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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-26
Hull Louds Roosevelt

Washington, Oct. 26-(UP)-- Secretary of State Cordell Hull, in a statement praising President Roosevelt's leadership in foreign af- fairs, said today that he was a statesman equipped by nature and by experience" as few statesmen have been equipped in the nations history.
 The statement did not mention directly the forthcoming presiden- tial election but 1t obviously was an endorsement of MT. Roosevelt's bid for fourth term.
 Meanwhile, another cabinet men- Der, Secretary of War Henry L.. Stimson, declined to take a stand in the presidential contest on grounds the Army should be "abso- lutely free from any suspicion" of political influence.
 Stimson, Republican, told his press conference he saw no reason to change his standing policy of re- training from disclosure or discuss sion of how his vote would be cast
 Hull said the president had "courageously charted Q wise course" for this nation.
 The statement was issued through the state department. Hull is in the Naval hospital at nearby Bethseda, Md, for Q physical check-up fol- lowing @ tenacious cold which kept him home more than two weeks.
 Foreign Policy
 Hulls statement reviewed the for- eign policy steps token by the pres" ident during the last four years and emphasized the importance of Inter- national problems now confronting the United States and the world. Praising Mir. Roosevelt's stature as c statesman, Hull said:
 "The American people know that he has courage equal to their own, that he has c knowledge of the real- ities of the world, and that he has an unshakable determination to achieve the goals of peace and sec curity, upon which they have pinned their hope and their faith"
 Hull said history would record that the acts of the United States after the fall of France and before U. S. entrance into the war under the farsighted leadership of Presi- dent Roosevelt were indispens- able in staying of disaster to our nation and other free nations"
 To-day, the people know that the supreme issue affecting the fu- tlire of the country is whether we and the other free peoples will have the skill and the leadership to build effective institutions of peace and human welfare" Hull said.
 "They know that unless this lead- ership Is provided, the tragedy of another and unspeakable war will Do invited
 President Roosevelt is Q states- man equipped by nature and by ex- perience to meet these problems as few statesmen have been equipped throughout our history" Hull said.
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Naval Victory Grows
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1 sank or damaged heavily every ene- my vessel.
 Additional Losses
 one battleship of the YaInashlro class, along with several" cruisers and destroyers were blasted to the bottom and the remnants of the force fled back west through the Surigao Strait under continued air attack from escort carriers which inflicted additional losses and damage"
 Several American patrol torpedo boats were sunk or damaged and one destroyer was damaged.
 The Northern Japanese armada of four battleshipS, with cruisers and destroyers, sailed through marrow San Bernardino Strait between Lu- zon and Samar and engaged escort carriers of the 7th fleet off the Leyte Gulf.
 The carrier task force from the Srd fleet teamed up with the 7th fleet in Q blazing battle in which a heavy cruiser was sunk, four battle- ships were damaged heavily with bombs, three cruisers were damaged badly and Q destroyer was left dead in the water. MacArthur's com. munique noted that the Japanese lost several cruisers, while addi-' tional destroyers were damaged.
 One American escort carrier was sunk and several escort carriers and destroyers were damaged.
 Wrecked beyond repair, the Jap. anese force turned about and lied back through San Bernardino Strait during last night. Pursuing American surface ships overhauled and sank Q cruiser, and carrier ar" craft still were attacking the sur- viving ships today in the Sibuyan Sea.
 A Japanese communique claimed that Japanese warShips had "dash- ed into Leyte Gulf" during the e1a. gagement and sunk two cruisers, Q destroyer, Ave transports and l7 landing craft, heavily damaged two battleships, two carriers, three cruisers, three destroyers, two transports aground and set II transports afire.
 In the battle of Samar, Japanese Imperial headquarters asserted, the Japanese fleet sank six American carriers, two cruisers, a destroyer and four transports and damaged 0 battleship six carriers and two cruisers.
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5o,ooo Nozis In Retreat
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(CONtlnueQ 1fOIu Ehk0 4( the south British flying wedges hit the outskirts of Tilburg from the south and east. A report reached headquarters that the NaSis were evacuating T4lburg.
 British spearheads had crossed the Antwerp-Breda highway ana were near the Tilburg's Hertogen- bosch road, both primary escape lanes for the Nazis.
 To the west, troops of the Can. adian First Army swung westward after outanking Bergen Op zoom' road Junction controlling the east. ern Schelde Estuary, and attacked German positions in 0 forest directly before the town.
 Strike West
