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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-07
Yonk Losses
 LoW-Stimson

Washington, Sept. 7.-(Up),-The bulk of the German armies in west. efn Europe have ben destroyed or cripied to an extent that they "seem insuftlcient to Enoaintain prolonged defenSes of Germany" Secretary of War Henry l.. etimson said today.
 Tn contrast, gtimSon disclosed that American Army casualties during the first 2b days of the invasion of northern France were about one. half of the losses which had been expected.
 While German forces arc shrink. ing, Allied forces are growing and their advance is speeding up, stlm- son added.
 He told his prssS conference how. ever, that supplies must catch up with the advancing armies before they can administer c death blow to the Nazs.
 "The war won't be won until AL lied troops are in BeFlin," no said.
 (UnderBocretary of War Robert P. PatetFBon said ct c press conference week ago that he believed the slow Of supplies would keep Up with the Allied troops in western France and enable them to maintain the pace Of their offensive, adding that at that time supply problems had
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Army Draft
 To Continue

Fort Devens, Mass, Sept. 7.-(Up) -The nation must furnish 60,00O teen~age boys c month to keep the army at full strength and drafting will continue until the war is over. 1t was said today by army spokes- men ct Q meeting here Of New England educators.
 Mai. Gen. sherman Miles of the First Service Command said that monthly replacements of 60,o0o would Do necessary to fnair- tain the 7,T0o,OO0 strength Of the army. Major Ralph Q. Wenrich, chief of the pre-induetion training section of army service forces head- quarters, said that drafting will continue until peace comes.
 The e0.odd educators. here for Q two.day taste Of army life, were told by military officials recently returned from the bhttlefields that casualty lists are mounting. A spokesman said that replacemeilte needed in the army and navy Will exhaust the 100000 School.age youths who become iS.years old each month. Thus, 1t was said, the army and navy must turn to the schools for assistance in training future soldiers.
 'sThe contribution of New Eng. land schools to the PIT (Pre-In- d,iction Training) program has been Tnagnlflcent," Gen. Miles said. "A survey last may disclosed that 7e2 schools and 7e,000 students in courses designed to meet army needs, indicating that 77 per cent of boys aged 1e and in New Eng land schools are receiving PIT trairi' inQH
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-07
.Hordest Fiqht
 Faces Patton
BY ROBERT c. RICIIARDe

BY ROBERT Q. RICHARDS United Press War CoFresponasntD
 With U. 6. Third Army in France, Sept. 7.-(i a. m)-tUPl-Vielent fighting flared up al along tho Moselle from the approaches oi Metz to Nancy early today ag xdeut, Gen. George 8. Patton's troops eon- tinued to push toward Germany.
 It was evident that for the next 4B hours at least tho blitE type og warfare was supplanted by grim. close-range infantry attacks eup- ported by mortars, i0b's and 'Long Tom" 1858.
 The Germans in many instances were making full use of the steel and concrete pillboxes erected in the last four years.
 Low hanging clouds continued Co make accurate Allied air support i'm. possible.
 As early As last night it was be- coming clear that the Third Army would face It's hardest fighting Of the war within the next two weeks,
 patton's enforced iAyofR to re- group and resuppiy his rapidly spreading columns gave tho Ger. mans time to pull their disorganlsea forces together on the lip Of the Mosolle river and apparently they have received orders to dc to tho last man in defending this route to Berlin.
 Most observers believed that cite gS troops, other touted Qerman combat teams and remnants os tho divisions which fled out Of noFths eFn France were preparing for Q final battle behind the Biegfrled Line and any defense in front cl it, no matter how stubborn, would be purely delaying action.
 The giegfrled Line, whose foFti. fications stretch along 0eTmanyb western border, was believed e be the MaEis' last hope and once i1 is
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reached the London area and the other 26 per cent went astray,
 eandys disclosed that robots reaching the London area destroyed or dainagde more than 1,000,00C houses. He did not give . casualty total but last figures released on August { by Prime Minister Chur- chill listed 4,736 persons killed, 4,' $50 of them in the London area.
 The record defensive day was August % when 10i robots ape proached the coast. DefenSes knocked down O and Inly four reached London, he said.
 eandys revealed that some of the robots had been launched from fzeinkei hombers which carried them over the North Sea.
 Planes Down 1900
 Fighter planes accounted for 1900 flying bombs. Gandyg formally thanked AEnericans for their aid iEi
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Dewey0pens Compoisn
BY JOHN Q CUTTER

