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Western Front
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strength helped smash the Germans
loose from their strangling hold on
the life line at Veghel.
En- route to the north branch
OF the Rhine, which winds along
the southern suburbs of Anthem.
the British and Americans made q
union with hard-pressed Polish re-
Inducements who had landed two
days earlier to take some of the
pressure of the Tommies in Arm
hem.
The Germans were summonine
every tank and trooper from North
ern Holland to throw into the bat
tie for Anthem.
"a Berlin broadcast said the
lighting will determine the fate
Of the whole western front" and
one commentator said the Brit
ish now held only the suburb
Of" Oosterbeek. The city itself
was pictured as q "smoldering
ghost town.
Digging In Along Rhine.
A press dispatch from the LIST
Army positions inside the Siegfried
1ne-southeast OF the battle for
Holland - declared the Germans
were feverishly digging in on the
east bank of the Rhine indicating
the high command foresees the COL
lapse Of Notifications to the west
Standing at bay on their home
soil. the German troops gave no in
dication of fight even thoush they
finally were routed from Stolberg
the city six miles east OF the Sieg-
fried Lines fortified outpost OF
Aachen.
Nor was there any sign of enemy
weakening on the Bird Army front
where on the plains of Lorraine east
OF Nancy the biggest tank battle
ever fought on French soil thun-
dered into its fifth day. Sixty more
enemy tanks were knocked out.
But as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
declared in press conference at an
advanced command post in France
the military position of Germany is
hopeless and the length of the wal
depends on how long the army can
stand the terrific pounding from
west, south and east and on how
long the Gestapo can rule the Reich
36,3S9 Captured in Brest.
Gen. Eisenhower asserted the Ger
mans could no longer mount q
really effoctiva co,,ptnrofFo,e;,,o
and further fighting meant only
further destruction for Germany
without hope Of changing the out
come.
The Germans suffered another
blow to their manpower in the fall
of the Breton port of Brest, it was
officially announced. The bag OF
prisoners was 36,389, the second
largest roundup of the enemy in the
battle of France.
The fighting in Holland, however
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Gasoline in STORAGE
Nears Prewar Level
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Gasoline stocks now are ut vir-
tually prewar levels. but only about
half the supply can be spared for
civilians, Deputy Petroleum Admin
istrator Ralph K. Davies said yester-
day.
In 1941, before the war and heavy
military demands, approximately 90
per cent Of storage stocks went to
motorists and other civilian users,
he said.
Mr.. Davies estimated gasoline
stocks in the United States on Sep
TENDER 2 at 1881 900 barrels, COM
pared to 80,377 900 barrels on the
corresponding date in 1871. He said
81 per cent Of present stocks were
ciyilian-grade gasoline. The rest
Is earmarked for military and in
dustrial requirements.
A similar relationship applies to
refinery production Of gasoline, Mr.
Davies reported.
He said also the Nations stock
pile Of home-heating oil and Diesel
engine fuel is nearing prewar levels.
But this increase, he added, rs
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Allied Night Raiders
Follow Up Attacks on
Sudetenland, Austria
~ ths Associated pres..

~ tbs Associated Press.
LONDON. Sept. 23.--Allied night
bombers, held back for several days
by bad weather, were over the Reich
again tonight. the German radio
warned In sounding the alarm
against renewed two-way pound
ings from the west and south.
The Mediterranean-base forces
which have been hitting Hungary
and Yugoslavia daily, struck In me-
dium strength at industrial targets
In Sudetenland, Rome announced
and also. hit railway yards in
Southern Austria and seven bridges
In Northeastern Italy.
1t was announced also that
Mitchell bombers had found the
italian cruiser laramie at the port
of La Spezia and left her burning
f1ercely from three attacks. The
vessel was In a position to be used
as a block ship.
Sudeten Results Unobserved.
The Sudetenland targets were
bombed through intense anti-air-
craft fire, overcast and q smoke
screen, so that results were not OBJ
served. Good results were report
ed, however, on the Austrian rail
yards.
