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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
Local Boy Goes West"

Staff Sergeant Victor c. PetrauS- kas, 22-year-old. son of MT. and Mrs. Charles Petrauskas of 157 Con- gress avenue, was killed in action in England October IS, according to B War Department telegram his parents received this morning.
 A graduate of Leavenworth High school, s /Sgt. Petrauskas has been in the service since February 18, 1943, and was stationed in England since the latter part of last June. His last letter to his parents was received day before he went on his last mission.
 A former employe of the Ameri- can Fastener, he was recipient of the Rir Medal for meritorious achievement in sustained combat operations over enemy occupied continental Europe and recently was presented an Oak Leaf Cluster.
 He was an ormored gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress. He received his basiv training at Lowry Field, Colorado, and his advanced train ing in Arizona and Florida.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
Nozis Turned
 Back In ItoIy

Rome, Nov. 1.-(UP)-Americau and Brazilian forces turned back severe German counter-a -attacks alz along the Fifth Army front in northern Italy today from Bolsna' to near the west coast.
 The assaults, which cost the Ger mans heavy losses with zg gain were centered mainly against Anleri- can positions in the MOUAtains ape proximately eight miles south ag Bologna.
 The Germans also made four counter-attackS against the BraziI- ans In the west coastal sector. and the last assault forced the South American troops to withdraw from one small hill feature.
 Other Brazilian units, however, oes cupied three villages, La R0chette Lamadisotto and Pradoscello, neak the Ferchio river and Mount San Quirico to the west.
 In the Adriatic sector, Indian troops of the Eighth army strength ened their hridgehead on the west. bank of the Romeo river and cleared the town of Meidola. six miles south of Forli, a key junction onu the Bologna Rimini highway.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
FDR Mops Strategy

Washington, Nov. 1-(UP)-PreS- ident Roosevelt moved ahead today with plans for his last, fast cam paign round with Gov. Thomas E. Dewey mapping strategy for driy- ing finish against the Republican candidate.
 MT. Roosevelt planned to devote most of the day to putting finish ing touches on the radio address he makes from Washington tomorrow night. He also delivers four speeches Saturday in a brief tour of Connec- ticut and Massachusetts,, and sever al impromptu talks on Monday in a tour of his home territory in the Hudson valley.
 The White House said today that his speech tomorrow night will take IS minutes. It will be part of Q half hour program sponsored by the Democratic National Committee, over the National Broadcasting Go. network from to 9:30 p. m. EWT.
 The Presidents speech Saturday night in Fenway park at Boston was expected to be bare-knuckled blast at Dewey in keeping with his GUS tom of saving his heaviest ammuIii- ton for the closing days of can- paign.
 MT. RooSevelt's advisers were iu- creasingly confident of his victory laEgely because Q fthe reception giv- en him n 4Islts Co New York. penn- sylvania and that with these statel in the fourth term c1lumu, . Dewey gintpEE would hs virtually imposslbls
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
Jops Claim
 island Coup
(By United PreSs)

Tokyo reported today that Jap anese assault troops had landed on American-held Peleliu Island in the southern Palaus, 560 miles east of the Philippines.
 One Domei news agency transmits sion of an Imperial headquarters communique said the landing oc- cured at dawn today. but a re- broadcast of the same communique said the landing had taken place last Saturday. Both transmissions. beamed in English to the United States, were recorded by EGG. A Tokyo radio broadcast also set the date as October 28 and said the assault troops came from "Palau Is- land," which is believed to be the Japanese name for Babelthuap, largest island in the group. The Japanese claimed their troops made the landing on the northern coast of Peleliu after a special tor- pedo assault unit attacked an Amer ican convoy east of the island and sank four transports and heavily damaged two others.
 Peleliu was completely occupied by American Marines and Army troops recently when they wiped out Japanese stragglers from Bloody Nose Ridge on Umurbrogol Noun tain.
 A Tokyo broadcast heard in Lon- don said Japanese troops seized an undesignated American position on Peleliu and reported that violent fighting was taking place on the (Coukfnriad ar, pare A
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
Supply Of
 Smokes Ebbs

