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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-24
Jittery Capital Given First
 Taste Of U. s. Bombs Nazis Mass 100000 Men At Cologne
RY FIRED SCHERFF

D4 EANA1O 0NAAAIAEkG G United Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 Washington, November 24. - (UP) r One hundred or more B-29 Superfortresses officially opening a two- pronged air offensive to soften Japan for invasion, bombed Tokyo by daylight today, and the enemy admit ted factories and other inn portant installations had been damaged.
 Boarding out from new bases on Saipan in the Mari- anas, 1, $50 miles to the south east, the giant four-engined bombers swept over Tokyo at noon (11 p. m. Thursday, EWT) to give the jittery Japanese capital it's first taste of American bombs since the historic April 18, 1942, raid by It. Gen. James H. Doolittle'S flierS.
 Four hours later Tokyo belatedly admitted the raid and backed into admissions of what it sought to imply was slight damage to factories and other major installations. Small fires'' were caused, Tokyo broadcasts added, but only among civilian homes and hospitals" and all were controlled immediately. :.
 Tokyo said the bombers, attacking in 10 or more groups. were over the city for two hours.
 ] |, Three were shot down, q later Japanese comInunique said, adding the customary: '.Our damages have been slight"
 The attack, the first on T0yk0 by land based aircraft, was afi- nounced here by Gen. H. H. Arnold. commander of the Army Air Forces and chief of the global 2Oth Air munique on damage done to the industrial targets would be issued when further details are available.
 No Hit-Run Raid
 "The battle for Japan has been joined" Arnold said in special report to President Roosevelt. This operation is in no sense 8 hit-and- run raid. It is calculated exten- sion of our air power no part of the Japanese empire is now out of our range, no war factory too remote to feel our bombs. ...
 The Saipan based B-29s, working under the newly-formed 21st bomb CT command, Arnold said, will CO., ordinate their operations with those of the China-based 20th bomber command, whose B-29's have al- ready carried out IT missions against
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-24
State Awoits Greot Change
BY BETTY ROURE

Um1CeO FFeSS SG81x OOEECSpOAucAAe
 Hartford, Conn.,, Nov. 24. (UP)- With utilization of the manpower and resources of the state to the greatest advantage to all its citt- zens'' as an overall objective, the Connecticut pastwar planning board today released an interim report on its studies to Gov. Baldwin, outlin- ling IA specific recommendations for immediate action.
 Stating that postwar problems are pre-war problems plus the dev- astating effect of war;" the board divides them into two sections: in human relations and economic readjuStment after war.
 Becaujse of its high degree Of mobilization for war production, Connecticut will experience greater change during the period of recon~ version than almost any other state, the board declares.
 Full production and full enploy- ment were immediate concerns, be- cause other benefits, such as demo- cratic freedoms, economic security and access to education opportunity, hinge on these conditions, the re- port points out.
 Establishment 0z central federal agency to direct national prepara- ton for the problems Of reconyez-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-24
Dan Mahaney, IT,, In Action

Private First Class Daniel J. (Buddy) Mahaney Jr., 20, of 1909 Bank street, son of State Rep. Dam iel J. and Mrs. Marie l.. Mahaney, was killed in action Nov. Il. Armis- tiee Day, according to word receiv- ed by his parents this morning. A member of the famed 26th YD Division, Pvt. Mahaney was last known to have been stationed in and about the Metz combat area, France. His parents had received a letetr from him last Friday and dated Nov. 4 in which he had re- quested jokingly that they take good care of his Ford car.".
 Entering the service two years ago this coming January, Pvt. Mahaney had attended the Army engineering school at Providence and had been 8 sergeant with the calvary at Fort Jackson until that time when the latter unit dispersed and the mem- bers were assigned to the infantry. It was stated today he had in- formed his parents that 1t was possible he would have received a commission next month.
 A graduate of Crosby High school and 8 student of the University of Connecticut he was active in bas- ketball and baseball activities. He waE C Lieutenant in the Sons of Legion of the Waterbury Branch of the American Legion. His fath- CT, Daniel J. Mahaney, who re- gently was reelected to another term in the General Assembly, has been chairman of the Veterans Legislative committee in the Gen. eral Assembly for more than 10 years. A veteran of World War I Rep. Mahaney has been county of f1cer of the famed "48'' branch of the Legion and long has been prom inent in all progressive legislative matters pertaining to veterans. Besides his parents, he is surviv- ed by one brother, "ackie."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-24
Farmer Asked By Gestapo
 ToBlolU UpM1nitions Plant

