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Evening star., 1944-05-12
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FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1914.
AMERICAN.
Results Yesterday.
Washington, 4; st. Louis, 8 (nisht).
New York, 5; Detroit, 2.
Cleveland, Z; Boston, 6.
Chicago, 4; Philadelphia, Q l16 tnninRs)
Evening star., 1944-05-12
NATIONAL.
Results YESTERDAY.
Cincinnati. q: New York, 3.
Chicago, 3; Philadelphia. 3.
Boston, T; Pittsburgh, Q.
Brooklyn .: at I,ouis. I
Standing of Cli
Games Today.

Games Today. Games Tomorrow.
Phila. at Chicago. Phila. at Chicago.
Boston at Pitts. Boston at Pitts
New York at Cinci New York at Cinci.
Bkl: ct ST. L. lp.m.l Bklyn. at st. Louis.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19

been footed and burned by the Elas, among them the homes of the police chief and a brigade commander. King George of Greece was re- ported to have messaged Premier George Papanderou objcting to any establishment of a regency on the grounds that such move would be a concession to the Elas armed wing of the Fam National Liberation front.
 he king was said to have asked all political parties to make joint declaration denouncing the Elas hostilities as rebellion of the minority.
 In addition to the prisoners, 123 of 254 guards and gendarmerie were missing in the Averon prison in- cident. The prison doors were opened to save the prisoners after the Elas set fire to the buildinfs, officials said.
 British forces were revealed tcI have withdrawn from Ardittos hill in Souther Athens because their positions were exposed. Elas uniti were believed to occupy the far slope of the hill.
 Airmen over RAF headquarters at Kifissia, northeast of Athens, saiG the garrison was holding out against; 600 ElaS troops, and 8 British rescue column was nearign the scene.
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the prisoner sang idiotic Nazi songs two overseers were ordered to saw down the tree. When the frightened Viennese howled with fear more bullets flew near him to force him to resume his song When the tree crashed he was killed instantly.
 Of the many crematoriuns used by the Na2is to exterminate subject peoples, one about which little has be unpublished is at Mauthausen One ghoulish incident occurred here when bodies were being carted into the furnaces. One victim, who had only tainted, sat up and cried out The lad servicing the furnace want ed to halt the cart and either kill or save the living man. The Ss official in charge shouted that the man must be dead because his death had been recorded in the of- flee. Therefore there could be nc restoration. The living man was flung into the furnace.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19
Fight To Stem Big
 Counter Offensive
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tons right wing.
 It. Gen. Alexander M. Patch'S Seventh Army was reported edging deeper into the foref1eld of the Sieg- fried Line in the Rhenish Palati- nate and storIning the Qualifications of Bitche in the French border zone.
 Both Germany and the Allies maintained news blackouts over the battle in Belgium and Luxembough. There were no specific locations beyond the disclosure last night that German tank destroyers were in the area of Stavelot, 20 miles inside Belgium and like distance south east of Liege.
 The shower of German V-bonlbs on the areas behind the battle zone continued today, Frankish reported. He said the roads in the forward areas were choked with traffic units moving to the rear and tanks, guns and men loving forward.
 Rigid military censorship blacked out details on the progress of the German counter-blow, but field dis patches said probably the geratest land and air battle of the western war was under way and growing hourly in fury.
 Both sides were reported pour- ing endorsements into the big test of strength, but it was indicated that the American 1St Army had not yet countered in full force and was still falling back slowly all along the lire.
 (The British radio quoted report from the First Army front as say- ing the Americans had sealed one German breakthrough in the north, that German salients farther south were being held, and some ground had been regained)
 Elsewhere on the long western front, American Ninth Army troops carved out small gains at the edge of the Cologne plain above Aachen, and Third Army forces continued their slow progress into the German Saar valley above Saarlautern and
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(COnLnueQ rom rage U quarters, said mass Hungarian de- sertion in Pest, on the east bank of the Danube, opened the way for the Russian break-through. Soviet units were said to have crossed to the west bank of the river and entered Buda, former seat of the Hungarian government. More credible was an account re- layed by the clandestine Free Hun garian radio that Marshal Rodion Y, Malinovskys Second Ukrainian Army had reached the suburban town of Pakospalota, mile north northeast of Pest.
