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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-03
SnnuII Aid
 Is Admitted

Washington, Oct. 3s-(UP)-0f- ficlais admitted today that AIneri' can aid to China has been made. quate but cited the difficulty Of sup. plying her by air and the goot faith manifested by the activities ol the U, s. 18th Air Force and D. 20 guperfortresses.
 A spokesman for the Chinese mili- taFy council declared in Chungklne that total American supplies from Pearl Harbor to the present" would not sustain "a single British oi American division in combat for ont week"
 OfIlciab here said American aid had been pItifuily small, every item of supply for China must Do flown over tho porilous hump" route across tho towering mountain rang 6 from Assam, inu India.
 DpokeSnien for iend.leago referred to their report Issued at the end ofb August which described Sib3,- 000,000 worth of lend.ieasO aid sent to China through June as c "rela' tive tricki0", The report noted, how. ever, that Allied operations ifl Bur. ma and the Pacific were oil aimed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-03
Jcps Claim NovoI Success NeorC China
BY UNITED PRESS

Radio Tokyo claimed today that Japanese naval brigade which had originally landed iB miles east Of Wuchow in Ghina'B KwangBl pros vince reflected Q contacW with army forces ir the Wuchow diStrict after successfully opening the Wu River waterway"
 The enemy broadcast recorded by United Press in San Francisco as. serted tho juncture Of the naval and army forces Signified that "the entire ares of the Wu estuary has been completely brought under Japanese control"
 Japanese air units in Southern China since Sept. i3 shot down or damaged 24 Allied planes, while bombers in raids on Liuchow, Sept 22-3O, Manning and Chihklang "do- stFoyed or set ablaSe 70 enemy planes" Tokyo claimed.
 Tn another broadcast Tokyo ra' do claimed that Japanese troops landed on China's Fukien coast last Wednesday and were driving toward FOochow, big Chinese port on the East china sea.
 The broadcast, recorded by unlts cd Prem in San Franclsco, said the Japanese navy supported the land: Ing, which was made northeast of klie strategic Chinese base,
 Foochow Is across the narrow straits about ib0 miles from the northern tip of Japanese.held For' uaogas
 Tho cominunique said tho "sir. prise" landing was aimed at the capture Of Foochow, nearly midway between Hong Kong and Shanghai
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-03
American Troops Forge Ahead Along Italian Battle Front
(Hritish Radiophoto from NEA Telephoto)
By REYNOLDS PACKARD

(Uniteu PfeSs war C0TfespOnuentl
 Rome, Oct. 3.-(UP)-American troops driving northward through tho Apennines today captured Monghldoro and reached CaSoni Di Romagna, towns six miles apart on on eastswest line and i0 and ie miles, respectively, south of Bologna key city of the Pc valley
 While .. 6. Fifth Army troops captured Monghidoro, important road junction on the main Florence. Bologna highway, other units Co tho east pushed two miles beyond 0lug- roiA, hitherto the Iiorthernmosl point of the Allied advance, and en- gagged the Germans for Casoni Di Romagna.
 The Americans also captured the town of CaFSeggia, i7 miles from Bologna, on the F1orence.Imola highway.
 The drives toward Bologna and imoia, both large cities on the air- line highway extending northward from Rlmini Into the industrial plains of upper Italy, were designed to cut the supply routes for Field Marshal Albert Kesselrings forces facing the British Eighth Army in the narrow end Of the funnelslike corridor between the Apennlnes and the Adriatic sea.
 The Germans, an Allied cofnmunl. que reported today, continued their efforts to drive the Americans from newly captured Monte Battagiia and Monte Capello, twin peaks dominate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-03
Reds Drive On Riga Front
By HENRY sHAPIRo

(Umited Press StaH COtfc8poMNSH4i|
 Moscow, oct. 8 - (U.P.) -- Red Army spearheads have driven into the suburbs of Riga in some of the bloodiest fighting of the Baltic cafne paign and the liberation of the Llat- vian capital is near the otilciai news paper, Pravda, said today.
 The dispatch indicated that the Russians were deploying north, east and south of Riga for c final assault on the capital whose fall probably would end effective German reGiaf- ance in the Baltic states and release huge Soviet forces for an invasion of East Urdussia.
 Red Armies also were believed re- grouping in other key sectors aiona the i,S00-mile eastern front pre- paratory to launching @ series of mighty fall and winter cffenslvea' The Soviet high command, for the first time since the start of the summer offensives June 23, reported in It's Monday midnight cokamuEi4 que that there were mo important changes" on any front.
 (Radio Moscow said Soviet Ns- tonian Amphibious Corps had land. ed on Muhu Island of the Mstoninn coast and captured the principal town, also named Muhu, after ptil= ting down strong German rssisss ance.)
 Pravda reported from the front that the battle for Riga appeared to be reaching the conclusive etaae with the Germans throwing in more and more forces and contestluR every yard in . desperate effort t0 slave of defeat.
 The Germans counter-attackea perslstent.y and regardieas of ooa| from favorable positions in hll|z dominating the approaches to tlls capital, Pravda said, but the RllA sians held their ground and iin some cases punched out local advances
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-03
10 More Jop Ships sDowned
(By United Press)

