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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-13
100 B-29s Blast
 Big Aircraft Center
BY FRED SCHERFF

United Press Stan correspondent
 Washington. Dec. 13-UP-Up- wards of 100 B-29 SuperfortreSses bombed the great aircraft center of Nagoya and other targets on the main Japanese island of Honshu today, and enemy broadcasts admit ted that the mounting aerial of fensive was forcing the evacuation of major industries from Tokyo and other key cities.
 Simultaneously with the attack on Nagoya, Tokyo broadcasts said, one or two SupelfortresSes appeared over the Tokyo Yokohama district, the Hiroshima district, 425 miles to the west, and the Keijo district of Korea, but all were said to have been repulsed before they were able to do any mischief"
 Other nuisance" raids by lone B-29s were made on the greater Tokyo area during the night, a German DNB dispatch said. Bombs were dropped, it said, but they fell almost entirely in coastal waters without causing damage"
 A United Press dispatch from the B-29 base on Saipan Island con- firmed the attack on Nagoya, and quoted 8 Fist Bomber Command spokesman as saying the raid may well be the best mission yet against objectives on HonShu Island" eL
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Nozis Attock ItoIion Front

Rome, Dec. 13-CUP)-The Ger. mans have launched series of at- tacks along the Fifth Army front, headquarters disclosed today, in an apparent effort to upset prepara- tions for a possible large scale oe- fenSive toward Bologna.
 British troops of the Fifth Army were driven temporarily from Gas. tel Nuova on Mount Cerere by a strong German attack but gained it's position after hard fighting.
 Considerable activity was noted behind German lines and even on the west coast American patroIS were engaged in fierce fights by the Germans.
 Canadian troops of the Eighth Army pushed two bridgeheads across the Lamone River southwest of Ravenna and despite vigorous counter attacks linked them along q 6,0O0-yard front. The Eighth Army units now are astride the Russi- Lugo rail line northwest of Hussi.
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Captures Rollensbroich IA
 Miles Southeast Of Big Roer. River Bastion Of Duren
BY JAMES McGLINCY

United Press War CorrespOndentI
 Paris, December 13. (UP) - It. General Court ney H. Hodges First Army laShed out toward the Rhine in a new offensive south of the Hurtgen forest to day, scoring early successes in- cluding the capture of ROI- lesbrOich, 14 miles southwest of the embattled ROer river baStiOn of Duren.
 The central sector of the U. s. First Army front blazed into action at 6 a. m. when doughboys went over the top under cover of a thunderouS artillery bombardment, ex- tending the battle zone southward from the Shell- churned Cologne plain.
 The first front dispatches dis closing Hodges new offensive acc tion toward the Rhineland did not define the scope or weight of the attack, as is customary in the first phase of operations.
 It was apparent, however, that the drive was linked directly with the Cologne front. on which the left wing of the First Army was smash- ing up to the Roer and directly threatening its key citadel of Durens 20 miles west of the industrial cap ital of the Rhineland.
 The central sector of Hodges front, where the new drive was launched, had been dormant since the middle of September. The first objective was rolleSbroich, five miles southeast of Rotgen, the first Ger man town captured by the A1nerl- cans in the first phase of the First Army invasian of the Reich. The doughboys swarmed quickly through Rollesbroich, just below the southern edge of the Hurtgen Forest and a mile east of Lammersdorfgs which was in Americans hands for use as a springboard in the new push.
 U. S. planes bombed RollesbrOich yesterday, but today's attack be- gan without air support because of an overcast.
 To the north, First Army units were slugging it out with German rear guards along 10-mile front already jammed eastward to within half mile of Duren.
 German resistance Stiffened all along the first Army front some 21 miles or more southwest of Cologne. temporarily stalling American ef- forts to clear the west bank of the Roer.
 An explosion from the direction of Duren, followed by the flooding of its northwestern approaches, in dicated the enemy had blown up one of the bridges across the Roer and an adjacent dike.
 At the southern end of the front, It. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's 7th Army fought into Seltz, IS miles southwest of Karlsruhe and 4S miles south of Mannheim and Lud- wigshafen, in a dash for the his- toric Palatinate gateway to the upper Rhineland.
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HODGES LASHES OUT IN NEW OPENS I'VE s. OF HURTcEN FOREST; SCORES TRIUMPH
M'ARTHUR PREP ARES FOR
 FINAL BLOW
BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press War COrrespondentI A11ind unn r,kn,.r nlo;1;,o

BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press War COrrespondent)
 Allied Headquarters, Philip pines, December 13 = (UP) = General Douglas Mac Arthur re-grouped his ground forces for the final phase of the battle of Leyte today after his planes and torpedo boats wiped out their ninth Japanese reinforcement con- voy in six weeks off the northwest coast.
 Ten of II ships in the convoy were wrecked and thousands of addi- tional soldiers drowned in a two- day air and sea battle that smashed an eleventh hour Japanese attempt to reinforce and supply the 10000 to 25,000 troops facing annihilation in the Ormoc corridor.
 American fighters and fighter bombers sank three transports to- talling 19,000 tons and three escort ing destroyers in series of attacks lasting from Monday dawn to Tues day desk. Two medium transports and another destroyer were left dead in the water and burning.
 A torpedo boat sank a fourth car go transport of 5000 tons Monday night. Only a single destroyer es- capped from the battle without seri- ous damage.
 A spokesman for Macarthur &C., knowledged, however, that some of the vessels may have landed a few supplies and troops at PalomponS sole west coast port remaining in Japanese hands, before they were wrecked.
 Japanese planes struck back with an attack on an American convoy steaming south after unloading supplies and endorsements for the American 77th and Seventh Div iSiionS at Ormoc. Some damage and casualties" were caused, Mac Arthur's communique said, but these were not considered great.
 GA Japanese broadcast said Jap- anese planes had sunk an Ameri- can destroyer and two medium sized transports and set fire to an- other destroyer and another trans port of the west coast of Leyte Tuesday night)
 The two convoy battles touched off series of air combatS in which 50 to 55 Japanese planes were shot down. Including large propor- tion of the 30 found guarding the enemy convoy Monday. Eight Amer ican fighter were lost.
 MacArthur reported that the 77th and Seventh Divisions were con- solidating their positions in the
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Army Raises Yorn Demand
BY JOSEPH LATIN
 United Press Staff Correspondent


 Washington, Dec. 13-(UP)-The army's sudden demand for gigantic new quantities of yarn to make heavy uniforms, overco. ts, blankets, battle jackets and socks aroused speculation today as to whether the Allied high command is preparing for another winter of war in Eur ope.
 An army spokesman said the need for doubled output of wVrsted yarn for battle dress was the result of 8 higher rate of wear than had been expected in the European theater. It was believed, however, that only 8 small proportion of the newly-or- dered finished products could reach war areas before late spring or sum- me and that the bulk would not De ready for use until next winter.
 Joseph R. Walker, chief of the Wra Production Boards woolen branch, said the army wanted the increased output by next July. The woolens will be turned over to manufacturers as fast as they leave the mills.
 Walker disclosed that the indus try has recommended that the en- tire output of worsted yarn, used to make all mems suits, and substan- tial portion of woolen yarn be re- served for the army and essential civilian needs during the next five months.
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HURLEY URGES BENEFITS FOR
 CITIES FIRST
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Communities such as Waterbury should be among those given first opportunity to purchase leftover war property ;t has been advocated by former Governor Robert A. Hur- ley, presidential nominee for the post of chairman of the new Sur plus Property Disposal Board. testi- flying today before the Senate Mil- itary Affairs Committee.
 MT. Hurley stated that local, state and federal sources should re- ceive first benefits from the sale of surplus goods and stated that he felt that "the decisions of his board may. very well affect for years to come the economy of the country" |"
 Local officials have long been giving consideration to the posibil- ity of purchasing war surplus goods and have already negotiated on such a possibility. These would include, trucks, fire fighting equipments, jeeps, etc.
 Yesterday in Washington Atty. Michael A. Blansfield, this city and Arthur N. Sheriff. headmaster of Cheshire Academy both testified in behalf of the former governor be- fore the Military Committee. Sub- jected to stiff CrosS- examination both witnesses cited their beliefs in the qualifications of the former gov ernor as chairman of the board.
 It seemed likely at this time that despite the strenous objections shown by Republican members of the Senate to MT. Hurley's. appoint ment the latter would become fact.
 Washington, Dec 13-CUP)-F'or- mer Gov Robert A. Hurley, nom- mated by President Roosevelt to the new Surplus Property Disposal Board, said today that he believed federal, state and local governments should have first chance in that or der to buy leftover war property.
 He told the Senate military Af- fairs Committee, which is consider ing his nomination along with that of It. Col. Edward H. Heller, that decisions of the board may very well affect for years to come the economy of the country"
 In response to questions by Sen. Warren R. Austin, R., Vt., Hurley said he believed formre owners should have a chance to buy back property if it is declared surplus. He said the board would have to study the probable impact of sur- plus property on the country's econ- omy during reconversion of indus try.
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Complete NoU. Election
 Returns Boost Roosevelt