 Pressure Relaxed Today'S early morning Moscow connmunique gave no word on the struggle for Budapest and Berlin commentators asserted that Soviet pressure on the capital had relaxed with the start of the Slovakian of- fensive Russian field dispatches, however, said the assault was con- tinuing with unabated fury and described the fighting as probably the bloodiest of the entire war on the eastern front.
 The communique reported sweep ing gains for Malinovsky's forces all across the border line where they wrested 48 towns and hamlets from the Axis defenders in 8 series of pitched battles that cost the NaZis at least 2,000 killed and 1850 prison CTS.
 The Russian right wing drove a 15-mile wedge into Slovakia be- tween Turnian Novy Yes on the west and Bulta on the east, and pulled abreast of the frontier on a 12-mile line farther east, where they captured Alsokeked, 12 miles southeast of Kassa.
 On their left wing, the Soviets captured the border railway station of Banreve and thrust six miles north to take Above and Kesovce, the latter 50 miles southeast of Kas- Sa.
 At the same time, Soviet units pushed up to the frontier just west of Banrevo and on a 3O-mile line extending northeast of that town, in general advances of two to three miles that were continuing at night fall yesterday.
 Stiff Battle
 The Germans put up their stiffest fight just north of Banreve where they had erected strong fortifica- tions along the Slana river covering the Flamenco railway station. Virtu- ally all of two Nazi battalions de- lending ahe town were wiped out, permitting 8 swift Russian advance northward to Kesovce.
 The converging Russian drives menaced the entire 110-mile Grman salient jutting into Eastern Sloyakia between Malinovsky's army and the Fourth Ukrainian army massed on the Polish-Slovak border barely 50 miles to the north.
 The Fourth Armys left flank al- ready had bitenl deep into the ex- trenl eastern end of the salient, where weeks ago it pushed down al- most to the Hungarian frontier to effect jlineture with MaIinovsky,s forces east Of Kassa.
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Local Clergy Mass Servers
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Joseph M. OLeary, Bishop of Springfield, Mass.
 Hartford, Conn.,, Dec. CUP)- A special Gregorian Mass for the dead was sung this morning at St. Joseph's cathedral by the Sisters of Mercy choir for the late Roman Catholic Bishop Maurice F. Mo- Auliffe, who will be buried tomor- row following pontifical funeral Mass.
 Hundreds crowded the huge cathedral, despite the heavy snow storm, to pay their final respects to the 69-year old churchman who died Friday night after serving as head of the Diocese of Hartford for more than ten years.
 Tonight, the priests ofg St. Tnom- as Seminary and those of the diocese will chant the office of the dead, with responses by the sem- mary choir. The Most Rev. Henry J. O'Brien, auxiliary bishop and act- ing administrator of the diocese, will celebrate the office.
 Following the Pontifical Mass to- morrow, dissolution will be per- formed by five bishops, and the body will be taken to Mt. St. Jo- seph's cemetery for committal service and burial.
 At the chancery today it was an- nounced that the Pontifical Mass will be presided over by the Most Rev. Richard Cushing, D. D., Arch bishop of Boston, and the cele- brant will be the Most Rev. Henry J. O'Brien. Other officers of the Mass will be: Assistant priest, Rt. Rev. William H. Flynn, chancellor Of the diocese; deacon, Rev. Thomas P. Mulcahy, pastor, St. Augustine'S church, Hartford; sub- b-deacon, Rev. John F. Callahan, pastor, St. Thom- as' churchh, west Hartford; thuri- furs, Rev. A. Edward Gradeck, pas tor, St. Casimir's church, New Ha- van, and Rev. Daniel J. Barry, treasurer, St. Thomas Seminary, Bloomfield; acolytes, Rev. Walter s. Sieracki, assistant, St. Cyril & Methodius church, Hartford, and Rev. Paul J. St Onge, assistant, Sacred Heart church, Taftville; miter bearer, Rev. John A. Oruzin- ski, pastor, St. Matthias church, Flanders; bugia bearer. Rev. Don ato A. Paolucci, assistant, St. Rapael's church, Bridgeport; book bearer, Rev. Edward G. zinell, as- sistant, St. Mary's church. Meri- den.
 The five bishops, who will give final dissolution, will be Most Rev. Henry J. O'Brien; Most Rev. Jo- seph M. OLeary. Bishop of Srring- field; Most Rev. Joseph E. Mo- Carthy, Bishop of Portland; Most Rev. Francis P. Keough, Bishop of Providence, and Most Rev. Matthew F. Brady, bishop-elect of Manches- ter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19

