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Evening star., 1944-02-09
Fourth-Term Queries
Parried by President
With Bible Reference
By ]. A. FOX.

President RooSevelt>S FOURTH term
intentions still are a secret-hidden
in cloud of words.
His news conference late yester-
day made a second attempt within
a month to diSpell the fog, but with
out success. The President was
slightly more loquacious than on the
previous occasion when he passed
off a question about the forthcom-
ing presidential race as picayune
but he was no more informative.
Would you accept fourth-term
nomination. he was asked.
Well, the President parried, that
is one of them things on which he
would have to go back to the usual
old story which he described as the
killer of Stories-there is no news on
that.
Queried on Boston Story.
Politics, subject usually taboo
at White House press conference
was injected when a reporter asked
about q 'rumor' that officials were
considering a proposal to put off
the campaign a year. The Boston
Globe a few days ago printed a
story to that effect.
The President wanted to know
how this could be done.
The reporter said that was what
he wanted to know.
His questioner was coming to the
wrong place for this information
Mr.. Roosevelt responded. Some peo-
pie, he continued. have not read
the Constitution. Unfortunately. he
concluded, he has.
linen came a question about a
suggestion advanced by the Buffalo
Courler-Express for a coalition
ticket, with Republican named as
Mr.. Roosevelt's running mate. to as
Evening star., 1944-02-09
Argentine Paper Revived

BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 9 (P,.-
The pro-Nazi newspaper Ell Pam
pero, which was closed by the Ar
gentine government January 81 for
criticizing the rupture of relations
with Germany and Japan, was rein
carnated yesterday under the name
of Ell Federal.
Evening star., 1944-02-09
Negro Reporter Attends
Presidents Press Porley

A colored reporter, Harry Nc
Alpin, representing the Atlanta
World and the Negro Newspaper
Publishers Association. was admit
ted to President Roosevelts news
conference yesterday.
Mr.. McAlpin, graduate Of the
University of Wisconsin, received
full White House credentials. The
Atlanta World is a daily news
paper.
After the conference, Mr.. Roose-
welt greeted Mr.. McAlpin and shook
hands with him.
Evening star., 1944-02-09
McKeIdin to Be Honored

Mayor Theodore R. McKeldin OF
Baltimore will be guest of honor at
a Lincoln Day dance to be held at
9 pm. Friday at the Prince Georges
Golf and Country Club by the
County Republican Club. Proceeds
will go to the Prince Georges Cen
eral Hospital at Cheverly.
Evening star., 1944-02-09
Roosevelt Explains
Weapon on Desk
Is Commando Knife

BY the Associated Press.
A vicious-looking weapon was
on President Roosevelt's desk at
his news conference yesterday
and the Chief Executive told
reporters it was the latest Com
mando knife-perfectly balanced
and the kind you can throw.
Evening star., 1944-02-09
FOUND.
BRING DESERTED

BRING DESERTED. STRAY ANIMALS f.m
, vicinity Congress Hts. and AnacofNa
t4s Animal Protective Association. af1a0
Wheeler @rd. sc. f20D, or report in writing
No phone this site at present
EYEGLASSES. bifocals gold rim. in Hill
yard optical case. Call NE. 1545.
Evening star., 1944-02-09
REWARD $500.

Pair diamond earrings, in small brown
silk purse; lost Feb. 4, downtown section:
diamonds over karat each, set in yellow
gold, for pierced ears. Call R r. RunkleS,
ME. OBJ or GE 51q0
Evening star., 1944-02-09
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-03