 Other Canadian units, corking the bottleneck of the Zuid Beveland above the lower schelde Estuary, struck westward three miles from captured Riiiand along the south side of the ISthrnuS.
 The right wing of the Canadian First Army struck out along an eight.niile front during the night and by dawn had advanced three miles to within 10 miles of Breda, at the center of the Dutch front, which already was threatened by positions less than five miles away, won ifi gains from Baarle Nassau.
 The capture of Pindorp brought the Canadians within four miles of Roosendaai, road center northeast of Bergen Op zoosn.
 On the Canadian left flank, the Breskens Pocket below the Schelde Estuary was whittled down to some 76 square miles. But the Germans were putting up vicious house to house fight for Oostburg, one of the last remaining towns in the pocket.
 Final Mopup
 The final inopup of s Hertogeri- bosch was taking place under leaden skies. Front dispatches disclosed that more than 5000 prisoners had been taken since the attack began, and one Nazi division was "practic- ally wiped out" while another was cut into several parts.
 The western front was generally quiet except for Montgomery's drive in Holland.
 At it's opposite end, stihened re- sistance slowed the Franco Amer lean Sixth Army group advance northeast of Epinal and in the Vos- ges to the south counter-attackS were thrown back with severe losses to the enemy.
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miles southwest of the cos1lmunica. tions center, while other units took Klein Kummetschen, three miles north of ooidap, and MatSukehmen, 10 miles southwest of 0umbinnen.
 Occupation of these town refuted German claims yesterday that the sovlets had partially evacuated Stal. luponen and 0oldap)
 Take PeteFeltschen
 In the northeastern part Of the province, CherniakhovskyS troops also captured PetereitscheT, one and a half miles southeast of Pin" kailen on the rail line to Tilsit. GA Paris broadcast said the Rus slams had driven across the north" ern border and occupied the upper part of Ttlsit, indicating that Gen. eral Ivan Bagramian's Srd Baltic Army may nave joined the invasion of 0ermany's outlying province0 :.
 South of East Prussia, MarshaI Konstantin K. RokosSovsky after five week Sof consolidating his forces, sent his ist White Russian Army bursting through German dc. lenses north of Warsaw In drive to clear the enemy from the triangle formed by the confluence of the Vistua and Narew rivers.
 The Soviets cleared c five.E1ih stretch of the east bank Of the Wis" tula between Praga and Tarchoinin, six miles northwest of Warsaw, and occupied the rail town of Lajsk, iH miles north of the Polish capital. Lajsk b only 70 miles east Of tlpl German stronghold at Nofy Dor, oii the apex of the Vistula-Narew cotls fluence.
 Drive From Rosan
 (Berlln claimed that General 0eorgi Zakharcv's End White kus' sian Army also had started to push toward East Prussia from Rozan. 46 miles northeast of Warsaw3
 South of the Polish front, General Ivan !, Petrov's 4th Ukrainian troops continued the rapid advance through. Cbechoslovalkia and were converting on the rail and high- way center of Mukacevo. one cole unan swept into Pasika, nine miles northeast of Mukacevo, while the other approaching from the South- east occupied Rokogov, 20 miles away. A coFnnnunique said retEOv's forces had captured 2,000 German and Hungarian troops in Czecao- slovakia.
 Meantime, Marshal Rodion Y. Maiinovskys 2nd Ukrainians cleared the territory of Pennsylvania in capturing the towns Of eatu-Mare and Carei.
 NOvisad Captured
 Marshal Tito's Yugoslav PartissiS intensified their attacks on the Ger. mans, capturing the port Of Novisad on the Danube, 46 miles northwest Of Belgrade and Petrovoradi1i on the south bank of the river. Tito also reported that other Partisan units had reached the approaches of za. greb and brought the Croatian capi. tai under artillery fire, while still additional forces seized two strong holds defending eafajevO, 122 miles southwest Of Belgrade.
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department and city sheriff.
 A committee Of the finance board, consisting of Patrick Shea, William 0erardi and City Controller Nell ?. Maloney, was appointed by the board yesterday to review the pro. posed need for repairs to the clty's school buildings aS requested by the education department. The latter department has asked for e,4S0 for such repairs.
 Final approval to establishment Of . proposed new fire company at the Bunker Hill station was not given by the board ct yesterdays meet ing. Fire Chief Thomas Cavanaugh and Commissioner Archibald Phil. lips appeared before the board to outline the proposal which wes tabs led for the time being.
 It is understood that some qies. ton now exists whether to purchase c standard type hook and ladder truck thus creating c new company for the purpose or to purchase what is termed c quad" c combination bumper and ladder truck.
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(Continued from Page D lice arriving shortly afterwards aroused the occupants on the west side of the house, Mrs. Harry L. Perham and Mics deorgiana Clark.
 Cigarette Butt
 Fire Marshal Lahey and his aide, Capt. Eugene Legge, said the gre started in the den from a lighted cigaret butt Gloves threw in Q card- board waste basket before retiring. Mrs. Ceilings said that the metal wastebasketS in the den had recently been replaced by the cardboard ones. She said MT. Cloves was in the habit of flicking ashes into the wastebSskets.