From Cairo it was announced
that the Raj set fire to a 1000 ton
vessel at Samos Island in the con.
tlnulng campaign to hamper or
prevent German evacuation of the
Aegean Islands.
In Germany fires still burned in
the Kassel and Munich industrial
areas as results of Fridays heavy
attacks by 1900 American heavy
bombers from the south and west.
Yanks Bomb Nazi Transport.
Delayed reports summarizing
Fridays activities by the American
9Th Air Force fighter bombers based
In France said more than 200 tons
OF bombs were unloaded on German
transport and other targets in the
Cologne. Coblenz and Trier areas
with 259 railway cars destroyed or
damaged, 10 locomotives and Is
tanks or tracked vehicles hit. and
ID buildings, including an arsenal,
successfully bombed.
Credit for surrender of one of
the main strong points at Boulogne
before the fall of that port to the
Canadians was given to Raj rocket
nrlng planes that attacked it a few
nights ago.
On Friday night Raj Mosquitoes
attacked German railways and
oarges along the Schelde and as
Tar south as Emmerich, gateway of
Holland and Germany, where the
main railway runs north. Emmerich
is a gap through which the Ger
mans might try to pour aid to their
armies on the lower Rhine 10 miles
east of Nijmegen.
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was an indication Of the German
will to resist.
Hundreds Of Hitler's soldiers died
In their tracks rather than retreat
as the British End Army fought up
opposite Anthem. The Tommies
Travelled over a road where fighting
still ragged on both sides and where
the Germans often were close
enough to sweep It with artillery.
The base of operations at Find
hoven was widened a mile or so on
both sides, with the British ad-
vancing well beyond Vessem, eight
miles to the west.
Rotterdam Isolated.
A Dutch government spokesman
said the Germans had flooded the
entire western stretch Of Holland
from Amsterdam 10 miles south
through Utrecht and Breda, isolat-
ing the big city Of Rotterdam.
This broad flood zone, which the
Dutch estimated would ruin the soil
for cultivation for the next 10 years,
covered the retreat Of the Germans
pulling out Of Northwestern Belgium
across the Schelde River.
Radio Orange, free Netherlands
station in London, reported the Ger
mans were preparing to destroy the
great harbor works at Amsterdam.
The Canadian lst Army wiped out
the last German positions south of
the Leopold Canal and pressed
enemy remnants into a narrow strip
% miles long on the south bank OF
the Schelde from Zeebrugge east
ward to Terneuzen.
Doughboys Of the LIST Army who
conquered Stolberg, after 4 days
of sanguinary street fighting, found
the city a smoking ruins from days
OF Smelling.
Naxis Throw in Tanks.
Southeast of Stolberg, concen-
trated artillery fire broke up a big
German counterattack with heavy
losses. A counterattack also was
checked north of Stolberg near
Geilenkirchen.
The enemy threw more tanks and
infantry into a strong counterattack
east of the Luxembourg town of
Diekirch. forcing the Americans to
give some ground. Resistance also
was stiffening near the Siegfried
Line fortress of Prum, to the north
of this fighting.
tThe Berlin radio said that in
fighting in the Diekirch area the
Americans were driven from Ger
man soil at the frontier village
Of Wallendorf and lost Al tanks)
The whole LIST Army front was
more or less static as the Germans
Slapped their fighting strength in
counterattacks A front dispatch
from Associated Press Correspondent
Don Whitehead said the Germans
had few top-notch divisions left
and older men, boys and cripples
were appearing among requirements
Southwark on the 3rd Army front
American troops broke up a Ger
man counterattack five miles south
of the French railway city of Metz
which still is in enemy hands.
IA Miles From Belfort
AP correspondent Yves Gallagher
said the Germans were being beaten
in every battle, but were fighting
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Treasury Secretary reported this
fact to Mr.. Roosevelt who thereupon
wrote Secretary Stimson directing
that the handbook be written to
incorporate provisions for q tough
handling Of Germany. He also Gre
ated the Cabinet Committee.
Those familiar with the work of
the committee say that thus far Its
work has shown no ground for a
meeting of minds between Secre-
taries Stimson and Morgenthau as
to the policy to be followed, beyond
the fact that both agree, as does
Mr.. Hull, that, by whatever means,
Germany must be rendered unable
to make war In future.
