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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-02
Walsh Non- CommittoIOn Controversy

Clinton, Mass, Nov. 2.--(UpJ-- Q. s. Sen. David I. Walsh, great est Democratic vote -getter in Massa- chusetts' modern history, remained non-committal todby while a con- troversy ragged as to whether the states Democrat& vote had been split as result ofkis tiff with Vice Presidential Candidate Harry S. Truman.
 T do not plan to say or do any more than I have" said Walsh, whose principal part in the cam paign to date was to introduce Tru- man during his swing through Massachusetts last week.
 It was after Truman had left the state to speak at Providence, R. l., that he astounded political leaders of both parties by saying that Walsh's foreign policies were not unlike those of eight Republican senators whom he (Truman) had asked Gov. Thomas E. Dewey to repudiate.
 In response, Walsh issued a lengthy statement in which he said his pre-Pearl Harbor policies of try ing to keep America out of war were no different from those of 80 per cent of the American people. De- spite Truman's remarks, he said, he still would support his party at the polls.
 Republicans immediate hailed the controversy as split in the Demo- cratic ranks in Massachusetts. It. Gov. Horace T. Cahill, the Repub- lican gubernatorial candidate, said last night this pickering and quar-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-02
Challenges Roosevelt

Burlington, Vt, Nov. 2.-UP)- William Loeb, former chairman of the American Boycott Against Japanese Aggression, today sent President Roosevelt a telegram urg. ing an early trial for Read Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Maj. Gen. Walter c. Short, commanders at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese struck.
 In his telegram Loeb. publisher of the Burlington Daily News and the St. AlbanS Daily Messenger, said;
 Many unpleasant stories are be- ing circulated regarding the re- sponsibility of your administration and yourself for what occurred at Pearl Harbor. This is natural in
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-02
BRITISH DRIVE AHEAD ON WALCHEREDI Japanese Rush Air Aid To Philippines
SEND SUPPORT
 FOR DESPERATE LUzON STAND

BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press War Correspondent
 Allied Headquarters, Philip pines, November 2. = (UP) = Japan, her navy crippled in a futile attempt to smash t h e American invasion, rushed air endorsements in- to the Philippines from her dwindling reserves in the homeland today.
 The Japanese command obviously was gathering all available aircraft to support a final, desperate stand on Luzon, site of the capital city of Manila, in an attempt to delay as long as possible American liberation of that stepping stone to Japan itself.
 One Japanese pilot who parachute ed into the Leyte area and was cap- tured said he had left Japan only six days before. Enemy aircraft were known to be shutting into Lu2on from Japan, presumably by way of Formosa and other intermediate bases.
 Front reports said terrain diffi- cultles were slowing construction of American airfields on liberated sec tionS of Leyte in the central Philip pines, but it was expected strong forces of land-baeed planes soon would be in operation.
 Fighters already operating from land bases joined carrier planes in enforcing an aerial blockade on the west coast of Leyte, sinking a small freighter and a 1ugger attempting to ferry reinforcements across the CamoteS Sea from Cebu.
 Torpedo boats boosted the toll Of enemy shipping for the past 4e hours to g small craft sunk or damaged by sending a troop-laden barge to the bottom off the west coast at night.
 Japanese prisoners reported only a few hundred troops had been able to run the blockade successfully and land at the west coast air and sea base of Ormoc, where the enemy is expected to make hAs final stand on Leyte.
 General Douglas MacArthur re- ported in his daily communique that Japanese air attacks on Ameri-
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LIBERATION OF
 ALL ISLANDS
 NEARLY ENDED
BY J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press War COrrespandentl