Waterburians who feel the cur rent cigaret shortage should con- slider the plight of wholesale tobacco dealers whose business depends on such sales. Local dealers, contacted this morning by The Democrat, unanimously declared they do not know the future picture" which is contingent on many factors. Ofhcials at the Nastri Brothers Go. Inc, tobaccconists, declared they have been "frightfully curtailed as to stock with the supply cuts coming in every mail. Representa- tives of the Nemrows Cash and Carry Tobacco Co, declared they felt the shortage sharply".
 Waterbury tobacconists, however, urged the public not to seek ''over- quantities" of cigarets as such pro- cedure creates a still further short age which eventually boomerangs back on everyone.
 The popular brands of cigarets, supply of which was hit the hard est, still come through and may be bought ct local retail stores on the day the supply arrives. Currently the todd brands" which enjoyed 3 shagn AncEease in purchase due tc Itha Ghurtsgo Qk the ~populArs brands l now are becoming difficult to Ob-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
2, 594 Jap Planes
 Sn1ashedm 3Months
(NEA Telephoto)
BY FRANK TREMAINE TYv.H1aSa Draer VUou Cnrraenon1 1

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 Pearl Harbor, Nov. 1.-(UP)- American carrier planes alone are wrecking Japanese aircraft faster than the enemy can build them, Pa- cific fleet headquarters disclosed in communique announcing the de- struction of 2,594 to 2,846 planes by the 1st and 3rd fleets in the past two months.
 Admiral Chester w. Nimitz re- ported in his communique yester- day that conservative recapi- tulation" showed that planes from the 1st and 3rd fleets had shot down l ,462 enemy aircraft, destroyed an- other 1,132 on the ground and de- stroyed or damaged 252 in the two months beginning August 30.
 American losses for the period. Nilnitz said, totalled approximately 800 carrier planes, but many of the pilots and air crews were res- cued.
 The toll of enemy aircraft did not take into account those shot down by land-based planes of Gen Douglas MacArthur's Southwest Pa cific command or by the various land-based air forces in the south central and North Pacific.
 Allied sources here placed Jap- anese production of all planes al 1,500 a month, but this figure in- cluded passenger and other civilian types as well as war-craft.
 More serious than the loss oi planes to the enemy, however, was that of highly trained air crews even more difficult to replace ade- quately than the aircraft.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
Dewey To Hit At Browder In Address
BY JOHN L. CUTTER United Press Staff CorrespOndent)

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Aboard Dewey Campaign Train, November 1. = (UP) = Governor Thomas E. Dewey swung his presi- dential campaign into New England today prepared to make his bid for Massachusetts 16 electoral votes with three station stops and a radio address challenging the "Subversive elem 2ats" which he says are support ing President RooSevelts fourth term campaign.
 . The Republican presidential can didate scheduled stops at PittSfield, l, Springfield and Worcester on his way across the state.
 He speaks from Boston tonight (NBC. 9:30 p. m., EWTo before a huge Republican rally in Boston Garden. Paul E. Lockwood, secre- tary to the New York governor, said he would discuss "the subverSive elements who now seek otake over the country" and would outline "the principles by which we must live if we are to be free"
 There was no doubt that his tar- gets would be Communist leader Earl Br0wder, chairman Sidney Hillman of the Political Action
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
Russians Race TolDard Budapest; Capitals Early Fall Foreseen
By HENRY SHAPIRO British United Press War
 COrreSuOndentl