American bombers added ten more Japanese vessels to the toll of their campaign against enemy shipping in the Philippines area and land forces continued to ''mop.up" the southern Pelaus as the Tokyo radio announced today that 10 large American planes had struck tho volcano islands, 7b0 miles south Of Tokyo.
 Planes of the Far Eastern Air Force sank or damaged the 10 ves- sels in new attacks Saturday and Sunday. Two small freighters, d schooner and two barges were sunk off Menado in the CelebeS, 200 miles south of the Philippines, by medium boMbers which also plaS- tered airdromes at Menado and Kendari.
 Four small coaster freighters were damaged off zamboanuga in South- ern Mindanao and Q l,000-ton freighter and two costal vessels were damaged ct Ambon, former Dutch naval base on Amboina island,
 Enemy remnants in the southern Palaus were believed reduced to fewer than 1000 men scattered through caves in the coral ridges of Peleiu and nearby Angaur island,
 A eommunique disclosed that d military government had been es- abolished on Angaur where i07S Japanese had been killed through Saturday. The number of enemy dead on Peleliu had reached 0,07S for the same period.
 Marine Corsair fighter planes, ap- parentiy operating from the newly acquired airfield on Peleliu, again raided Babelthaup principal island of the Palaus against heavy anti- aircraft fire.
 The Japanese announcement of the attack on the volcanos Sunday did not identify the planes other than "large", description often used by the Tokyo radio in refer ring to B-20 superfortresses, but there was no indication the big American bombers carried out the raid.
 The broadcast claimed three of the planes had been shot down or damaged
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-03
AFL Head Denies BroWI

Washington, Oct. 3 - (U.P0 - President Daniel Tobin of the AFL Tealnsters Union has charged that reports he had been involved in Q scuffie with two Navy men follow. ing the presidents speech ct the teamstersP dinner last Friday were circulated for political purposes.
 T never heard Of this affair until I read it in the papers," Tobin said In . formal statement issued late yesterday in New York.
 Lieutenant Randolph DickinS, Jr,, one of the Navy officers, who told his side of the story ct Bethesda naval hospital where he has been c battle fatigue patient since July 70, did not recognize c picture Of Tobln as one Of the group.
 Tobin said reports he had Rt. lacked the naval ofsieeFs were ''iibel- oua and sIanderoug." Such reports were circulated, he said, in hope "that political purpose might Dc served by involving me in a dis- graceful episode for the pirs pose Of injuTing the candidates Of the Democratic party"
 Tobins aiso denied tht no had been 'foOligh enough" to telephone Gconslnuod cn Page ll
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-03
Urge War
 Plant Freeze

Washington oct. g. (UP)-A senate committee calling the indus trial development of the south and west the key to post-war prosperity, today urged congress to freeze oil governmental war plants in il major eastern and northeastern states after dermany's' defeat to prevent deconcentration Of private industry in these states,
 Chairman Pat MeCarFan, D., New, leclared that an increase of popu- iatlon in the east that would como # tho government plants were per- mitted to be added to present private industry would create "an octopus that would blight the rest Of the country and reduce the south and west to misery"
 The committee, which is iivesti. gating industrial cefltralizatlon. said In c special report that plants in these states-New York, New Jer- sey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland, Delaware, Rhode Island, Ohio, Michigan and Illinois should Do sold oF leased only if industries buying them agreed to scrap an equal amount of old plant space.
 Calling centfaiiZation "basicaily anti l-capltalist," McCaFTan said iii nn introduction to the report that the q states produced e6 per cent Of the nations manufactures iil 1889 and since then have received the bulk of new war plants ificlud- inc the cream" Of plants cons
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Poper BoxCo. Fined $1,OO0
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Bosten, oct. S-Eeonomle sane. tlons totallng 90,000 will be imposed by the Internal Revenue department against three New England firms who have been found In violation of national wage stablisation laws, tho New England War Labor board announced today,
 The firms Involved and the amount of sanctions recommended in each case are: Camden Textile Corp, Camden, Me, $500; Water. bury Paper Box O., Waterbury, Conn.,, Sio0o. and Treneher.B BelSky, Inc, Springfield, Mass, $500,
 The WLB trlpartite enforcement division recommended that these amounts Dc dlsregarded by the In- tornal Revenue Department in com. putting tho eompanieS' costs and ex. penseS for income tax purposes, The actual amounts Of wages paid in violation of the law were consider. ably higher than the recommended sanctions but were reduced because of various extenuating circum. stances.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-03
Wraith Like Men Come Out From Holes On q HiLL