tt0tat EAkC ~
 ?. He shall not hit me or call me names.
 3. He shall allow me more money for food and home expenses
 {. I am to have an allowance for my personal use.
 5. He is to keep the yard neat and clean.
 6. On his days of he is to nov the lawn.
 '. I am to have every other Tuesday of to attend women's clubs
 8. He is to take me out once a week.
 9. He is to give me kisses and affection.
 10. He can keep siO A week spending money.
 Fine" seE Eiis Homer Fine, the judge said when he had finished reading. But ] think the husband should have an oppor- tnnity to draw up few"
 So Doyle sat down with a pencil and paper and wrote out the follow ing:
 l. She shall not break or destroy property in the home.
 2, She shall not get angry be- cause she can't go out every time she feels like 1t,
 3. She shall count to 50 before doing anything.
 {. She shall not gossip to me about the neighbors.
 s, When she goes to the store she shall buy everything she wants ai one time so she won't have to make 10 trips a day.
 6. She shall set the table e0m- pletely before We sit down to eat. so she won't have to be getting uE and down all the time.
 Mrs, Doyle agreed and both par- ties signed.
 Follow these rules and you'll be all right" the judge said. Come back to me September ' and report how t is working out"
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La Possion0 Heights FoII
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South of the historic city. bitter fighting ragged along the valley of the Greve. where South African forces and British Guardsmen bay- oneted the Germans from Strada. seven miles below Florence. and Poneta. two miles farther to the southwest.
 Tn the mountains east of highway 69. other 8th Army units advanced two miles north of Monte Maggie and Monte Scalari to a point just southwest of Nazi-held Illcisa. East of the Prato Magno Mountain Pass the British also pushed enemy troops back up the Arno river gorge and drove on to within sight of Eubbiano. seven miles north of Arez- 70 and 35 miles southeast of Flor ence.
 Brisk patrol activity and artillery exchanges continued on other 9th Army sectors along the Adriatic coast and on the 5th Army front be- low Pisa.
 There was no further word from Allied headquarters on German re- ports that Pisa had been evacuated by Nazi troops.
 fThe German DINE Jews agency today broadcast new reports of AL lied naval activity of tie Italian Coast and hinted that new landing operations north of the present bat- tie line are imminent. Similar re- ports have been circulated repeated ly by the enemy radio during ths past few weeksD
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Byrnes Leeds In Roce

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 of Winsted and outlying towns within the 3ist district appear to be in majority favor of Byrnes. The all important dowp-the-yalley vote. of late. has developed strongly to- ward the Watertown mans candi- daey with the delegation from 6ey- nl0ur said to be comprised of strong support within its ranks. Sources today declared that these valley towns will possibly swing into the ByFnes camp by Monday, the day of the Congressional convention.
 Meanwhile the candidacy Of Peter Higgins of TorringtOn who has been placed in the race by the C.IlO. re- ceiyed the indoFsement last night of Mayor William 4. Patten of Tor Tlngton. Mayor Patten cited Higgins as "a lifelong Democrat and hard worker for the party" It Is be- lieyed, according to reliable Tep0dss, that Higgins will receive the Tor" rtngtoD vote on the first ballot
 Atty. Michael Blanstield of Wa- terbury who has declared that he "wIll receive the nomination" yes5 terday scored the attitude of the CJO. union leaders toward their attempts to disqualify him as a candidate. The union has bitterly opposed MF. Blansfleld charging him with being a "laboF-baiter." 1" The local man has challenged union authorities to study his rec- ord before making such claims" It is said that the union is favorable to Mr. RyTpes although the latter has not made any oyertures for thelT support. Mfr, Byrnes is asso- elated with the Waterbury Tool O., Division of Viekers Inc.
 The Watsytowp man, sources de- clare, Is heavily favored by tbs women groups within the Fifth DIS. tFlet, The Congressional delegation Is composed Of considerable of the women'g vote. Recently the Demo. cratic Woman's Federation Of Llteh1 llald County endorsed the candidacy of MY. Byrnes and that Of Mrs. Chase Going Wo0dhoase for U, Q. senator. The latter has received tae indOrsement Of the Maloneys smith factlon of the state party,
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and Services.
 Agreement Expected Agreement was expected later to- day on: Agriculture. Labor, Public Expenditures. Social Welfare and Public Health. Taxation. Veterans Affairs and Water Resources.
 The speed with which the 2a Re- publican governors, Dewey and Gov. John W. Bricker. vice presidential nominee. apparently are able to deal with these complex problems indicated that the governors were following the lead of the New York CT who came here with specific pro- posals on all but two or three.
 Brownell revealed the scope Of the contemplated Dewey Bricker campaign after a series of talks here with governors attending the conference He refused to say when the speech-making would begin or to discuss campaign plans in detail. But Brownell said he was talking with the governors about their ace tive participation in the campaign and also regarding suitable dates on which Dewey and Bricker should come into their states.
 Late last night Brownell had talked politics and speaking dates with eight governors in eight hours, including chief executives from both Atlantic and Pacific coast states. They were: Griswold, Neb.: Schoep- el. Kan; Tihye. Minn.: Kelly. Mich; Bottolfsen, Ida: Langlie, Wash: Saitonstall. Mass, and Martin. Pa.
 Brownell leaves for Chicago today to establish a national committee headquarters in that city and to meet on Friday with Republican leaders fgom an ll-state area: Illi- nois, Iowa. Kansas. Ohio Michigan, Minnesota. Nebraska. North Dakota, South Dakota. Wisconsin and Indi- ara.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-03
Sh0re-The-Weolth Bandits Glue $50
 Refund To Victim
NEA relephoto.