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Peace Policy
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Poland's loss of eastern territory
to the Soviet Union; OBJ Russia
wants German labor battalions put
to work on the Soviet Union recon-
struction; Co With her own huge
needs for manpower. Russia is not
interested in prolonged military &C.
cupation of Germany and would be
willing to have Britain, the United
States and other Allied countries do
the job.
Secretary Hull is known to be
determined that whatever plan is
decided on finally here must be
agreeable to Russia. He feels that
1t Is essential to have British
American-Soviet cooperation In i'm
mediate postwar Europe as a basis
for long-range cooperation in a
world security organization
Plan Outlined.
Secretary Morgenthaus plan as
understood by those who have fol-
lowed its development from the
first to provide:
l. Removal from Germany to de-
vastated countries of what ever in
dustrial machinery those countries
want; destruction of the rest of
Germany's industry.
2. Permanent closing of whatever
mines remain in the territory of
the postwar German state.
3. Cession of the Saar and West
ern German industrial areas to
France as well as cession to Poland
of Eastern German areas which
Russia might want handled that
way.
4. Dissolution of large German
landholdings into small farms which
would enable the 40 to so million
people remaining in Germany to
exist largely on an agricultural
basis.
S. Refusal by other countries to
extend any assistance, economic or
otherwise. to the people of Germany
90 that they would have to make
their own way as best they could
out of the wreckage Of their war
on Europe. e..
6. Prolonged control Of Germany
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ant to Ambassador John G. Winant
in London with personal rank Of
Minister was announced by the
State Department yesterday.
Mr.. Armstrong will leave soon for
London, where it is understood he
will relieve Ambassador Winant of
some Of the work as American rep
resentative on the European Ad-
visory Commission.
Mr.. Armstrong, 81, has had wide
European experience, and from
time to time has been a consultant
to the State Department.
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Italy
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northwest to the industrial city O.
Milan.
The pro-Allied Milan radio declar.
Cd the Germans had been clearing
out of that area for several days
and general strike had been called
IN the Piedmont to hamper their
retreat to the Bremen Pass.
Report Unconfirmed.
There was no official confirmat tor
OF this report, but heavy aerial
assault on communications In the
area OF Milan indicated that the
movement Of enemy troops was SUBJ
stantial.
Medium bombers singled out doz-
ems OF highway and railway bridges
from northeast of Venice westward
to Milan in an attempt to maroon
and destroy as much of Marshal
Albert Kesselring's army as posi-
BILE.
kesselrlng's position along the
whole Apennine front was becom.
Ing more precarious daily.
The Germans were still fighting
with all their wonted subbornnes,
IN the mountains, but they were
being forced to abandon consid
cradle equipment, and one prisone,
said he had been without food TO,
three days.
Destroyer Shells Transport.
The American destroyer Ludlow
hghting well ahead of Allied forces
driving up the Tyrhennian Sea
flank, Wednesday bombarded enemy
transport and rail yards at VENT.
mlgha, near the French Italian
border.
The Allied command in an Official
statement paid tribute to the Ca.
madam LIST Infantry Division for its
leading offensive role that broke
through the Adriatic sector of the
Gothic Line.
The statement said the division
commanded by Maj Gen. Christie
pher Vokes, with attached Greek
units and the British 2lst Armored
Brigade, had advanced through
"flercer artillery and mortar fire
than any previously faced in Sicily
or 1taly"
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now Offset by diversion Of (such)
products to the military" and no
increase in the civilian ALLEGATION
lis now in prospect"
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SodoIity PIons Cord Purty

The Blessed Virgin Sodality of St
Agnes Catholic Church, Cherrydale
will sponsor card party at $50
pm. Tuesday in the church audi
forum.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-14
A Step in the Right Direction

While the Government of the United States is at this time the greatest single customer of business, it is also the sole customer for many of the concerns that furnish jobs to the greatest number of workers.
