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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-14
France To
 PIoy Biz Port
BY JOSEPH w. BRIGG

DA VVSGG M w. DHN4GG United Press Staff Correspondent
 Paris, Nov. 14-UP)-The re- ported plans for placing France on par with Britain, Russia and the United States in European postwar affairs were believed today to in- clude provisions for French parti- cipation in the occupation of Ger many and strict control of the Reich'S industrial Rhineland and Ruhr.
 Authoritative sources said the necessity of internationalizing Ger manys heavy industrial belt was agreed upon by Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Gen Charles De Gaulle as a means of depriving Germany of resources of ever making war again.
 The plan, it was understood, calls for control of the Ruhr and Rhine land industries by an international commission composed of Britain, France and presumably the United States and Russia.
 Britain is known to favor a sys- tenn of import licenses under which all German imports would be con- trolled rigidly by the Allies and il
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 Hurt In Crash

Pittsburgh, Nov. 14-(UP)-Four persons were killed and score in- jured today when two crowded troll ley cars collided in one of the heav- fest fogs ever seen in the greater Pittsburgh area.
 One car was filled to capacity with work-bound persons travelling to McKeeSport from Pittsburgh Ac- cording to police reports, the filled car crarying approximately 50 pas sengerS. struck the rear of an almost empty car, telescoping both.
 The motorman of the crowded street car, George Grant. S6, was one of the persons killed.
 According to a report to the cor oner, three other persons. two girls and antoher man were killed in the filled street car and the death toll was expected to rise when Home stead hospital officials reported that several of the persons taken there after the accident were in critical condition.
 The collision Occurred at the in- tersection of 8th avenue and old (Cnnfiniled On Page 4)
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Ethel Barrymore HeoIth Improving

New York, Nov. 14.-(UP)-The condition of Ethel Barrymore, 65- year old actress suffering from in- fiuenza, Is improved, her phssician, pr. Louis R. Kaufman reported early today.
 The actress who was taken to Flower hospital yesterday after the illness had interrupted her run in "Embezzled Heaven.
 Dr. Kaufman said her pulmonary congestion remains unchanged, but her heart action Is improved and there have been no new complica. tionS.
 Miss Barrymore continues to show satisfactory response to penicillin treatment, pr. Kaufman said. Her temperature is 1O2 degrees.
 Miss Barrymbre was to have been honor guest yesterday at the players Booth Day ceremonies com- Inemorating the birthday of Edwin Booth. The second woman to be so honored, she was invited to 0f- ficiate next year in laying a wreath at the foot of tho actors statue in Grannercy Parks
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-14
Speculation Increases
 That Hitler Is Wdshed-Up

go far toward explaining the long silence of Hitler during the crucial phase of the war.
 Hitler, then a corporal, was gassed in the first World War, and 1t ap- peared probable that any danger ous tumor" of the throat might have Stemmed from that cause.
 The operation was performed by a professor Eicke of Vienna, the Zurich dispatch said. It gave no de- tails of the reported operation, Hit Ter responded to it, and his present condition, but did say that he still is at Berchtesgaden.
 A dangerous affliction of the throat would account for Hitler's silence last week on the anniversary of the Munich beer cellar Putsch The alarming efforts of his silence on the German people were acknow- ledged by the frantic Nazi efforts to cover up with broadcast version - tContinued on Page l3)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-14
Britoin Mov
 Shift Part Of Fleet To East
By BRUCE MUNN United Press Stan Correspondent

London, Nov. l4.--tUP) Britain prebahly will shift another major portion of her fleet to the Far East to participate in the war against Japan as a direct result of the sinking of Germany's last capital ship. the 45,000-ton Tirpitz, in a Norwegian ford Sunday.
 The destruction of the Tirpitz by fleet of g four-engined RAF Lan- casters at last removed the most serious threat of all to Allied con- voys plying the sea lanes between United States, Britain and Russia and will free numerous British war ships from escort duty for tasks in other waters.
 he Berlin radio, in a long delayed acknowledgment of the attack on the Tfrpitz, said it was put out ot action" and "a large part of the crew was rescued.' The battleshir was attacked with super heavy bombs" while lying in shallow wa ter just off the Norwegian coast broadcast DNB dispatch said. oA4tASll udS 10 IO 1S OaGtIcSIllpS ranging in tonange from 29,150 tons to perhaps 40,0O0- -tons-plus and al least nine aircraft carriers of 14,- 500 to 23,000 tons in service. Many already have sailed to the Indian Ocean to join Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser's growing Far Eastern fleet but others had been kept in Atlantic and Arctic waters to counter the ever-preSent menace of the Tirpitz
 The London Daily Mail jubilantly proclaimed that the Royal Navy
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TANKS CAPTURE YSER FORTRESS GROUP
Fire ,,I' . Won [ Close
 Door To War Guilty

