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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11
Reds Report Evacuation
 Of Budapest

London, Dec. 11-(UPl-Soviet front reports said the Germans were evacuating the Hungarian ca pital of Budapest under a storm by Russian bombs and shells today, leaving a doomed rear guard to cover their flight from the burning city.
 The fall of Budapest, Southeast ern Europe's greatest communica- tions hub and the citadel of Adolf Hitler'S last major satellite, ap- peared imminent as converging Russian armies crashed in to the gates of the city from three sides and all but severed the enemy's narrowing escape line northwest to Vienna.
 Moscow said the fleeing Nazis were abandoning their wounded and huge piles of equipment in a desperate attempt to escape through the closing jaws of the Red Army trap
 Several crack Luftwaffe squad rons joined battle with the Red air force over the choked rail and road lines to Vienna in a last-minute attempt to save their marching col- umns from slaughter, but Moscow
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11
E Bond Sales Are DepIored In Waterbury
Official U. g. Army Photo.

AMERICAN TROOPS DECIDED TODAY THEY HAVE DONE ENOUGH FIGHTING ON THE COLOGNE FRONT!
 JAPANESE STATE THAT B. 29's FLEW HALF WAY TO TOKYO AND TURNED BACK!
 "7th DIVISION INDIFFERENT TO CAPTURE OF ORMOC"!
 HOME FRONT CITIZENS NOT BUYING E" BONDS DURING SIXTH WAR LOAN DRIVE. Those first three headlines are fictitious as actually they are the opposite. The last one in true!
 Residents here reading the first three get sick feeling. Imagine the spirit of the men on the war front reading the last one and knowing it to be the truth
 Sixth War Loan officials here to- day deplored the lack of ''E" bond buying support by the general pub lie, a condition prevailing through out the nation during the current drive.
 To date but only $2 million in this type of. bond has been pur- chased here toward a quota of over $4 million. Although it was an- nounced today that the state as whole had already exceeded it's general quota its "E" bond effort Jagged by SIS million, with the nation tagging by half-billion in individual sales.
 Full support of the heroic efforts
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B JOHN NOLAN

Limited Press Staff C0rrespondenu
 Cambridge. Mass. December li.-- (uP) A world police force made up entirely Of men over 40 to handle postwar military occupation prob. lems was proposed today by pr. Earnest A. Hooton. Harvard antrho- biologist,
 ''These men would have completed their families and the greater part Of their fife work. and might well devote their remaining years to service in payment Of the benefits and happiness they have enjoyed " said Dr. Hooton who turned 6T last month, "Why should the old do on the dancing and tho young pay the plpor9 ef we must feed the swine, let us stop casting pearls and start giving them huslIs,"
 10 thoee who would ohlooe 70 hla
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11
De GauIIe In StoIin Pact
BY JOSEPH w. GREGG

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Paris, December II. - (UP) - General Charles D Gaulle, enroute back from Moscow with a new Franco Russian treaty of alliance and mutual assistance, probably will meet next with President Roosevelt, informed French sources said today.
 Though MT. Roosevelt has not re- piled officially to De Gaulle's invita- ton to come to Paris. there was good reason to believe that the visit VIII occur fairly soon. It was suggested that the President might visit Paris immediately after the meeting Of the Allied Big Three,
 Having reached full agreement with Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin on the main out. lines Of treatment Of Germany and the postwar European settlement with France In . key role. De 0aulle was said to be most desirous of com. Ing to Q similar understanding with the United States.
 The signing of the Franco.Rus. sian pact probably will be followed In the immediate future by the sign. Ing of . parallel Anglo-French ale lance, on which conversations have been proceeding since Churchtils 6 visit here last month.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11
 Troops Need Ammunition

Paris, Dec. II 1-(UP)-S Seventeen junketing congressman in the Euro pean War Theater had it Straight from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhowez t6 day that more ammunition must h supplied within the shortest possihlS time.
 No one quarter can be blamed for the shell shortage, including labor and war department estimates. the Allied supreme commander told the congressman who stopped through the mud of an advanced command post to visit him Sunday.
 Fluctuating conditions of warfare and the weather upset previous es~ inmates of ammunition needs, he exc plained.
 The Stop-off at the supreme heade quarters advance command post fois lowed an extensive tour of the var@ ious fronts.
 The general inquired of Rep. Clara Luce, only woman in the party. hoW she found the war fronts.
 "Os knew where they were.7 she replied.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11
WING Has New Must Ruling Here

