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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-20
Jops AIibi
 The Invasion
CBY UNITED PRESs)


 Japanese propaganda on the in- vasion Of the Philippines took the line today that the operation was ordered by President Roosevelt so the defeat of the United States fleet off Formosa would not em- barass his reelection campaign
 Admitting that American forces had succeeded in landing on Leyte, radio Tokyo said the invasion obs viously" was an attempt on the Presidents part to hide the For- mosa defeat" The broadcast was recorded by the United Press listen- ing post in London.
 According to e report from the front, 1t appears that enemy forces which penetrated into the Bay of Leyte in the central Philippines Oct. 10 landed on the southern part as well as the eastern part of the, is- lRnd," radio Tokyo said.
 "In their intention to land on the Philippines and subsequently, reach the Chinese continent, the en- erny brought into action naval units east of Formosa. With heavy count er-attacks of Japanese forces, the American attack on Fortiosa re- suited as known in total defeat. De- spite all that, the enemy, basing hiInsel: on his materia lsuperiorlty, by no means gave up his intention to reconquer the Philippines and on oct. 17 in the area of the Bay of Leyte, with all the small parts e.
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Amozins Is
 Adjective For Biq Invasion
BY GORDON WALKER Representing Combined American
 Radio NetwOrks)

Representing Combined American
 Radio Netw0FkS)
 Distributed By The United Press
 With Gen, MaeArthur's troops in the Philippines, Oct, 90-tAy Ra. dio)-This long-awaited attack on the Philippines Is without 0 doubt the most incredible invasion of this war,
 I have just come down from Q trip with one of the invasion ships here in the Central Philippines, Through glasses 1 watched tens Of thousands of American doughhoyS plunge into the black smoke which Stil crowds the two full landing beaches on Leyte Island, Righ now out there in front of us they are pushing swiftly into the interior Of tho enemys detenses,
 Tho most amazing part Of this in. VaSion is the fact that up to thiS time, when the troops waded ashore the enemy had made no attempt to interfere with this graVeSt threat to their conquered empire, For days huge conveys of ships eonVerged from dozens of American forward bases scattered over the central and Southwest Pacific, Last night they
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FiIipinos In US Rejoice
nv ANN HICKS

Limited Press staff CoFrespOndent)
 Washington, Oct, 20,-(uP)-They are over now, those long months Of waiting. and there Is happiness and Joy and tears of eXultation among officials of the Philippines govern ment and their 800 eompatriots In this wartime capital,
 We'll past the stroke of midnight they had sat before their radios, tense In wonderment # it were true that Gen. Douglas MaeArthur hhad returned again to Philippine soil,
 Then at i2:27 Q. m., EWT, the news did eome-two years, five months and i4 days from the fate- ful May 6 when thhe tiny garrison on Corregidor surrendered.
 we are happy, very happy indeed, to hear that the general is in the Philippines" said Jamie Hernandez, finance secretary and ranking Fili- pino official here since President Sergio Osmena left for Australia to join MacArthur in the drive for liberation.
 This Is the beginning Of the ex- pulsion of the Japanese" Herman deg said. "Of course, that will mean lives lost. and property. But the Filipinos are ready to pay the price for the redemption of thcir country and their freedom from the tyranny of the Japanese"
 By one of those sod turns of fate, the invasion came several weeks too late to be witnessed by the man who, perhaps more than any other, had yearned to sec lt--
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Box Score Of
 |Jop-U $ Losses
By United Press


 The box score of Japanese and United States losses from Pearl HaTbor to Gen. MacArthur's re- turn 10 the Philippines:
 Japanese ships sunk-2,265, il- cluding 3S4 combat and 1,01l non- combat. Also about 800 barges and several hundred SaInpans, Jtinks, River Steamers, Luggers and siSa- liar small craft.
 United States naval losses in all theaters (nnostly in Pacific) )-i06 ships including 156 combat and 60 Iion-combat. Also 1e i1on-navai merchantmen, sunk in the Pacific. Japanese plane iosses-about i7. 0o7.
 United States plane losses (Army Navy and Marine)-about 3,37O.
 Japanese casualties (mostIy kllIedl-believed to be in excess of O0,OO0.
 United States casualties Gall services, killed wounded and miss- ins)m-nbout i16sooo.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-20
NAZI COLUMNS FALLBACK INTO
 EAST PRUSSIA
BY HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent


 Moscow, October 20. - (UP) = Front reports today said retreating Nazi columns are falling back into East Prussia under hammer blows by Russian tanks and fast moving pursuit groups and in Hungary the Red Army had won the battle of the Hungarian plains and slashed forward on Debrecen.
 (The German DINE News Agency reported Debrecen had been evacuated after several hours of street fight ing. German reports admit ted the Soviets had penetrat- ed at least seven miles into East Prussia and indicated new penetrations were being made south of the first break ing-through at Eydtkuhnen.) Dispatches to the Soviet press said that the German retreat into East Prussia was begging down in the network of swampB and mud.choked roads.
 Soviet Grmor including M-34 tanks and mobile units were slaShing at the German Hanks. Highways to East Prussia, 1t was reported were jammed with long lines of retreat. ing German units.
 Soviet communiques have not yet specifically confirmed Nazl reports tht the great battle of East Prussia has been joined.
 There was no confirmation here of q German report that the Rus- sians had sliced into the southeast corner of East Prussia. outfianking the suwalki fortress and driving into the Rominten forest, an area of several hundred square miles which is famous for the hunting parties at which Reichsmarshal Herman doering entertained foreign diplomats.
 The army newspaper, Red Star, reported that Cossack units, ace companied by light tanks and self
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RY INVITED PRESS

q have returned, By the grace of Almighty God, our force stands again on Philippines soil, soil eonse- erated In the blood of our two peo- pleS,"
 With those words, Gen, Douglas MaeArthur proclaimed to the people of tho Philippines by radio today that his armies had returned to lib. crate them and avenge Hataan and CerFegidor,
 Tho text of MaeAFthur's hread- cast, aS relayed by the Melbourne radio, follows;
 'This Is the voice of freedom, General Macarthur speaking,
 II have returned, By the grace of Almighty God, our force stands again on Philippine soil, Soil eonse,
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US Londinq
 Averages Foll Of B0stions
Ry United Press


 American forces entered another battle of the Philippines today with Q battle cry they learned more than two years ago-"Rememher Hataan and Cerregidor"
 They went back to avenge the gallane troops who periShed in leAa, Se.aeS American and Filipino troops on Bataan who held out against 100000 Japanese from the first week of January, i9A2, until April Q, finally going down to de. feat after blowing up their last round of ammunition, The return. ing Americans planned to bring their flag to Corregidor from which 10000 prisoners of the Japanese made Q march of death,
 Gen, Douglas MAeArthur had or. dered the evacuation of his forces to Bataan as the Japanese moved up to Manila after Dec, 10, ieAi when they attacked the Cavite naval base, The fighters went to Bataan, knowing from tho start that theirs was to Do Q losing bat. tie.
 Stlms0n Warning
 Secretary of War Henry L., Stim- son warned the nation that for every ship bringing supplies to the stauneh Bataan fighters two Ships were lost, Then Singapore fell and the Maylay peninsula, A Japanese government was set up in the Phil. ippineS,
 During the first part of January, Ameriean- Filipino troops demon. Strated superior fighting skill and now legendary Valor, Japanese Gen. eral Homma was reported to have
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Coordination
 Won The Doy
By RICHARD w, JOHNSTON Limited Press War C0rrOsp0ndent)

