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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-16
Five Named
 Tozukouskus Grand Jury
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Five local residents have been named to the grand jury which will convene next Wednesday to consider murder indictment against Francis Zukauskas in the staying of Mrs. Stephanie Plungis, according to the list released today by High Sheriff J. Edward Slavin.
 The Waterburians are: Douglas Loring, Waterbury district man. ager of the Southern New England Telephone Co.,; Atty. James R. Law Tor of 136 Willow street, assistant city purchasing agent; Attorney Walter E. Monagan of 84 Euclid ave- nue; James T. Kelly of GA Chestnut avenue, former assistant postmaster; and Attorney Michael Ciano of 20 East Main street.
 Others who will serve are: Attor- ney Martin Caine of Naugatuck, former borough court judge; E. E. Seeley of Oxford, Jesse E. King of Oxford, an ohiciar of the Connecti- cut Light and Power Co.,; Fred Sty- versen, William Boni, and Attorney Omar w. Platt, all of Milford; Att torney Herman Levy of Hamden Paul R. North. John J. Keeley, and John J. Robinson, all of New Ha- ven; First Selectman Ralph Up- right of Beacon Falls, and P. P. VeloiSe of Beacon Falls.
 zukauskas, who is now at the New Haven county jail, will be brought here for the grand jury pro- ceedings, scheduled to start at 10 a. m. He will be allowed in the hearings room and will be permitted to ask the witnesses questions. In- structions to the jurors will be given by Judge Robert L. Munger before they adjourn to examine witnesses.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-16
BUDGET AIDED
 BY FORECLOSED PROPERTY SALE

Property forecIosed by the city in lieu of tax default and re-sold by authorities is ex- pected to net the city approx i1nately $150,000 by the close of 1944 it was stated today.
 Sale of the property to date has resulted in accumulation of about $87, ,000 with about $6O,O00 more expected by the close of the year, authorities declared today.
 In l943 the sum of $38,562 was realized on such type sales.
 Accomplishment of this property acquisition and transfer has been effected mainly by the city corpo- ration counsel Maurice T. Healey and his assistants Edward McDon- aid and John Membrino.
 As result of this increased reve- nue its effect on the city'S 1945 budget may result in ability of the finance authorities to adopt fis- cal appropriation without the nec- essity of a tax rate increase. Such an increase was feared recently when 1t was disclosed that decreaS- ed general revenues anticipated for next year coupled with increased expenditures for new equipment, rerepairS, etc., might possible un- balance the budget to the extent of necessitating the increased tax rate to meet the contingency.
 The finance board will meet to- day in its regular meeting to be fol- lowed by a budget meeting which may constitute the final adoption meeting. Pairing down of various expenditures may result in the adoption of a budget closely ap- proxinating the current 1914 ap- propriation of $6,497,795.
 An estimated Grand List is ex- pected to be submitted to the board today in amount approximating 19O million an increase over the 1942 list submitted last year.
 Estimated Surplus
 An estimated surplus of $442, ,293 has been arrived at by the city budget director as reported here previously of which approximately 936O. 900 or $37OOOO will likely be utilized for financing next years budget. In addition $36,000 of the l94S surplus which was not invest ed into the city'S postwar fund will also be used for financing.
 This years estimated surplus was derived from the net excess of es- timated realization of revenue over budget estimates in amount of S321 ,69l and estimated unexpended balances of appropriation in amount of $l2,602.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-16
NauyMDs Omciatea Birth Of 2O-3Q,OOO Mavy Babies

clans weren't taking any special credit for that. Everybody knows that sailor is a handsome gent. He marries a pretty girl, with brains. and the result is babies, classified according to sex as either beautiful or handsome.
 Commodore Warner and his 10 obStetricians preside only over ar- rival of naval babies in the capital: even so they brought into the world last month 235 future admirals and Waves. about evenly divided. All over the country other dispensarieS welcomed naval babies at the same rate.
 Prenatal Care
 We start with prenatal care as soon as the subject comes into the lady's mind" the Commodore said. within 24 hours after her baby is
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-16
Reds Drive At Budapest
By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff COrreSpOndent)