regulars" and 17,76c anti Roosevelt votes cast for Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D.. Va. In the ofiacial returns certified from Tennessee it was noted that Cox County was miss ing.
 The total 1914 popular vote was 47,47l. 245 compared with 49,815, ,312 in 1940, the difference being 1884 O67.
 MT. Roosevelt's plurality over Gov. Thomas E. Dewey the Repub- hcan candidate, was S,510,174 votes, His majority over his combined op- position, 3.181, ,359 votes.
 The percentage division of the popular vote was 53.72 for Mir. Roos- eyelt to 46.2S for Dewey. Their division of electoral votes was. Roosevelt 432, Dewey 99. In con- trast to the relatively close per- centage division of popular votes, MT. Roosevelt won e1 .35 per cent of the electoral votes, Dewey only l8s6s per cent.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-13
Bevin Reveals Britain Soviet
 Greece Agreement Ok'd By FDR
BY c. T. MAILMAN

United Press Staff Correspondent
 London, Dec. 13. (UP)-Labor Minister Ernest Bevin revealed to- day that Britain had an agreement with Russia regarding the stabiliza- tion" of Greece, and that proposals concerning Greece were initialed by President Roosevelt to Quebec.
 Bev1n appeared to be referring to military and relief plans drawn up i by the combined chiefs of staff. Prime Minister Winston Churchill said last week that MT. Roosevelt lnitialed them.
 Bevin, in blunt speech at the British Labor Partyss annual con- ference, disclosed that the labor ministers in Prime Minister Win ston Churchilps cabinet took part in the decisions on Britanis policy in Greece, and Looking back, I cannot convince myself that any of these decisions were wrong"
 After BevinIs candid speech which in effect comprised defense of Churchill and labor leaders with re- gard to their policy in the current Gree, crisis, the party appoved a compromise resultion urging an im- mediate armistice in Greece, estab- lisfment of 8 provisional govern, ment, and eventually free elections.
 Russia undertook to. stabilize Ro- mania, and we undertook the main problem in Greece in accordance with this agreement with Russia" Bevin told the clamorous delegates.
 Proposals regarding Greece were submitted to President Roosevelt at Quebec and were initialed by him."
 Declaration
 Speaking five days after Churchill had defended his governments pol icy in Greece and won vote of
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Martin Courtmortiol
 Ordered Discontinued

Fort Devens, Mass, Dec. 13 (UP) The court martial of Pvt. Charles Masten, 26, of Albany, Ga, charged with staying fellow, Georgian in a barracks argument, was adjourned today after Masten was declared in- sane.
 The military trial was ordered discontinued yesterday and records were forwarded to Maj. Gen. Sher- man Miles of the First Service Com mand.
 MaSten was accused of fatally wounding Pfc, Charles E. LotSon, 3l. of Meridian. Ga, with a 80 caliber Army rifle Nov. F. Final disposition of the case was not an- llounced.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-13
Story OF U.S.S. A. J. Grant Is Epic or fGlouuing Heroisn1

Pacific Fleet Headquarters, Pearl Harbor, Dec. 13.-UP)-The U. s. s. Albert J. Grant was hell of ex- ploding ammunition and live steam that night in Surigao Strait, circl- ing helplessly under the guns of the Japanese battle line, her decks lit- tered with the dead and dying, some of whom asked that their black ened bodies be dragged from the red hot deck so they would stop burning.
 By all the rules of the book the tough little destroyer was headed for the bottom, but she lived through the flaming night battle and a trop- ical typhoon that caught her alone and crippled 48 hours later, and came back to join the fleet.
 That epic of fighting ship that refused to go down was related to- day by the survivors who brought
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-13
NAYS ARM FOR SUICIDE STAND
 IN BUDAPEST
BY ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent

Unlted Press Stan correspondent
 London, Dec. 13 - (UP) - The Germans began arning rag-tag army of Hungarian civilians for suicidal stand in the streets of Budapest today as Soviet tanks and shock troops stormed through the eastern suburbs behind an earth-shaking artillery barrage.
 The desperate Na1 move came on the heels of a Moscow broadcast declaring that Budapest was at the mercy of the Red Army and that its fall was expected imminently.
 Soviet field reports said the Rus sians captured dominant heights on the northeastern edge of Budapest and that the German lines were be- ing infiltrated everywhere by Red Army units. The NaZiS were said to be relying almost entirely on mine-fields and artillery to hold of the advancing SovietS.
 GA BEG broadcast said the Rus sians were fighting in Ujpest, an industrial suburb bordering on the eastern half of Budapest proper.)
 Moscow also asserted that the Hungarian government had fled and that the Germans were dis mantling all their war plants in that border area in preparation for still another retreat.
 House. fighting already was raging in outlying districts on the east bank of the Danube, where the Russians overran and silenced scores of enemy guns. and cut one of the main loop railways over which the Germans had been shuttling troops to meet the null tiple Soviet threat.
 But great concentration of Nal artillery still was raking the Red Army assault lines with mur- derous counter-fire and defiant German and Hungarian military authorities proclaimed their inten- tion of defending the capital to the death.
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No Officiol
 Complaint On Fisticuffs.

No ofhcia1 complaint to the police was made up to an early hour this afternoon on widely discussed en- counter which occurred yesterday at the conclusion of an unenploy- ment compensation hearing at the office of the fifth congressional dis trict's commissioner in the Lilley building, and no decision was re- ported made as yet" by the state labor department on possible action againStt he belligerent claimant.
 The incident occurred following a hearing of unemployment claims of Alex Mittleman of Waterbury, who recently won a superior court decision on another series of claims.
 William Davidson, senior claims examiner for the unemployment compensation division in Waterbury, was the victim of the fistic attack. Davidson originally denied the claims of the worker. and was called in yesterday for the con- tinued hearing before Mrs. Margaret Verdon. The hearing had just been concluded and decision reserved W41C14 O hdGUkS Ol NOAuS Obes4 JCA d1AO was terminated with the punching incident, it was reported.
 Mittleman appeared before the commissioner to contest a decision of Davidson who denied him com pensation for unemployment from April to May 28 on the ground the worker had made himself unavail- able. The claimant, who for the past several months was operator of a fish market, was reported also to be unemployed at the present time, butt he claims at yesterdays hearing were based on the un- employment period of last spring.
 Mittleman recently won his ap- peal from the commissioners ruling on prevous clans, and the amount of money he's to receive was left by superor court to the labor de- pertinent n Hartford. A final judg- ment, however, on the sum must be entered in the court.
 The claimant at that hearing al- legged he refused to take a job of- fered him by the USES because it was for wages less than those pre- valent elsewhere and because the job was at an out-of-town concern. He claimed he was entitled to pay
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2 War Workers Killed In Crash

Brunswick, Me, Dec. 1S-(UP)- Two women war workers were killed and three other persons were sever ely hurt today when their automo- bile and a Maine railroad freight train collided at the Cooks corner grade crossing here.
 All occupants of the automobile were enroute to their Lewiston homes after nights work at the Bath Iron Works Corp. Yard.
 The dead were Mrs. Lorraine Car |. oil. 21. and Miss Juliette B. Tur- meme, 25, whose bodies were tam gled in the cars wreckage.
 Critically hurt was Mrs. Cecile Bolduc, while her husband Alber. and Roland Malo. the driver of the car, were hospitalized with less sev- ere injuries
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-13
Confirmation or States Nominees Is Anticipated
BY JOHN L. CUTTER United Press Staff Correspondent)