EIartferd. Conn. Aug. B. fUPD-Pelice were looking te- day for two bandits who robbed Harry Singer Of sss in his home, and then handed him back s3e because ~we don't want G an
 Mrs. Singer answered the deorbell last night and the two men brushed her aside and ae. cssted her husband who had just finished a telephone con- versati0n.
 "Giye as your money they demanded.
 Singer handed ever his wall Set. and he. his wife and their ll-years-old daughter were locked in the bathroom.
 A few minutes later one Of the men opened the bathroom door and handed Singer the so.
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them to leave the trains,
 No buses or surface street cars were in operation. and it appeared the eity's residents would have to get to their jobs in this huge war production center in trucks and private cars and by foot.
 President Roosevelt had been sent . detailed summary of the situation by war mobilization director James ?, Byrnes and army officers had conferred with company officials. indicating the company might be permitted to operate the cars under military control # the government ls finally compelled to seize the property in order to maintain war production,
 All police reserves were called out and Negro sections. where trouble broke out in the early hours yes- teFday were under heavy guard. No disturbances had been reported since that time, police said, pos. slbly due in part to Q steady rain that fell ell Of yesterday it stlll was tNtNfsfkH NAFtJ tH19yf
 Two hundred persons were are rested in street hEawls. n were treated for injuries, store windows were broken and number of Weap- Ons - raE0Ts, knives and pistols were eonfiseated.
 Sylvester Garrett, chairman of the Regional War Labor Board, failing to bring about 8 settlement here, presented the case to the full board in Washington. He said the dispute. touched off when eight Negroes were assigned to ears for trial runs under supervision Of ex- peFfeneed operators, hinged on 2 fair employment practice committee order to the e0IapAn yt0 cease rae. lal discrimination in asslg D Ing workers to Jobs, The eight Negroes were then 'upgFaded" from perters to operators,
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 and German U-boat lairs of BrcEt, Lorient. vannes and St. Nazaire and thus virtually end the submarine menace stemming from the Bay Of Blscay.
 The British Second Army, extend- lnR Us break-through Co i7 miles be- low. Caumont. was fighting a bitter street battle for the railway and highway hub of Wire. central hinge of the front. and also was locked in heavy fighting all along a line stretching % miles north te villers- Bocage.
 tA London broadcast neard by NEG said the British had captured Vire.)
 stubborn Resistance
 The Germans were resisting stub- bornly along the British front. drawing of some armor from their positions south of Caen athwart the northern highway and railway to Paris to meet the new threat to their flank. The British held a strong roadlock across the vire-vassy road about six miles east of Wire.
 American forces on the British flank narrowed a German salient northwest of Wire with further gains southeast of Percy, hammer ing back the German Second and ll6th Panzer divisions.
 Along the southern road to Paris, American armored columns over whelmed German resistance at Le Mesnil-Adelee and in the vicinity Of st. Pois, four and a half miles east southeast and east northeast Of Brecey and B miles east of Avran- ches.
 The advances put the Americans some l50 miles west Of Paris along the southern road. while British and Canadians forces remained chcck- mated east of Caen along the north ern road li2 miles from the Frerch capital.
 The armored advance into Brit tany was described as an cavalry mans dream" The Americans had left the last organized German re- sistance far behind and now were pausing only briefly to knock out isolated German pockets and take on fuel and supplies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-03
"Nozis' FctoI HourNeors"
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smash its steel locks. Today the Germans in East Prussia hear the menacing thunder of our artillery. With the roar of our guns. fate knocks at GeFmany's door. Her fatal hour is approaching"
 (An Atlantic radio broadcast re- ported by the Stockholm newspaper Morgontidningen said the Russians had crossed the border into East Prussia at Eydtkuhnen and Lyek in an advance along the Kaunas- Kongsberg railway. Atlantic said the crossings had been confirmed by the Moscow radioD
 Soviet mobile artillery began pouring a torrent of steel and eg- plosiyes into fortified East Prusslan border towns while ground forces surged westward from newly-eap- tured Didvytzial. Vilkaviskis and Widgiry. all eight to ii miles from the boundary in powerful drive along both sides of the Kaunas' KongsbeFg railway.
 Smash Westward
 Some $50 miles to the south, Mar shaI Ivan 6. Konev's list UkrainiaD army also was smashing westward toward the pge-war frontiers of Germany, with one column pene- trating to within l2 miles Of the heavily industrial province of Eilesia.
 The advance engulfed PzesEow. 70 miles northwest of Przemysl on the Lw0w- Berlin railway; Rozalln. g miles northwest Of RzeszoW and closest point yet reached to the southeastern frontiers of Germany. and RtFzyzoW, IS miles southwest of RzeszOW and 8i miles east Of the ancient Polish stronghold Of Krakow,
 Soviet authorities were silent on the progress of the battle Of War; saw and the fighting for crossings of the Vistula river south of War; saw. Front dispatches had FepoFt- ed the Russians fighting in the east bank suburbs Of Warsaw and streaming across the Vistula in a move to outllank the Polisl. capital and split the German forces in western Poland.
 (0eTman br0adcasts said the Russ slams had crossed the Vistula and reached Etasz0W, B miles beyond the river, 26 tniles northwest of R0zaIln and only 100 miles from silegla, but claimed the G0Viets had been thrown back across the river by Q Nazi e0lnteHvattaekl
 The Germans hurled an artillery, g tank and two infantry divisions fresh from the Central Reich into fierce eounteF-attacks on the eastern approaches to East Prussia, But Gen; JvRn D. Chegplakh0vskys 2Fd White Russian Army put the 0eE- mans tO T0ut, forcing them to rec treat co rapidly that they hed DO time to blow up highway end Fsll' RosAs ChekeA
 Many roads were found ehoked with trucks end arms ebaEaened intact, In one sector, Soviet tanks destroyed . German nllllkeFy train en route t0 the front, while ln en. other, a German hRttaIl0n--IloTm Iy 1000 neIl-Was completely dee stFoyed while marching along 2 road.
 The Russians reached WidglFy, nine miles from the East Prussia border, after capturing KalvaFiIa, co miles southwest of Kaunaa, and advancing another % miles k0 the west. The faIl Of vilkavlskis, . few miles to the north and only t1 miles east Of the big railway junction of
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 steps to implement its new-found solidarity with the Allies by jam ming through all it's stages a bill granting amnesty to American, British and Russian nationals im- prisoned for or accused of security violations during Turkeys neutral fly.
 George Payloh and Leonid Korn- ilof. Russians imprisoned on charges of attacking German Am- bassador Baron Franz von Papen in February, i942. will be released Friday.
 Von Papen left Turkey by plane yesterday afternoon and Berlin an- nounced that the Turkish charge d'affaires would have to leave the German capital by this morning. Laurence Steinhardt, United States ambassador to Turkey, left Ankara for Washington yesterday to rec port. a dispatch said.
 The Exchange Telegraph Agency said the Japanese ambassador was expected to leave for Tokyo today, but added that there was no con- firmation Japan intends to sever re- latiOns with the Turks.
 Turkish police were shepherding 5000 members Of the Germany col- ony in Ankara to assigned areas for repatriation. One hundred were expected to leave by tonight and the remainder within about 10 days. German diplomats also were con centrating in Ankara to await ex- change for Turkish diplomats in Germany.
 Switzerland took over the protec- ton of German interests.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-03
Bombers BIitz Plane Plants
CcOntinaed from pase l)