 "If the Government should, at the end of hostillties, suddenly cancel its billions of dollars of orders and do nothing else, there would be a chaotic period before normal free enterprise and employment could be restored" editorializes the New York TlmeS-and adds: "Well-thought- out positive policies are required on the part of Government to bridge this tranSi- tion period But this does not necessarily mean @ stubborn continuance of the con- trols that are now in existence after the need for those controls has passed. On the contrary the sudden termination of hostilitieS may require in certain cases the quickest possible abandonment of controls"
 All responsible quarters are now agreed that when the war ends, it would be a confusion of thought that would lead to criminal waste for the Government to go on ordering the production of planes and tanks and shells in undimlniShed amount just to continue to "give employment, In the same way 1t would only retard con- version and prolong disorganization to keep many of the existing wage and price controls after they had outlived their usefulness
 Putting its finger on the spot" the Times editorial offers this practical con- clusion: "Now and during the unavoid- able transition period 1t will clarify pub- lie thought If one guiding rule is followed, This is that the burden of proof for the retention of each wartime control should RS fT2Regc, arSsr war ceases, not on vlose who believe that the control should be dropped but on those who insist on re- taining 1t. We do not want any postwar controls merely for controls sake"
 Donald Nelson, recently deposed War Production Chief, took the initial steps in authorizing manufacturers of many kinds of civilian goods to resume production but his whole program emphatically pro- vided that items for civilian use must not interfere with the production of neces- sary military goods. Apparently this was step in the right direction. But so what?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-14
Don't Be Fooled

When the government goes into bus mess in competition with private enter prise the people are lulled into false sense of security. Federal projects are exempt from the burdens and reSponSi- bilities placed on private enterprise For instance, hundreds of millions of dol lars have been spent to build the Bonne- vile and Grand Coulee projects in Wash ington and Oregon, the primary objective of which Is electric power development. However, the bulk of the cost will not be charged to power development, but to the taxpayer.
 Through the accident of war, Bonne- vile power found Q market in war indus tries which, If Bonneville had not existed and private power companies had been allowed to develop, would have been sup piled by such companies the same as 1t was in other parts of the United States, without shortage or rationing of electric service. The Bonneville Administration says that 1t wants ito open up opportun- ities for free private enterprise" and that Bonneville as free public enterprise works hand in hand with private enter prise." The Bonneville Administration has done and is doing its level best to eliminate free private enterprise in the electric field throughout the entire North- west It is not free public enterprise, 1t Is a socialized tax-exempt political agency which does not recognize the reg uiatory laws of the states in which 1t oper- ates, which apply to its private electric competitors. It escapes all municlPal, state and Federal taxes which are levied on all free" private industry and citi- Sens, It enjoys the advantages of roads, police protection, schools, etc.. without without paving a dime toward their maintenance, and its uses franked envelopes with the government warning, Penalty for pri- vate use to avoid payment of postage $300" a...
 When Bonneville states that in the hrst five years of it's operation 1t paid profit of seven million dollars into the Federal Treasury, 1t should also state how many millions of dollars in state and local taxes 1t failed to pay in order to snoW Ns..tn tnaV "profit". No, Bonneville isn't "free.- if is subsidized political enterprise - the foundation for state socialism.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-14
A FAINT BREEZE IN BOSTON
(New York Herald -Trbune)

(NeW York Herald-Tfbune)
 o dispatch from Boston says that c revolt Is brewing" against the "illiterate censorship" which has given New England of recent years 'an artistic black eye" We may hope 50, but we shall wait and see, retaining Q modest amount of skepticism. The latest outrage against common sense came when the Boston board of censors, head cd by Q woman, ruled that the fine old muSlc-hall melodranla, "The Drunkard," could not be shown in a night club because the title Itself might encourage people to drink too much, The night club changed the title and put on the show without interference. Moreover, recently in Boston Katherine Dunhams excel- lent troupe of dancers were forced to put on tights and to change some of their tableaux. While all of this was happening (and 1t Is odd how often this is the case in cities where censorship Is rampant) the burles. que shows. according to the Boston dispatch, "wallowed in filth" The Boston commentator says that the censorship didos do not really re. fleet the sentiment of the commun. ity but are the result of politics gone sour," whatever that means Let the promised revolt come, and after 1t another towering of New England. We shall believe 1t when we see It.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-14
The New Order

The present United States Supreme Court dealt body blow to the founda- ton of insurance when 1t classed 1t as Interstate business and subject to the antitrust laws. For 75 years insurance has been subject to state regulation. At present the insurance industry and tr- surance commissioners of the various states, which regulate the industry, are hanging in the air waiting for the Federal bureaucracy to figure out how to displace state supervision with Federal Supervis- ion.