 United Press War COrrespGudent) Paris, November 2. UP) = Complete liberation of Walcheren Island, last ob- stacle on the sea approaches to Antwerp, appeared near today as British Commandos hurled the Germans back in- to the northern end of F1ush- ing on the south coast and widened their west coast beachhead to at least four miles.
 Most of the German guns on Walcheren that have barred Allied ships from Antwerp and it's 26 miles of docks for more than a month already have been captured or neutralized. Once the island has been cleared com- pletely, cargo ships will be- gin pouring reinforcementS and supplies into Antwerp for the anticipated winter offensive against Germany.
 Front dispatches reported the German garrison, estimated vari- ously at 4,OO0 to 10000, was offering stiff resistance, but the commanios were Slashing inland and along the coast from both beachheads with bayonets, tommy guns and grenades. backed by the big guns of . 200- of planes.
 The southern column of army commandos was reported three to four miles inland after landing on beach between two gllavs in the center of the Flushing dock area. Virtually all of Flushing, Hollands third most important port, had bsen seized by last night and the enemy was hemned into a pocket in t1lS northern end of the city.
 On the west coast, Royal Marine commandos who seized WestkapelIe in the first hours of their assault yesterday showed three miles north- east to the neighborilood of Dom burg and about one mile southeast to within seven miles of a junction with their comrades at Flushing.
 Canadian 1st Army forces Smash- ed back to eastern Walcheren dur ing the night after withdrawing onto the causeway from South Beve- land in the face of point blank en- emy artillery and machine-gun fire late yesterday.
 A front dispatch said the Cana dians held 200 to 300 yards on the eastern coast of Walcheren this
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BY GEORGIA SHUSET nited Press Staff COrreSuOndel


 Lockport, N. r., Nov. 2(UP)- Police believed today they had un- covered a wholesale baby killing business" as result of the discov- cry of six infants bodies in an unoc- cupied garage here, and said there may have been many more victims. Ashes from a large furnace in the garage, which had been vacant since the Negro who operated it died on Oct. IT. were taken to lab- oratories for analysis after neighbors reported the furnace had been going in all kinds of weather.
 Tt sure looks like somebody was making a business of killing babies detective Sgt. Benjamin Furlong said. "The neighbors said they thought garbage waA being burned. but that furnace may have been c creamatory for additional victims of this business.''
 The six bodies Wers found in tls
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-02
Mountbotten Moy Descend
Rv RORERT MUSEI,


 United Press Staff Correspondent
 London, Nov. 2-CUP)-Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten soon may step down as supreme allied com- mander in southeast Asia, usually reliable sources said today as his former deputy, Gen. Joseph w. Stilwell, hinted that large-scale offensive was pending in that theater.
 There was increasing evidence ('' t Britain's commands in the s.r East were undergoing a re- shuffie and the question of whether Mountbatten would continue as supreme commander was said to be up for final decision in high quar- ters.
 It was understood that Mount batten may relinquish the overall command, but remain in charge of various important phases of forth coming operations against the Japanese, particularly Amphibious operations in which he became skilled while directing Britain's CommandoS.
 Stilwell displaced last week as commander of American forces in China, Burma and India and deputy to Mountbatten, hinted at the scale of the forthcoming oper- ations in a farewell note to the British commander released at the latter's headquarters in Randy, Ceylon.
 Tt is disappointing not to be able to finish my job in this theater," Stilwell said,. "but I am glad to have had the opportunity to play a small part in a large undertak- ing. offer my best wishes for great success in your forthcoming oper- ations. When the news of that suc- cess reaches me, I shall be one of
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-02
REDS CRASH APPROACHES
 TO ORKENY
BY HENRY SHAPIRO
 United Press War Correspondent)

NUnlteu FreSS war COrreSpOnuent)
 Moscow, November 2. - (UP) - Soviet armored col- umns, s1a shing north through flimsy German de- lenses in Hungary, today hammered at the approaches to Orkeny, A miles south of Budapest and last major bar rier before the capital.
 (Berlin reported that the Russians penetrated Runs zentmiklos, 29 miles from Budapest, and said a bitter tank battle was going on north of KecSkemet.)
 The enemy bastion was brought within easy range of artillery fire by the advance units of Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's 2nd Ukrain- iar. army, which was pushing g three-way drive against Budapest from the south, southeast and east.
 Advancing at pace of more than 10 miles day, the tank-supported Soviet troops moved against Orkeny after sweeping through the highway junction of Lajosmizse, nine miles to the south, and it appeared the rum- ble of heavy Russian artillery soon would be heard in Budapest.
 CThe candestine radio Atlantik reported that the Germans were preparing to blow up all bridges across the Danube, which bisects the capital. The city at one time had separate divisions known as Buda and Pest, and the broadcast said the Germans planne dto hold Buda on the west bank of the Dan- uhe and yield Pest.l
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-02
FDR Answers Dewey Tonite
By MERRIMAN SMITH

