the solemn Pontifical Mass at li c. m. A part Of tho vast cathed- ral will be reserved for his inti- mates and hls family.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-06
Germons Resume Robot Bombing

London, Oct. 6.--(UP)-GeTmany resumed her robot bomb assault on London and southeast England last night, hurling the one-ton missiles from Heinkel bombers following the loss of launching platforms on the continent.
 It was the first attack since early last Saturday and e number of persons were killed and injured. The bombers struck just before the moon rose and then scurrIed back to their bases as night fighters zoomed to meet them.
 British anti-aircraft guns along the coast put up the heaviest barrage in recent months and destroyed at least two of the robot bombs, one of which crashed and exploded in marshland. The bombs were the same as those which formerly were launched from platforms on the French channel coast.
 Six or seven inhabitants in two isolated cottages on Q country lane were killed when 6 bomb landed between them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-06
John Barry For 

Congressman Joseph E, Talbot, of the Fifth Connecticut Congressional District announced today the fol- lowing appointments to the Mill tary Acadetny at West Point and the Naval Academy at Annapolis, as a result of the recent competitive examinations given to one hundred and ten boys in all parts of the world, all of whom reside within his Congressional District, They will report for admission in June, i9A5,
 For West Point: Principal, Arehi- bald c. Coolidge, Jr,, LakeVille; iSt alternate-Charles Duane Blinn, i7 Terrace brace, New Milford; End al- ternate-Rohert Paul Butler, 2S7 Riverside avenue, Torrington; Srd alternate.-Wilfred D. Miller, S6 Scott avenue, Watertown.
 For Annapolis: Principal--John r, Barry, Jr,, i2b Fiske street, Water bury; ist alternNte--James Nelson Barlow, 900 North street, Water town; ard Rlternate-E Edward P. Freedman, 60 Pine street. Torring. ton.
 Prineipal-William Warren Pat terson, Jrp 8 Central avenue, Naug- atuck; lst alternate Cornelius Y. Day, Q WhittIesey avenue. New Mii- ford; End Nlternate-Stanton Gould, % Cottage street, AnSonia; Srd al- ternate--Joseph Whitman Moody, IT, iS49 Watertown avenue, Water >hllry.
 prineipai-Allen McBrier sperry, Nddletuek Farm, Middlehury; lst alternate-Arthur Hartt Jackson, IT, Washington, Conn; 2nd alter- nate-Conrad F. Reiman, 49 Sey. mour avenue, Derby; 3rd alternate Vincent James Rosa, S6e Clrvular avenue, Waterbury,
 Principal = Malcolm Freeman Burr, ii7 Wayland avenue, Water. bury; lst alternate-Conrad Harold Ollie, Pequahuek Crown of Ply. mouth); And alternate-Theodor Synder, i3 Sanford street, Seymour; Srd alternate-GeorHe J. McKitis, Jr., SA Riverside avenue, Torrington,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-06
.FDR Rejects
 Reds Support On Campaign
BY LYLE c. WILSON

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Washington, Oct. 6-tUP)-Pres. ident Roosevelt has repudiated Com. munist support in his reelection campaign, thereby pointing this country toward more embittered dis pute over the political affiliations of many of his left wing adherents.
 In broadcast directed specific ally to thousands of Democratic party workers gathered in meetings throughout the nation, the Presl- dent last night defied as Hitleresque Nne "loose" the use of the term Communism by labor baiters, higots and some politicians
 But he also repudiated American Communists, who are among his ac- two campaign supporters.
 T have never sought" he said, land do not welcome the support Of any ..erson or group committed to Communism, or FRscism or any other foreign theology which would undermine the American system of government or the American sys- tenn of free competitive enterprise and private property"
 That repudiation came within week of an address in New York citys Madison Square Garden in which Earl Browder, President of the Communist political association, said
 American Communists, even as our great Communist forebears in 1860 and 1864 supported Abraham Lincoln, will in l944 support Frank lin Delano Roosevelt for president of the United States"
 Just where the Communists stand as q result of the Presidents re-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-06
Mercy Truce Ends-17,0OO Foe ropped
BY BOYD D. LEWIS jnlted Presa War COrresnOn


