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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-17
$6, 496, 795 Budget
 Is Likely For 1945
(NEA Telephoto)

A 1945 city budget appropriation of $6,496, ,795 seemed likely for adoption by the finance board next week, it was stated to The Demo- crat today.
 1 Although this figure is not final fcontiIIge1t upon possible sealing of the budget makeup, it will be ap- proximately the amount to be Sub- mitted for financing the 1945 city fiscal year. At present it is about $1 800 less than the current appro- priation of $6,497, 196.
 Original department appropria- tion requests in total as submitted at the first budget meeting of the finance board were in amount of $6,970,085.
 Requested appropriation of $251, = 800 were eliminated from inclusion within the proposed, next years budget at a meeting of the finance board last night. This reduction coupled with others made over the period of the last four weeks has resulted in the sharp reduction from the original requests.
 As result of the likely level of the new appropriation there seemed little doubt but that the current tax rate of 30 mills would be re- tained. Until recently there was the fear held that one mill in- crease would be necessary but an analysis today seemed to give evil dence to the fact that the current rate would be maintained.
 Reductions affected last night by elimination of various requested ap- propriations were made up in greatest individual amounts by the doing away with of such items as $42,000 for protection of the city's waterway system which will be transferred from the controllers general financial budget back to the water fund thus reducing the gen. eral fund by that amount.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-17
U. s. Time Corp. To Sell Property

A notice to stockholders of the U. S. Time Corp. was for warded today containing infOr- nation pertinent to negotia- tiOns by the company for sale of it's property comprised of buildings and land located on Cherry street and elsewhere.
 Atty. Edward Carmody and company officials contacted today by The Democrat de- clared that negotiations would likely be completed by tomOr- row at which time all facts would be released.
 The property involved is de- Scribed as that located on Cherry street west by North Elm street and south by Cherry street and running north and east by Cherry street. Also property bounded by North Main street and Vine.
 Speculation was today that the building and land would be purchased by another in- dudstriaI concern for expansion purposes or possibly by 8 con- cern for the opening of a new industry here.
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Above Hodges left flank, however, the Germans threw n their first counter-attack against It. Gen. William H. Simpsons adjacent Ninth Army, experimenting it with tiger tanks supported by ir-4 fantry.
 Four other Allied armies were on the march along 3 400-mile front from Holland to the Swiss border, promis- .ng an early answer to the question of whether the Ger mans were going to fight a showdown battle west of the Rhine.
 It. Gen. Sir Miles c. Dempsey's British Second Army fought to the banks of the Maas river in south- east Holland and began shelling German soil above the First and Ninth army sectors.
 3rd Army
 It. Gen. George s. Patton's United States Third Army drilled slowly but steadily into the outskirts of Metz and advanced northeastWard toward the rich Saar coal basin on a brod front. The American SeV- enth and French First armies bat- tered their way toward the upper Rhine Valley in the Vosges sector behind German demolitions indicat- ing general withdrawal.
 Supreme Headquarters received assurances that the First and Ninth Army attacks in Germany were making excellent progress on a fairly wide front, overrunning 8 score of towns and villages in the first "A hours and warding off the first counter-blows after the Nazi recovery from the bewilderment of yesterdays pulverizing air-artillery borbardment.
 From the First Army front south- east of Aachen, United Press War Correspondent Jack Frankish re- ported the capture of Gressenich, 3 1-2 miles east of Stolberg and the last communications hub before Duren, seven miles to the east.
 Sizeable Town
 Gressenich was the first sizeahle town to fall to Hodges new of- fensive, and represented the doubh- boys deepest penetration of Ger many directly east of Aachen.
 The Americans smashed forward without pause through drizzle today, and high officer comment-
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FDR Fovors !Conscription