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 T guess you won't believe me when I tell you what we have been through" Phillips said wearlly. "Un- less you have lived with death site ting right beside you in your foz hole. I guess you wouldn't under stand,
 We crossed the river in assault boats ct midnight three weeks ago The Germans knew we were coming because while we were still huddlec in the boats on the west bank ws started getting t from eo's.
 we finally got to the other shorg and started up q hill. Some oi as were pinned down by German mortar fire until dawn but we sol ID the hill anyway.
 "Then al hell broke iooee. Ger mans from on tlElcleared area acroal the river pumped eB's into l's from
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-03
Commandos In Quick Move
 Land On The Isles Of Greece
(Navy photo from NEA Telephoto)
By CLINTON B. CONGER United Press War Correspondent

United Press War COrrespOndentl
 With Commandos on Kithera. Sept. l6 - (u,PJ British conn mandos, transported by the Cana dian and British Nayies, landed un- opposed during the last i've hours on the Island of Kithera, Ave and Q half miles south of the Greek mainland, in the first liberation of Greek territory,
 Left wing Greek Partisans who welcomed us said the Germans had withdrawn during the past week but still were present in force in the Pelophonnesus Peninsula just across the Channel.
 Landing with the first assault wave at the tiny fishing village of Avlemonon at 10 o'clock last night, I saw what was probably the most n-commando-like operation on rec- ord.
 Veteran commando troops ap- preached the shore ready for trou- ble. Almost at the moment of land- ing we confirmed earlier intelligence that the island was clear of Ger mans which turned the assault into Q camping trip,
 Within 10 minutes of landing the mo smoking, no flashlights" rule was abandoned and the headlights of two jeeps beamed on the stone
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-03
Greeks Grab Own Lands
BY ROBERT D0WsoN United Press Staff Correspondent

London, October 8. = (UP) = Reliable sources in Cairo reported today that the Germans had evacu- ated all of the Peloponnesus, the big southern peninsula comprising quarter of Greece, leaving only . rear guard astride the marrow neck linking 1t with the mainland
 A United Press dispatch from Cairo reported the NaA withdrawal from the Peloponnesus as other sources said Greek Patriots had seized control of most of southern Greece and at least five of the main Aegean Islands.
 The northeastward passage tc Athens, 70 miles distant, was the only area of the lower Greek prov- ince still garrisoned by the Ger mans. the dispatch said.
 United Press War Correspondent Clinton B. Conger, in Q dispatch for the combined Allied Press, confirm ed that British conmandos also had landed unopposed on ct least one Greek island-Kythera, five and Q (Continued on Page 9
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-03
Allies May HaUe To Send
 Food To Weste,r, Germany

farms Of the east. The official be- iieved that Russia probably would not permit any of it's agricultural production to move to the rest of Germany until the needs Of the Russian people have been met.
 Tho ofilciai said no actual figures on German relief requirements have been determined, but . proposed standard places the German diet during military occupation on 6 lower level than that for liberated countries.
 During the initial emergency peF- iOd that standard calls for 2,000 cal. 0Fieg . day for the urban population, and later would jump t0 2,lc0 cai. 0Eies for tiie country co c whole. The aiIocati0n for liberated nations is s,0D0 caioFies daily DOT capital italy, after more than c year Of oeeupas ton, etlil gets Q daily diet Of ieae (C0akfnifad on pana a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-03
Body or Missing
 Man Found To-day