(UnlLcu fTeSS StaM COreSpOU0entD
 Washington, Nov. g. CUP) = President Roosevelt delivers his sixth major campaign address to- night in an effort to correct again what he has called Republican 'miSrepreSentationS.
 The president speaks from the White House over a nationwide radio hookup (NBC) from to 9:30 p. m., EWT. His address will last IS minutes and the rest of the program will be taken over by the Democratic national committee.
 The address tonight was obvious ly substitute for a trip to Ohio. Democratic leaders had urged him to go to Cleveland and make a personal bid for OhioiS 25 electoral votes but he told him his wartime duties were too heavy to permit both that trip and the one sched- uled for this weekend in New England.
 Having vetoed the Ohio appear ance, however, the president was
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-02

needed was 8 touch of Parisian cul- ture.
 That, she explained, could be ac- quired if each of them found a new object for their affection in the manner of the wealthy French she had read about.
 When he protested, she called him "mid-Victorian," SO Armour de- cided, he said, not to complain any more about lipstick and tobacco and her reading material.
 When his wife pressed the Sub- ject, he told her that he was too engroSSed in his work to seek new flame, so, in order to keep the home fires burning, she offered to find one for him, he said.
 Armour said his wife's suggestions made him suspicious, and he set a private detective to Watching her For months, he said, he took Che reports of the detectives to his at
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-02
Berkshire Eagle |Fovors FDR

Pittsheld, Mass, Nov. 2-UP)- The Berkshire Eagle Qndependent) is supporting President Roosevelt for 8 fourth term-the first time the 90-year-old newspaper h a s favored a Democratic presidential candidate.
 Ut seems safer to endorse the leadership of party which has proved right against the leadership of a party which has been wrong but which seeks vindication mostly by spacious arguments of the youth and Wgor of its present candidate, the Eagle said in an editorial.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-02
U s Army Nurses
 Arrive On Leyte

With U. s. Army Forces. Leyte, Philippine, Nov. 1-(UP)-Twenty- seven American Army nurses ar rived on Leyte today and within a few hours were at work on battle casualties in an evacuation hospital.
 The group included Capt. Cath erine Acorn of Belmont, Mass, a veteran of Bataan. She, returned at her own request enG aaSe Sias was glad Co be back in the xhilip- pines.
 Chief nurses included Canl. Clara lgalan eg AitlencEo Ngael.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-02
TO SPONSOR SUB

Portsmouth. N. H., Nov. 2.-CUP) Mrs. Robert E. Kintner of Wash intgon, wife of ieutenant-colonel, will sponsor the U. S. submarine CutlaSS when 1t is launched at the Portsmouth Navy Yard Sunday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-02

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Rx nARRELL BERRIGAN

United Press War COrrespOndent)
 It is a grim joke among Ameri- can transport pilots flying supplies to China over "The Hump" that they carry more paper money than war supplies.
 The black market in Running, when left the CBI, exchanged 1855 to 200 Chinese national dollars for one American dollar. Prices were sky rocketing. The price of an ordinary restaurant meal ranged be- tween $50 and 800 Chinese dollars; cup of tea at a tea house for those who could afford it cost be- tween six and seven Chinese dol lars; a pair of shoes about. three thousand. Imported articles were unobtainable except at prohibitive prices, or prices prohibitive to all but the prot1teers.
 Famines, flood and war have cut down the production of food and cloth in free China and the shortage of transportation has prevented adequate distribution of what is pro- duced. Proflteers and hoarders have contributed to the shortage. The de- mands of the Army have also con-
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Corruption
 Rules Chino: Stalls Army