London, Nov. l4-( -(IJp)lThe goY- ernment of Fire has declined to join other neutral nations in re- fuSing sanctuary to prescribed Axis war criminals and has reserved the right to shelter such refugees at its on discretion, a British spokesman indicated in commons today.
 Replying to volley of questions from the house, dominions Under Secretary Paul .Emrys- Evans said Fire. had rejected the Allied de- mand that,neutra1 states close their doors to war-guilty Axis leaders who might try to flee abroad.
 "In their view (the Fire govern ment), the right to grant asylum is not in question and they could give no assurance which would preclude them from exercising that right should justice, charity or the honor or interests of the nation so re- quire," EmryS- Evans said.
 Fire, he added, also informed Bri- tain that since the beginning of the war the Irish had denied admission to all Aliens whose presence would be at variance with the govern ments neutrality policy or detri- mental to Fires interests. ., .s
 The Irish answer alluded also to the lack of comprehensive interna- tional code covering the treatment of war criminals" and to. the fact taht Fire does not recognize any established court or procedure for
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the. judicial uetermina1on or mo1- vidual cases
 No Change
 Emrys-Evans told Commons that Fire insisted it's policy Of turning away undesirable aliens would not be altered, to which Britain retorted that: w
 '"The United Kingdom Govern ment for. their part wish to make 1t clear that it would certainly, in the words used by the Fire Government, be detrimental to the interests ot the Irish people were war criminals to be harbored in Ireland."
 Professor Douglas Lloyd Savory, conservative, asked whether 1t was true that all other neutral states, including Spain and Argen- tina, had given assurance they would not harbor war criminals, but Emrys-Evans refused to answer.
 Another Irish policy came in for considerable unofficial criticism in Britain today when reports from Chicago said Fire had announced her decision to establishthe worlds first free airport.
 Members of the. United Kingdom delegation at the Chicago Aviation Conference were said to have con- dernned the move as an attempt to bypass Britain as an airline link between the United States and Europe.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-14
Millions In US Scramble For Smokes
By United Press

Millions of Americans were scrambling for cigarettes today, up- setting the routine and morale of war plants and business offices, enriching hundreds of black mar ket operators and increasing an already acute shortage with exten- sive hoadding, nationwide United Press survey.
 Everywhere men and women were ready to pay exorbitant prices. stand in line for hours, and resort to all varieties of dodges to assure them- selves of smoke.
 Extensive black market operations were reported ill New York Chi cago, Minneapolis, St. Paul, De- troit, Atlanta. Connecticut, and Buffalo, N. Y. National and Re- gional Office of Price AdminiStra- tion officials were Investigating these eploiters for profit of an un- avoidable wartime situation and threatened drastic action.
 Dealers everywhere reported un- OTGCGQG1lUSu Oc1AldA1OO 4O4 SA AoAANAeSS ed tobacco and cigaret papers anc 1t was a common sight to see nov ices trying to "roll their own" sec tional rurns on ppies and pipe to- bacco, particularly by girls, were revealed. Shortages in these sub- stitutes were threatened.
 HOarderS
 Tn government office buildings in Washington, in war plants in Phil adelpnia, in shops and factories throughout the country, hoarder! loaded their pockets with dimes and stood watch over vending machines to empty them the instant they were reStocked.
 In Los Angeles, manufacturer: reported a lowering of morale among war plant workers because of their inability to get enough cig' arettes. Chicago druggist reported their customers were hoarding t' give cigarettes as Christmas pres ents as uslial. In Memphis, tn men of the 4th Ferrying Group an' of the Wilmington Naval Air Sta I ton were the center1 of Suddei
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Eagle-Eye Othman Spots Need or Sand m Congress