(UnAtcu gFess war SVEtvsPWuve"V
 Aboard Seventh AmphibiouS Force FlagShip, the Philippines, Oct, 20 -- (U.P0 General Douglas MaeArthur's return to the Philip pines provided graphic demon- stration of Army and Navy eoordin. ation in which the power of U. 8, Pacific forces were concentrated against an enemy objective through utilization of the MaeArthur and Nlmits tactical systems,
 Continuing the strategy of by- passing enemy StrongpolntS which brought the conquest of New Guinea MacArthur passed up MindanAo to strike Leyte In the heart Of the Philippines, The island was prepar- cd for invasion by the fullest appli. cation of naval teohniQues proved in Palau, the Marianas and the Marshalls.
 MaeArthur's broad strategy was designed to assure U, 8, forces the element of surprise, particularly after the Morotai landing which produced feVerish Jap activity on MinuAnNo,
 With the bulk of the U. s. Pacific Fleet available he was able to seal of the target with carrier strikes and to subject Leyte to Q fearsome four-day bolnbardment without sAe- rifice of the surprise element.
 In naval and aerial preparation we have followed essentially the same routine employed by Admiral Chester W, Nimitz to push across the central Pacific. Tn this strategy battleships, cruisers and deStroyers bombarded the island beginning 6 three.day pre-invasion series of carrier tasks.
 Halsey's Raids
 The carrier raids were carried out by Admiral William '. Halsey's
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[ the JApAneSes
 Veteran Jungle troops, in. cludlng every living survivor of MacArthur's epic journey from Bataan and Corregldor, landed on the 7S-Imlle east coast of Leyte Island, in the central Philippines.
 They made two principal landings, one about a milo and a half south of Tacl0han, capital of the island, and a second at Dulab, lS miles farther south.
 In tanks, bulld0zers and light armOred cars the Amer lcan assault waves smashed through the feeble Japaneae resistance toward the Taclos ban alrlleld and the capital city itself, . metropolis Ok SO,O00 persons.
 AusplClous Start
 The invasion went well from the start, catching the Japs off guard and reellnn under the ten-day air and naval attack of the naval forces of Admiral William Fs Halsey which razed their de- lenses from Ryukyu Islands just below the Japanese archipelago through ForEnosa to the Philippines Itself,
 (fn WaShnigton President Rooae- veu released e message from Mae- Arthur which said the invasion was making splendid progress, had been accomplished on schedule and with extremely light losses1
 The attack on LAyte was preceded by Q three day naval hombaEdmept which was followed up today hy the landing of assault troops, heavy artillery, tanks, flame. .throwera and amphibleus trucks,
 Within An hour after the 9ixHt Americans touched shore and while the thunder of i4, iB and l0-ineh shells still was crashing down Qu Japanese positions, the assault Spearheads were racing for tho TAs cloban Airdronae, Q field which VIII give the American cir forces tighten and bomber strips $500 feet long.
 Japs Shelled
 Shells from the hattleahips Cal~ ifornia and Pennsylvania rainea down on the Japanese. Some tl the Japs were veterans of Detaan and Corrigidor but they turned end fled under the American attack
 American casualties were eK@ tremely light although Japanese mortar fire scored four hits on iands ing ships as they were edeing inse the shore,
 Americans wiped out with Q hayr onet charge the few Japanese who survived the ahore homhaFdnaNA1. Then destroyers and lighter Naval vessels moved In closer t0 work over the region just beyond the beaches before our jungle fightakH drove forward,
 Naval planes provided air cover for tho operation, divo-bonninN Japenese positions and sEounda straiing areas of possible Japanesa concentration.
 Under this cover the waters eR 1Re Island quickly filled with churfinH small personnel beats, tank caxElets and Nvnphibious machines WnAeA rumbled up onto the shore, tnsk TB.mm guns blazing, iO0,000 Men
 Tn the first assault wave ok Mes Arthur's campaign for re-conqueE1 Of the Philippines were about lg9|F 900 men. backed by possibly anotAeE iB0,O00 for the second and suoeeeNe Ing waves and as many more nieH behind them as will be needed A4 finish tho job.
 OCdW
 MacArthur set foot on phillpplA.A soil for the first time since h0 zlA
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Y HaUe Returned, '"
 MdcArthur States

erAted in the blood Of our two peo- pies,
 We have come, dedicated and committed to destroying every veS- Nge of enemy control over your daily lives, and to restoring upon the foundation of indeStruetihle strength the liberties of your people,
 At my side Is your president Ser gio OSMenA, worthy successor to the great patriot, Manuel oueAon, with members of hts cabinet, The seat of your government Is now, therefore, formally re-eStahliShed on Philippine soil,
 "The hour of your redemption iS here, Your patriots have stated their unswerving and resolute devotion to
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25O. 900 MEN HIT PHILIPPINES TANKS COMPLETE CONQUEST OF kACHEN
Greatest Ocean, Going Armada In History Seizes 75-Mile Coast
Ny RICHARD N. JOHNSTON

