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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-07
By J. EDWARD MURRAY

United Press War Correspondent
 Paris, Nov. 7-(UP)-American and German armored forces were Slugging it out in the streets of tiny Vossenack, 28 miles southwest of Cologne, today in a blazing sec saw preliminary to the winter bat tie of the Rhineland.
 To the northwest, British, Can- adian, American and Polish forces virtually ended up the battle of southwest Holland with capture of the last two enemy strongholds on Walcheren island and liquidation of one of the last two enemy pockets south of the Holland Deep.
 British Commandos on Walcheren captured the Zealand provincial capital of Middelburg along with Veere, three miles to the northeast. Other British forces seized Will lemstadt, on the south bank of the Holland Deep 16 miles south of Rotterdam, while American troops drove into Moerdijk, only remaining enemy pocket south of the deep.
 The British were slogging through flooded Swamps in northwest Wal cheren to complete the mop-up of the island, whose occupation opened the Schelde approaches to Antwerp to Allied mineSweeperS. Some 1000 German prisoners. already have been rounded up on Walcheren and ad- joining Beveland.
 German rear guards holding out against American troops in the streets of Moeroipk were doomed to death or capture. They already had blown up the 14-span railway and highway bridge to the north bank of the Holland Deep and American artillery and planes were sweeping the water barrier to smash any at tempt to cross by barge.
 Most of the 10000 Germans south of the Maas and Holland Deep at the start of the Fist Army group offensive three weeks ago escaped
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StoIin s Stand PIeoses Allies
BY M. S. HANDLER.

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Moscow, Nov. T. (UP) = Diplo- matic circles today attached con- siderable significance to the fact that Marshal Stalin for the first time since the start of the war has publicly classed Japan as an aggres- Sor nation.
 How the Soviet people and the Red Army have always felt about Japan is nobody's secret.
 However, until his speech on the eve of the anniversary of the Bol- shevik revolution Stalin had not discussed Japan in such frank terms.
 He flatly characterized Japan as an aggressor state in last nights address, putting them in the same class with Germany and declaring that Japanese successes at Pearl Harbor, Singapore and elsewhere in the Pacific were similar to Ger manys successes in the first year of war in the Soviet Ukraine and other regions overrun in the first drive of the NaZi armies.
 The Soviet press today carried little besides the Stalin speech and other anniversary news.
 Congratulations
 Congratulatory messages to Stalin from leaders of the United Nations were displayed, including one from Prime Minister Churchill. The lack of congratulations from Churchill on the past two anniver- saries had caused considerable com
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29s Fly Over 2 Jop Cities
BY UNITED PRESS

Tokyo said that two B-29 super fortresses flew oyer the main Jap aneSe home island of Hanshu today for more than an hour. presumably on reconnaissance in preparation for bombing attacks on Tokyo and other key targets.
 A German DNB dispatch said the giant planes flew over Tokyo itself at. noon.
 The two superfortresses, penetrat- ed the Kanto area-eastern Honshu, including Tokyo-about 1 p. :. Tokyo time and filed soCthward" an hour later, a Japanese home broad cast recorded by EGG monitors said.
 It was the third time in a week that the Japanese have reported Superfortresses over the Kanto area of Honshu. Neither today nor , on the previously reportetd flights last Wednesday and Sunday. however. did the Japanese claim to have shot down any of the great bombers.
 Japanese home hroadcasts have been warning the inhabitants of Honshu that the reconnaissance flights presage a largescale air of- fensiye against Tokyo and indus trial areas on the island.
 Tokyo also reported that 70 Sup- erfortreSses raided Two island in the Volcano group Sunday, while AtlSEi tc&n &ihk4aSokS attacked Haha and Chichi Islands in the Bonins yesterday. The Bonins lie SIS miles southeast of Tokyo, and the Volcano group is directly south of the Bon ins.
 The Superfortresses flew to Hon.. shu and the VolcanoS from air bases in the Marianas, Tokyo said, Al- most simultaneously, 8 Japanese imperial headquarters communique said Japanese aircraft had attacked American air bases in the group at dawn today. ts
 Twenty or more American planes were set aflre and destroyed at Sai- pan, the communique said, and other damage was inflicted on Tin ian airf1eld. III
 Tokyo cited the, 40-plane Super fortress raid on Two as evidence that Japan must be on rigid guard hereafter"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-07
16,879 Appear At. Polls Up To 1P. M.; Late Rush Forecast