 Marshal LahCy said the fire en. velcSed the den and spread to ar open stairway.
 Detective Dunphy reported to Chief Inspector Joseph R. Bender that Miss Barnofsky apparently awakened after the fire was well un- der way and ran down to the first floor but found flames blocking her way. Her night clothes caught fire, and she ran back up to the third floor to the window in her room. There was no fire on third or Sec- ond floors, although the heat and smoke were unbearable. Her door was found to be locked from the inside.
 Cloves, who escaped from the house fully dressed, had to be ar- rested for his own protection when he repeatedly attempted to re-enter the burning building.
 92,SOO Damage
 The fire marshal estimated dam. age at 92,600. The building was insured. State Trooper Thomas Leonard started an investigation of the case as iS required by state law.
 Miss BaTanosky was born and edu. cated in this city and had lived in Oakviile for the past % years.
 Surviving are her parents, MT. and Mrs. John Baranogky, Oakville; one sister, Miss Frances Baranosky; one brother. Pfc. Peter Baranosky, U. 6. Army, Clinton, Miss; and one half- brother, George Harrk, Oakviiie.
 The funeral will Dc held from the family residence, 374 Bucking- ham street, time to De announced iater. Funeral arrangements are iii charge of the Deiiniks funeral home, i7 Congress avenue.
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CCcntinued from Page D rapidly throughout the capital. At the Navy Department, Q United Press bulletin on the Presidents statement was read over the build. ing's loud-speaker system. Naval officers. forgetting their dignity, slapped each other on the back, and one reservist removed his blouse and jolSlngly remarked that he was heading forthwith back to civilian life.
 The attitude of top-ranking Navy officials was, however, that the Jap. anese, despite their losses, still have c feet-in-being and that, aS such, the U. 6. Navy cannot afford to re- lax.
 Even if a large force of Japan's battle fleet waS knocked out, as pre- lii1inary reports seemed to indi. cate, the remnants of the armada Still would Dc useful to guard the waters ii1 the enemy homeland, par. ticulaTly since they would have the support of land.based aircraft. Navy ofiiciais have warned repeat ediy that the Japanese have been hoarding planes for just such an Dyentuaiity.
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(Continued from Page D made three major strikes on the Carirer force.
 it was the greatest victory ever scored by small carriers.
 The, Japanese struck first ct 7;5b q n. with about eight planes. From la.iB q. m. to 1:30 ?. m. they made a series of attacks with about 50 planes. The last attack started nfout s o'clock the same afternoon and lasted intermittently until 10 D. Ffa.
 Naval officers described our in. tefception of enemy planes as "un- canny."
 Not more than eight or nine of the enemy aircraft got through tO Ynyte Gulf, and most of those were nhos down. Much credit for the dAy's successes goes to the naval Aghter direction under It. Charles W. diil of Oklahoma City.
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Humiliation Faces Nozis
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preparing to assault the city itself.
 The Germans were pouring mass. es of self.propelled artillery into the East Prussian battle.
 (The German communique claimed that in four days fighting in East Prussia the Russians lost 20D tanks and i02 gunS).
 German prisoners said that their officers forced them to sign pledges that they would fight to the last man. Behind German forward posi-. tons units of SS officers mad men were stationed with Tomimyguns to shoot down any soldiers who at- tempted to retreat.
 Icy Waters
 Gen. Kyril A. Meretskov's Kare. lin army, which sent troops into Norway for tho 18th Soviet 1n- vasion of European countries, hta. tied through icy waters and across frozen Swamps to take ibirkenes, q base from which the Germans had attacked by air and sea Allied con- voys to Russia.
 The enemy stronghold fell il days after the Russians captured the Finnish rickel center of Petsamo and front reports said Meretskov's campaign had broken the German goth Lapland army in small isolated groups, which were being suTrounds cd and destroyed.
 Meretskov brought tanks and artillery across the oE1cesbelieved impossible terrain and after cap. turing Kirkenes struck west and south, with one salient reachcing sandnes, six miles below Kirkenes. The other was approaching che Psvik river line, an important rats uyal obstacle covering the enenly's main Norwegian defenSes.
 GA Finnish communique said Flnnish troops continued their steady advance northward through Finland and reached within six miles of Vuotsa, less than 50 miles from the Russian forces in the north.)
 The huge offensive on the far- flung fronts also brought c new Soviet drive north of Warsaw, either for direct strike up the former Polish Corridor toward Danxig or another Russian thrust against East Prussia, where Red Army troops already were deep into German ter- ritory and threatening the import ant rail town of 0umbiinen, 10 miles east of Insterburg.
 East Prussia Thrust