Moscow, Nov. 16 - (U.P) - So- viet armored columns, rapidly clos ing in on strife-torn Budapest, swept across the open plains in Eastern Hungary today with in creasing sped today following the capture of Jazsbereny, enemy strong hold 31 miles east of the capital.
 The quickening drive by Marshal Rodion Y. Malinoysky's Second Uk- rainian army threatened to cut the last direct route between the enemy forces in Budapest and northeast ern Hungary.
 One Soviet force struck within nine miles of Hatvan, big rail and highway junction protecting the northeastern approaches of the capital, while another column ad- vanced to within a similar distance of Miskolc, the country's fifth city at northern end of the Hungarian front
 More than 50 towns or inhabited places were captured together with 570 more German and Hungarian troops by the Soviet forces which advanced up to seven miles at sev- eral points yesterday.
 JaSzbereny fell to Malinovsky's Army after heavy three-day battle and opened the way for an in- creased thrust against the few re- maining communication routes northeast of Budapest.
 In the wide flanking drive around the eastern side of the capitaol, three Soviet columns were converg- ing on Hatvan, a five-way railroad and three-way highway junction 9 miles northeast of the capital.
 The triple thrust was being made along line stretching from Toal- mas, nine miles due south of Hat
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-16
Oddities h The Ne1Us
Rv United PresS


 Richmond, N. H., Nov. 16-(UP) Asked by state officials why Richmond,s 87 voters failed to elect 8 representative, selectmen replied no one wanted to sit in the legisla- ture because of the manpower short- age and "because the sessions last too long,"
 Hancock, Me, Nov. 16.-UP)- Stealing a kitten from Gerard Graves backyard, a large fox was battled by two cats until Graves shot the intruder.
 Springfield, Mass. Nov. 16-(UP) Three persons were hospitalized after Mrs. Joland Bencivenni's 15- nonth-old son slid from his moth- er'S lap into the foot pedals of her automobile, causing the vehicle to hit power pole.
 Rochester, N. H., Nov. 16-UP) Meter reader John Kimball en- tered g. home here, read the meter, smelled gas and dragged Joseph BoisonneauIt unconscious from the kitchen. Roisonneault will recover.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-16
Dies Group Neors End
By DEAN w. DITTMER ynited Press Staff Correspondent

Washington, Nov. 16.-(UP)- Democratic house leaders indicated today that the Dies committee on un-American activities, the subject of violent controversy during its six years of existence, will die with the end of the present congress Jan. 3.
 The Democratic stand was sug- gested after Rep. J. Parnell Thomas, R., N. J., ranking minority mem- Der of the committee, said that any resolution offered to continue the group must rest with the majority party in the house."
 Thomas said in g statement that the committee had been 8 "very powerful deterrent to un-American activities and would continue to do good work with the right kind of membership" but that the Demo- crats should sponsor its continu- ance.
 Indicating that his statement had party approval, Thomas said he had discussed the matter with Re- publican Floor Leader Joseph w. Martin, Jr., Mass, before making it public "so you can draw your own conclusions"
 T can't say any more now be- cause it will depend on the condi- tions existing at that time and we don't know what those conditions will be-" Martin added.
 Democratic leaders. who asked that their names be withheld, said it was fairly safe to assume that if continuing resolution were of- fered, it probably would never get to the floor for consideration.
 They noted that the chief Demo- cratic proponents and chairman ot the committee, Rep. Martin Dies D., Tex, did not seek reelection and would not be in the new congress
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Aochen Area Is Attacked

With U. S. First Army on Western Front, Nov 16.-(UP)-American troops of the First Army opened an attack at II a. m. today, supported and preceded by a heavy aerial bombardment.
 Supreme headquarters announced that more than 1900 heavy bombers smashed at gun positions and strong points in the Aachen area in front of the First Army today)
 A heavy artillery bombardment supplemented the air attack sup. porting the First Army attack.
 Before today's attack began, thf deepest American penetration Ot Germany had been Il miles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-16
Hitler May
 Be In Japan 'Or Argentina
By w. P. HIGGINBOTHAM United Press Staff Correspondent