Strange behavior Of e bird dog, Rex, Tod this morning to the dis. covery of the body of Stanley Zukauskas, b7, 2b North Leonard street, who has been the object Of on intensive search since he was re- ported missing from his home over two weeks ago,
 Zukauskas, who friends reported had been in c depressed condition for some time, was found hanging from 0 small maple tree 400 feet behind the earetakeF's cottage op- posite Calvary cemetery on East Main street. pr, Harold r, Morrill,, assistant medical examiner termed the death suicide by hanging.
 The body was discovered by the caretaker's assistant, Carlong Mon- tagano, Acorn street, shortly before Q o'clock this morning, Montagano told Detective sergt. Charles Mo. Weeney and Detective Raymond Grady that he was walking along the path behind the caretaker's cot- tage, when the eAretaker's dog, ktORl SHkAtV hB UAAA " AeAtSA beNAtAes his legs, barking furiously, then ran into the woods as though he wanted Montagno to follow him,
 Montagno did SO, and found the body about six feet of the path, Ho ran back to the home of the caretaker, Nicholas Hapenny, and his daughter notified the police,
 Identification of the body was made from Q letter in his pocket from his son, Bronis zukauskas, Q soldier stationed ct An Army air field in Texas,
 pr. Merrill said death was due to strangulation, and that the man had been dead approximately two weeks.
 ZukauSkas had hung himself from fork in tho maple sapling with c doubled eloSeline. He was well dressed in c blue suit and gray hat, and his pockets were empty except for the letter from his son,
 ZukauskaS was last seen alive on Sunday afternoon, Sept. i7, when, it was reported, no took his rosary beads and 30 cents in change md left his house for Q walk.
 Police were notified the follow.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-03
3 Maxi Towns Are BIitzed
 In Big Raids

London, Oct. S.-(Up)-More than 1000 American Flying Fortresses and Liberators, escorted by nearly as many fighter planes, attacked military transport factories and Air- dromo facilities at Nuremberg, dag- gonau and dlhelstadt in southern Germany today.
 Some of tho targets were covered by clouds and were bombed by means of Instruments, the U, 8, strategisal air force announced,
 The objoctlves included . tank works ct Nuremberg, ( heavy truck factory at daggenau, i4 miles south- southwest of Karlsruhe, and the German airforee station at 0lebel- stadt, just west of Nuremberg,
 The major blow today followed one delivered yesterday by more than 1900 heavy bombors against transport eenters Of Kassel, Hamm and Cologne in north Germany, and was the seventh attack in the last nine days,
 Tn that period the Eighth Air Force has sent approximately 5000 Flying FoFtrosSes and LiberatorS Into the assault against Nad industrial and transport eonters just behind the Siogfried line defenses,
 Fighter planes eseorting the bombers during tho nine.day cain- paign numbered more than 5000, making the total sortles of bombers and fighters around i3,000, or on average of nearly i,b00 DOT day for tho Eighth Air Force alone,
 The second tactical air force, it vas announced today, flew more than 1000 sorties yesterday in close support of ground troops in Hoi- land.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-03
Ex. Gov. Smith Is 4 Little Better

New YOtk, oct. 3--(Up,-EofnneT GOV, Alfred ', Smith was gtiii iIl "vefy grave" condition today ct Rockefeller Institute Hospital where ae hes been . pat.Gnt since Sept. 2D. Efls physician, DF, Raymond r, glll- Ilvafl, said Smith lad shown . slight Improvement yesterday.
 lle was visited during the day bg nsembeFs of hig family and Catholic church dienitaFiss. John ]. leagkOb, lflaustEiaIiDt and friend Of the io2D pfmH9atic presidential candidate eaW him briefly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-03
Novy Reports New Plane

Boston, Oct. 3-(UP)-The U, 6, Army's new pet-pFopelled fighter, tho PsBeA AlFconiet, uses ordinary kerosene for fuel and flies more than 100 miles per hour, the Bos. ton area office Of tho Air Technical Service Command disclosed today.
 Weighing 10000 pounds, the plane is equipped with heavy armament and files without Q nose propeller, officials said In revealing hitherto reatricted information about the PsbD.
 Power comes from two enclosed thermai.jet engines next to the fus0lage. The fighter runs SO smoothly that c vibrator is installed on the Instrument panel to keep the needless functionlng by eliminating "stickineBs."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-03
By COLLIE SMALL
lIInliAA Praaa War CnrreannndnI

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 With Third Army on the Moselle, Oct. 2.-(UP)-Wraith- like men came out of the foxholes on Hill 3e0 today after an epic three weeks stand that saved c vital bridgehead.
 It had been three weeks in hell. But they didn't look much different frcm other undecided Doughboys --that Is, until you looked into their glazed eyes and ct their matted boards and their feet. red and swOl- len if shoes whose heels and acles had routed of In the stagnant water of the foxholes where they had been living and dying.
 igt Lt. Donald Phillips, platoon leader, of Cadillac, Mich, was calm. His hands hardly shook at oil ag he ftaced the course of his gallant comrades across Q map, from the west bank Of the MoGelle near Aynavlile to the hlood-soakod hlll
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-03
AMMUNITION EXHAUSTED,
 POLES QUIT
BY JOHN A. PARRIs United Press staff COrrespOndent)