(Unitsd Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 Philadelphia, Sept. T-(Up)--d Thomas F. Dewey, Republican presi. dental nominee, arrived in Phila. delphia, scene Of his first formal campaign speech, and immediately launched his bid for Pennsyivania'a S6 electoral College votes with Q i0-block parade.
 Dewey was greeted at the Penn- sylvania railroad station. the first stop oil e,700 mile coast to coast trip, by crowd which assistant superintendent of police, Guy par- sons estimated at between 1000 and 5000 persons.
 From the station he rode in on open car with Pennsylvania Gov Edward Martin, to the Bellvue stratford hotel for Q press confer ence and Q series of meetings with various voting groups before hia formal speech in convention hall to- night.
 The parade route took him past the city hall which has been under continuous Republican administra- ton since 1884 and lip Broad street past the Union League club.
 Along the route Dewey was greet cd by scattered applause and show- CTS Of paper confetti.
 He formally opens his campaign tonight in PhlIadelphiaS Convention Hall with his first speech since he accepted the nomination ct the e. 0. ?. National convention at Chicago in June.
 Before he returns to his guber- natoriai once ct Albany, N. F., Sept. @, he is scheduled to make six other major campaign addresses as well s-
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Koiso Warns~Japs .'. Of Severe Crisis
BY UNITED PRESS

Emperor Hirohito and his pre- nIer, Gen. Kuniaki KoiSo - the highest authorities in Japafl-told the Japanese diet today that the country faced c grave crisis and had reached "the decisive stage of the war"
 The enaperor's acknowledgement of the situation was contained iil aN imperial reScript to the 8bth extra ordinary session of the diet while Koiso personally addressed the body to warn of the possibility Of on American invasion of the homeland In which he said, the life or deatr of the nation would be at stake.
 Hirohitos rescript and Koiso's ad dress were broadcast by Tokyo fa', dio and recorded by United Press ct San Francisco.
 Tokyo radio said Hirohito was present. at the session, but did not say whether he addressed the body or had his rescript read to t..
 The emperor called oil members oi the body to "roiiSo yourself afreBh' 10 meet the war crisis and wreck the inordinate ambitions of the enemy countries" He said he had ordered the ministers of state ,to present to tho diet bills of special and grave urgency connected with the current situation"
 While he claimed that the work of constructing greater East Asia was progressing With great Tapidity" and Japanese troops were "sniash' ing the formidable enemy every. where" TIirohito noted that "a further increase B seen in the vio' ience of the eneny's resistance"
 Situation Urgent
 "Day by day there is on addition to the urgency of the critical war situation," he added. "rhe oppor' taInity for Japan to engineer 6 vics torIouS settlement b indeed ct this stage"
 Hirohito's message was tempered when compared to that of KoiSo who addressed the diet for the first time since he succeeded Gen. HideH Tcjo aS premier two months ago.
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TANKS BATTLE BITTERLY IN FRANCE: BRITISH LAUNCH OFFENSIVE IN ITALY
Fierce Resistance Meets Advance In
 The Moselle Valley
Supreme Headquarters,

Supreme Headquarters, AEF, September 2. = (UP)- American armies pressing Q tw0-way pincers movement toward Germany plunged deep into the Ardennes for est beyond the Mouse river today and, to the southeast battered forward against bit ter resistance along Q 3O-lniie MOselle valley front.
 Supreme headquarters re- ported that It. Gen. Court ney II. Hodges had driven 8 First Army spearhead from the Auchamps crossing of the Mouse "well into" the rugged Ardennes forest to the area of Thilay, nine miles northeast of Charleville near the Franco-Belgia frontier.
 Robert c. Richards, United Press correspondent with It. Gen. George S. Pattons Third Army, said American assault forces were hammer ing ahead In the Moselle val lev between Nancy and Metz in a crunching assault on the steel and concrete tortifica. tions before the Siegfried Line.
 Supreme headquarters disclosed that patton'B army maSsing in the MoSelle valley includes the American Fifth Infantry Division, whose troops were the first of the United States Army to go overseas in this war. The division landed in Iceland in September, io4i, and has no' been home since,
 The 3Bth Infantry and Fourth and Seventh ArItiored divisions also W4Ht revealed to Do taking part in the Third Army drive now menaeing Germany proper.
 Richards Dispatch
 Richards dispatch from the Mos selle Valley did not make clear tho situation at Metz and Nancy. It said the Americans were at the sap' brooches" of each. Unofficial re-
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Soviet Aid
 Hinges On
 Fourth Term