Although early press-time national voting trends indi- cated a h e avy polling throughout the country, Waterbury's approximate to- tai vote cast at l p. m. was lighter than four years ago by 6,199 and heavier than during last years city cleo ton by 4,512, for the same period.
 An approximate total vote of l6,879 was recorded here at l p. m. at the city's S2 polling places.
 Generally speaking, the city's voting trend as to num- bers was heavy during the earlier hours of the morning and during the lunch" per iod and was sporadic during the hours between those per iods. Voting was orderly with no infractionS reported.
 Official voting registration released yesterday to The Democrat was given as 51 ,O70 although conflicting totals have been registered. It is expected that 10000 to 42,- 900 would vote with the pos sibility that this would he lowered.
 A total of 2,522 absentee ballots were registered here at noon today 1 of which i,4B3 were soldier nAll1 and the remainder (539) civilian l ballots.
 Enthusiasm over the election was evident but was of a subdued, re- strained nature possibly because Ok the presence of the war situation as well as the intense partisan .feel- ing held by many of the city's vot- CTS on personalities as well as Continued on Page A
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Conn. Is l Of 6 Key States
By PAUL HARRISON

United Press Staff Correspondent
 New York, Nov. 7-UP0 Voters in 31 states today were deciding ma jor political party strength in state governments which have been edg- ing toward Repulicanismb in recent elections.
 Last ditch battles, which may de- termine the G. O. P.'s state prowess for the next two years, were under way in Massachusetts, Connecticut, North Dakota, Idaho, Colorado and Utah.
 Less doubtful, but by no means assured early today, were the re- suits of elections in Indiana, Wash ington and Tennessee.
 Republicans, with holdover gov- ernors in New York, New Jersey. Maine (elected in September) Pennsylvania, Kentucky, California, and Oregon, were virtually certain victories in Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Mon- tana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Vermont and Wiscon- sin.
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Conn. Voters Throng Polls To Ballot
By WILLIAM D. CLARK United Press Staff Correspondent

Hartford, Conn, Nov. 7-(UP)-A before-noon check showed that with few exceptions, the voting in todays elections was heavier than four years ago and the headquar- ters of both major parties were cer- tain that at least 90 per cent of the estimated 954,274 registered would cast their ballots before closing time.
 Only at New Haven was g light turnout reported, and Democratic leader John Golden attributed this to the extended voting hours which he believed would bring rush toward the end of the day.
 Golden said that up to II a. m, the voting was about 1000 lighter than in 1940, but this could not be taken as an indication it would con- tinue day-long.
 Democratic State Chairman Adri- an Maher said he had received re- ports from Hartford, Bridgeport. Torrington, and Naugatuck Valley cities, which showed ''heavy to very heavy ba1loting. At West Hart ford, Republican stae headquarters reported that some precincts had reported two-thirds of the vote cast during the first five hours theh polls were open.
 The heavily indudstralized cities of Bridgeport, Hartford, Waterbury Meriden, Torrington, an New Lon- don, all were expected to turn irl a vote far In excess of four years ago, and the biggest registration increases were reported in those communities.
 A change of factory shifts at 5 p. m, and the, closing of most bus mess offices between 4 and 5 p. m., was expected to add another heavy load at the polls.
 Big Increase
 A nearly final compilation, based on returns to the secretary of states office, showed that 954, ,274 persons were eligible to cast their ballots-an increase of 82,455 since the last presidential election. This total included 34,770 service ballots of the 71,921 mailed to all parts of the world.
 The polls opened at a. m., and a quick survey showed a heavy turn
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New Motive F or
 Murder Is Advanced