NCOIlUlIlu6u 1TOIIl rage U Army back into Belgium and Lux embourg. 2. Mounting diplomatic pressure for meeting with Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Josef Stalin as a conse- quence of the explosive Greek, Bel gian, Italian and Polish situations.
 3. The Senate controversy over nominations to six high state department posts.
 4. The War Labor Board Mont gomery Ward crisis, now at stage requiring White House action.
 MT. Roosevelt'S stay in Georgia was on "take-it-easy" basis. When unusually cold weather did not in- terfere, he loafed in the sun, swam in the 86-degree waters of the famous Georgia Springs and drove frequently in his small open car through the nearby countryside. The weather was below freezing several times.
 Through the media of daily mail pouch from Washington and the telephone, the President kept up with much of his work, which in- cluded reorganization of the top brackets in the state department occasioned by the resignation of Secretary Cordell Hull and the suc- cession of Edward P. StettiniuS. Jr. He also signed nearly 100 bills passed by Congress.
 The way the President enjoyed his stay at Warm Springs was reflected by what he told the crowd which gathered at the tiny railroad sta- ton to say goodby when his special train left Sunday afternoon.
 He recalled that in the spring of 1941 he said he would be back in the fall eff we don't have a war" But" he told the crowd, ''there was a war. This time, war or no war I hope to get back thisspring."
 The Presidents physician, Vice Admiral Ross T. McIntire, was pleased with the chief executives physical condition and was in heaty accord with the idea of more frequent visits to warm springs. The president put on some weight on this trip. This was the first ex- tended visit to MT. Roosevelt's other home in Georgia since before Pearl Harbor. He mAde a one-dav visit '''
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19
Luzon Hit Sixth Doy
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On the ground, Brig. Gen. Will liam c. Dunckel's invasion forces on Mindoro, only eight and half miles across the Verde Island Strait from Luzon, were encircling a large pocket of Japanese in the hills east of captured San Jose in the south- west corner of the island. Japanese opposition continued to be insignificant, with six enemy troops killed and three prisoners captured in one 24-hour period American engineers promised to have airf1elds ready on Mindoro' s sugar cane fields in record opera tional time.
 Japanese planes stabbed again at American shipping of Mindoro Sunday, but B of them were shot down by fighters and anti-aircraft guns. Dunckel estimated only five per cent of his supplies and equip ment were sunk during earlier per- sistent Japanese air attacks on the invasion convoy.
 GA Japanese broadcast said Jap anese planes on Sunday and Mon- day sank two cruisers or destroyers and two transports and set fire to two other transports of Mindoro Island).
 Frank Hewlett, United Press War Correspondent with the invasion forces, said a 16-year-old F1llplno hoy who had escaped to Mindoro from Manila told him that the civilian population of the capital expected the Americans to reach there soon.
 On Leyte, 300 miles southeast of Mindoro, the 77th Division nears the outskirts of Valencia, principal Japanese stronghold ill the Ormoc corridor and headquarters of It Gen. Sosaku Suzuki, after captur- ing Valencia airdrome just west of the town.
 The 32nd Division hacked its way south in bitter hand-to-hand fight ing in the Ormoc corridor less than eight miles from junction with the 77th. There was no further word from the First Cavalry Divis- ion, at last reports six miles north of Valencia after an advance from the mountains to the east.
 Humiliation of the trapped Jap-' anese 26th Division south of Ormoc was completed with 905 additional bodies being counted.
 Macarthur said the greatest possible care was being taken to minimize American losses on Leyte. Frontal assaults were being avoided he said, land every artifice of maneuver and superior firepower is being extered to prevent battle casualties" l"
 "As a result. they continue light. :" he said.
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late November 1941, and again in the spring of 1943.
 While mors from many unin- formed quarters were limiting that MT. Roosevelt might be participat- ing in another major international conference with Churchill and Stalin, the President was taking it easy.
 According to Secretary William D. Hassett, MT. Roosevelt had mo off, cial visitors" He did, however, see several old friends and discussed the work of the foundation, of which he is president. MT. Roose- velt was participarly interested in in plans for a new addition to the foundation to care for servicemen with infantile paralysis.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19