Seattle, Sept. 7-(UP)-Russian participation in the war against Japan depends on the outcome of the November election, Sen. Claude Pepper, D.. Fla, said here last night on his arrival by plane from Call foFnia.
 Under President Roosevelt many factors promise Russian participa. ton in the cleanup of the war against Japan, with the resultant saving of tens of thousands of American lives, billions of dollars and much time," Pepper said.
 MT. Roosevelt, Pepper said, "can get Russia on our side in the war against the Japanese aS soon as Germany is whipped. We could pour troops into Siberia through Alaska fast enough to guarantee Stalin against initial reverses dur ing any time lapses between closure of the main Russian offensive and transport of veteran troops to Si. beria from the eastern front"
 stain Is q realist," Pepper added. "If Roosevelt Is defeated, he will reason that there is not much use trying to deal with reactionaries."
 Pepper said he believed that If Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, the Repub. lican nominee. won the November election, Stalln would delay open participation in the Pacific war and the granting of Siberian bases to American forces "untll the cycle re- volved again and an American gov ernment he could trust was put back in power"
 sen. Hiram Johnson, R., Cal, an opponent of Lend-Lease to Russia prior to American entry Into tho war, "would be the Republican secs retary of State," according to Pep. per,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-07
Drain Bog To Salvage Plane

gtrcther Field, Kan, Sept 7-(uP) --Dehydration of auckland bog near Jet, Okla, began today in on effort to salvage on army airplane and recovered the body of It's pilot. The planL crashed there Thursday,
 M. Q. '. DFeeden, post engineer at EtTother Field, decided on dehy- dTation after abandoning plan to freeze the bog. ,, A
 The plane was believed to Do 90 feet below the surface and still sink ing. Salvage crews dug down i2 feet without finding any trace Of Second It. Melvin a WGrdytl Of Omaha, Neb., the pilot, WIS believed to have been swallowed in the quicksaEid with hiS plane.
 s1ehydratiiaz machinery was taken tu the sy6ne rom oKlanoma city and dalVoat0n, Tex
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-07
TANKS SEEK TOCLOSE NAzI
 ESCAPE GAP
BY ELEANOR PACKARD United Press War COrrespOndent)

Rome, September 2. = (UP) = American armored columns of the southern France Seventh Army were driving on Besancon, AZ miles from the Belfort escape gap into Germany, today while French units raced toward a junction with northern iIa- vaSion forces.
 (The German DNB News Agency reported that Arneri- can troops were attacking west of Mont Cenis and Lit tie St. Bernard, two Alpine mountain passes on the Franco-Italian border ap- proximately 60 miles due east of Grenoble.)
 CThe British radio said that ec- cording to some reports the Amer jeans now were north ot Besancon in the drive toward belfort'p
 The two forces under It. Gen Alexander M. Patch gained between 70 end % miles in their advance north and northeast through thG eaone River Valley, and Q head quarters spokesman said the drivei were made without contact witt kG.. .xaR <...s.a aR tiaA l4aRaaaAd ElAfs man 18th Army"
 The French, following along the River, swept to AlleFy, 10 miles northeast of Chalon, and leSsened the gap between the Tth and 3rd armies to approximately 66 miles.
 (CHS Correspondent Eric seva- reid, attached to the Seventh Army, reported today that the northern and southern invasion forces had joined ct aa undiBclosed point close to the German border. and that the junction was closing the Delfort es-
 On tho eastern side of the val- ley, American troops captured five towns, included the junction point of Arbois, with little opposition and drove northward toward the DoubS River, which hbects the southern part of BeSancon and continues Southwestward.
 The American push was running parallel to the Swiss border into the Beifort gap. There still was no of- ficial confirmation of Swiss reports
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Euniee Tietjens, Poetess Is Decd