His overwhelming desire to become regular patrolman led him to slay the woman who threatened to stand in his way, Supernumerary Anthony Zukauskas, confessed killer of Mrs. Stephanie Plungis, is reliably re- ported to have told detectives in- vestigating the case.
 Zukauskas, the Democrat learned on unquestiona authority today was slated to have been made g regular at the next meeting of the police board.
 Mrs. Plungis, zukauskas is re- ported to have said in his confession Saturday, had attempted to keep him from ending their association by threatening to keep him from be- ing made 8 regular by exposing their relationship.
 Zukauskas told police that he had been avoiding Mrs. Plungis for three weeks prior to the murder. One source stated that Mrs. PlungiS would follow Zukauskas to his Bald win street beat in her car and tail him on his rounds. She is reported to have told him on one such oc- casion, You'll never be a copy. I'll see to that"
 At variance with these reports is
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Tough Task
 Faces House Next 2 Years
BY JOSEPH L. .MYLER

l
 United Press Staff Correspondent
 New York, Nov. 7-(UP)-Todayis election determines which majol party will organize the House oi Representatives and assume re- sponsibility for vital tax and appro- prations legislation during the next two fateful years.
 Whether the war is cleaned up on both sides of the world in that time, or whether the next election will find the Pacific war still to be won, the new House is certain to face great and difficult decisions in those fields of legislation which it only can initiate-taxation and ap- populations.
 Republicans claim that when the votes are counted they will have won a majority of House seats they have contended all along that this year they had their best chance since the Hoover administration of of capturing House control. Demo- crats dispute this claim.
 Neither big party now has a maj ority in the House. To achieve a bare majority, one of them must win at least 218 of the 435 seats. The present lineup is 214 Demo- crats, PIP Republicans and four minority party members, with five vacancies.
 Indications
 The pre-polling indications were that many of the congressional rac- es would be close. Only 60 candi-
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N. E. Electors Out In Force

Boston, Nov. 2 - (UP.) = New England voters-possibly 100000 strong = went to. the polls today in what was expected to be one of the closest presidential elections the six state region ever has seen.
 Leaders of both major parties pre- dicted the heaviest balloting in many years. The CIO Political Ac- tion Committee, active throughout New England and especially in war busy industrial cities, believed its efforts would add materially to the vote volume.
 About S.74s,SOO votes were cast in l940.
 In southern New England, the weather outlook generally was good with clear or partly cloudy and cold weather anticipated. However, in the northern states of Maine. New Hampshire and Vermont layer of ewly-fallen snow ranging from eight to IA inches WaS expected to cut down the normally Republican rural vote.
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was transferred to Camp shelby, Mississippi, thence to Camp Polk, Louisiana. He went overseas on August 20 and was with the Fifth Army Field Artillery at the invas- ion of Anzio.
 Before joining the colors he was employed at the Cooper Oven Thermometer Company in Pequa- buck.
 In addition to his wife he is slir- vived by his parents, MT. and Mrs. Joseph Jarosz: two brothers, Cor poral Stanley in Southern France. and Private Frank in Hawaii: and 8 sister, Mrs. Stella Grabelski, all of Terryville.
 A mass of requiem will be cele- brated at st. Francis church. Naugatuck. Monday morning, No- vembeK l3. at c o'clock
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Jews Blamed EAs Killers Of Lord Moyne
By WALTER COLLINS

United Press Staff CorrespOndent)
 Cairo, Nov. 7-(UP)-Jewish ex- tremists critical of Britain's policy in Palestine were blamed today for the assassination of Lord Moyne British resident minister to the Middle East.
 (Prime Minister Churchill told commons in London that the Brit ish government had "as yet received no official information which fixes authorship of the crime or gives a clue to its motive" He added that very searching inquiries will 'be made into the origin and association of these strangers (the aSsaSsinS) to Egypt".)
 Moyne died at a British military hospital at 6:49 p. m. yesterday several hours after two youths shot him in the neck, chest and abdo- men as he stepped into his automo- bile in front of his home in Cairo.
 The two assailants were mobbed, stripped naked and nearly lynched by enraged crowds at the scene. Rescued by police, they sullenly re- fused to answer questions put to them by high British and Egyptian officials.
 Gen. Sir Bernard Paget. British commander in the Middle East, re- ferred to them as Jewish assassins', in brief statement eulogizing Moyne as a great public servant"
 Paget's- comment indicated the youths were members of the Stern ist group which has declared open warfare against the British in an attempt to force designation of Pal. estine as Jewish national state.
 Led by Abraham Stern, a Polish- born 30-year-old school teacher, the Sternists pledged their lives to the salvation of Jewry through the ex5
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EARLY WATERBURY VOTE RUNS ''L|cHT' Planes Cause Havoc Tn Manila Area; Reds Kill, Capture $500, ,000 Germans
War Workers Jam
 Polls M1 Big Cities