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 London, Nov. 16.-CUP)-Two in- dependent sources suggested today that Adolf Hitler, far from mad, ill or dead, has left by submarine or plane for Japan for a spectacu- lar east-west conference with his last major ally.
 The theory was advanced simul- taneously by non-Spanish diplo- matic circles in Madrid and by Willi F'rischauer, Austrian author who has spent 20 years studying Hitler,s life, in a letter to the edi- tor of the London Daily Herald.
 Diplomatic circles in Madrid also relayed a report that Hitler fled Germany last week and had taken refuge in some neutral country, "un- confirmedly Argentina"
 Other unconf1rmed and often con- f1icting reports from the continent dealing with Germany and the fate of Hitler asserted:
 1. Another attempt has been made on Hitler'S life.
 2. Germany intends to begin peace overtures through Lisbon soon.
 3. Gestapo agents arrested 7000C Germans in suppressing revolt ir Munich led by bombing refugees and foreign slave workers.
 4. Nine Russian slave workers were shot in Berlin on charges oi killing a policeman and possessing great quantities of arms and am. munition.
 5. Austrians have begun passive resistance against tine Germans. 6. A new decree will be issued soon giving Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler, apparently acting fuehre, and dictator of Germany, complet authority over the German arm, and perhaps requiring the army u take an oath of fidelity toward him
 2. Hitler's bodyguards have beer recalled from leave and have beer forbidden to mix with civilians be. cause of the spread of rumorS ove1 the fuehrer's health.
 Frischauer, in his letter to tht Daily Herald, said that 20 years o1 Interpreting Hitler's personality anc politics convinced him that tht Fuehrer was neither mad nor dead Conjecture
 Hitler, I suggest, perhaps ir company with Reichsmarshal Her. mann Goering, is on his way tc Japan to stage spectacular east. west Axis meeting with the Mika- do," Frischauer said.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-16
BY JOHN l. CUTTER United Press Staff Correspondent

 Washington, Nov. 16-(UP)-The 78th Congress prepared today to set- tie down to a legislative schedule aimed at sidestepping controversy and winding up its work before Christmas.
 Democratic leaders of the House and Senate canvassed the situation with President Roosevelt at the White House yesterday and agreed on this program:
 Senate action on HoLse-approved bills for flood control and rivers and harbors improvement.
 House passage of Senate-ap- proved postwar public roads pro- gram.
 Passage by both Houses of legis- lation extending the life of the sec Ond wer powers act; restoring the federal crop insurance; extending
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-16
By FREDERICK c. OTHMAN United Press Staff COrrespOndent)