Editors Note: The effects of imitation on China's civilian life and the inroads of corruption in her army are told in the fol- lowing dispatch by a veteran member of the United Press Far Eastern staff now on leave in New New York. The dispatch, holds special interest in view of the recent recall of Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell from China as result of what President Roosevelt called personal differences with Gen. eralissimo Chiang-Kai-shek.
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Evening star., 1944-04-02

"big" industry's paid agents hogged
large contracts, are finding SWPC q
friend in need.
In the case Of the Burtons, the SWPC
office here has put them on the trail
Of two Army contracts. One of the
contracts would require new machinery,
and the firm has been promised loan.
Chances of the Burtons continuing
their war work are bright.
IS Local Plants Seek Aid
More than rs small plants in the
Washington area are already looking
In the same director as the Burtons--
either seeking SWPC aid to continue
in full war production or asking that
they be given an opportunity to par
ticipate in the war effort
Without SWPC assistance, Mr.. Luther
pointed out, many small plants here
allied with the building feld-such as
machine shops, millwrights and iron
works-will have to shut down. Con-
struction on such buildings as the Penta-
gor,s which kept the plants busy, has
gradually tapered off, Idle machinery
could be used in turning out vital war
supplies
Decentralization Plan
The SWPC has found that decentrali-
zation is the one real way to get close
to the small-plant operator and carry
out its vital mission. The Washington
Evening star., 1944-04-02
Meet Admiral Bellinger, Chief
OF the Atlantic Air Fleet

from three crack-ups since he became
one of the Navy's pioneer aviators back
IN 1912 Maybe 80 years of flying give
one better perspective Maybe it's
just the good blood of the Bellinger
family, which still owns part of the
land granted by the crown in South
Carolina, where Pat was born.
Bellinger the Nations second Oldest
naval airman in point of service, COM
manded the seaplane NC-1 on the first
transatlantic flight in 1919. That's lust
one OF many firSts in the Bellinger log.
During the occupation of Veracruz in
1914 Bellinger piloted his seaplane on
43 consecutive days over enemy territory
the first flights by an American plane
IN the face of enemy opposition. His
plane was struck by enemy rifle fire
several times. He retalated by dropping
bars of soap.
Bellinger fired the first tests of ma
chine guns mounted in Navy plane
conducted the first night seaplane flying
employing floodlights on water and was
one OF the first to fly a plane from
catapult aboard ship.
Bellinger, 1907 graduate of the Naval
Academy, was attracted to flying when
while visiting the Baltic aboard United
States Fleet units, he attended an air
meet at Kiel. II figured flying was my
meat" he says, land requested trans
fer to aviation.
He got the transfer and has been air
minded ever since, through service as
commander of the Norfolk Naval Air
Station In World War I, as commander
of the carriers Langley and Ranger, as
chief of staff, commander Aircraft Battle
Force. as deputy chief of staff to the
commander in chief, United States Fleet.
He became commander Air Force, At
lantic Fleet, on March 20, 1943 and was
promoted to vice admiral last October.
The admiral was at Pearl Harbor when
the Japs threw their sneak punch. The
Bellinger basement was turned into a
combination air-raid shelter and first
aid station, where some 200 casualties
were cared for by hospital corpsmen,
assisted by Mrs. Bellinger and other
Navy wives.
Evening star., 1944-04-02
How Washington Bureau Gathers News From
Behind Enemy Lines and All the Fronts of War
BY Joseph H. Baird.