The first 50 votes counted in Pratt City, Kan, traditionally a Repub- lican stronghold, gave Dewey 30, Roosevelt 27.
 Despite scattered rains in the west, early voting was exceptionally heavy in Colorado and Utah.
 Kansas City was having it's big gest rush to the polls in many years and some precincts were half voted by g a. m. (CWT. The total was expected to be far ahead of 1940.
 Expectations
 Several Texas cities, including Fort Worth, San Antonio, Dallas Houston, Longview and Wichita Falls, were expected to set new vot- ing records.
 Oklahoma war workers rushed to the polls early and in mid-morning the vote was running ahead of 1940 Indianapolis reported light voting in the industrial sections but near by rural areas, predominantly Re- publican were piling up an unpre-
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DESTROY 191 JAP PLANES,
 EIGHT SHIPS
BY FRANK TRENAINE

BY FRANK TREMAINE United Press War COrrespOndent)
 Pearl Harbor, November 2 = (UP) = The liberation of Leyte neared it's fine phase today while American carrier planes, striking at the ulti- mate American objective in the Philippines, reported the destruction of 191 Japanese planes and blasting of eight or more ships in raids on the Manila area.
 A submarine chaser was sunk, a heavy cruiser prob ably sunk and a light cruiser, three deStroyers and "sev- eral" = two or more = cargo ships damaged by aircraft of the 3rd fleet in or near Ma nila Bay Saturday, Pacific Fle ct headquarters an nounced in a communique.
 TAnk-paced American invasion forces on Leyte, $50 miles south of Manila were reported sweeping aside light enemy opposition in con- verging advances within 16 miles north and II miles south of Ormoc, last Japanese stronghold on the island:
 "Our advance toward Ormoc con- tit1ues unchecked Gen. Douglas MacArthIir reported in his daily communique from his headquarters on Leyte.
 The anticipated clash with the main Japanese force north of Or n1oc failed to develop. The Japan csc were counter attacking only feebly before resuming their re- treat, but 1t was possible they have prepared for a stand nearer Ormoc to cover an evacuation attempt.
 Admiral Chester w. Nimitz, in announcing the carrier based raid on the Minali area. said preliminary reports showed that much damage" was done in Manila harbor and at live airfieldS in the vicinity.
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TOTAL FIGURES FOR EAST FRONT ARE RELEASED
BY HENRY SHAPIRO United Press War CorrespOndent)

United Press War Correspondent)
 Moscow, November 2. .- (UP) - Victorious Soviet Armies have killed or cap tured 8,39O,O00 Germ a n troops on the eastern front, Marshal Josef Stalin dis closed today as his forces en- gagged the enemy in a great tank battle outside Budapest, last Nazi satellite capital in Europe.
 (Berlin reported that the Russians were bringing up strong motorized formations for a final assault on Buda- pest, and claimed that other Soviet forces had made two attempts to cross the Danube in an effort to swing around the rear of the capital.)
 Stalin, in an Order of the Day observing the 27th anniversary of the Red Revolution, said the Ger man-violated frontier had been re- stored for its entire length from the Black Sea to the Barents Sea, and triumphantly declared:
 "Our aim now is to smash Hitler ite Germany by the crushing pres sure of the Allied nations"
 Stalin disclosed that the two sum- mer offensives which carried Soviet troops into East Prussia, pushed the Germans back to Warsaw and nber- ated Romania and Bulgaria, cos the Germans 790,000 killed or cap- tured.
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The President Votes Ticket
By MERRIMAN SMITH .sk~l m- Ck-n Cowu~cunwnln . n