Whitman, Mass, Nov. 24-(UP)- The guard was doubled at the National Fireworks, Inc, plant in nearby West Hanover today while police investigated a farmers story that he had been asked by "Gestapo agents" to help blow up the muni- tions plant.
 Henry Schmickler, 35, of Whit man, a German-refugee poultry farmer, told police he was robbed of $2,5O0 by two men and two wom- en last night after he refused to accompany them to the factory.
 Asserting he was a prisoner in a German concentration camp near Augsburg in 1887, Schmickler claim ed to recognize one of the men as the head Gestapo agent at the camp, one George Lindler, and one of the women as Lindler's secretary, Miss Koch"
 The farmer, who was alone in his home here when he was robbed, said he informed police last year he had been approached and asked | to aid in sabotage activities but refused because he was "a good ! IATncxic6f.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-24
7tvo Billions Given Army
 In ReUerse Lend Lease

with headquarters and depOts. spe- cially-built hospitals housing 100000 beds, 200 Red Cross clubs, more than 1000, 900 high-grade airplane spark plugs, 2,104 British aircraft, 570 aircraft engines.
 More than $100, GOO, 900 in mate- rialS and labor went into construc- tion of 'Mulberries es"-the prefabri- cated harbors fioated to Normandy to provide Allied forces with two invasion supply ports.
 The services included use of Britt ish transatlantic lines, such as the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth which carried 865,OO0 Americans ill uniform to the British Isles.
 Another $54,OOO. 900 was expended by the British for food and raw materials for U. s. forces and $10O, . 100000 went for other supplies, in- cluding munitions and aeronautical equipment that have been transs 1erred og exported % f'1lg eoan11Tl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-24
Campaign
 Dirtiest .Everlckes..

Chicago, Nov. 24.-(UP)-Secre. tary of Interior Harold L. Icke: told the CIO national convention today that this years presidential campaign was "the dirtiest cam- paign in our history - a campaign carried on the lowest possible plane"
 Ickes, in one of the major ad- dresses of the convention, said he doubted whether this country or any country could long endure the "kind of unity which the reac- tionaries and their candidates tried to spread over this nation during the last campaign"
 "A little more such unity and we would have as many quarreling groups within our borders as we have races and religions" he said.
 He praised the C1O for it's "for- ward looking" program and said you have adopted a great program, a progressive program and one that will receive the support not only of labor but of all forward-looking farmers and businessmen"
 ''It should receive the support of everyone who is concerned with the lives and livelihood of Ameri- can men and women now and in the future," he said.
 IckeS warned the convention that i've must not be lulled into somnanl- bulism by pretty phrases" in the solution of postwar problems.
 We must follow our tradition of using our government to do what needs to be done whether we are beset by foreign enemies or national emergencies" he said. "The gov ernment has, and can again, become a vital instrument for the protec- tion of the people against the rav- ages of depression and it can and must do this by, through, and with labor. It must do this through more jobs at higher wages and more development and our industrial and agricultural resources"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-24

However, Chief Leroy L. Phinney of Whitman said he had no record of this statement.
 According to Schmickler, the quartet entered his home, displayed guns and said: Come with us. We're going over to Hanover. We're going to blow up the National Fire works plant"
 When he refused, Schmickler said. the quartet demanded his money. After turning over a strong box to the robbers, he was gagged and bound to a chair, Schmickler added One of the women urged the others to dispose of the bombs and ammunition as they left the house, Schmickler said.
 He thought the quartet lied by automobile.
 State police were called, and a spokesman at the Bridgewater bar racks said early today state detec- tiveS William Delay and Norman Butler would conduct an investiga- tion.
 Tn Boston, the Federal Bureau oi Investigation said 1t had been noti- lfled of the case but made n6 ] further comment
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-24
Yonks Storm Ormoc Plain
BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press War COrreSpOndeut

