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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-23
Jim Wagner
 To End FBI Course Soon

Sergeant JAmes Magfler of the Waterbury Police department, and Sergeant Edward Mugavefo of the Darien Police department, will Do among the Seventy.eight law on. foreemont officers who are to be graduated from the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh sessions of the FBf National Academy. October 29, l944, ct Washington, D, C., Direo. tor J, Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced today.
 Represented in the graduating classes are local, county, and state law enforcement agencies from thirty-two states. the District of Columbia, Alaska, Canada and China. Upon completion of their fourteen weeks course, the gradu. ates will return to their respective organizations and establish schools for their fellow officers embodyIng the techniqueS taught at the FBI National academy.
 The twenty-siX and twenty -sev- enth graduating classes will increase to o70 the number of law enforce. ment officers trained in the FBI National Academy since It's founding In 1885. It is estimated that through these graduates approximately l00,- GOO local policemen. shenffs, and state police have received instruc. ton in the latest developments and techniqueS in crime detection.
 Because of the widespread In. crease in lawlesSness among youths, the curriculum includes special em. phasis upon juvenile delinquency
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MACARTHUR DRIVES LAPS FROM PAL0
 C0Idap E. Prussia Hub Falls To Reds
Nipponese Flee Last Stronghold On East Coast Leyte Highway
BY WILLIAM D. DICKINSON

BY WILLIAM D. DICKINSON (United Press War COFFespOndentl
 Gen. MacArthur's Head. quarters, Leyte, october 23. = (UPJ = American troops slashing westward from tholr 20.rnile beachhead on Leyte, today drove the Japanese to. ward the interior hills and jungleS and consolidated con- tinuous coastal zone to Q minimum depth of five miles all the way from Dulag north to Tacloban.
 Capture of Palo, Leyte's second city, was accom- plished Saturday in Q whirl- wind drive by less than Q battalion of American inc fantrymen who drove for- ward so fast they didn't even take time to send back c progress report.
 palo lies two and 6 half miles iil- iand from the coast and apout slk miles south of San Ricardo. " 2 city of 2b000 population and haa been the last Japanese stfengnold on the east coast road,
 Tn clearing out Pale the AineF- jeans also captured Hill b22, ( e0fIis n1anding height ct the northern end of the beaehhead from which the Japanese had poured mortar hfe ~ the invasion troops,
 Lieutenant Colonel Robert etFa- veins, 70, Chicago, led the feFoe which captured PAio, First word received ct headquarters ef the ops eration was the message; "Falo secured"
 Hili b22 which dominates Rcd Beach" where the northeFfimost landing was made on Leyte was taken with little difieulty after cruisers and destFoyeFs lying or shore piastsred the Japanese hats taFles and Navy diveb0mbeFa knocked out the Japanese einpiapv. mehts,
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 Capture of PRio trapped c group of Japanese defense remnants be- tween tho town and the beaciihead. United Press War Correspondent Richard ]. Johnston was with 6 battalion which attacked these remnants with machine gun and tfs tilleFy fire.
 The Japanese had built . series ok pillboxes along the river which runs into Leyte Gulf ct Paio. After the piilboXes had been worked over by artillery the infantry, under persoa- ai command Of Lieutenant Colonel George II. Chapman, Laramie, Wyo., inched forward andw finished on tho Japanese.
 Paio was taken by clements of the 24th division of the U. s. Army 10th Corps.
 With the Japanese eeing to the interior of the island MacATthur said their plight would soon become acute" due to lack of supplies.
 MacArthuF's forces now were ea- abolished along 0 continuous 90- mile front which extended five or more miles inland ct ell points and
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Planes Range Over Reich

London, Oct. 23.-(Up)-The Ber- lin radio said Allied bombers were ranging widely over southern and central Germany today, indicating that the United States Eighth and 18th air forces had struck siliiul- taneously at the Reich from Brit ain and Italy.
 The Nazi air raid warning system reported bomber formations over Bavaria, Saxony and Bohemia, and said the latter force was heading for lower Silesia, the extreme east ern part of Germany proper.
 British bombers attacked Ham burg and other targets in northwest Germany alst night and mined en- emy waters. An Air Ministry com- munique said all the night raiders returned.
 The night attacks, apparently in small force, followed heavy one- two assault by the RAF and the U. s. 9th Force on the German home.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-23
Death Toll Moy Be2O0
By DENNIS DALTON