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 London, October S.-(Up) - It. Gen, TadeuSE Komo- rowski, commander in chief of the Polish Home Army, announced today that his forces ceased resistance in Warsaw last night after ex- hausting all their supplies and ammunition.
 The Polish command gave the order to cease fire ct 8 p. m., ending the German Polish battle of Warsaw which began early in August when the underground army came out of hiding and chal- lenged the occupation forces in the streets of the capital.
 Komorowski's eommunique cletred up the contradictions in reports of the situation in Warsaw as broad- cast by the German radio, Moscow Advices and earlier communiques from tho headquarters of Komorow. ski, who had been known as Gen. eral Dor.
 "Warsaw hes fallen after OK. hausting all supplies and ammuni. ton on the 09rd day of the struggle in the face Of overwhelming enemy superiority" KomorowSkiS com. munlque said. "0n Oct, 2 ct 20o0 hours @ ?. m,) orders were given to cease fire"
 fn the face of other reports that the Polish forces in Warsaw had surrendered to tho Germans, Koln. orowskl said earlier that Q "temp- orary truce" had been arranged to permit evacuation of civilians from tho heart Of tho capital.
 The poliah pfoAs agency, organ Of the Soviet backed Polish committee of national liberation, charged in . statement released in Moscow that fk, Gen. Tadesus (1or) Komorow- skis Polish home army had dc. clded to surrender after Q futile two month attempt to seize and hold Warsaw.
 The agency said that Q Colonel Monter, "aoting on behalf Of Gen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-03
By RUTH 0AEETNER United Press Stan COFTesp0nGene)

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 Washington, Oct. 3 - (UPl - T1he United states and Great Bris tain probably viii have to ship re. lief food Into western Germany duF- ing tho early period Of military oc' elipation because Russia will take food from surplus producing areas Of eastern Germany to meet the needs Of her own people, afl inform cd agricultural ofaeiai said today.
 While no long-Fange relief food program has been evolved, for oeFs many, the army viii take over the task during the emergency period following tho Mad collapse, he eaid.
 it iD expected that western Ger. inany-a deficit Agricultural area- will Do the Akae5iean and British zones Of occupation while the east Will 10 that Of Russia, ho said,
 Normally, WesteFn Germany de- Fivsg much of tts food from the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-03
\ l|VIERIcANS CRACK NAzI FORTIFIED LINE Polish Home Forces Give Up Fight
.HAND-TO-HAND STRUGGLE IN
 UDACH AREA
BY VIRGIL PTNKLEY United Press War CoEFespondentl

BY VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press War Correspondentl
 Supreme Headquarters AEF, October 3. = (UP) American shock troops broks through a fortified belt today to the village of Ubach, 10 miles north of Aachen, and at midday where fighting a grim hand-to-hand battle In the heart of the Siegfried Line athwart the approaches to the Rhine.
 It. Gen. Courtney F Hodges forces held the iIai- tiative in the new offensive 24 hours after 1t was launched, United Press Cor. respondent Henry T. Gorrell reported from First Army Headquarters at 2:S0 p. m. and was slugging ahead in the face of terrific German fire.
 The deepest penetration of ths sieRfried line, into which the E1rss Army drove Q wedge more than half way, was made in the Ubach area where the U. s. vanguard swarmec across the Aachen-o oelenkircheEs railroad M
 American flame throwers and hay- onet-swinging assault units were re~s ducinR the Siegfried piIlboxes one by one in bitter struggles at close quarters.
 Prisoners Report
 Prisoners reported that the Ger. man commander in the village ol neggendorff, two miles east of Ubach, refused to order . countef- attack last night because nc "old nos care to win any more decorations.
 AS the battle ragged in full Iufy above Aachen, force of some &s9Q1 American warplAneS BWUpt uFai Germany, pounding war plants a.ae air bases on Q broad front stfe51iIs ing between the Karlsrul1e area ef the Rhinelaud near the northeast ern tip of france to the Nurnbarg area i40 miles to the east.
 An advance beyond apparently by-passed Ubach was reported ny united Press Correspondent JAck Frankish. He said the Americans
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