Chicago, Sept. 7.-(UP)-HSunice TIetjens, 60, whose "prohies from China" published in 1917, establish. cd her reputation as Q poet, died last night ct Wesley Memorial hospital after c year of illness,
 ghe had been associated with Poetry Magazine since it was found. cd in 1913 by Harriet Monroe, and was instrumental in developing many of the modern American poets. Shortly before her death she com pleted an epic poem upon which sine had worked for five years, and had written c number Of works Of poetry and fiction and two text. books,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-07
Reds Reported To Be Inside Yugoslavia
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RY RODERT s. AEUsEI4

UnlteN Efe3e W9r CUEko8POuuent London, Sept. T--(Upy Russian forces were reported today to be swarming across the Danube river into YugoSiavia and striking west- ward for Belgrade to link up with Marshal JoSip Tito's Partisan arr1- les and forge e great trap around some 250.000 to 376,000 Germans in the Balkans,
 At the same time, Soviet tanks and riflemen widened their wedge | in Nazi lines north of Warsaw in Q double edged threat to both the Pol- ish capital and the German home. land province of East Prussia. A German transocean news agency broadcast said the Red Army es- tablished e bridgehead on the west bank of the Narew river.
 Word of the climatic Red army invasion of Yugoslavia came from Tito's partisan radio, which reported that the Soviets forced crossing of the Danube yesterday and pushed on to Kladovo, opposite Turnu-sev. erin and Barley 100 miles west of Belgrade.
 The crossing, which Moscows early morning communique did not men. ton, apparently was made ct soH1lS distance below Turnu-Severin, where the Danube swirls through the iroil gate bottleneck at c speed that makes the stream almost impasS' able.
 The Yugoslav broadcast indicated that Partisan units had joined the Russians in the Kladovo area Alf1 were marching with. them on the capital. An advance of less than 30 miles would cut the Athens! Bel. grade Berlin railway, the last trunk line of escape still open to an es. tirnated 26 German divisions in Bul' garia, southern Yugoslavia, Greece and the Aegean Islands.
 The arrival of the Red Army on the Yugoslav border was expected to force Q hurried German evacua. ton of Belgrade and the occupied territory to the south to avert c joint frontal and area attack by the combined Russian and partisan forces.
 Sofia broadcastS intercepted by the BEG said Bulgaria had broken diplomatic relations with Germany and had disarmed or interned av N"zl troops remaining in the coun' try.
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CRACK NAYS !
 FIGHT TO ' HOLD RIMINI
' BY CLINTON 5. CoNGER
 United Press War Correspandentl

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 United Press War COrrespendentI
 Rome, September q.
 (UP) - The British Eighth Army launched an all-out offensive with the aid of sea and air forces today in an effort to eliminate a bottle neck at Rinini which has prevented the Allies from pouring into the plains lead ing to Bologna and the Pc valley beyond.
 Fighter planes and bomb CTS of the desert air force blasted German gun posi- tions around Corino, four miles inland from the Adri- atic. while six warships ranged a few miles off the coast and pumped shells ii1- to enemy positions around Rimini. British and Cana dian tank and infantry units, meanwhile assaulted the strongly dug-in German eIl1- placements near the vlEal Seacoast town.
 The Germans rushed up rein. forecements for their crack F1rst Parachute Division, which held the town and ct one point countersat- tackled to drive the British back several miles. There were growing signs that the Germans intended to try to hold Rlmini ct all costs to prevent the Allied from hanking the entire Gothic line,
 Along the central and western sector of the Italian front, however, tha Germans were withdrawing to new positions north of the oothie' lines strong steel and concrete foEtifications
 Directly in the path of the ad. vanclng Allied armies in the west lay the second largest tunnel in the world--the 9i00000 900, double. track railway tunnel extending Ii miles under the Apennine Noun. tain range on the 7i-mile rail coEl- necticn between Florence and Dol- ogna.
 Tunnel Not Mentioned
 Front dispatches have. made no mention of the tunnel and there was no way of determing what plans the Germans had for 1t if they were
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ON AGIN' OFF
 AGIN' BULGAR WAR STATUS
BY J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press Staff CorrespOndent)