1t wasn't sand at all.
 Iron filings" admitted the sem atorial sand man. "It's the war we couldn't get black sand"
 But will 1t blot up ink?" I in- sisted.
 well, no it won't" the sand man said. T tried. it and 1t made a mess, but 1t doesn't matter cause senators don't use it, anyhow"
 The sand man also supervises the snuff boxes. which are dainty looking oriental ginguseS fitting in- to the wall on either side of the vice presidents chair. The sand and-or-snuff man said he'd been filling these boxes since 1898 with a special dark. damp Danish snuff ob- tainable only in 8 special cigar store in Philadelphia.
 ''Here, try" he suggested. I snitfed a dug of senatorial snuff up my nose and nearly blew off the top of
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BY FREDERICK 0. OTHMAN

BY FREDERICK 0. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent)
 Washington, November IA. = (UP) = Congress returned to work today in @ Capitol washed, polished, painted and supplied with soda pop. fresh Danish snuff and Ersatz sand for the plotting of historic docu- ments.
 I had a swig of the senatorial pop, took pinch of the snuff and looked into the sand situation; l want to warn the Senate of the United States to go easy on the sand because it's fake and 1t won't work.
 Each senatorial desk contains a cut-glass jar with a punctured sil- yer top. like a salt shaker, for the sprinkling of black sand on sigma lures. This is supposed to work like blotting paper. It's been work ing like that since 1859.
 I shook some of the stuff into my hand, scrooged 1t around, tasted 1t and came up with the discovery that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-14
Ngeresong
 Is BIockoded
By WILLIAM F. THREE

United Press War Correspondent
 Pearl Harbor, Nov. IA = UPo- American warshipS blockaoed Ngeregong Island in the southern Palaus today and apparently trap ped a small enemy force on the tiny isle, the first recaptured by the Japanese in the Pacific War.
 Admiral Chester W. Nimitz an nounced that approximately 200 Japanese, armed with knee -mortars and machine guns, landed on the island, northwest of American-held Peleliu, Tuesday night during a storm.
 A small U. s. Marine patrol sta- tioned on Ngeregong were quickly removed in several American LCI's Handing craft infantry, and Nimitz said the evacuation was made with out casualties.
 The Denges Passage. north ot Ngeregong, through which the Jap anese invaders apparently came. was immediately blockaded by two U. S gunboatS and destroyer.
 On Thursday, American surface ships and planes bombarded the is- land. heavily raking the Japanese positions and sinking an undiscloSed number of barges.
 The Japanese invaded the island probably in a desperate effort to protect their bases in the northern Palaus, already under daily attack by American planes based on Pele- liu and nearby Angaur.
 Nimitz's communique disclosed that planes from the second Marine aircraft wing again hit the enemy held islands in the Palaus Friday sinking destroyer which previous ly was damaged near Golou Island A barge also was sunk at Babel thuap,. largest of the Palaus.
 Ltberator bombers meantime car-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-14
Chinese Nearly
 EncircIe Bohomo

Chungking, Nov. 14-(UP)-Chin- ese troops nearly completed the en- circlement of the Japanese garrison in Bhamo today and closed in for an all-out assault on the highway town, second largest in northern Burma.
 A communique said the Chinese had reached the village of Man Rang and were driving toward the Bhamo Spur, two miles east, the last avenue of escape for the Japanese in the town. .
 Other Chinese forces were moving steadily south along the Taiping river and reached point two miles from Bhano, while other troops moving from the west were less than eight miles away.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-14
Bow-Arrows SIoy 5000
Rv Fl. ID. OTJyGE