1ASA4AEA4v1 United Press War Correspondent
 Allied Headquarters, Philippines. Nov. 24-(UP)-American tanks and infantry neared the rolling Ormoc plain today after capturing the Jap anese stronghold of Limon and plunging on across the Leyte river bridge 800 yards to the south.
 GA Japanese communique said Japanese planes sank two transports ard a cruiser or destroyer and dam aged an aircraft carrier in attacks Tuesday though Thursday on an American naval force east of Min danao Island. I've Japanese planes were lost, 1t said. The communique also claimed that two additional un- identified warships had been found to have been damaged east of Luzon last Sunday)
 Destruction of the crack Japanese 1st division ,one of the best in the enemy army, virtually was complet- ed in the advance, which carried through rugged hills to within 19 miles of Ormoc itself and threaten ed to roll up the entiro Yamashita lire protecting that air and sea base on the west coast of Leyte
 Control of the bridge over the Leyte river put the American S2rd division in position to launch an att tack over easier ridges, but swamps on eit.-er side of the road were ex- pected to hamper the advance some- what.
 Gen. Douglas Macarthur reported
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-24

Washington, Nov. 24.-(UP)-The United Kingdom provided American armed forces with $2,437. .OO0, 900 in reverse-lend lease aid in the two- year period climaxed last June by the epochal invasion of France, the British government reported today.
 The total, more than half the 4s,25O, ,OOO, 900 in aid extended by the British to all their Allies. amounted to slightly more than one fifth of the $10,5O0, COG. 900 in direct lend lease which the United States sent to Britain and her dominions in the same two years.
 The British report was made pub lie here by the British information service coincident with its presen- tation to parliament as an official government white paper. |,
 The British inventory covered . vast range of goods and services provided for American forces based on the isles 1a2 airiaelds complets
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-24
NoObstocIe
 To Time Sole Likely Today

Sale Of the Cherry avenue prop erty of the U. s. Time Corporation, to the Benrus Watch Company for a probable sale price approximating $400,0O0 was due for final transac- tion at 2 D. m. today. A meeting of the company's stockholders was called for that time with expecta- tions that no opposition to the sale would be proposed.
 Officials of both companies today declined to issue information as to the proposed sale price but sources declared that the transaction would likely be closed at price far below the assessment valuation. The lat ter, as stated here early this week is in amount aproximating $500, 900 made up of $6l5, 300 for the main plant building, and $145 ,000 for the land thereon and a building and land north of S,Therry street in amount of $20,00U.
 It has been known that the main building of the company Is of an ''old type" with many renovations made necessary during the past few years to cope with the wartime production demands placed upon the company. It is for this reason that 1t is anticipated that the sale price will be far less than the assessed valuation of the plant.
 According to information released relative to the proposed sale the U. s. Time authorities intend leasing the plant back from the Benrus Company following the sale until the providential time for moving production activities to Little Rock, Arkansas where some 10000 square feet of factory space has been &C., quired, according to officials, for assembly production.
 Further plans, it has been stated, call for the addition of 8 second floor on the company's Middlebury plant for expansion of production there dependent upon consideration by the zoning authorities of that town.
 The company is owned at present by foreign interests who purchased 52 per cent of the stock of the con- cern some few years ago. According to officials, removal to the Little Rock location has been necessitated by the lack of facilities here for
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-24
Ceilings For CheopCIothes
(NEA Telephoto)

Washington, Nov. 24-(UP)-The administration today opened an in tensive campaign to halt increases in clothing prices and thus plug the biggest hole in it's hold-the-line dike on the coSt-of living front.
 In the first of a series of actions, the Office of Price Administration announced that it was placing dol- lars and cents ceiling prices on cheaper clothing for infants and children and ordering 8 reductiodn of "overfinishing" and "fancying- up" of various clothing fabrics.
 For children's clothing, OPA said, 1t will fix "simyle. easy-to-under- stand" ceiling price tags on some 30, 100000 low priced garments for which 4O,0O0,00O yards of materials already have been set aside.
 The actual prices will be released in few days, but OPA said sample retail prices would be 38 cents for boys underwear shorts, A cents for girls panties. $105 to SIPS for chil- dren;s overalls and $i.15 to SIPS for infants and childrens dresses.
 The second regulation, OPA ex- plained. was to prevent manufac- turers from putting fancy finishing touches on materials formerly sold ic simple styles and plain colors. In stead of turning shirt material in- to simple, inexpensive mems white shirts, for example, manufacturers found 1t more profitable to make fancy sports shirts The same heal true with plain material for wom. en's dresses. oPA said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-24
Gene Bridges. 8, Succumbs