Concentration of brass stripping production in Connecticut and to a large extent in the Waterbury area, has led to a new War Manpower Commission program for statfing Must" programs here, it was dis closed today. The announcement o1 the program comes in the midst o1 a report that 500 ammunition jobs are now ready for prospective er1- ployes, and that more than. 2,0QO other essential jobs orders are on file at the U. s. Employment Serv- ice.
 Five area plants are among the Il Connecticut factories placed on the National Production Urgency coln- mittee's Must" program, and the new WING plans have been made in an effort to aid those plants in par ticular and to administer to the growing needs of the others.
 Strict watch over job stabiliza- ton compliance and new recruit ing methods are among the consid- erations involved in the WING pro- gram, which has been planned in great detail to cover every possible means of getting and keeping help in essential work.
 The War Production Boards cop per and brass division official, Har- " Rowe, has been stationed tempo rarily in Waterbury to aid the gov- ernment officials and plant man. agements in placing in operation the intensified ammunitions programs. Today he was scheduled to meet with brass plant and WING officials to complete plans for recruiting for eign help and starting the addi- tional munitions production.
 Recruiting
 The 800 additional ammunitionS workers will be recruited for the following plants: American Brass Company, Scovill Manufacturing Company, Chase Brass and Copper Company, Waterbury Rolling Mills, and Plume and Atwood in Thomas
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Britoin Has Huge New Pacific Fleet
BY BRUCE MUNN United Press Staff Corresponden

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 Loadon, Dec. H. (UP) Britain announced today the creation of a huge new Pacific fleet-described by some s urces as big enough to chal- 1engo the whole remaining Japanese fIeet-and said it would operate as needed under the supreme command of Admiral Chester w. Nimitz or Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
 The announcement underlined Britain's determination to play a strong role in the final defeat of Japan and marked her first appear ance in naval strength in Pacific waters since her loss of Hong Kong and Singapore in the early days of the Far Eastern War.
 At Camberra, War Minister Fran cis M. Forde revealed that the fleet would be based in Australia and said that Australia at the request of Britain had undertaken to provide by June, 1945 facilities, supplies and services estimated to cost mini mum of $6S,747, 900 in addition to be provided this financial year for American forces in the Southwest Pacific.
 Admiral Sir Bruce A. Fraser, former commander of the British home fleet, was given command of the new fleet. He went to south west Asia last summer as command CT of the British eastern fleet and will take with him the bulk of that fleet, along with many other war ships sent directly from Britain.
 Brttai,n's biggest battleship launched in recent weeks with Princess Elizabeth as sponsor, al ready has been designed for Paci- lic service.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11
Elk Seen CrolOdir1g Voters F National Parks Increase

s2,00o COG acres Of wyoming. Bar- ret, said, plus the mineral rights under is,0OO,00O acres more. What was Presidents idea, anyhow. he asked. Taking 22l.000 acres and calling them the Jackson Hole Nae Iional Monument?
 These acres consist of sage brush flats, Barrett said, and con. tain only one structure that might be monument. This .s a log cabin where Jesse James once hid from 6 posse.
 We would have monuments oil over the west 4 we attempted to make e monument wherever some horse thief vas caught" Barrett added.
 Rep. Hamlltotn Fish of New Yofk chimed in Co say that maybe One f0oniinua9 an rnna e
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11
By JAMES McGLINCY