by 41s Os &ZOA0O
 United Press War Correspondent
 Leyte, Philippines, Nov. IA = (U. P0 = A 27-year-old guerrilla leader arrived from one of the large Philip pine Islands today and reported to President Sergio Csmena that his 1000 men, using bows and iron pronged bamboo arrows, had killed 5000 Japanese soldiers in three years without losing a man.
 We counted the bodies, day by day." he said.
 Sometimes we attacked every day, sometimes we attacked only three or four times a week." he said. We always have fought in the jun gle with bow and arrow and we know how to move without being Seen."
 The youthful leader said he fre- quently used all of his men to sur- round small Japanese camp.
 We would be in trees, in the tall grass, and in bushes" he said. ''We would wait all night and at dawn when the JapS came out of their holes and huts for chow or to bathe we would open up, Killing as many as 25 or 30 at time.
 Each Jap was struck by many ar- rows hitting him from ali sides They had no chance to fire back al us"
 The guerrilla leader, who was a lieutenant in the Philippine army, fought through Bataan and was im- prisoned for three months by the Japanese after the surrender. Most of EAs Uuerrillas also have been in the enemyB prisons. He is . graduate of the Univer-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-14
Zukauskas Charged With Woman s Murder

Coroner Stephen A. Homick this morning released his finding hold ing Francis ZukauSkas, suspended supernumerary patrolman, crimin- ally liable in the staying of Mrs. Stephanie S. Plungis on Nov. 1.
 Shortly afterwards, City Court Prosecutor Frederick w. Palomba issued a warrant charging murder for ZubauskaS, and turned 1t over to police for service on the former policeman who is being held at poe lice headquarters without bond. zilkauslass attorney, Edward Y. Carmody, New Haven county public defender, indicated that he would waive examination in City Court tomorrow, and allow the case to be bound over to Superior Court for grand jury action.
 The coroner's finding relates the events leading up to and following the staying, but does not speculate on the question of motive. Cues toned by the press, Coronor Homick said the evidence here was con- f1icting, one story being told by Zukauskas, and another by other witnesses, and that 1t would be a question for the courts to decide.
 The coroner said that his inquest had indicated that ZukauskaS' mo- tive was three-fold.
 Zukauskas, he said, found himself faced with CD the loss of Mrs. Plum gis' affection, as he suspected her of going with another man; CD the loss of $100 which Mrs. Plungis claimed he owed her; and (3) the loss of his job which Mrs. Plungis threatened to effect by disclosing their relationship if he did not pay her the money.
 According to the findings, no argu- ment immediately preceded the fina fatal shots.
 The finding says that Zukauskas shot the woman the first time after he claimed, she began to vilify him and spat in his face. The fatal shooting occurred, the finding states when driving along Bradley avenue ZukauskaS slowed his car, and with out warning drew his revolver ano emptied 1t at Mrs. PlungiS. Although Mrs. ZukauskaS was 1T the back seat at the time of the staying, the finding states that there (TnntinI1ed ar, Pare Al
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-14
WITHIN 16 MILES EAST
 OF BUDAPEST
BY HENRY sHAPYRO.

BY HENRY SHAPIRO
 (United Press War CorrespOndent)
 Moscow, November IA. (UP) = The 2nd Ukrainian Army outf1anked the enemy stronghold of Jaszbereny to- day and sent armored forces thrusting to within less than IS miles east of Budapest in a converging drive on the Hungarian capital, already besieged from the south.
 (B erlin reported that Soviet tanks had driven into Jaszbereny, 31 miles east of Budapest, yesterday, but the enemy report was not con firmed by the Russian com murlique.
 Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's forces, which swung a 30-rnile arc around Jaszbereny, were moving rapidly in the drive from the east and advanced more than 10 miles in 24 hours, despite increasing enemy opposition.
 The oenSive, the second launched against Budapest by Red Army, was taking a heavy toll of German and Hungarian forces. A coinmunique said that 1,2O0 enemy troops were killed and 1000 other captured yes- terday on the eastern approaches to the capuitail, with the 20th Hun barian infantry division reduced to about 1000 men.
 Malinovsky,s thrust from the east was spearheaded by onet unit which seized Benye, IS miles east of Buda- pest, the western anchor of the arc around Jaszbereny.
 The seaStern end of the arc was established in Jaszapati, 10 miles east of JAszbereny, where the So- yiet forces cut one of the two main
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Nozis Irked By Swedes