Moscow, Nov. 1.-(UP)-Three Russian mobile columns raced to- ward Budapest today in a converg- ing drive from the south, east and northeast. and front dispatches said the fall of the Hungarian capital was matter of days.
 Nothing but hastily erected field Notifications and partly demoral- ized German and Hungarian units stood between Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's mechanized army and cossack divisions and the approaches of Budapest.
 Violent fighting swirled over the Hungarian plain between the Dan- ube and Tisza rivers. The Russian vanguard smashed into Kecksemet, rail junction 43 miles southeast of the capital, while other units swept beyond the embattled stronghold to within 40. miles or less of Buda- pest.
 Close behind their advancing forces, the Russians were moving up great quantities of supplies and equipment for the final assault on Budapest, and field dispatches re- ferred confidently to a quick de- cision.
 Reports from the East PruSsian front said the Red army had estab- lished positions on the outskirts" of InSterburg, big rail hub 40 miles west of the frontier. The last pre- viouS Soviet reports had placed the Russian vanguard in the area of Gumbinnen, IS miles east of Inster- burg.
 Artillery DuelS
 Action in East Prussia for the last few days has been confined to heavy artillery duels and air battles, with
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
BombersLush
 Reich Targets
By United Press)

London, Nov. 1.-UP)-Tne U. s. 9th Air Force hurled more than $50 heavy bombers and fighters into 8 series of widespread attacks on synthetic oil and railway targets in western Germany today in the wake of a powerful RAF night assault that started new fires in the smol- dering city of Cologne.
 About 300 American heavy bomb- CTS centered their fire on the vital German oil refineries at Gelsenkir- chen. Part of the big aerial task force also smashed at railway tar- gets in Hamm. Coblenz and else where in the reich in a continuing effort to choke of the flow of sup- plies to the German armies in the west.
 More than 25O Thunderbolt and Mustang fighters accompanied the bombers on the raids, flying through heavy overcast that curtailed Ger. man fighter opposition and at the same time forced the raiders to bomb by instrument.
 It was the second strike on the Gelsenkirchen refinerieS in the past week and the fifth assault since Oct. 2 on Ham, site of one of the larg- est freight yards in Germany.
 Cologne Blasted
 A force of more than 800 British fkanmk,ns,eA ..i., naae e1-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
Paris Gets Raid Scare
RY LEO S. DISHER

United Press War CorrespOndent)
 Paris, Nov. 1.-(UP)-Paris had Its first daylight air raid scare since its liberation today and a series of blasts in an outlying dis trict splattered debris on a spot where Gen. Charles De Gaulle had stood 20 minutes earlier during a ceremony for those killed while re- sisting the Nazis.
 First reports of the explosions started of speculation that they rep resented an attempt on the life of De Gaulle, but French sources said that if so it was a pretty clumsy one"
 (The Paris dispatch lacked any tie-in between the air alarms and the explosions)
 The French press agency said enemy planes dropped some bombs in the Paris area, killing two per- sons, but the United States Ninth Air Force defense command report CT no raiders reached the Metropoli- tan areRs
 Hours after the all-clear sounded, the situation still was confused.
 The explosions near the scene of De Gaulle's appearance began in a neighboring cemetery. Eyewitnesses
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
SUPERF0RTS RAID TOKYO, YOKOHAMA ! Allies Land On Island Of WaIcheren; Torpedo Boats, Planes Blockade Leyte
Scale Of Attacks Reported By
 Japanese Is Not Made Clear