WUMN4S4NGA ANNlM EM#G ~ ground troops on the Normandy funG
 Seventeen Allied aircraft were listed as missing from the daye operations although lo enemy nlaes were destroyed. supreme heaooNar. gers. AEF. announced in a com. muniqoe today. The Air Ministry listed two aircraft missing ln raids yesterday and last night bg the RAF bomber command on flying bomb sites and supply depots ln northern France.
 Other Targets
 Railway bridges at Lisle. Nantes Epone- Aterzieres. Mainvilliers, Noyen and Cinqmars in southern France were attacked with good results" hy medium bomeers, while others hit ammunition dumps at Caudebec. Montruil and Le Lade. and fUel dumps at Sens. St. ouen and Gene vIiliers.
 Heavy bom9ers attacked bridges In the Paris area and Loire river valley. as well as naval vessels in I.e Havre. Fighter bombers con. censrated on railroads. destroying locomotives, munitlon cars and tails over a wide area.
 Tn the Mediterranean theeter. me- dium forces of heavy bombers at- tackled enemy communications in northern Italy and a torpedo fac- tory and other objectives in soeth- efn France yesterday. Allied head quarters in Rome announced today.
 other heavy bombers pounded harbor installations at Genoa. while tactical aircraft struck at enemy supply lines behind the battle area and shipping in the Adriatic. ot- fensive sweeps also were carried out in Jugoslavia.
 Ten Allied aircraft were lost in the day and night operations. and three enemy planes were shot down. the Allied communique reported.
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llsh capital."D
 Military authorities in London believed the Poles were trying 10 push the German garrison across the vistula into the jays Of a trap now being closed by powerful Rus sian forces pounding through the eastern suburb of Praga.
 At noon today. the conamunique said. the underground fighters had extended the battle into the Ogroo Saski district in the heart Of War" saw. where the German military headquarters are located in the one time Polish foreign office builoing.
 Other units were reported engag- ing the Germans in the Ochota dis trict in western Warsaw. site Of the city's water filtration plant; in the Poiny Mokodow district in the south, and in the Zoliborz suburb in the northern part of the city.
 The high command said street fighting has been under way con tinuously since early Tuesday eve- ming. when the underground troops suddenly burst into action.
 The mysterious General Bors. commander of the Warsaw under ground, has been in contact with Eoiet commanders on the opposite bank of the Vistula and has appealed for ammunition and anu-tank weapons. the communiqne said.
 There was no definite information on the behavior of Polish civilians in the capital. but London obsery- CTS pointed out that when the bat- ties of Lwow and Wilno began even women, children and old men ojined in the street fighting and helped wipe out German machine gun nacfC
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Big Jump In Casualties
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 It was pointed out that these fig. nFes were based on announced eas- ualties and that announcements traIl actual fighting casualties by a matter of weekg-Weeks which in this case have seen American forces involved In Iome of their heaviest fighting yet lD Normandy and Italy, SO that the casualty rates undonbtS edly have been high.
 stlmson said the army casualties included 39,720 killed. e7,000 wound- ed, si,234 prisoners Of war, and S0,. SiD missing The nayy's list ilaclnd- ed I,eie dead, l5.eB3 wounded, e,703 missing and t,t60 prisoners of war. The Guam and Tlnian figures in- eluded i.230 dead. e.0e7 wounded and 33T missing.
 These totals add to 6a.7ee dead, iiD.oB0 wounded. ts.T03 prisoners and bo.6se missing Cor all services
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-03
GEN. DE yORDANA DIES