Limited Press Stan Correspondent)
 Cleveland, Oct. ss = N(u.P9 Cor oner Samuel Qetberher predicted today that the death toll of Cleve- lands worst fire might reach 200, as foremen and volunteer workers resumed the task of searching the ruins for additional victims,
 While liz persons already were known to have been killed, Gerber Der pointed out that "at least 30 or %" more bodies alone would be found in the wrecked buildings of the East Ohio Gas Company, where Q storage tank explosion Friday set aflame Q half-mile square area of the city's east side.
 0erbeber said additional victims undoubtedly would be found in the debris of private homes and other buildings destroyed or damaged out. side East Ohio properties.
 Police and Red Cross reports in- dicated at least no persons still were missing in the fire area, ale though many of these are presumed to be among the 67 unidentified dead. Twelve other persons injured
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TROOPS POUND WEST TOWARD
 KON|GSDERG
BY ROBERT MusEL Limited prNss War C0rreanOntlev


 (unlted Press War COrrcspondent)
 London, October 2S.-UP) = The German high com mand today acknowledged the loss of the East PruSsian rail and highway hub of Goldap to Russian forces pounding westward across German soil along three main railroads leading to 1nsterburg and the great supply fortress of Konigs- berg.
 Nazi broadcasts indicated the Red Army had driven some 25 miles into East Prus- sia in a broadside campaign to open the way to Konigs- berg and was ripping up the Na2i defenseS ln @ battle of mounting ferocity.
 The reported fall of Col dap, key anchor of the Ger man position northeast of the historic MaSurian Lakes, apparently cracked the strongest core of resistance below InSterburg, 30 miles to the northwest.
 A Berlin eommunlque said doldap had been evacuated and other NNd reports told of violent house to house fighting in the rail junction. It's reported fall released the Rus. sian leslegerS Co swing north to- ward Instorburg and Kongsberg or south toward Lyek In Q bid to eol- lapse tho German defenses of south. eastern East Prussia,
 Neither the Soviet press nor the official Russian coInmunique had yet reported the offensive which German reports indicated had pen- otrated up to % miles Inside the Reich proper.
 But Q dispatch from Henry sha. pifo, United Press Staff CorreSpon. dent ia Moscow, said battles "of fAr.yeAching consequence" were bee ing fought in East Prussia and that An announcement appeared immin- ent.
 The three drives Into East Prussia were converging on Insterhurg from the north where the border city ot Tilsit was under Red artillery fire, from the east where Maxi reports indicated Qumhinnen, only 20 mlles from insterburg was threatened, and
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'Meanest Men m World" Operate Toys Black Market

(COpyright 1944 by United Press)
 '"rhe meanest men in the world" are operating a lively and growing black market in Christmas tops, a United Press survey showed today.
 Though bitterly assailed by the toy industry and reputable retail merchants and prohibited by the Office of Price Administration, there appeared to be no way of halting the commercial exploitation of the Christmas spirit.
 Large numbers of second hand dealers, particularly in New York and Chicago, are selling the "bio present. toys such as pedal-propelled automobiles, tricycles and roller skates at three and even four times their prices when new.
 @pokeamen for She tog Industry said they undsHnteed lhe same eon4
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-23
No Electric Ice
 Box For Miss Perkins

Boston, Oceober g. - CUP) - A lot of Americans may be waiting for the war to end, SO they can buy a new electric refrigerator, but not Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, she prefers her trusty old ice box.
 She told a woman labor repre-" sentative here yesterday, T have c perfectly good ice box that has served me for years. and the same ice man has been delivering ice to me for years"
 Madame Perkins explained that her ice man would not have as much ice cut to each year if she were to buy 6 refrigerators. T have never owned one and, even when they are plentiful again, I have no intention of buying olle," she said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-23
BRITISH GAIN
 2 MILES IN BIG HOLLAND DRIVE
BY J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press War COrFespondOnt)