Washington, Nov. IT - (UP) = President Roosevelt said today that he hoped congress would act this winter on legislation to provide for one year of peacetime service to the country by young men.
 The President has endorsed such a proposal before. Under question ing at today's press conference he said there was not much time i'll the present session of congress to do much work on it, but he did have hopes of something being accomp- lished in the congress which meets in January.
 Saying that he had been for uni- versal training right along, MT. Roosevelt declined to be pinned down on whether he thought this training should be military. His basic idea, he said, was that every young man between 18 and possibly g should give at least one year ot service to his government.
 Whether the plan should apply to young women, too, the President said was another matter and would depend on the legislation itself.
 Asked flatly whether he thought the training should be military, the President instead of answering di- rectly posed several questions of his own, asking whether instruction in cooking or carpentry could be con Sidered as military training.
 He said that training after the war would accomplish a lot just in teaching many boys how to keep clean and how to brush their teeth.
 The President said the appalling number of selective service rejec- tions for physical reasons in this war had shown the mothers of the country that knowledge of this type (C0ntinued On Page Al
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|Nippons Lose One Cruiser
 L4 DestroYers
BY WILLIAM F. THREE United Press War Correspondent

Pearl Harbor, November IT. - (UP American carrier planes sank IS Japanese ships, including a light cruiser and four destroyers in a smashing attack on Manila Bay Sunday, a recapitulation of the battle results showed to day.
 Admiral Chester w. Nirnitz, re- vising the report of U. s. pilots that their bombs and torpedoes had hit a sizeable force of Japanese shipping, announced that every vessel listed as hit was sunk.
 The attack, which caught every thing in sight in ManilaS sprawling Harbor was carried out by planes from rear Admiral Frederick Sher- mans, Pacific Fleet Carrier Forces Tokyo reported that the carrier force carried more than 800 planes.
 In his communique last night, Nimitz said the light cruiser preW- ously reported seriously damaged definitely was sunk, while four de- stroyers were sent to the bottom, rather than only two which had been seen to explode.
 The other ships, cargo vessels or oilers, had been reported sunk or blazing, but now all were known to have sunk, he added.
 The communique also disclosed that other Central Pacific Air Forces. including land-based bomb- CTS, carried out a series of wide spread attacks on enemy bases
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Z Saw Circus Fire Stort

Hartford, Nov. 17-(UP)-A mu- nicipal board of inquiry, completing an investigation into the circus fire of July which cost 168 lives, dis closed today that at least two city detectives saw the fire start in the main tent "but hesitaed to give alarm for fear of causing panic"
 The boards report to Mayor Will liam H. Mortensen said htat foul detectives were at the main en- trance "in search of a parolee among the circus personnel" and later reported to their superiors that they saw the fire in its incop- tent stages"
 The board, however, pointed out it was not it's function to inquire into criminal or civil liability in connection with the disaster, and concerned itself mostly with recom- mendations for revisions in the laws determining the duties of the var iouS city agencies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-17
100000 Able Men Needed
BY JOSEPH LATIN United Press Staff Correspondent

Limited Press Stan COrreSpOndent)
 Washington. Nov. 17.-(UP)- The White House, in move timed with the great new Allied offen- sive in Europe, today pressed des- perate home front drive for 200,- 900 fable bodied men, willing to do hard work"
 War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes issued blunt warning that unless the manpower is found to spur tagging production, he would halt all recently resumed civ- iian production.
 Much of the manpower trouble is due to the mistaken belief on the part of some people that the war is about over," Byrnes said. Two hundred thousand additional able-bodied men, willing to do hard work, could break the bottleneck in the critical programs and shorten the war"
 Byrnes directed the heads of the Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, War Manpower Commission, and War Production Board, to make immediate Investigations and then hold a joint conference to plan a concerted attack on the bottlenecks.
 Byrnes said the shortages in criti-
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Cotton Ed Smith Dies

Washington, November 17.-(UP) - Senator Ellison D. Smith, D., s. O., = dean of the Senate - died at his home at Lynchburg, s. C., early today, his office was notified shortly after noon.
 Smith, who celebrated his 80th birthday anniversary August l, was defeated for re-nomination in the South Carolina primary in July by Senator Elect Olin D. Johnston.
 Known generally as Cotton Ed.' Smith had been @ member of the Senate for 36 years-more continu- ous service in the Senate than any other member in history.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-17
Booke Carter Passes Awoy