 London, oct, 6-(UP)-The mercy truce of Dunkerque ended at l0 Q. m. today and British and Can adian infantrymen moved in grimly on some 1000 dle-hard Germans trapped In the tiny channel port where four years ago Britain brushed closer to disaster than a anytime In her long history.
 Wave upon wave Of Allied boE,b- CTS thundered in across the channe. to heap their cargoeS of death on the cornered enemy and great field guns massed outside the pori paid Q rolling barrage across the path of the attacking infantrymer
 Front dispatches said the garrr son at Dunkerque was commanded by Q group Of fanatical Nazi officers sworn to hold on at all costs, but 1t remained to be seen whether their troops would fight or sur render after Q token batle" as the Calais garrison did last week.
 The battle for Dunkerque vas suspended at 6 p. n, Tuesday when both sides agreed to cease firing until six a, m. this morning, to per. init the evacuatoin of civilians from the port.
 Since that time, is,o0o French CIV. ilians and several hundred sev- erely wounded Germans, Britons and French underground fightecs had come out of Dunkerque in q strange, pathetic procession, while the opposing troops snatehed a brief rest and prepared for the showdown,
 The Germans asked for and ob tained O four-hour extension of the truce to enable the last stragglers to escape through the Allied lines Part of their final hours reportedly were spent in relaying the nline- fields the NaEls had planted around
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-06
Pearl Horbor Doto Printed
By LYLE 0. WILSON

United Press Stan C0Frespondent)
 Washington, Oct. 6.-(UP)-Sen- ate document No. l59 entitled At tack Upon Pearl Harbor by JApa- nese Armed Forces" is required reading for those taking part in the current cracker barrel discuss sion of the disaster of Dec. !, i94i,
 It is on sale for Ave cents at the Government Printing ofilce, washington. D. O. There has been a run on 1t of late but you might get one if you are interested.
 It contains ammunition for both sides of the argument although it has been challenged as incomplete and it' does not purport to contain all the facts that were available at the time.
 Almost everyone has some knowi- edge of No. i69 which is better known as the Roberts Report" of Jan. 24, lo42. prepared by com- mittee headed by Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts, The other mem. bers were Army or Navy ofiieers, It was spread before the nation in @atail In the month after Pearl
 arbor. Reading it now, nearly SaEee years later, It's most striking bEatement is that naval and mili- tary commanders were warned 10 days before Dec. 2 that hostilitIes were momentarily possible and these warnings indicated war and war only" with Japan. The sub- stance of the political year con- troversy now centering around the Pearl Harbor disaster related to the sufiieiency or lack of sufiiciency of those warnings.
 Take the final and. fateful 10 days
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-06

New York, Oct. e.-(UP)-From East Side and West Side, the little people and the big of his own Side- walks of New York prepared today to pay their final respects to Al Smith, former governor and Demo cratic presidential candidate, who died on Tuesday.
 Young and old, rich and poor, they will visit St. Patrick's cathe- dral today, where, in the Chapel ol Our Lady of New York, the body of the happy warrior" will lie in state until his funeral Mass $ celebrated tomorrow morning.
 This tribute, rarely accorded to the laity and last paid to the ro- lish president and pianist, Ignase Jan Paderewski, will begin ct 2 ,. m., when the governors body, clothed in e dark business suit, will be brought from his home to the cathedral.
 After Q blessing by e member Of the church hierarchy, the casket VIII pe pAhceu unoer tAe sLatuetCS of the city's saint. Three candles will burn at the head and foot. An eight man guard of honor, men from the 60th Regiment of the State Guard and Catholic War Veterans will be posted to handle the crowds
 There will be no flowers, in the church nor at Calvary cemetery tn. following day when the governor Is buried beside the wife who bore hinl five children and from the shock of whose death Smith never Tecov cred.
 Ax e:sO D. M. when the monthly Friday devotional services are com pleted in the main chapel, tho gov- erncr's body win De moved from the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-06
Loiono FoIIs
 ToU. s. Army Near Cologne
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press War COrersDondeu

VuAbeu FTesb war CUEeEApUnuent
 Rome, Oct. g. (Up) American Fifth Army troops advanced through rain and mud over the snow-c covered Apennine Mountains today to cap. ture Loiano, on the main Florence Bologna highway i4 miles south of Bologna, principal city of the Pc Valley.
 Other Americans operating five miles east of the Florence Bologna highway reached 0 point 2,0oo yards south of the town of Monterenzio, i3 miles below Bologna and less than 10 miles from Via Emilia, the great airline highway which is the main escape route for German forces confronting the British Eighth army In the Adriatic sector.
 Tn addition to capturing Loiano, the Americans cleared the enemy from Monztino, two and c half miles west of the Florence Bologna high way.
 British troops near the Adriatic coast, where operations have been begged down by incessant rains which have swollen the Marecchia, Rubicon and other rivers and creeks captured the suburban community of Vignola, just west of Rimini, 1t was announced today. Vignoia was the last dominant ridge held by the Germans in the Rimini sector.
 South African troops attached to the Fifth Army on the western isde of highway 66 repulSed two German counter.attacks in the vicinity of Monte Vigese, l2 miles southwest Of Loiano, and captured the town of Ripoli, seven miles southwest of Lol- (Continuad on Paoa Al