BY J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press War COrrespondCnt)
 Supreme Headquarters, AEF, Paris, October 23. -- (UP) - British armor and infantry plunged forward more than two miles against weakening resistance today to within three and one-half miles of s Hertogenbosch, hub of the biggest transport network ir south-central Holland.
 It. Gen. Sir Miles c. Demp- sey's second Army forces, ad- vancing under cover of a 200- gun bombardment through the gray autumn gloom, were clamping an assault arc on s HertogenboSch, the capture of which would im- peril the stubborn Nazi stand In southwestern Holland.
 The British push on SS Hertogen. bosch gave powerful impetus to the Allied campaign to clear the sehed. ule estuary and open up the sea lanes to Antwerp, Canadian forces had captured Breskefs and Draai- brug, main strongpoints on the south bank of the estuary, and all but one of the German batteries on the north shore had been smashed.
 United Press War Correspondent Ronald Clark reported from the British front that c three. e.pronged drive on g Hertogenboseh was gain. ing steadily in oil sectors,
 One spearhead was driven through Middierode five miles southeast of g HertogenboSeh, to within three and one-half miles of the NaM. held stronghold Another gained 4,000 yards in Q thrust from the area of sehiendel, three and one- half miles south of Middlerode and seven miles southeast of g Hertos genboSch, A third advancing from the northeast reached the hamlet of Bruggen, four miles above g HertogenboSeh.
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MucArthur
 Revokes Jop Puppet Lows
BY RICHARD W. JOHNSTON

United Press War Correspondent
 MaeAFthufs Headquarters, Philips pines, Oct. g, (UP)-den. Doug. las MaeAFthur revoked the Japanese puppet laws today and inaugurated the rights of democracy for the people of Leyte.
 Tn c proclamation, celebrating the return Of members of the Philippines government to their homeland, the general said the Allied Armies were not conqueFors but rather procurors of civil liberties.
 With gunfire Fumbling in the background, the proclamation was read to . throng of happy Filipinos by c spokesman for MacArthur from tho steps Of the capitol build. ing in newiy-freed Taeloban.
 A great ovation went up from the crowd, gathered in brilliant sun- shine around the ornate capitol Of Leyte, as MacArthurs statement was read.
 To-day, I am happy to present your President Sergio Osmena and members of his cabinet" the proc. lamation read.
 We are here in this capital city of Leyte to establish and initiate the restoration and right Of self rule
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9th Captures Cervio Port

Rome, Oct. 23.--CuP)--MAshth Army troops. tlarusting up the Adrl. atic coast, captured the Port of Cervia, 12 miles south of Ravennh. 1t was announced today, and other Allied forces have enlarged the bridgehead over the Gavio river north of Ceeena.
 A communique said the troop1 operating in the Cesena area weke meeting stiff enemy opposition as they attempted to drive west aionN the highway running from Riminl to Bologna.
 Other Eighth Army troops push ing up from the south crossed the Rabbi river in the vicinity of Strada to bring their lines within l6 miles of Forli, another junction joint on the Pc Valleys main highway q miles west of Cesena.
 Heavy rain again hampered the American drive through the foothills of the Appennines toward Bologna. but a communique said the Fifth Army troops consolidated their xSs cent gains and made some local improvements in forward positIoNH which were less than nine mzl1f from Bologna.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-23
Delay In CI;s Vote Could Hold Up Election Results

All absentee ballots-soldiers' and civilians alike-must be counted on Nov. T in every state but II. These Il states have a total of 1lS elec- toral votes. Many persons are con- vinced that next months election will be a close one and for this req son, the service vote in one or more states may be vital factor.
 The II states where the soldier vote may be tabulated later than Nov. have these headlines at which acceptance or counting of delayed soldier votes must cease:
 Deadlines
 California, Nov. a; Colorado. Nov. a; Delaware, Nov. g; Florida, Nov. i7; Missouri. Nov. l0: Nebraska, Dec. 2; North Dakota, Dec. 6: penr- sylvania, Nov. a; Rhode Island,
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By LYLE 0. WILSON
Wy NA AAH7 Ns Jnlted Press Stan CorrespOndentl