United Press War COrreSpOndentg
 Paris, Dec. II (UP) - AmerA ican armored forces battled eastS ward across the muddy Cologne Plain on a lO-mile front today to within two miles or less of Durells main anchor of the Germans Roeg river winter defense line.
 Resuming their offensive in de- termined effort to wipe out the last Grman forces on the west bank of the Roer, First Army tanks and in- fantry catured Echtz, less than two miles northwest of Duren and IT miles inside Germany last nigilts and pressed on toward the Roer it. self, mile away.
 Dhorn, a mile and 8 half Sout1@ west of Echtz and two miles west of Duren, also fell to the First Army
 The American Third and Seventh Armies far to the south also ham- mered forward at the central gate way to the Rhineland, wedging deeper into the Siegfried Line in the rich Saar Basin and topping tn key supply and communications center of Haguenau in the eastern tip of France.
 A German front reporter said the two armies had hurled 16 divisions some 240,000 troops into an attempt to break through the west wall to the Rhine along an 80-mile front. | The American threat to Duren, an industrial town of 39,OOO astride tEe Roer river 2 miles southwest Of Cologne, was mounting hourly aS Lieutenant General Courtney H. Hodges First Army forces stepped up their new offenSiv. e Capture of the west-bank por- ton of Duren would collapse the last sizeable enemy pocket west of the Roer and bring the Americans abrest of the stream along q front of nearly 20 miles. While one column was pounding toward Duren from Echz, another | attacked in the pre-dawn dark ness at a. m. and advanced 2,000 yards from the direction of Lucherberg to the outskirts Of Merken, two miles to the east and tbree miles north northwest of Duren.
 Fought Fight Expected The Germans were expected to put up tough fight for Merken. however, because the eastern out- skirts lie only 100 yards from the 1 Roer.
 One mile northwest of Merkeri. other First Army troops were enc gagged in a bitter battle with Ger- man self-propelled guns and tanks for the town of Pier.
 Doughboys advanced a mile and half from Aldorf to the western
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Anthropologist Advocates
 Older Men For World Cops

scheme on the ground that oldsters couldn't stand the gaff and would make poor soldiers anyhow, pr, Hootton had this reply:
 We might as well have our eo- ronary thrombosis on the battlefield aS on the golf course"
 Besides" he told the United Press in an interview. 'if men all over the world did not reach mili- tary age until their 18th year, it would all come out even and the tempo Of warfare would be slowed down everywhere m any event, we would better walt and sec how old Germans fight before we scratch off the senlle e unfit for military service"
 pr. Hooton believes that this army of mlddle-aaed males could be in-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11
First Inductee US.
 Army Is Married

Boston, Dec. 11-CUP)-Pfc John E. Lawton, 25, of Everett, first se- lectee inducted into the U. S. Army in World War II, was honey. incoming in New York today follow ing his marriage in East Boston.
 Lawton, who was sworn into the. Army Nov. IS, 1940 as the first civilian inducted under the Selec- tive Service System in the nation. married Miss Olga Trongone of East Boston at St. Lazarus Cath olic) church yesterday.
 He became the Nc. draftee when four registrants ahead of him failed to pass their physical examinations in the nations first induction at South Armory here
 Lawton. a former sign painter, now is attached to the Medical Corps at Fort Lewis. Wash.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11
Bad Outlook For Business

Boston, Dec. II - CU.P0 - Bus mess volume will be smaller, unem- ploynent greatr and labor troubles more numerous in 1945 than in 1944, the United Business Service predict ed today.
 Easing its predictions on the fall of Germany before spring but the continuance of the Japanese war through the year, the service fore cast:
 Business volume-probably will be l2 to Is per cent smaller than in 1914, due to cut back of war con- tracts. Food rationing should end in the second half of the year.
 Industrial production probably will fall IS to 20 per cent below l944 with 50 per cent less war production by the end of i945.
 Taxes - No more than token re- auctions next year.
 Labor and employment wage controls eased but not ended. Hour ly rates will be boosted. Labor trou- bles may increase. Unemployment may reach from 3.000,000 to 4.00O,- GOO.
 Prices -- will show great diverg- ency. Controls will be continued. Living costs will be relatively stable.
 Retail Trade - total dollar value likely to De 5 to 2 per cent short Of this year. Sales will be spotty.
 Automobiles - The first new cars should be turned out by summer fl the war In Europe ends. Prices will be 10 to IS per cent higher than pfeswaf prices.
 Building no boom la i04b due Go lumber shortages.
 Corporate Eafnlnes - Likely to be 70. to iS per cent under i044. psvi. dends also will bO smaller.
 Stocks and Bonds - Some market decline ia likely ln early reeonver- sion, followd by recovery later iri W a~AAe as...- .4ss.Aas
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11
YANKS DRIVE TO WITHIN TWO MILES 0F DUREN, MAIN NAzI R0ER DEFENSE STAY
Yanks Tighten Hold
 On 4O- 50, 900 Japs