General MNcArhur HeadqUaer Leyt Philippines Oct 2O-(UP Douglas today led Army possibly 2soOoO back e
  and within sunhO of the excellent TaclOban 6ed against light Japanese resistance.
 himself stepped Philippine soil the bright sunlight assault ashore under
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CT ADMITS sTABBING

Pittsburgh, Calf. Oct. 2O.--(UP) --Col. Murray H. Ellis, command ing ofilcer at Camp stonemarl, said today that Pvt. Richard w. Fowler, I0, St. Petersburg. Fla, had con- fessed stabbing Cpl. Arthur R. Bacon. Oxford. Mass. whose body was found yesterday in a canal near the camp. Fowler said he stabbed Bacon iB self defenge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-20
Bruyeres Is Taken Also, And 3 Vital Passes In Vosges
BY ,. EDWARD MURRAY (United Press War COrrespOndent)

Supreme Headquarters AAF, Paris October 2O = lUP The American First Army completed the mopup of Aachen today crushing the last NaZ resistance In the western outskirts of the first great German city captured to fall to the Allies,
 The great pile of rubbe that once was CharIemagne's capital now Is completely in American hands," United Pre Correspondent Jack FanklSh reported from Aacen
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-09-21
EXTENSION OF WEEK
LOWERS EFFICIENCY

New York city ULNS) War plants
and other companies that have been
authorized to extend the working
schedule Of employees beyond the limit
provided by law have found that their
efficiency is impaired If they work
more than 4S hours week, Mrs
Emily :. Marconnier of the State De
partment of Labor said AT the New
York Women's Trade Union League.
In survey of 300 concerns that
had been granted permission 20
lengthen the work week for women
employees" she reported, I'VE found
that less than one-third of the women
were working the extended schedule"
Employers said the heightened work
week had not been satisfactory and
that loss In efficiency had resulted
They wished to retain the privilege
however, I'm case Of a bottleneck or
some other emergency"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-09-21
Byrnes Asks For
Jobless Benefits

Washington. unemployment com
pensation is our first line Of defense
against unemployment" War Mobil-
ization Director James #. Byrnes said
In his report to President Roosevelt in
which he recommended that Congress
reconsider It's rejection of his plan for
liberalizing unemployment benefits.
The present weekly benefits were
established several years prior to the
war.
"if they were inadequate then, they
are inadequate now" Byrnes declared.
"rhe State systems have during the
war, as II result or Increased contri-
buttons and reduced expenditures, ac-
cumuated reserves of five and one
half billion dollars. That Is fortunate
But the object of the system is to pro-
vide IA defense against unemployment,
ana not merely TO accumulate money.
The States should act now To liberal
lie the benefits and make the State
systems serve their true purpose.
IL still hope the Congress will re-
consider its action In rejecting he
plan suggested by me that the maxi
mum weekly benefit should not he less
than n stated percentage of the work
erS' previous wages or $40 whichever
Is the lower, should be paid for as long
rs twenty-siX weeks and the coverage
he extended to include workers where
the number of employees is less than
eight"
Several influential members of
Congress Informed him that they did
not want To consider before election a
bill liberalizing unemployment benefits
for fear il would be considered bid
ding for votes" Byrnes said
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-09-21
Stute Federation
(Confinurd From Pace Oss)

ton: Harry l.. Sain, state industrial
commission; George A. Strain, direc
tor of state industrial relations: 1t
Col. Timothy A. McInerny, of Wash
ingtOn, and other Army and Navy
officials.
The East Liverpool delegates attend
ing the convention are James III.
Grafton, secretary-treasurer of Trades
and Labor Council, representing the
central trades body; Clarence d..
Wright, representing BARRIERS union
343; John Weber for local union II,
Jiggermen, n. Il. o. p; Miss Ruth
Sullivan, representing local union 124,
Decorators, n. B. O. T., and William
ii. Wolfe, representing Hotel and Res
taurant Employees union 1926.
Mr.. Wolfe attended the annual con-
yentlon Of the state hotel and res
taurant employees organization, which
was held last Saturday and Sunday
Mr.. Grafton attended the Sunday ses-
sions of the organization.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-09-21
LABOR LOOKS AHEAD
By DIR. WILLIAM WITHERS