United Press Stan CorrespOndenO
 New York, Oct. 2S-(UP)-There is at least a theoretical statistical possibility that delayed counting of soldier votes could keep the result of the Nov. presidential election in doubt for days or weeks.
 An oficial United Press compila- tion shows that upward of 4,00O bal- lots have been set to service men. If President Roosevelt and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey should come to a photo finish in the civilian voting, the winner might not be determined until the last votes from the mili- tary are counted. The deadline for the soldier vote count varies in dif- ferent states. ranging from election day h most states 10 Dec. 2 ln
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-23

ditions prevailed generally through the country and feared they would grow worse as Christmas neared.
 '"These are the meanest men in the world" said James L. Fri, man. aging director of the Toy Manufae- tlirers of the U. s. A., Inc, e trade association, referring to the black market operators. '"There is no con- trol over that type of thing at ali. This is q black market of the worst kind"
 Parents who feel that e child is entitled to one "big" present and a number of ''smaifs ones at Christ mas, win find that tho ''ldg'' pres- ents don't exist In Che legitimate trade, especially for children cider than seven. No tgicycles, rollof
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-23
2 De0d, 4 Injured
 In N. Y. Hotel Fire

New York, Oct. 23--(UP)-Two persons died and four were injured in fire of unknown origin on the sixth floor of the St. George Hotel today.
 One of the victims was a woman tentatively identified as Irene Schrage, p, of IS Hudson St. So- merville, Mass.
 The woman's body was found at the bottom of an air shaft. Police said she apparently had jumped to escape the flames.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-23
Hin1mIer Is Reported Deod

London, Oct. 23-UPl-The Sunday Chronicle published a special dispatch from Buch-- arrest yesterday reporting that Heinrich Himrnler, Maxi Ges- tapO chieftain, had been slain fin Budapest.
 The article said that details were lacking, but an unc0n- firmed report asserted that HlmmIer was shot at while driving an automobile through the streets of the Hungarian capital.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-23

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Train Nov for Post War Success.
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Oddities L
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BY UNITED PRESS

Boston, Oct. 23-(UP)-U. s. Rep Glare Boothe Luce, R., Conn, ap- peared at a press conference here wearing on her larel one rose in a bud vase pin. T invented 1t myself it myself" she explained. T got the tiny vase and had a jeweler make a gold camp pin to hold it. The water in the "a keeps the bud fresh all day"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-23

Boston, Oct. 2S.--CUP)-B Beginning a four-year course at Brston Uni versity. Harold Q. Durgin of North field figured that so attend all his classes h emust travel 5000 miles, spend c month of eight-hour riding, and spend 4950 in fares.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-23

Revere, Mass, Oct. 23-(UPl-Re- ceiylng a complaint of drunken singing" police went to a Beach street home where they found a horned owl hooting or. the piazza.
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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-01-27
Crow Estate Claims
Reach S1,551,327

The much-involved estate of the
late Appellate Judge Phil M.
Crow was. sued by Eva Knab Staley,
Kenton, clerk in the office of the
Scioto Conservancy District, for
$106, 6,880.86 which she alleges is due
on investments made for her by Grow
since the early 1900's. She claims
Grow never made an accounting of
the profits.
Mrs. Staley, whose husband, Harry
Staley, is a salesman, alleges she
gave $53,440.43 to Judge Crow to
loan on real estate mortgages and
contends the principal should at least
have doubled in value.
The suit brought to s1,551 ,32769
the claims against the estate which
is estimated at SS00,000.
The claims include 100000 for
the state as damages for alleged
excessive expense accounts of Judge
Grow; 100000 as the estate of
Mrs. Grow; S131, 200 by Mrs. Fran
ces Staeinle, Lima, for breach of
promise; S84,00 by Mrs. Inza Fogle,
Kenton, as due her late husband
from two estates administered by
Judge Crow, and 23,407.13 by P. A.
Kahle, Lima, on real estate trans
actions.
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"Befriends" Findlay
Man-Is Arrested
For Robbery

A Lima man who "befriended" a
Findlay resident, unable to find a
hotel room in the city, was arrested
by Lima police after he was accused
by his guest of robbing him of $39
during the night.
The Findlay man, Donald Cramer,
told police that he had met his host
in a Lima tavern and had been
invited to his home after the man
learned of his plight. He said when
he awoke his "befriender" and the
money in his wallet were gone.
Cramer said he picked up some
paper in the mans home, and turned
them over to police for Identification
of the accused man. A detective re-
called seeing the accused man in
several night spots spending money
and located him at 7 a. m. in a
Public square tavern. When arrest
ed the man had $50 in his sock,
police reported.
No charges had been filed by noon
Thursday as the man was held in
the city jail pending further ques-
tioning by police officials.
The Findlay man said he and his
acquaintance went to the Lima mans
room at 2 a. m. and the last he re-
membered before going to sleep, his
host was still up.
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Pleasant Hill