 To remedy the situation, the House Of Representatives voted 283 to 54 to amend the Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts so they shall not be construed to apply to the business of insurance" Now the matter will come before the Senate. There Is no longer any definition for in- terstate commerce. Certainly a trunk manufacturer whose agent sells his prod uct to travellers who cross many state Hines, is as much in interstate commerce as an insurance company whose agen sells an insurance policy.
 Tn the face of such confusion, industry fs expected to absorb the postwar unen- plcyInent load, pay taxes and maintain prosperity.. Or do the directors Of our growing centralized government want k1at to occur? Is their real objective a program to make 1t difficult for private enterprise to carry on, thereby forcing government deeper into business?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-14
Problem Child

Allied troops in Italy can't be blamed fl they find the native residents attitude little hard to take. Correspondents dispatches indicate that the average 1tal- ian Is pretty discontented. He complains that food and other necessities were more plentiful, and utilities and transportation services were better under the Germans. Obviously this average Italian has warped conception of Allied strategy and aims. It is hard for him to believe that the Allies landed in Italy, not primarily to improve his lot in life and restore his comforts, but to attack the Axis at weak point and speed the winning of the war. The pIoody, difficult Italian campaign Is nearing it's end. But there arc still Nazi and Fascist Italian forces to be overcome before the southern door to Hltler's Ger many Is opened. To finish this job Is the reason for the Allies presence in Italy. It is easy to understand their annoyance when, in the midst of 1t all, people not long transferred from the status of enemy to co-belligerent start gripping about accommodations.
 But 1t is also easy at distance, to pity the Italian attitude while not approving 1t. For here we have perfect example of what happens to a dictator-ruled nation when the dictator is gone. For more than 20 years in Italy the state was all. It told the people how to live and what to think, whom to love and hate, how many children to have. For more than 20 years Individuality was stifled and opposition suppressed. The jobs of thousands de- pended on their loyalty and obedience to the state. And when, on the brink of defeat, a palace clique kicked MIssolini out, there was nothing to build on. The great majority of Italians have no political experience, responsibility or initiative. Who among them really knows the work. lags of democracy, the love of individual freedom that is worth fighting for, the duties that go with the privileges of that freedom7 Only handful of old men.
 The younger ones who should be pro- Viding vigorous and dynamic leadership have grown to manhood in regimented atmosphere in which the paternal state always knew best, and would take care of them If they stayed passively in in line and avoided thinking and complaining. It is tragic but not surprising that the Italians complain. They have read the Four Freedoms, and are disappointed that these freedoms didn't start func. tioning at once. This condition will not be overcome quickly. And 1t will be encountered all over again in Germany We shall find that totalltarianiSnl IS lingering disease with a slow, painful convalescence, and with plenty of head aches for doctor as well as patient.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-14
THE QUEBEC CONFERENCE
(New York Times>

If the meeting of Mir. Roosevelt
 ard MT. Churchill at Quebec coin- cldes with the opening Of Q political campaign in the United States, the primary responsibility for this tim- ing must reside with General Ei- senhower and the troops which he ccmmands. The war in western Eur ope has developed with tremendous speed. It iS plainly the prospect of an earlier victory over Germany than MT. Churchill. for one, had dared to hop9 was possible that now makes necessary Q new consuita- ton between the heads of the Brit- ish and American governments aa to tho next steps that must De talk en. This is not merely another poe litical exhibition Of the President'G powers as Commander nChief. II ie something more than hls tour oi inspection ol West Coast naval haseq which could hove hNsn maaa