(Contlnued from Page D if necessary to dispose of the con- flrmations.
 8They were prompted by the knowledge that it will become in- creasingly difficult, as Christmas draws nearer, to keep 8 quorum of at least 49 senators without which the senate would automatically have to adjourn. Many members of the House of Representatives, which has no part in the confirmation argument, already have departed for home.
 Pepper, who held the senate floor most of yesterday, gave no signs of giving up, although he disclaimed any intention of conducting a fili- buster. He argued that the pending list of nominees lis out of character with the liberal record of the Roose- welt administration.
 The nominees are Joseph c. Grew to be Undersecretary of State and William L. Clayton, Archibald Mac Leish, Nelson Rockefeller, James c. Dunn and Brigadier General Julius c. Holmes to be ass istant secre- taries.
 .They are not the kind of war; riors would want to put on the battlefront for the kind Of peace I want Pepper said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19
M-W CO.
 Ups Wages
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(Contlnued from Page D wage rates covering all of the jobs in the store except department heads and executives. In May, 1914, the War Labor Board recommended a similar SCE of minimum rates which Wards offered to accept and make retroactive to September l, 1943.
 "The union rejected both of Wards offers. Despite the unions rejection, Wards is placing these minimum rates in effect.
 Those entitled to higher rates under this scale will receive checks for the amount due, retroactive to September 1, 1943, as soon as the amount can be calculated"
 Refuse Other Demands
 Chicago, Dec. 19.-(UP)-Mont- gomery Ward and company com- piled with a War Labor Board wage directive for its Detroit stores today, but a company spokesman said Wards still refused to accede to other demands of the WLB, in- cluding maintenance of member ship and government seizure of Ward properties in seven cities ap- peared imminent.
 Sewell Avery, chairman of the board of Montgomery Ward, said the Detroit wage increase was made independently and that he had not changed his previously nounced attitude that the com- pany cannot in good citizenship" comply with the VILE directives.
 At Detroit, R. w. RoSevear, area manager, said Wards was putting new basic wage scale of 46 cents an hour into effect
 Handbills distributed to Ward employees in the Detroit area said the company offered to adopt scale of minimum wage rates in September. 1943, that the WLB had recommended a similar scale of minimum rates. but that the union had rejected the proposal.
 A spokesman for the United Mail Order, Warehouse, and Retail En- ployes Union (CIO), on strike against Wards at Detroit. said the wage increase was the first move in the company's back-down."
 At Chicago, however, company spokesman said the wage decision did not alter the company's stand.
 The VILE said that in addition to the minimum wages, Wards in Detroit had been directed to make other upward wage adjustments, to institute maintenance of member ship, dues checkoff, arbitration of grievances. and to recognize senior ity in making promotions.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19
Ex-Premier Missing Mon
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 The pro-government afternoon newspaper Hellas published what it described as an official report of the Athens police. It said that cas- ualties SO far in the police force were 2T killed and 30 wounded. Gendarmerie casualties were given as 43 killed and I6O wounded.
 The report said many houses had
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19

Champagne is being hoarded in south Africa for v-E celebrations.
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FOR Returns From South

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Night Senate
 Farley Looms

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Red Armies In Budapest
(NEA Telephoto)
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In wholesale deportations from Salonika, Greece, lasting six weeks, men, women and children were packed into cattle cars. One witness who travelled over the deportation route afterwards counted bodies of 18 dead children less than years old, who had suffocated and been thrown out en route.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19
Situation In Greece Better