London, Nov. 14-(UP)-A Berlin spokesman today accused the Swed- ish press of waging an anti-Na1 campaign on the basis of what he described as Stockholm foreign office charge that German soldiers had violated the Swedish frontier.
 The NaI accusation, broadcast by the DINE News Agency, intensified the strain in relations between Ger- many and Sweden which was pre- cipitated by Berlin's declaration that all the Baltic was war zone. in effect blockading Sweden.
 A WilhelmStrasSe spokesman, Dr. Paul Schmidt, was quoted by DINE as saying:
 we can only repeat with utmost indignation that the Swedish Press once more does its utmost to create an atmosphere of hostility between Germany and the Swedish people without awaiting clarification of the matters involved"
 Schmidt said the reports Of frontier violations must be regard- ed with Skepticism, but even if true they would mean nothing more than six German soldiers pursuing Norwegian criminals into unin> habited Swedish territory in the far north.
 Stockholm recently reported that several thousand Norwegians had been in training in Sweden and were preparing to return to that part of their country liberated hy the Red Army.
 Schmidt charged that SwedisIi soldiers repeatedly crossed the boe~ der, but the incidents had been set~ tied by local military authorities. Hs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-14
TANKS SEEK TO. CUT JAP FRONT
 IN NE. LEYTE

BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON Limited Press War COrrespondent)
 Allied Headquarters, Philip pines, November IA. - (UP). = American invasion forces threatened to cut the Japan csc front in northwest Leyte in two today with a push to within five miles of the key road junction of Libungao, 10 miles north of Ormoc.
 GA Japanese communique said Japanese planes had sunk an American battleship in an attack on a task force of Luzon last night. Another Tokyo broadcast, heard by CBS, said American carrier planes bombed Manila, $50 miles north of Leyte, twice yesterday,)
 GA German DINE dispatch from Tokyo asserted 400 carrier-base aircraft appeared over Manila it. self yesterday, as well as over Clark Field, LegaSpi and Cavite. Thirty four American planes were downed by the Japanese air defenses DINE said)
 The fall of Libungao, already under American artillery fire, would isolate two enemy divisions delay ing the American advance down the main highway from Pinamopoan to the north from the main Japanese Garrison around the west coast sea and air base of Ormoc in the south.
 It also would cut the main line between Ormoc and Palompan, 10 miles to the northwest, an alterna- tive reinforcement and evacuation port on the west coast, though several rough mountain trails be- tween the two towns still would re- main in Japanese hands.
 Gen. Douglas MacArthur dis closed in his daily communique that the Japanese now have committed five of their best divisions possibly 75,O00 troops-to the Leyte front in an attempt to smash the American invasion of the central Philippines.
 Two of the divisions. the 18th and the list, were giving ground slowly in bloody fighting along the Pin&- mopoan-O -Ormoc road just south of Limon, 10 miles north of Libunga0.
 Medium tanks spearheaded the American 24th divisions advance along the road, followed by irl-
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Buzzbombs Roin On Britain Alter LuII

London, Nov. 14.-(UP)-After a long Hull. the Germans launched a small-scale flying bomb attack on the London area and southern Eng land last night, causing some dam age but no casualties.
 Several of the bombs were shot down into the sea by anti-aircraft fire. east coastal observers reported, and one fell harmlessly E open country.
 The flying bomb attacks, includ- ing V-2 raids, caused 568 casualties Fin England last month.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-14
COP Must Be More +LiberoI

Washington, Nov. IA - (U.P0 = The outcome of the presidential election is a mandate to the Re- publican party to liberalize its poli- cies in domestic affairs, Senator George D, Aiken, R., Vt, declared today.
 Aiken, who was endorsed as a liberal by the C1O Political Action Committee, won reelection in last Tuesdays election. He said his large majority, plus those scored by such successful Republican senatorial candidates as Governor Loverett SaltonStall of Massachusetts and Wayne L. Morse of Oregon, "indi- cates that the people would gladly support a progressive Republican party"
 Aiken. who has voted for many measures sponsored by the Roose- welt administration, called on the Republicans to 'carry the ball."
 Time and again" he said, we've let the Democrats do things we knew had to be done. We've let them get the ideas and introduce the legisla- tion. We've let them start the drives to push through liberal projects and then take all the credit for it. We ought to carry the ball for change.
 Aiken said he has always felt that the COP should take "a more liberal attitude toward the world in gen. eral."
 Tive always been for the domestic program of the present adminiStra- tion," he said, "even though it has g good many flaws and has been un- suitably applied at times"
 The Republicans, he said, can get behind proposals to develop natural resources to their fullest extent;