Energy, H., Nov. 24.-(UP)-The Thanksgiving delicacies the neigh bors sent in for eight-year old Eu- gene Bridges remained untouched, and the ''get-well-soon" present his classamtes gave him was unopened today as the entire family mourned the death of the little boy.
 Eugene died yesterday. a victim of Lymphatic Leukemia and an en- larged Thymus gland. Death came just a few hours before the neigh bors were to come in and prepare the Thanksgiving dinner he had looked forward to ever since he left the hospital in St. Louis few weeks ago because he was homesick.
 Everybody knew that the child would not get well, but the towns people had prayed that he would have a good" day yesterday and be able to enojy the feast.
 Delicacies for the lavish dinner were donated by the neighbors, be- cause Eugene's mother couldn't af- ford much on the $60 monthly so- cial security check she has been get ting since her husband died two years ago.
 With the cilild when he died were his mother, his sisters, Velsie, 19, and Priscilla, 1S, and his brother, Elza, il.
 Money which was donted for med- ical care for the child will be used for his funeral tomorrow which everybody in Energy plans to at- tend.
 Eugene might have lived through Thanksgiving if he had remained at the hospital, but he wanted to come home. His mother said she was hap py that she had brought him home to spend his fast days with his fam iIv and friends.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-24
Russians Storm Danubian Isle On Edge Of Budapest
BY ROBERT s. MUSEL

United Press Staff Correspondent
 London, November 24. = (UP) = Red Army troops were reported storming Csepel Island in the Dan- ube on the southern edge of Buda. pest today, while other Soviet force! hooked down across the southeast. ern corner of Slovakia in a fast. breaking offensive that threatened to roll up the shaken German flanE in Hungary.
 Berlin and Moscow agreed that furious fighting was raging on the immediate eastern approaches te Budapest and at half-dozen key points on the long battlefront ex- tending ITO miles northeast of the capital into Slovakia.
 But the Russian early morning communique remained silent on a Berlin announcement that Red Army troops had landed in force on Csepel, a 30-mile Long Island formed by two arms of the Danube extending almost into the heart of Budapest.
 A German DNB News Agency commentator said powerful Soviet units battled their way onto Csepel under cover of a heavy fog early yesterday morning, cementing a solid siege arc around the western, southern and eastern approaches to the city.
 T1ho NIor; n oIvo;ee;ov, i,ad;ootaI %I,of the battle for Budapest was entering its final phase, with Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovcky Wheeling the shock spearheads of his 2nd Ukrainian Army into position for a frontal as- Sault on the Danubian stronghold.
 There were no details on the fighting on Csepel, but German and Russian accounts agreed that bat tie of mounting ferosity was in progress in the Hatvan area 9 miles northeast of Budapest, where the Soviets were edging forward yard by yard through rain, mud and a maze of NaZi minefields.
 German endorsements were re- ported streaming steadily into the front lines, under constant attack by Russian warplanes, counter att tacking again and again in a des- perate effort to prevent break through at Hatvan that would en- able the Soviets to cut through to the Danube north of Budapest it. self.
 The savagery of the fighting was pointed up by Russian field dis patches telling of mass slaughter of Soviet prisoners by German and Hungarian troops. Barges loaded with wounded Russian captives were
 
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Phone Strike Ends In Ohio
By DENNIS DALTON