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Eye-WlCQeSS6S CGll Ol DTuLdl gym nastics" at Oswiecim Camp in Po- land, where over 90.o0O persons per- ished up to July, 1942. Arriving on crowded cattlet rains without sleep and with little food for days, pris- OnerS were forced to run for hours around a gravel yard. After five minutes bare feet began to bleed Older prisoners who Jagged were beaten by guards Men who col- iapsed were dragged to pump and revived and then forced to continue running or suffer new tortures. Following this exercise, the prison CTS were forced to spin around un- til overcome by dizziness. Another treatment calls for prisoners to squat and remain motionless. Torn skin of bruised feet cannot support the body's weight. and prisoners collapse while Nazi guards roar with laughter. No medical attention for cut feet. No bandages. The next day more "gymnastics" on the gravel deepen the cuts, which are never allowed to heal. Soon the blood on the stones is diluted by pus which oozes from prisoners feet as long as they live at Oswie- elm.
 A hundred men witnessed this incident and can swear that it hap bene published is at Mauthausen. bert punished a Viennese prisoner publicly by forcing him to climb 130-foOt high mountain pine. When he climbed too slowly the SS man forced him on with re- Fulper shots. When the prisoner reached the treetop the Nazi sad- |sl l1fce6 him fo sing. firing at him whenever hs stopped While
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-11
Reports Re
Aussie Army
Misleading

Melbourne, April 11-(UP)-F. M
Forde, army minister, said today
that reports that the Australian
army would be reduced by 10000
men were misleading and declared
the country "still remains one OF
the most completely modified OF
all nations"
Quotation OF an extract from one
i of his recent statements, Forde
said, gave the impression that the
cabinet had decided to discharge
90, 900 men from the army.
F'orde explained that last October
after receipt of requests from the
United Kingdom and U. S. Armed
Forces for increased supplies OF
meat and butter, the cabinet decid-
ed to discharge 10000 men over a
period of 10 months for essential
industries.
At that time, he said, he informed
the cabinet that this release, togeth-
er with the normal wastage Of the
army from physical and cher cause
eS would approximate $4,000 dis.
charges for the year ending june
80, 1914.
Stressing that the Australian all
force was being enlarged, Forde saio
the air force and army personnel
were separate but that taken to-
gether, there would be overall re-
duction in their combined numer-
ical strength.
Forde added that $4,000 Austral-
ian women had enlisted in the Serv-
ices, freeing men for combatant
work.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-11
Allies Strong
On n. Britain

Allied Headquarters. Southwest
Pacific, April II - (U.Po - Allied
forces controlled the major portion
of New Britain, Japan's main hold
ing in the Bismarck Archipelago,
today and an estimated 10000
enemy troops were believed prepar-
ing for a final stand only 60 miles
from Rabaul, the big base at the
northern end of the island.
A spokesman estimated that the
Japanese lost 10000 men since the
initial U. s. Marine landing at
Arawe December Is, as they re-
treated through New Britain, cut
of from all outside supplies and
subjected to constant aerial attack
from nearby Solomons bases and
heavy ground pressure.
Control of the major portion OF
the island was announced in a
communique by General Douglas
Macarthur.
THE enemy is in full retreat from
Central New Britain to the Gazelle
Peninsula" it said, where he is
preparing final positions with Ra-
baul as his citadel. installations at
Cape Hoskins and Gasmata have
been abandoned
The disclosure indicated that the
Japanese weer preparing their de-
lenses along 20-mile line between
Wide Bay and Open Bay at the
neck of the peninsula, 60 miles be-
low Rabaul, where spokesman
said the Japanese probably have
large reserves in addition to strong
anti-aircraft and coastal gun de-
lenses"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-11
ImphoI Not
Serious-knox

washington, April 11-(UP)-Sec-
rotary of Navy Frank Knox said to-
day that he did not regard japanese
operations around 1mphal in India
as terribly serious"
"It involves a small amount Of
men," he said at press conference.
1.-The British ought to be able to
beat it and no doubt will"
Asked if he had any information
to confirm reports that the Japan
csc fleet was concentrated at the
former British naval base at Sing
apore, Knox said:
There was information some time
ago that the Japanese naval force
was at Singapore. 1t apparently has
dispersed since then. There are some
units there but not in any great
strength"
British Prime Minister Winston
Churchill recently said that large
British battle force was in Indian
waters, prepared to meet any large
scale Japanese naval thrust that
might be made there.
During the last few days. Knox
said that nothing startling has de-
veloped in the Pacific except the
steady hammering of Japanese Is
lands in areas now under U. S. con-
troll.
He declined to say whether the
use of the phrase "softening up in
the recent announcement by Adj
miral Chester w. Nimitz concerning
aerial attacks on Truk implied that
the U. S. would attempt to seize
that vital Japanese base.