United Press Staff COrreSpondent)
 London, September 2. - (UP) = The Berlin radio re- ported today, and later re- tracted its own report, that Bulgaria had declared war against Germany in a com splete about-face by the erst- while Balkan satellite of the Nazis.
 The Transocean Ne W s Agency, an hour after re- porting the Bulgarian declar- ation, put out an official correction" saying that the Bulgars had "only broken off relations with Germany. A declaration of war has not occurred"
 The report gained currency in some other unofficial quarters as the Nazi broadcasters fioundered through contradictory accounts of the situation in the troubled Bal- kanS.
 Despite the inability of the NazI propagandiSts to make tip their minds responsible sources here bee lieved that Bulgaria was in effect . belligerent against Germany, and trying to make peace with the United States, Britain and Russia.
 Diplomatic sources understood Bulgaria had informed Russia that she regarded herself as ct war with Germany in line with Soviet de. mands, Moscow declared war against Bulgaria when the demands were ignored.
 Before announcing Bulgaria's war declaration, the German trans- ocean news agency quoted authorlt- -atiVo Nan quarters As saying that .hoping for favorable conditions from Great Britain and the United States, and in order to make coTl- ceSsion to the Soviet Union, the Bul- garian government has broken off relations with the Reich
 Ankara Reports
 Radio Ankara also reported the Bulgarian governments move, as- serting that the declaration of war was handed to the NaN minister ct
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-07
Nuzis Run Too
 Fast For Allies
BY HENRY q. 0ORRRIlK.


 (Unlted PFesg War CoFrssp0ndent) With U. 6. AFmorod column ad- vancing through Belgium, Sept. B. (UPD-We have been moving fest, but not fast enough to keep iip with the FetTeating Germans.
 According to ths Belgian villagers, the Germans have been passing through in retreat toward their own frontier ever since last Tuesday. 4 cross section Of Belgian esti- mates 5a interviewg by tkiB coEFe- spOndent indicates that between s. OO0 and 10000 German vehicles ranging fEDm Tiger tanks Co hoKse- drawn wagons have paased through
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0. D. GIBSON BETTER

Dark Harbor, Me-, Sept. T-(UP) -Charles Dana Gibson, noted American Illustrator, was convaleS- cling today after he "just overworked himself" and expected to return tc his New York home Sept. i6.
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Lote Bulletins
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Rome, Sept. 7.-(UP)-A gen. eral offensive against German lines of communications in Yugo. sIavla has been launched by Mar. shaI Tito's Yugoslav PaFtlssns. Allied naval forces, the Balkan unit of the Allied 18th Air Force and Adrlatic Allied land forces, it was announced Offlcially tO. day.
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London. Sept. 7-UP)-The German DNB Agency reported tO- day that Soviet troops, crossing Bulgaria in the direction of the Aegean Sea, had reached De. motica. The only town of that name shown on maps here is in Greece at the Turkish border, 60 miles from the Aegean.
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London, Sept. 7.-UP)-The German DNB Agency reported to" day that French troops had esp. tuFed BFlancon on the Durance river i've miles from the Italian border and BB miles northeast Of Gap, France.
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Ankara Reports

Radio Ankara also reported the Bulgarian governments move, as- sertIng that the declaration of war was handed to the Maxi minister ct
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-09
KINDLY REPORTER

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EXPECTS TO RETURN

4 few days ago thoy moved him
10 a general hospital farther m
the rear. and IN a short time the
army viii send him back 30 Amer
Ica for final rcCupcratiou
They've now taken A bis patch
~ skin or his left lex and grated
IL onto his head 20 cover the
wound They predict he VIII he
ready for the front again within
six months -
You'd think that after as much
war as he has seem, and after
such a hair-brCath escape he'd be
ready to t-cfiiii n II my. n I had
his wound l would go home and
rest on my laurels forever. But
not Dick; he expects 10 be back
over here by spring
He is no adVenturer. but a
deeply sincere and conscientious
man who docs what no docs be
cause he feels he's good
His next ambition il 10 make \
combat parachute jump
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Pyle Finds War Hits
Reporters, Soldiers
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BY ERNIE PYLE

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-09

IN ITALY Dec % by Wireless On the way back from
the the other day stepped into evacuation tent
Dick Tregaskis the correspondent for
News Service who badly wounded few
weeks ago.
got shell fragment through his helmet end ripped
skull open He is alive all only by seeming miracle
Even after he wounded other shells exploded within
arms length of him yet he escaped further injury.
He has his battered steel helmet. II has cash two
long the front and similar the left where
the fragment The blow knocked off his glasses but