London. Aug. 3.CUP)-The Ger. man DNB News Agency reported from Madrid that Gen. Francisco Gomez De Jordana. Spanish foreign minister, died today
 Jordana died unexpectedly this morning at San Sebastian. DINE said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-03
PUT BLANKETS ON YOUR BUDcETl

Insterburg, put the SovieiS on roads leading to the border stations of Kybartat and Vladislavov.
 Both Wldgiry and Vilkaviskis lie south of the Kaunas- KoniesbeFg railway. North of the railway. the Soviets pushed through Dldvytziai. only eight miles from the East PTllssian frontier.
 North of Kaunas, Gen. Ivan c. Bagramian's list Baltic Army com- pletely cleared the Kiino-siauliai railway in heavy fighting and cap. tured Krakes, 77 miles east of the railway junction of Tilsit. whose fall would trap tens of thousands of Maxi troops in Lithuania and South egn Latvia,
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missiles, however, contain a one-ton explosive charge.
 In the new types. the robots ep- zine shuts of while still a eonslc- erabie distance from the objective and the bomb glides in almost soundlessly. with only the whistling scream of its slipstream to warn Of its approach.
 It also was revealed that, in addi- ton to their new get and rocket-pro- pelled fighter planes, the Germans have developed a two-tn-one pick aback" plane. nicknamed the "su- per-doodlebug" by RAP fighters.
 One appeared of the British sec- tor Of the Norman beacbhead dur ing the night Of July 2s-25 and was shot down by an RAP flyer, crash ing into the sea with a colossal eK- plosion.
 The new giant fying bomb is really an old twin-engined Junkers- BB hghteF-bomber carried beneath q MesserschmItt pilot, taking of to- gether in pickaback fashion, with all three engines running.
 The pilot flies to the target area and, while still beyond gun range, detaehes the Jupkers from his own lighter, converting the former into a glider bomb, which Is guided to the objective by remote controls In the lighters cockpit.
 The Junkers are packed with 4,. 900 to 5000 pounds of high eyplos- ives, but RAP flyers described them as seasy targets" because of their siow Gying speed.