southern end of the enemy's Yam ashita line beyond hope of relief and complete encirclement of that pocket appeared imminent.
 The Seventh Division, driving up the west coast from Albuera, eight and a half miles south of Ormoc, yesterday was less than mile from a junction with the 77th and already had established contact with other forces moving across the inland mountains from Mahonag, nine and a half miles east of Ormoc.
 Trapped and compressed into a narrow pocket by these three Allied columns, the enemy'S forces in the southern segment of the Yamashita line although thousands strong, are unable to extricate themselves" '" Gen. Douglas Macarthur reported in his communique.
 They are being destroyed with little opportunity for effective re- taliation. With their destruction, our troops from the south will be in position to take the northern seg-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11
By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON

 United Press War COrrespOndent)
 Allied Headquarters. Philippines, Dec. 11.-UP)-The 77th Division famed out from the captured Port of Ormoc on the west coast of Leyte today, tightening the Ameri- can stranglehold on 10000 to 50,O00 Japanese trapped in two shrinking pockets.
 One column pushed north up the Ormoc corridor in an effort to strike knockout blow from the rear against the bulk of the enemy gar- rison fighting a last-ditch strug- gle against an American frontal assault below Limon. Another headed south and already may have effected junction with the Seventh Division around the second enemy pocket.
 Ormoc, main Japanese supply and reinforcement gateway on Leyte, fell yesterday to veterans of the 77th only 72 hours after they had driven ashore three miles to the south in a surprise amphibious landing.
 The capture of Ormoc split of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11
b-29'S BOMB .TOKYOFOR5TH
 STRAIGHT DAY
BY FRED SCHERFF United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Washington, December. II - (UP) = B-29 Superfort- resses bomber Tokyo for the fifth straight day today and again kindled fires in the heart of the worlds fourth largest city, Japanese broad casts reported.
 The early morning attack by small formations" of B-29s followed five other attacks by the huge bombers over the weekend on Gen. tral Japan and Korea, including two strikes at Tokyo, the Japanese said.
 "All fires were put out speedily" !" Tokyo said in reporting today's attack. Air raid defenses of the city drove off the raiders before they could do any real damage"
 Two Marianas-based Superfort- resses also attacked Tokyo about 8:30 D. m. (9:30 a. m., EWTO yes terday with a shower or lnceAolary bombs that caused fire, Tokyo said. These fires, too, were extinguished ''immediately" it was said.
 Headquarters of the Fist bomber command on Saipan made no com- ment on the reported raids Sum- day, but confirmed that lone rSuperfortress had bomber the capi- tai in weather strike" just before dawn Saturday.
 1st It. John T. Garvin of North Bergen. N. J., a member of the crew, told United Press War Cor respondent Mac R. Johnson at Sai- pan that Tokyo was completely blacked out when the SuperfortreSs
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11
BY FREDERICE c. oTS@AN United Press Staff COrreap0ndent)

(United kfeaa Htatt COrteapundcutl
 Washington. Dee. ji-"CuPJ-!Ihe trouble seems to be (cogrect me fl I'm wrong, Mir. tcke9 that if the government doesn't quit making na- tional parks in wyoming. thers1l be no room for people only elk.
 So lt is that the House fo Rep- resCntatIves takes time off today to vote on whether to abolish the Jackson Hole National Monument and fl you don't think this is in- pOrtant, you don't live in what Is left of Wyoming. Boyl
 Things have come to such c pass, according to Congressman Prank A. Barrett Of you-knoW-whcre, that he may lose his job. Not because of no confidence from tho voters. but no voters. An ok can't vote.
 &he federal government nos aWn1
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11
HIcCoUGHRR HosPITALIzED