Hollywood, Nov. IT. WP)-Harold T. H. (Boake) Carter, 46, who rose from $25 a week reporter to become at one time, the nations top news commentator, died last night of a cerebral hemorrhage, 12 hours after he completed his daily radio broad cast and complained of feeling ill.,"
 Carter was born in Russia of Eng lish- welsh resent in 1898 and became 8 naturalized American citi- zen in 1888. He suffered 8 stroke about p. m. yesterday and suc- cumbed at g p. m. at Hollywood hos pital, his physician, pr. Elmer Belt. said. His last broadcast was re- leased at il a. m. EWT.
 The newSman had been suffering from a kidney ailment for about a week and while he had complained of a pain in the abdomen. attend ants at Hollywood Hotel, where he
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Nozis Fight Defeotism
 In Germany
By ROBERT DOWSON United Press Staff COrreSuOndent


 London. Nov. IT - (UPD - Ger many, her warships and planes vir- tually wiped out, was reported rush. ing sailors and airmen into the front lines as infantry today to bolster her faltering armies against what may be the final Allied offensive in the west.
 European dispatches said the Reich appeared to be facing it's gravest military crisis of the war at a time when civilian morale was ebbing to a new low as result of Adolf Hitlers prolonged silence and increasing evidence that Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler has suc- ceeded him as Fuehrer of Germany. Reports believed reliable reached Madrid that Gestapo agents were ar- resting hundreds, perhaps thousands of army officers and civilians in 8 desperate effort to stamp out defeat- ism in the army and on the home front.
 British dispatches from Stockholm reported that Himmler's SS forces in Berlin had executed General Erich Fromm, former commander in chief of the Reich home com- mand and once head of the Wehr- macht transport organization. His death was said to have resulted from horrible torture for three months, during which the Nazis futilely attempted to extract from him names of German officers im- plicated in the July assassination plot against Hitler.
 (An article in the Swiss news paper, Journal De Geneve, reported by the OWI, said mounting num-
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DOWNPOURS SLOWUPLEYTE
 OFFENSIVE
BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON limited Press War Cnrresnnndenfl

BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press War Correspondent
 Allied Headquarters, Philip pines, November IT. - (UP) Tropical downpours slowed the American offensive on Leyte today, but other in- vasion troops 900 miles to the southeast completed the occupation of one of the principal Mapia Islands off New Guinea and were mop ping up enemy remnants on another.
 GA Pearl Harbor communique an- nounced that 8 recapitulataor showed 16 Japanese ships, including light cruiser and four destroyers had been sunk by American carrier planes in the Manila Bay area Sunday. An earlier announcement had listed only two destroyers as definitely sunk)
 General Douglas Macarthur re- ported in supplement to his Philip pines communique that American troops crushed the last resistance on Pegun Island in the Mapia group yesterday, less than A hours after landing in the tiny Archipelago 145 miles northwest of Piak.
 Remnants of the Japanese garri- son on nearby Bras Island were being eliminated, Macarthur said. The two islands had been used by the Japanese to flash warnings to Halmahera, the Philippines and possibly the Dutch East Indies that American heavy bombers from the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-17
Writer Sees
 Men Advance
By HENRY T. GORRELL

Oy A411NAG1 4s SAOASASASAeA@ United Press War Correspondent
 Advance Observation Post, Inside Germany, Nov. 16 = (UP) A cataclysmic blast of exploding. splintering steel rent the earth be- fore us and it seemed like the worwld was coming to an end.
 The Americans were blasing Oue a path for a forward drive.
 Man and beast Shuddered in their tracks. Whole towns were disinte- grating. Life seemed to disappear from the scene.
 It was the most terrifying, des- tructive force of warfare Germany has ever seen. And it was 8 symbol of what was to come as the U s First Army unloosed this shattering blow within the borders of Germany.
 For an hour and half, more than 2,O0O bombers and hundreds of guns pounded the German countryside. making the earth dance before this might man-made force.
 When the heavies and mediunlA were not making the ground quake for miles around, our massed artiI-
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Congress In1prints Oyn Trade
 Mark In Trade Mark Debate
BY FREDERICK c. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent

BY FREDERICK c. OTHMAN United Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 Washington, November IT. - OUP) - Hardest of all roasting places are the seats around the walls of a congressional trade mark" com- mittee room.
 They're undersized, hard on the edge, droopy in the middle and ob- viously designed to make Waffel imprints on the human anatomy. Sit on such chair all day, as I did in room 135 of the Senate Office Building. and about all you can say is, ouch.
 But on and off for six long years the same citizens have been getting thelw flesh pleated on the same chairE, while they considered the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-17
SWeden Says Nazis Concentrate
 Ships For U. s. Buzzbon1b Raids

London, Nov. 17-(UP)-A Stock holm dispatch to the London Daily Mall said today that the Germans were concentrating submarines and surface ships equipped with robot bomb launching platforms in Nor way preparatory to attempting raids on the United States.
 The dispatch quoted high neutral sources as saying that the Germans planned to launch their jet-propel- led V-1 robot bombs from the decks of the vessels against such targets as New York, Philadelphia or towns farther inland"
 A joint U. s. Army-Navy state ment issued in Washington earlier this month warned that some such submarine or ahip-hased attacks
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-17
REDS CLOSING FINGERS GRIP
 ON BUDAPEST
BY HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent

(UnAte0 Press SCa1f COrreSpOnoentD
 Moscow, November IT. = (UP) Soviet armored forces thrust to within 21 miles of the Danube river north of Budapest today in a wide flanking drive around the eastern side of the capital which also threatened to cut off enemy troops in north western Hungary.
 The pincers attack on the strife-torn capital speared the Soviet offensive along a 10O-nile front stretching into northeastern Hungary, where Red Army troops rap idly were encircling Miskolo, the country's fifth city.
 Near the center of the Hungar- ian front, two columns of Marshal rail and highway junction of Hat Rodion Y. Malinovsky's 2nd Ukrain- ian Army were converging on the big van, 9 miles northeast of Buda- pest.
 At the same time another Rus sian force threatened the important communications center of Eger, p miles southwest of Miskolo. This unit was approaching Eger from Tard, 10 miles to the east, and ap- parently was attempting to cut the last rail escape route of the Ger mans and Hungarians in the Mis- kolo area.
 In the encircling drive around Budapest, Malinovsky's forces es- tablished 8 30-mile siege front through the capitals south and eastern outskirts. The line was an- chored in, the west at the Danube below Budapest and In the east at the village of Dany, which the So- viets captured to bring their forces only 21 miles from the river north of the capital.
 The Russian troops also seized the Gyomro rail station, one mile north of the fortified village of Gyomro, one of the important German de-
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By JUD DIXON

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Sheyenne, Wyo., Nov. IT = U.P) Neighbors from down the street and across the nation, planned Christi mas in November today for three year-old NubhinS Hoffman who waited excitedly for a Saturday night Santa Claus and a Sunday party at the side of his Lavendar crib.
 The mortally i'll youngster, whom doctors say may not live until the regular Christmas, watched im- patiently today while his bespect- acled brown haired mother readied the front bedroom where Nubbins
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-17
Nationwide ''Neighbors" Rally
 For Child's November "Christmas"