In the wireroom of the Foreign News
Bureau down in the Office of War In
formation one of battery of teletype-
writer's goes into action with few spas
modic jerks of the carriage and ticks off
in a simple, terse phrase:
"Frankfurt-Expectin enemy aircraft
flying from Holland
You stare at the machine incredu-
lously. You know, of course, that WASH
ington has no cable connection with
Germany. You know, too, that even if
1t had the Germans would hardly be
so kind as to send us bulletins on the
progress of our planes as they roar with
a cargo of death toward their Nazi OBJ
jectives. So you ask questions.
That printer, explains Matthew Cor
don, who runs this particular part of the
owl show, is working directly with
London. The message you have just
read was picked up there few minutes
ago from the Frankfurt radio and i'm
mediately slapped on the circuit to
America.
Flanking you on either side are more
of these sputtering printers, 13 of them
in all Here, on your left one is ticking
off Japanese news. Another carries
message from New Delhi. Still another
quotes the Moscow communique, giving
the latest news of the big Russian drive
into the Balkans.
Down there on your right other ma
chimes are recording the night news
reports of the Associated Press, the
United Press and the International
News Service,
Hundreds of thousands of words from
scores of places in all parts of the
world. Brisbane and Stockholm. CAL
cutta and Bucharest. An American
Army base in the Marshalls
Center of the World
You feel that you are standing at the
center of the world with thousands of
little nerves connecting you with men
and events in all part of the globe
And really you are.
This room is the heart of the Foreign
News Bureau in the Office of War In
formation, an organization whose work
is known well to the men who wear eye
shades on the cable desks of the big
press associations and metropolitan
Evening star., 1944-04-02
BY Harry Nash,


NORFOLK, Va.-Pat Bellingers asso-
ciates describe his as "the springiest,
bounciest, youngest thinking, youngest
looking, youngest acting admiral in the
United States Navy"
His full name is Vice Admiral Patrick
Nelson Lynch Bellinger, U. S. NJ, COM
mander Air Force, Atlantic Fleet. His
job is keeping that deadly weapon in
operational readiness from Greenland to
Brazil and from the United States East
Coast to Europe and Africa
A professional age -guesser at the New
York Worlds Fair missed Pats age, by
10 years. Today, you'd lay two to one
that the admiral is 48 instead of So.
The big Atlantic is Bellinger's baby,
and he nurses it with the devotion of a
doting daddy. He keeps aircraft carriers
ready to sail, planes and blimps ready
TO fly, men ready to sail and to fly them
I'VE have sunk a tremendous number
Of submarines" the admiral said, BURST
ing at the buttons to say how many.
But, because of security, he confined
himself to: THE Air Force, Atlantic
Fleet, is sinking a large proportion of
all the submarines sent to the bottom
In this war
Bellinger's eyes strayed frequently to
a huge map at one end of his office,
and you get the impression that you
are sharing his mind with the men who
are out there hunting periscopes. You're
right-here it comes:
THE job of flying patrol planes is a
long, lonely, hazardous affair. single
pilot may go six months without sighting
sub-a terribly boring job. Suddenly
he sees submarine and then comes the
test Of his training" The admiral
paused, then said gravely: THE man
who has to stop to think how to fly his
plane during an attack is not ready to
meet the enemy"
Associates say that Bellinger, unlike
some admirals who live in a vacuum
because of their exalted rank, tries to
get close to the people under him. May
be that's becauSe he has walked away
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threat that British and American avia-
tors shot down over Germany would be
executed in reprisal. But the German
public was never told this. In fact, it
was never told about the Kharkov trials
For many months Transocean and
the German short-wave stations have
built up in the minds of the foreign
public certain respect for the views
OF a Capt. Ludwig Stetorius, who is
quoted almost daily as War Office ex-
pert. There is certain plausibility
about the captain. He sometimes ad-
mits that the Germans are getting the
worst Of it on the Russian front.
His comments always seem more re-
strained and intelligent than those of
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Is Weapon" His principal aides are
former metropolitan newsmen.
1t is an unwritten law among news
papermen that their sources of inside
information are closely guarded secrets.
But Mr.. Gordon is, for the duration,
Government official. So the writer had
the temerity@to ask him about his He
has, it seems, number of good ones.
Listening in on the Enemy
The FCC's monitoring service has sta
tions in Washington, Portland, Oreg;
San Francisco, Kingsville, Tex, and