 United Press Staff COrrespOndent) Washington, Nov. 16-(UP)-Last night at 8 o'clock in St. Louis Rear Admiral Luther Sheldon, Jr., made speech. He said-and you'd better sit down now-that navy doctors officiate at the births of between 10000 and 3O,OO0 navy babies a year Wow.
 So I hopped as quickly as could to the Navy'S baby department and the Admiral wasn't kidding. The place was all over babies.
 Beautiful babies" said Commo- dore Richard Warner, commanding officer of the naval dispensary. T think they're just about the best looking babies ever saw"
 The Commodore, who wears gray mustache, continuing smile, and gold braid on his cuffs, said he and his corps of uniformed obstetri-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-16
Mon Admits Killing Two
 GhouIishIV
By WILLIAM c. PAYETTE United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 Los Angeles, Nov. 16 - UP.) - Otto Steve Wilson, 32, dapper, mustached cook, told police today he hacked to death in hotel rooms a few hours apart two women whom he picked up on Skidrow-one be- cause she was greedy and the other "just for the cussedness."
 Wilson, who had f1ecks of blood in his mustache when arrested, said he attended a motion picture "The Walking Dead" between the two slayings.
 His first victim was Mrs. Virgie Lee Griffin, 25, Philanttering wife of a truck driver, whom Wilson met on street corner early yesterday.
 Police found her dismembered body in cheap hotel room. It was nude. One leg was hacked off and the torso ripped open from the lower abdomen to her chin. Parts of her body had ben hacked off and tossed into closet. Her head was under the wash stand.
 The young Woman'S clothes were stacked neatly on chair where she apparently arranged them care fully so they would not be wrinkled when she put them back on.
 The floor was strewn with half smoked cigarets, indicating that the slayer took his time and deliberated on the various phases of mutilation Beside the body police found g. 12- inch carving knife.
 While police were Investigating the blood-splattered scene they were called three blocks away to another hotel where they found the similarly hacked body of Mrs. Lillian Johnson 45.
 Less Mutilated
 Mrs. Johnson's husband, a mer' chant seaman, shipped out iron San Francisco a week ago. Her body less mutilated than that of Mrs Griffin, nude except for her shoe: and stockings, which had been rolled loosely down to her ankles, wa! sprawled, feet wide apart, on the bed of the hotel room where she and Wilson registered as MT. ane Mrs. O. s. Watson"
 As police patrolled the area, pre- pairing for a room-by-room searct of all hotels, traffic officer check ing his beat, arrested Wilson, who admitted the ghoulish acts.
 Wilson said he met Mrs. Griffin while he was wandering on the city's Skid-roW in search of love-"
 'She propositioned me and w went to a hotel room. She wanted fCoHafi~,,aH ay@ pona
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-16
BY J. EDWARD MURRAY