Limited Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 Washington, Dec. 13.-(UP)-The Senate Foreign Relations Commit tee went into the second day of hearings on, six top state depart ntent nominees today with Chair man Tom Connally, D., Texas pressing to get all six names be- fore the full Senate for confirma- tien tomorrow afternoon
 Connally hoped to close the hear ings today upon completion of teS- timony by two of the proposed as- slstant secretaries of State-Wil- liam L. Clayton and Archibald Mac Leish.
 T plan to call an executive meet ing of the committee immediately after their testimony is completed, vote on the nominations andn have them before the Senate for con- firmation Thursday afternoon. ? Connally told reporters.
 He expressed confidence that Clayton and MacLeish as well as the other four nomineeS-JoSeph c. Grew to be undersecretary and Nelson A. Rockefeller, Brig. Gen. Julius c. Holmes and James c. Dunn to be assistant secretaries eventually would be confirmed.
 The speed-up of the hearing was requested by Secretary of State Ed ward R. Stettinius. Jr., when he appeared yesterday as the first witt ness. There was some opposition to the hurried pace.
 Sen. Albert B. Chandler, D., Ky, who was instrumental in sending four of the nominations back to committe for open hearings, ex- pressed dissatisfaction with the manner in which Conrally conduct
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Skipper May Be Adopted

Everett, Mass, Dec. 13-CUP)-A chubby-c -cheeeked, blue-eyed found ling nicknaned Skipper" probably will spend his first Christmas in state institution.
 Only four days remain before the golden-haired, 16-day-old boy band oned in an apartment house here Sunday legally becomes a state ward.
 After that he may be adopted. Already. more than 65 persons from all stations in life have indicated to police and Whidden Memorial hos pital officials their willingness to make home for him.
 Meanwhile. authorities continued search for "Skipper'S" parents.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-13
Bishop Is Unimp proved

Hartford, Conn, Dec. B. (UP)- The condition of Roman Catholic Bishop Maurice F. McAuliffe con tinued grave today at St. Francis hospital, where he has been in an oxygen tent since Monday after noon, it was announced at the chancery.
 Doctors were in constant attend ance throughout the night, and of- flcialS of the diocese were within momentary call. His sister, Miss Mary McAuliffe, has remained at the hospital the past several days.
 Bishop McAuliffe, who has been head of the diocese since 1884, was admitted to the hospital Dec. 3. His basic ailment has not been diag- nosed, and no medication is being administered because of his extreme condition. it was reported.
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the Grant back to her base under her own power, after the Navy had all but given her up for lost.
 Blasted almost out of the water in a suicidal torpedo attack on a Japanese battleShip during the bat tie of Surigao Strait on Oct. 20, the gray lay dead in the water for al- most day, down by the bows and riddled with shell holes. When her crew finally got the engines work ing again, a typhoon almost finished the ship of, but she held together and came home.
 Ensign Tom Ham. Atlanta, Ga, one of the survivors. revealed that Cmdr. T. A. Nisewaner, Boise, Ida, skipper of the Grant, had ordered salyo of torpedoes fired at the Japanese battleship just before the
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FDR To Broadcast Christmos Eve

Washington, Dec. 13. (UP)-Presi- dent Roosevelt will speak for about IS minutes over all broadcasting networks at 5:15 p. m. ewt. on Sum- day, Dec. A, in his annual Christ mas eve address to the nation, the White House announced today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-13
BY LYLE c. WILSON United Press Stan COrrespondent

Washington. Dec. l3- CUP) = Complete returns from the Novem- Der election today showed con- clusively that President Roosevelt won his fourth term election in- dependently of the so-calIed Solid South and pointed unerringly to the dozen states where Republi- cans have their best chance to make 1S48 break-through to the White House.
 These returns, compiled by the United Press, are ofilcial except for California, New Mexico, Rhode Island and Washington.
 Here are the pouular vote presi- dential figures:
 Roosevelt ........... 25,326, 1902 Dewey ........ ... 2l,816, ,l28 Thomas (Socialist) 68,S13 Teichert tsocialist-Labor) 42.66l Watson (Prohibition) U, 1,S28 Scattered ........ 156, ,5l3
 The scattered votes included l35, 4so cast bg anti-RooseVelt Texas
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Women Accountants Needed for Pest War Positions. New Term Ian. s Psst IT. Cslege ef Commsree.
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