Mr.. Cleo Garau called on Mr.. S.
H. Barnes and Mrs. Cora Huber, Mr..
and Mrs. Joy Huber and daughter.
Mrs. Gerald Huber is patient at
the Lima Memorial hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Althauser and
Waldo Spence spent Sunday evening
at the S. H. Barnes home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Stratton
and family, Mr.. and Mrs. Morris
Bell and family were Sunday guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Orton Stratton.
Mrs. Cleo Garau spent the week
end with her sister, Miss Martha
Coulter of Dayton.
Mr.. S. II. Barnes is seriously i'll
at his home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gleason and family
of Lima were Saturday evening
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Gleason and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Althauser spent
Wednesday evening with Raymond
Thompson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Lung and
daughter spent Thursday evening
with Mr.. and Mrs. Dennis Brauen
and family.
Joy X. Huber and daughter called
on Mr.. and Mrs. David Holman, Sun
day evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Gleason
and family were Sunday afternoon
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Dennis
Brauen and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Hess and
family of Findlay were Sunday
guests of Miss Nellie Huber and
Mrs. Lille Fett.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Jennings
and Rodney, Mr.. and Mrs. Winston
Jennings and son were Sunday din
ner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. |. NJ
Jennings of Beaverdam.
Miss JoAnn Barnes spent Saturday
with Sondra Sue Huber.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Younkman and
Nolan, Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Phillips
called on Mr.. and Mrs. Harold
Younkman and sons, Sunday after
| noon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Winston Jennings
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and son spent Sunday evening with
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Hauenstein
at the Lew Hauenstein home.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Huber enter
tanned the Victory class, Friday
evening. Those present were Mr..
and Mrs. Lamar Basinger, Mr.. and
Mrs. Dennis Brauen, Mr.. and Mrs.
Gerald Huber, Mr.. and Mrs. Willard
jennings, Mrs. Sarah Oats, Mrs.
Mildred Gleason and Mrs. Esco
Huber. Guests were Mrs. Maude
Stimmel, Mrs. Cora Huber, Eileen
and Elwood Brauen, Rodney Jen-
nings, Sondra Huber, Marlene and
Mickey Gleason, Don Oates and
Jimmy Huber.
Sunday diner guests in the Russell
Huber home were, Mr.. and Mrs.
Berdell Huber and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice
Criblez, Robert Criblez and Miss Ida
May Arnold.
News want-ads bring results.
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Six Perish AS Home
Burns

Six persons perished in fire that
swept through a farm home near
Spencerville.
Coroner Harry Lewis identified
the victims as:
Mrs. Sadie Messer Handshoe, 80;
her sister, Cletha Messer, 10, and
Mrs. Handshoe's fourschildren, Ruby
Murle, 7; Palestine, 6; Paul Glen,
3, and Charles Donald, eight months.
James Handshoe, the husband and
father, was at work in the Lima
Tank Depot as the fire started.
He reached the farm at the same
moment the firemen from Spencer
vile arrived, but the five room home
was destroyed then and no sign of
life was evident.
Lewis said the fire apparently
started from coal or oil stove, both
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$4,000 Pledge Win
War Effort

Twelve thousand Lima employees
pledged themselves ito do my best
to be on my job at all times to help
win the war"
As Lima war workers went on the
offensive, promising to be present
ees" rather than letting others plead
with them mot to be absentees."
Each worker who signs the pre-
sentee pledge receives lapel but
ton, and promises to mail a copy
Of his pledge to one person in the
armed forces, either a relative or
friend, assuring them of full sup
port to the man in uniform.
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Teacher Hired At
Pandora

Robert Honn, of Findlay, is a new
teacher in Pandora high school, ac-
cording to a statement made Thurs
day by the board of education at
Pandora.
Mr.. Honn, who will continue to
reside at Findlay, will teach chem
istry, general science, world history
and English.
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farm residents, were killed by a
train at grade crossing near their
home. Double funeral services were
held in Shelby.
The two have a son and a daugh-
ter. Mrs. Swartz was the daughter
of Mrs. j. B. Stambaugh of Ada,
where four of six brothers and sis
ters reside.