1t must be added that the demObil
ization of labor requires not only an
increase in social security payments
both as to level and coyerage, but care
full planning of the postwar distribu-
ton of labor and capital. America Is
surely a land of contradictions. While
we cheer the expenditure of many bill
lions to chase the Nazis out of France,
we quibble over paying $1,000 as a
maximum weekly benefit and over pay
ing the cost Of transportation of work
ers to new postwar jobs. Moreover,
we hope that these thirty million war
workers will all get jobs If we merely
pay out the six billion dollars now In
unemployment compensation reserves.
We also hope that by establishing a
Director of War Mobilization and an
advisory board representing industry,
labor, and agriculture, we can dis
cover enough jobs to bring about full
employment. But no matter bow many
powers are given to the Director to
issue directives he will not be able To
create the necessary employment.
At best, unemployment insurance
and rehabilitation planning are It'd
ing over devices. 1t will not solve the
rehabilitation problem merely to de-
mobilize war workers and veterans
into the unemployment insurance sys-
TENS. We do not stop to think that
65,OOO,OOO people are now employed In
civilian and military work, because we
are spending over $16O,OOO,OOO,OOO
Out of this amount, the federal gov
ernment now accounts for apprOXi-
mately $10O,0O0,000,O00 If we drop the
purchases of the federal government
to twenty-bllons, as many have
recommended, private enterprise will
not make up the difference, Unless the
federal government makes up this
margin by wise public investments, by
adequate unemployment insurance and
relief, by the use Of g0vernment-owned
war plants and surplus property to
stimulate employment, and by com
pensatory fiscal policies, we can ex.
pect the worst tailspin in American
economic history.
Labor rehabilitation plans today
show signs that the cart Is being put
before the horse Unemployment insur-
ance is the cart; employment is the
horse. Both are needed but they must
be properly hitched. Labor demObiliza-
ton planning remains superficial and
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-09-21
MORE CALIFORNIANS DIE
FROM ACCIDENTS THAN
FROM PRESENT WAR

Sacramento, Calf. ULNS). = Paul
Scharrenberg, California State Direc-
tor of Industrial Relations stated re-
Gently in Sacramento that industrial
accidents in California have killed
more California persons since Pearl
Harbor than have died in the same
length of time as war casualties.
The shipbuilding industry has ac-
counted for the largest number of
California Notwithstanding ia in 1943
but Scharrenberg modified this state
ment by saying that this industry has
increased its number of employees
from practically nothing to hundreds
of thousands of persons in the past
few years.
For every industrial death i'm Cali
fOrnia there are 3 accidents causing
permanent disability; 215 accidents
causing serious temporary disability:
and 81 injuries requiring major med-
cal treatment.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-09-21
Workers Receive
$4,000 Back Pdy

Almost $4,000 in restitution for I'M
employees in the Ohio Michigan area
will be paid by II firms in the area.
This was announced by Grace G..
Glasscott, Regional Director of the
Wage and Hour and Public Contracts
Divisions of the e, S. Department of
Labor, 4237 Main Post Office Building,
Cleveland, Ohio, who said that the II
firms had come into compliance with
the Fair Labor Standards Act (Wage-
Hour Law during the past four weeks
The exact amount Of restitution being
paid is $S9,996.75.
Miss Glascott said:
This 10000 in restitution, obtain
ed without the necessity of any court
action, is about the usual amount that
our Divisions Of the L. :. Department
of Labor have been securing almost
every month from firms in the Ohio
Michigan region for some time past.
This sum represents the results of
these firms coming into compliance
during the past four weeks, but does
not include other monies collected for
employees covered by the Wage Hour
Law, either through consent judg-
ments I'm the Federal Court or other
forms Of litigation brought either by
the Labor Department or individual
employees"
OF the $4,000 Cleveland area firms
paid $26435.97; Toledo, $63S.45
Columbus, S4,330.45; Cincinnati, $26,
G66.S3 Detroit, $11 ,265.3O; Grand
Rapids, $l4,l22.47 and Marquette.
so, ,5372S.
At the same time Miss Glascott an
nounced that In August S65 Michigan
employers and 2,045 Ohio employers
were assisted In filing applications for
voluntary wage and salary adjust
ments under the Wage Sterilization
Program. Miss Glascott ruled on 81
Michigan applications and 239 Ohio
that did not require ap-
prOyal Of the War Labor Board.