Claus will arrive at the city air. port Saturday and go straight to Nubbins crib-side. The harried mother ran her hands over her gray tinged hair last night and said that she will insist that only @ few people come to the house at one time Sum- day because Nubbins must not be too excited.
 Sunday afternoon, while the tou- sle-haired boy is deep in his Christ man, Union Pacific's radio program will dedicate to NubbinS a familiar prayer that begins:
 "Our Father Who Art In Heaven 7"
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same bill to modernize Americas ancient trademark laws. What they think about committee room seats isn't even printable.
 Rep. Fritz G. Lanham, a persist ent Texan, started the chair sitting marathon in 938 when he dropped into the hopper bill to revise the rules on trademarks. He held hearings in the House, brought out considerable interesting information about Vaseline, Ethyl Gas, Chipso Soap. Singer Sewing Machines and Aspirin (of which I could stand q dose about now) and nothing hap pened.
 Each year he revised the bill, re-
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might be attempted by a desperate Germany.
 The Daily Mail dispatch said it was known beyond dispute' that the Germans have concentrated "very considerable" numbers of sub- marines and other vessels in harbors at Narvik, Trondheim and Bergen on the west coast of Norway.
 Bergen was believed to be the Ger man headquarters, the dispatch said, with crack submarine com- mander. formerly in charge of un- derseas attacks on Allied shipping from bases at Brest and Lorient in France, assigned the task of direct- ing the new offensive.
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SPEARHEAD ARMY TAKES cRESSEN|CII
 RAIL CENTER 10 MILES EAST OF AAcFEIl
Troops
 Said ToBe In Drive. Toward Rhineland
BY J. EDWARD MURRAY Limited Press War Correspondent

Paris, November IT, = (UP) = It. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges First Army, pacemaker of the sixarmy grand offensive against Germany captured the road center of Gressenich, the Rhineland plain 10 miles east of Aachen and 29 miles southwest of Cologne today.
 Most of the German garrison had evacuated Gres- senich during the night raising the possibility that the Naz command was pulling back to new defense line perhaps the Rhnebefore the powerful onslaught of the First Army and the American Ninth Army.
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Oddities M The NeuUs
(By United Press)

(by Un1te0 KEeSSl
 Worcester, Mass, Nov. 1T - (U. PO = Five years ago, Patrolman Frank Granger of the Worcester Police Department lost his badge in a scuffle with thugs. Today he had it back, from a Worcester carpenter who found it while repairing U. S. ship at Pearl Harbor.
 Lynn, Mass, Nov. IT = (U.P) - When fire swept his laundry, Hai Shing risked his life to save most of the washing, but forgot his life sav- ingS of several hundred dollars.
 Later, firemen poked through the ruins and found the money intact in woolen sock.
 Manchester, N. H., Nov. IT - (U. PO-Reporting at an accident scene to pick up a damaged municipal truck, Pierre Cormier of Manchester discovered that his son Pierre, Jr., 5, had been kille din the crash.
 Cambridge, Mass, Nov. IT = CU. P) - Two cambridge residents, re- porting to police, loss of total of B pigeons from backyard lofts, hoped to see the birds again soon. They said the pigeons were of the homing variety.
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WANTED-MOre trained BOOkkeep- CTS. Enroll any Monday, Day or Eve
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-21

Impression that the workers in
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"A NDY JONES, Cat right botom) started at WHY'S
"A away back in the days Of 1917 Inspector. His
first official in the union began in 1897
as steward of his department His experience in that
capacity helpful in his present job executive
committeeman to which he was elected in 1910.
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NIALTER DAROWsKI, third from top at right is
w another OF the younger executive committeeman.
Walter has achieved enviable record an active
union member. He came to WHY'S in 1925
sembler His first year official of the Unit began
in 1910 when he appointed to fill un- expired
term and the following year elected to the
post.
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CLAUDE HESS, Chird from left at bottom) is known
" at the plant pops Claude is oldtimer in
the union movement He started at Willys in 1913 and
his first job union officer trustee. After
three years he elected in 1910 executive
committeeman
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GEORGE TEATSORTH, (second from right at bot
~ tom) served as President of the WHY'S Federal
Credit Union for two acquiring the experience
which was helpful to him in his work executive
committeeman. George hired in at WHY'S in 1910 as
an electrician
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CHARLES KAHLE (second from left at bOttom) is
- the newest member on the executive committees
He was named to that post TO fill un-expired term
and elected this year. His first experience
as a steward then trustee and TO his present job.