Pennington, Me, Dec. ll.-tUP)- After hiccoughing continuaii, for a week, Clarence Pillsbury, 2 thlaips grocer. was hospitalized hf!s today for treatment,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11
Battle Over Muddy Plain Of Cologne On a 1O-Mile Front
BULLETIN

With U. s. First Army, Ger~ many, Dec. 11-(UP)-MajOr Ger man forces have withdrawn east- ward across the ROer riVers against which American troops were pushing today in the face of resistance described as mostly delaying actions.
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CIO,udy Tionight

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-17
OAR Founders Day
To Be Observed

In spite OF the fact that many
members of the local society of the
Daughters Of the American Revolu-
ton are attending the National Con-
gress in New York City, founders
day will be observed here this week
with ceremonies at the founders
monument near Memorial CONT
mental Hall, at Mount Vernon, and
in Arlington. The ceremonies win
begin simultaneously at IL noon
Wednesday with silent prayer for
the armed forces offered both here
and in New, York City by the con-
gress.
Mrs. George K. Bradfield, niece
of Miss Eugsnia Washington, viii
place a wreath at the foot of the
monument and Miss Janet Richards,
la charter member of the society, will
give brief address.
AT the same time a wreath will be
placed at the tomb of George and
Martha Washington at Mount Ver-
mon. Mrs. George N. Lester of the
Falls Church Chapter will place a
wreath for Mrs. william Pouch,
president general of the society, at
tending the national congress, at
the Tomb Of the Unknown Soldier,
In Arlington. Mrs. John Bethune
land Mrs. II. A. Fellows, former re-
gents of the Falls Church Chapter.
will carry the American and the
OAR flags, respectively, IN the pro-
|cession to the Unknown Soldiers
lTnnnh
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Vida. WIdman
Becomes Bride

Miss Vida Cornelia Wildman,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John G.
Wiidman, became the bride OF 1t.
David Cummings Thatcher. son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur B. Thatcher,
Saturday evening, April .. The
ceremony was performed ut 3
o'clock In All Saints Episcopal
Church, with the Rev. Randolph
Mengers oniciAting 1T the. double
ring ceremony.
Easter lilies decorated the altar.
Preceding the ceremony. class
mate Of 1t. Thatcher rendered two
solos. Given in marriage by her
father, the bride wore 4 gown OF
white satin fashioned with q yoke
LOT marquisette and trimmed with
pearls, and q fingertip veil fell from
10 Juliette cap which was also
trimmed with pearls. She carried
Ia wf.ite prayer book with gardeniaa
and shower Of stephanotis.
Miss Martha Ann Courtney wa
the brides maid Of honor and only
tattendant. Her gown was Of aqua
net and lace and she wore . head
dress Of matching velvet and os4
ltrich plumes. She carried an arm
bouquet Of deep pink roses.
Midshipman James Seitz, U. 8
N. R.. served Is best man and ths
ushers were the Messrs. Robert Nil.
Her, Henry Latimer, Charles Cordr,
land Glenn Riddell.
Following the ceremony, = rccep.
ton was held at the home Of thl
brides parents
1t. and Mrs. Thatcher are max,
ing their home In Greenville Pa.
while the bridegroom Is Stationed
there.
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To Make Debut
Win Orchestra

Mrs. Cecil Lyon, wife of the acting
chief of the Wesv Coast division Of
the Bureau of American Republics
of the State Department, will make
her debut on April 81 and % in
Washington as piano soloist with
the War Production Board Orches-
ira. Mrs. Lyon, who is known pro-
fessionally as Elizabeth Lyon, is q
daughter of the former United
States Ambassador to Japan and
Mrs. Joseph c.. Grew. She lived
here and attended school here when
her father was Undersecretary of
State before his appointment to the
post as Ambassador
Mrs. Lyon began her piano studies
in Toxic, although her teacher was
an Austrian, and before leaving
there she gave recitals at the
United States Embassy and at the
Women's Club of Toxic.