A force of American B-z9 SuperfOrtresses raidcd Tokyo and the adjoining seaport city of Yokohama today, radio Tokyo announced, in the first strike at the Japan csc capital since the carTieE- based DOOIittIe attack more than 2 1-2 years ago.
 There was no immediatA Allied confirmation of tho enemy announcement and confused accounts broadcast by Tokyo did not make clear the scale of the raid.
 The first enemy version said several" of the giant SuperfortreSseS flew over Tokyo shortly after 1 p. n. (nidnight, EWT0 today touching off air raid alarms throughout the sprawling city. Later Tokyo said only one B-29 appeared over the city and that it was driven off before it could cause an damage.
 Still later, a third broadcast to southeast Asia reverted to the orr iginal story that several" bomberh took part in the raid. flying at 2 great altitude over Yokohaua and the Kanto district in the s0uth- eastern section of Tokyo.
 The late enemy versions of the raid did not repeat their earlier claims that a number of the super~ fortreSseS were shot down, but ass serted that all were driven of 1 without having achieVed theiE objective" 1 Marianass Base
 One Tokyo broadcast said ts1e Americans were passing superf0E- tresSeS in the MarianaS.
 "As indicated by the B-20 raid on Tokyo" it said, ''the base that the enemy had rushed in preparing in the Marianas in order to carry out strategical bombing attacks has been completed to the extent that B-29 planes are able to take of.
 Moreover it is certain that B. 29 planes have advanced as far as the Marianas Islands. For that reason we must exercise strict eIir- veillance against enemy activities In the future"
 It said several tens of large type planes' attacked Truk from the direction of the Marianas Monday and it was almost certain that these planes were B-29'S.s
 The Superfortress was believed t0 have come from an American basa in the Marianas, Tokyo said. pre- sumably Saipan 1.500 miles to tlla south.
 First accounts by Japanese sta@ tions. headed by the United Press in San Francisco, said the 1oray | fCorfiuY1o5 m f9aCn Al
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
3 AIorrn Fire Does Greet Damage

Worcester, Mass, Nov. 1-CUP)- A three-alarm fire swept buildings occupied by the Misco Springs Water Go. on the East Side today, running huge stocks of liquor and causing damage which firemen said might exceed $2O0, 900.
 The blaze was controlled only after two-hour battle in which g pieces of apparatus were l.sed.
 Scene of the fire was a rambling brick structure comprising four, three and tWo-story buildings form eEly used by a packing company. Grease residue caused the rapid spread of the flames. fire ofklciala |aaid.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
Gorose Mon Fights OPA

Boston, Nov. 1--(UP)--A Belmont garage owner who had been ordered by the OPA to refrain from selling gasoline for the du. ..tion, today filed suit in U. s. District court challenging the legality of OPA stls- pension orders a4ld asking for per- manent injunction against OPA of ficials from interfering with him in conducting his business.
 The suit will be heard Monday.
 Joseph Di MeliR charged that 1t was unconstitutional without due process of law to deprive hi moi property which he values at $40.0O0, and the right to make a living.
 Last June an OPA Eearing com- missioner found after a hearing that Di Melia accepted invalid and coun- terfeit gasoline coupons. Washington OPA authorities upheld the finding.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
Quods Born In Penno.

Philadelphia, Nov. 1 = (U.P9 = Quadruplets, three girls and boy, were born today to Mrs. Joseph Cir minello. 30, Upper Darby, Pa. at the Lying-In Hospital.
 The babies were delivered by Caesarian section, probably the first in the history of quadruplet births. performed by Dr. John c. Ullery of the hospital staff.
 The hospital reported the eondi- ton of Mrs. Cirminello and the babies as good.
 The babies were not weighed but physicians estimated that each weighed between three and 3 S-4 pounds. Their birth was six weeks premature.
 Dr. Ullery, her personal physician, said that the delivery was by con- tinual spinal anesthesia, and that Mrs. Cirminello was conscious but had no pain during the birth: Her eyes were bandaged, and she did not know that she was gtving birth tO four children. The delivery, at 1l:12 a. m, took approximately fFInrrfsYrlsa.l sa, pnma e6
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
WRECK MANY. CRAFT TRYING
 TO AID ENEMY
BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON fTT,,a4.s Du. rx r,>-u,

BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press War Correspondent
 Allied Headquarters, Philip pines, November 1. - (UP) = American torpedo boats and fighter planes clamped a tight air-Sea blockade on the west coast of Leyte today, wrecking Japanese barges and luggers attempting to run achievements across the Camotes Sea from Cebu for a last stand against American invasion forces.
 (Radio Algiers said the Japanese have declared mar tial law in Manila.)
 Carrier planes destroyed or damaged 20 barges at Or1noc, the enemy's last re- maining stronghold on Leyte, yesterday, while torpedo boats blasted two 1uggerS to the bottom of Ormoc Bay and also sank two lighters in Suriago Strait off the south coast of Leyte.
 It is at Ormoc, west coast and air base, that the Japanese are ex- pected to make their final stand on Leyte in an attempt to delay the American liberation of the Philip pines.
 Gen. Douglas MacArthur reported his ground forces were continuing their advance up the Leyte valley unchecked. Units of the 24th divi- sion driving toward a junction with ! the 1st Cavalry Corps on the north coast were only eight miles below the port of Carigara.
 On the Central sector, 24th Corps patrols probed westward along mountain trails crossing the waist of the island. Enemy units near Dagami, 10 miles inland, were sur- rounded and destroyed, while the mopup of Japanese positions in the caves of Catmon Hill was nearing completion.
 Behind the front lines," MacAr- thur said, "our forces are consoli- (C0ntinlIed on Page A
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
BY J. EDWARD MURRAY Limited Press War Correspondent)

BY J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press War Correspondent)
 Paris, November L. (UP) - Berlin reported that Allied AmphibiouS Forces swarmed ashore today on the south coast of Walcheren Island, key to the Schelde Estuary and last barrier to reopening of the big port of Antwerp to Allied ships waiting to pour supplies into western Europe for a grand offensive against Germany.
 The troops began landing early this morning near Flushing, at the southern tip of Walcheren, after an all night Allied artillery bom- bafdment from the BreSkens area three miles across the entrance to the Schelde estuary, the German Trans ocean Agency said .as
 The German nigh command said violent fighting for the city and port of Flushing was going on after the leanding, which was supported by naval forces.
 The reported landing came while Canadian list Army forces six miles northeast of Flushing were inching across the 150-foot-wide causeway from South Beveland to within 50 yards of the eastern coast of Wall cheren against pointblank German artillery and enfilading machine gun fire.
 Twin Advance
 On the mainland, America and Polish troops carried the southwest Holland offensive into its final stages with twin advances across the Mark river and canal, last na- tural defense barrier below the Hol- land Deep six miles to the north.
 American forces fighting with the Canadian 1st Army plunged across the Mark river north of Oudenbosch and carved out a 1,l00-yard-wide
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
By DARRELL BERRIGAN

United Press War Correspondent
 Following the recall of General Joseph w. Stilwell, American, Bri- tish and Chinese troops have open ed drive which may lead eventual ly to the reoccupation of all Burma.
 The drive, planned before Stilwell left the CBI theater, is under the overall command of Lord Louis Mountbatten.
 Stilwell's aides who planned the operation appear to have as their initial objective the clearing of a road to China. Opening of the cam- paign which coincided with the re- turn of dry weather after the mon- soon season was announced yester- day by Mountbatten's headquarters in Randy.
 Some India observers. believe the campaign may develop into a major attempt to regain the whole of the British colony.
 The Allied push southward to- ward Katha, on the west side of the Iriawaddy river, and Bhamo on the east side, will, if successful drive the Japanese far to the south. This would permit a further offensive
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
ISLAND IS KEY TO ESTUARY
 OF SCHELDE
BULLETIN

With 21st Army Group, Holland, November l. (UP) = British troops landed on the south and west coast of Walcheren Island today and made good progress in the first phase of the anphibiOus attacks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
Tanks, Sinos Start Drive
 Against Jops

EDITORS NOTE: The author of the following dispatch recently returned to New York on leave after covering all phases of the Far Eastern campaign. He accom- panied General Joseph w. Stilwell on his retreat from Burma In 1922. The dispatch has been approved by censorship authorities in Wash ington.
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Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1944-06-03

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'posejati to ponalad izcrpano zen-
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cello "a moskega. In MISC Ii go
vorili o tenn, da bi Judita Sc: ho-
Idila k predpoldanskemu pouku,
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tisto. Malo pretezko je "a Judi
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Judita? Pravi, da ne bi mogla
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Judita? Dekle, da malo takih,
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sala ocetovega napada.
(Nadaljeyanje)