O1 Js GDVV AND UNO1nkAL United Press War COrrespOndentH
 Paris, November 16. (UP) = It. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges American First Army opened a new attack toward the RhineIand under cover of a powerful artillery bOmbardment and the U. S. Ninth Army opened an ats tack in Holland today.
 More than 1900 American heavy bOmbers smashed at the German lines on the Aachen front ahead of the First Army before 1t launched it new attack.
 Hodges dOughbOys had been poised for a week, and sprang into action as soon as the pulverizing bOmbard- ment ended in the Duren- EischweiIer area east of Aachen.
 Paris, Nov. 16. (UP)-Lt. Gen. George s. Patton's American 3rd Army Forces frightened their siege arc with a three-mile advance to north of Metz today, but within a mile and a half German counter attacks south and west of the city drove other units from Peltre and Fort Hubert.
 GA British broadcast heard by CBS said American troops were within three-quarterS of mile of the outskirts of Metz)
 Though the counter -thrusts wedged into their spearheads, the Americans still were within little more than a mile of Metz from the south and within mile and a half to a mile and three quarters from then fortress city from the west. The German gap east of Metz was reduced to six miles by other ad- vanceS.
 SGIDdChS WC1c NOA1OA0O4O O0 AAO more than temporary and the fall of Metz in battle for the first time in its history still was believed like ly within a matter of days. German prisoners said the best troops all ready had been withdrawn from the city, leaving secondary service units to fight the final rear guard delaying action.
 British and French armies at ei- ther end of a front stretching 3O0 miles north and south of Metz swept ahead as much as five miles in their new offensives aimed toward theh Rhineland.
 Infantry of the British 2ad Army in southeast Holland pounded down three marsh-lined roads 10 within a little more than two miles of the river and four and nai1 miles of the dutch border fortress of Roermond. Heythuijzen, Baexem and Grathen, on five-mile arc lour and one half to five miles nortn- west and west of Roermond. were captured. A dispatch 1roE MaISI1aA OH Bernard L. Montgomery's 21st Army group headquarters said British Vanguards were approaching the last woodlands west of the Mouse. The Germans, apparently making a strategic withdrawal" were offer ing only slight opposition. Mile Advance
 Just north of the Swiss border. Gen. eJan De Lattre De Tassigny slashed through 10 or more towns in a five-mile advance along 24- mile front on both banks of the Doubs River to within five miles of Montbeliard, protecting the south- ern approaches to the Belfort gap
 Front dispatches said the Ger mans were proving unable to noid their Qualifications in the face of the powerful offensive and every where were giving ground. Flooded terrain failed to halt the advances.
 Patton's 95th infantry division stole the limelight on the Metz front with a three-mile advance into the town of Woippy, only mile and a half north of the strong
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-02
Allies Rip
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 roads just below that town. The Allied communique reported no new progress on the 5th Army invasion front below Rome, stating only that fierce fighting was iil progress on both the American and British ends of the beachhead. GA German high command com- munique said the Allies had made a "deep penetration" at one point, and radio Vichy said British troops occupied Campo Leone, only Is air. line miles from Rome.) (German radio reports heard in London said Field Marshal Albert ] Kesselring, Nazi commander in Southern Italy, had driven from Rome to the beachhead area to di- rect the German defense person ally.)
 British forces on the northern wing of Mark w. Clark's invasion armies had driven to the outskirts of Campo Leone, IS air line miles from Rome, while the Americans fought their way to the edge of Cis- terna, 1219 miles to the south.
 The Nazis appeared to have thrown their main weight against the Cisterna area, and official re- ports said the Americans beat off repeated German counter attacks in that sector.
 (Radio Paris said the thunder of heavy cannonading from both Cam DO Leone and Cisterna could be heard clearly in Rome) Bad weather limited aerial oper- ations throughout the Italian battle area and interrupted the American heavy bombing campaign against Nazi airfields and communications lines in the north.
 Medium bombers hammered Ger man road lines on the Appian Way at Albano, while light raiders struck at San Valentino, just above the 9th army front.
 At the same time, force of fight er-bombers swung across the Adria- tic to bomb enemy shipping along the Jugoslav coast.
 The communique reported that enemy operated oil refineries in Trieste were the target of Monday nights RAF Wellington raid on that north Adriatic port.
 Five enemy aircraft were destroy ed yesterday without loss to the Al- lied raiding formations.
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 Diocese and Bishop Ralph L. Hays, head of the American College in Rome.
 Hays, now in Pittsburgh. asserted that since Soviet Russia is opposed to God there is no reason to be sur- prised to learn that it is opposed to the Vicar of Christ"
 The article in I2vestia an official Soviet publication, endorsed a re- port of the Foreign Policy ASsocia- ton of this country which said the Pope's sympathies were openly on the side of Franco in the Spanish Civil War and that His blessing still rests on the governments of Franco, Petain (of France) and Salazar (of Portugal.
 Izvestia agreed with the foreign policy statement that a rising tide of anti-clericalism might be ex- pected in Italy and declared that the Vatican Foreign policy had earned the hatred and contempt of the Italian masses for supporting fas- cism."
 The Foreign Policy Association report while denying the Pope was Fascist, agreed that he was not a supporter of democracy, but "just what he claims to be - indifferent to political forms, accepting any gov- ernment which will meet the mini mum demands of the church."
 London, Feb. 2-(UP)-Catholic circle expressed anxiety today over the postwar situation of Polish and Lithuanian Catholics who may come under Soviet rule as result of the attack upon the Vatican by the official Russian newspaper IZvestia. Commenting on the Moscow or gan's charges yesterday that the Vatican had supported Fascism in Italy. Spain and France, leading Catholics said the pope and his predecessor had been prominent in the fight against dictators lrotn &e beginning.
 'T'he charges against the Vatican apparently are mixed up with de- nunciation of the Franco regime Gin Spain) but this unusual subject Of attack itself may well be connected with the fate of 9,000,000 Polish Catholics and 3,000,000 Lithuanian Catholics who may be annexed by the Soviet Union," Count Michael de la Bedovere, editor of the Cath ollie Herald, said.
 w. R. Titterton, prominent writer on Catholic affairs and member of the staff of the Catholic Weekly Universe. said the pope opposes communism for the same reason that he opposes Fascism.
 The church is always against the all-powerful state" he said. Because of this. the Fascists call him a Communist and the Com munists call him a Fascist"