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Hyde Park, N. Y, Nov. T - U.P0 Tree Grower" Franklin D. Roose- welt voted for Franklin D. Roose- welt for president today for the fourth time.
 The President cast his vote in hte old Hyde Park Town Hall where he made his first political speech in 1910 when he was young lawyer running for the New York State Legislature.
 MT. Roosevelt drove from his home with his family in an open touring car, reached the hall at 1920 p. m, visiting en route with the children of Hyde Park elemen- tary school.
 Tonight the President will settle down in the library of his home and watch election returns fed into his
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Political Odds Ends

tion in the nations history. The first was conducted during the Civil War and resulted in the reelection of Lincoln. If you think this was 2 bitter campaign, review the records of the Civil War contest. It was 1n the days previous to many of the nations libel laws and full advaIl@ tage was taken by both sides.
 Odds were that 40,OO0 to 42,5O0 vote would be registered here today among the record high registration of 5l ,079. Absence of men in service accounts for the lapse in vote, gem orally. Predictions as to how Roose- welt would carry Waterbury ranged from 4,50O to 12,000. Personally we think there is a strong possibility t won't be much over 4,0O0.
 In case you and the rest of the nations voters don't know just what officials you are voting for today here they are; President and vice president; 36 United States sera- tors; 432 members of the House o9 representatives; 31 governors; un~ counted thousands of state and i0- cal officials.
 Connecticut is one of the most ''on- again of -again" states in the nation. relative to its voting. For ex- ample: in 1886 Wilbur l.. Gross (Dl was elected to his fourth term as governor, but in 1888 Baldwin (R9 won his first gubernatorial term. Then in 1940 Hurley (D) won his first term and in 1942. Baldwin re- peated his first victory defeating Hurley and now Hurley is running against Baldwin again. Shall we re- peat that?
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BY LYLE c. WILSON

United Press Staff COrreSpOndent)
 New York, Nov. 7.-(UP)-Some of the heaviest voting in history. despite the absence of men in the armed forces, was reported today from industrial centers of this na- ton which is choosing between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Thomas E. Dewey in the first wartime preSi- dential election since 1864.
 War workers crowded the polls in New York, Chicago, Detroit, Phila- deiphia, Nashville, Houston, Dallas and other cities when the poles or as soon as the voting places opened. Fair weather over most of the country also was expected to bring out a strong rural vote.
 First returns came from the rural NutbruSh precinct of Vance county, North Carolina, where the q regis tered voters cast their ballots un- animously for President Roosevelt, and from Masphee, Mass, where the first block of votes counted gave Dewey 27 and Roosevelt g.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-07
BY JOHN L. CUTTER

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Albany N. Y., Nov. 7-(UP)-Gov. Thomas E. Dewey submitted his candidacy for presidency of the United States to the nations voters today with an appeal for Repub- lican victory ito shorten the war" and lay the ground work for postwar peace and prosperity.
 That was. the theme of his final message closing the first wartime political campaign in America since civil strife divided the North against the Solth 1864. V,
 The COP candidate asked that every qualified voter in the nati..s participate in today's election. He proposed to suit his own words to action by travelling from Albany to New York City. where he has been a registered Republican for 2i years.
 His schedule provided that, ac- companied ty his wife and a host of reporters, he leave Albany by special train at .9:20 a. rn., arrive. at the Grand. Central Station in New York city at 12:10 p. n., and pro- ceed directly to his polling place at 1O0 East 18th Street to cast his vote before retiring to his suite at the ffsontinneri nn Fsare sA
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Killed In Front Line

Private first class, John Jarosz, 31, of 5 Freeman Lane, Naugatuck, died in action in France, August IS, the same day he was reported missing, according to an official War Department telegram his wife, Constance, received last evening.
 He entered the service May 20, 1941, and was first assigned to Camp Bowie, Texas. From there he
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-07
Dewey Costs Vote In N. Y.

New York, Nov. T. (UP) -Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, Republican pres ident candidate, arrived at 12:S0 p. n. today from Albany to cast his vote and receive the election returns.
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Fierce Fight Raging In Vossenock
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With U. S. Forces in Germany, Nov. 7-UP)-American and German forces battled all day in the streets of Vossenack today, and late in the day each side held 8 part of the village.
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