1United Press Stan COrresondent)
 Cleveland, Nov. 24 -. UP) = Long distance telephone service was fully restored in 29 Ohio communi- ties and key cities of the east and midwest today after an eleventh hour union decision which forestall- ed government seizure of struck facilities.
 The break in the seven-day Ohio work stoppage came suddenly in Washington last night. President Robert Pollock of the strike origin eting Ohio Federation of Telephone workers announced unexpectedly to e6ne War Labor Board that he and eahAr union officers involved were s'conyinced" that the board would make 8 flair and equitable" settle ment of strike issues. |
 Pollock immediately ordered mem- bers of his Ohio union to go back to work and other officials called oil aSympathy'' strikes which had spread to Washington and Detroit.
 The spreading strike, Sparked by Dayton, O., switchboard operators protesting $18.25 weekly mainten- ance bonuses to imported operators, was verging on. d national tieup of communications.
 Nathan P. Feinsinger, VILE public member, disclosed last night that President Roosevelt already had au- thorized seizure of Dayton facilities. s'This case came closer to seizure without actual seizure than any ether in VILE history" he said.
 Before the surprise break last night, the situation had worsened with the enlistment of New York and Chicago Telephone operators in
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SUPERF0RTS SOFTEN JAPAN First United States Troops On Rhine
 SHOULD END WITH WAR-FDR
BY ROBERT J. MANNING NUnited Press staff CorresuOndentl

BY ROBERT J. MANNING Limited Press Staff COrrespondent)
 Washington, November 24. = (UP) = President RooSe- welt told Congress today that lend-lease and reverse lend lease should end with the war;" but that the United Nations partnership must continue and grow stronger to assure an enduring peace.
 The President said in his 17th report on lend-lease op- erations that the Allied Sys- tenn of combined supply must he replaced after the war by "a permanent and stronger United Nations" capable of Wuelling aggression, build ing economic foundations for prosperity and furthering civilized progress.
 The report, devoted solely to re- verse lend-lease provided to the United States by the British Com monwealth of Nations, said Britain and her Dominions had furnished 8, 3,348, ,127 900 in services and sup plies to this country in the two years ended June 30
 MT. Roosevelt's report was made pubic a few hours after the British government issued a white paper reporting that the United Kingdom had provided American forces with $2.4S7, ,O62, 900 in reverse lend lease, The. President noted that an addl- tional $gl1 ,065 900 had been provided by Australia, New Zealand and 1n- dia.
 U. s. 1end-lease sllipn1ens and transfers to the British Empire dur ing the same period totalled more than $10,500, ,000,000 while another &lS, 500, 100000 was channelled to other United Nations, according to lend-lease records.
 British and American officials re- portedly are now discussing plan to provide Britain with $5000, ,000,- 900 in American credits to regain her economic balance and re-enter world trade and there has been talk of a $2,O00, ,000, 900 credit deal be- tween this country and France.
 MT. Roosevelt said that without Britain's contribution to U. s. forces the invasion would have been de- 3ayed many months.
 ''It would have required thou sand ships to send across the At lantic what we received for our men through reverse lend-lease from the United Kingdom" MT. Roosevelt re- ported. we were able to use these thousand ships instead for carrying
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-24
BULLETIN

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 StraSbOurg, France, Nov. N - (U.P.) - StrasOglrg was 90 per cent cleared of organized German resistance today, and French troops were within 300 yards of an undamaged bridge across the Rhine.
 American infantry joined the French in StrasbOurg, and thus the first United States troops were on the Rhine.
 The French flag was flying from Z the spire of the StrasbOurg Cath- edral which was damaged con- siderably by air attacks.
 BY J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press War COrrespOndent)
 Paris, November 24. = (UP) French armored Forces captured the western half of the ancient Rhine River citadel of Strasbourg early today, while American Third Army tanks struck out in a new attack across the approaches to the Sieg- fried Line on an 11-mile front inside Germany's Saar border.
 Three Allied armies slug ging it out with the Germans on the approaches to Cologne and Dusseldorf were slowed almost to a standstill, how ever, as the Germans massed eight to 12 divisions = 80,000 to 120, ,000 troops-against them and counter-attacked viciously with flame-throw- CTS and 7O-ton King Tiger tanks.
 Limited gains within "A miles of Cologne were reported by the Amer ican Ninth army, but the British second army yielded Hoven, three miles northeast of Geilenkirchen, under counter attack by Panzer grenadier formations. The Germans also claimed to have re-captured
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