 The thrust into East Prussia by General Ivan b. Cherniakhovsgy's 3rd White Russian Army along both sides of the Kaunas-K Kofiigsbere raii.road developed into major battle of tanks and artillery, with the Germans suffering terrific leases in futile ccunter-attacks.
 A Ccmmunique said that epproxi- Inately 2600 Germans were Killed In East Prussia yesterday and 4e tanks and i0 arEnored troop carriers knocked out. (Lcndon sources este mated that more than SO,0O0 Ger mans were killed ia nine days in East prussia.)
 Despite fierce increased German reslstanco, CherniakhovSlEy's forces maintained steady but 6Inail ads vances along the rail llne and cccu. pied 1s more towns cr inhabibee places.
 Tho white nuenlan fSoops cecu- pied kamlsthkei1men. ong N1il1 west 1f NlaiIaronea. end EA1talH. three
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 A big man of Falstaffian girth &nd a hearty laugh, the Archbishop #Ag one of the most picturesque fig- 8Aes ia the church of England. NoFT or Oct. 16, 1881, at Exeter, he ag oducated at Rugby and Balliol E1IIeae, oxford. At the age of 4e he nnie AFchbish01 O. York, the ,ec- 1|1 hlghsst position in the church. An ardent advocate of closer re- zNI1ns between Britain and the United States, he repeatedly remind the Briti1Is people that Americs $ different nation than BEitains just . modification of the Eng nation.
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(Contlnued from Page D cd to raid the trops which invaded Gamar. but 10 of them were shot down by anti.aircraft fire. The dis. patch said the Americans were led by Major ?. Raymond King, Tucson, Ariz., and Major Leonard smith, Omaha.
 MacArthur also dlscloSed that the Japanese suffered heavy losses iT aii attempyted large-scale daylight at- tack on American shipping in Leyte Gulf shortly after dawn Tuesday.
 Carrier fighters brok1 lip the formations and shot down b3 planes from the raiding force, while aEiti- aircraft guns bagged three others.
 Tn the campaign or Leyte, it was announced that D. 6. forces had seized io towns and villages and three airfieIds in the last 24 hours to give them firm control of the northern end of the Islend.
 The biggest gain was made near the southern end of the 4S-inile American line, where troops of the 7th Division advanced three miles across Leyte and captured the juno. ton town of BuraueHl. The terminus of the inland highway is only i3 1.2 miles from the west coast of Leyte, opposite the island of Cebu, where Philippines President GorgiO OSs E1efa was born. .4S.1
 United Press Correspondent ~. R. Spring, with the Seventh Division, reported that the japauAse maae q fierce cotlnter-a near Burauen, but were repulsed in c bitter bays otiet battel.
 The Seventh Division troops also seized BuTt airport, four nilas northwest Of san Pablo, and two other airfieIds ill the same area. The Japanese attempted counteFsatsackS in an effort to retake the tieIds but were unable to btidge the AineFicai1g.
 Among the other towns taken by the Americans wag Damagi, jli1C- ton point on the highway six miles north Of Durauen,
 (T1ao Melbourne radio said its core respondent in the Philippines re- ported that Australian forces had Joined the operations on Leyte. He gaid the AtssFalian details, first seen in Taclcbaii, were attached to the .. 2 Klfth Ar Force e msnaf asselalietsl,
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deals with duties of the commission CTS were interested parties" and should be first to have the report.
 The memorandum was made on application of the court clerk who had asked the court to determine whether and to what extent the finding shall Dc revealed to the public or interested parties" MT. Bree said this morning that no dee cision was made on revealing the report to the public.
 At noon today the prosecutor stated he had not received the fiiid- ing, but said he expected to nave it later today. Mir. Bree said that only the original copy had been filed with him, additional copies would have to be printed in order to fellow the order fin the memor- aIidum.
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PnnR MAYT0ATTON

WoOnbOcket, D. !. (UP)--lt Was necessary Co cali a slzeable crew of policemen and Afomen to arrest Mrne6k @aVoIo on a drunkenness chaxee. 1ftg suspect ha6 become Neassd Between s4Q ta'|1lnSs.
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Alexander Sloan, Member Of Parliament for South AyFshlre, Scotland. recently charged that the best meat in Scotland iG exported and dehydfated fPoas are b1i1i9 imported fog Scotch peqpls io eet.
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Jail Finding
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Maid Dies In Fire

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Picturesdue
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Jap Fleet To Stay Home

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Yonks Seize Somor Coast

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Biggest Small Corrier Wins

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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-05-26
Comedy To Be Given
AT Hurley School
At P. NJ. Saturday

Professor Pep" will be pre-
sented at the Hurley school Sat
urday at 8 pm. by high school
boys and girls under the auspices
of the school Identification COM
mittee and the Women's Society
of Christian Service.
Participating in the play, which
is a comedy, will be Norborn
Ward. Sturgeon Afford, Hermes
Hamilton, ]. L. Barria, Newton
Huddleston. Hobert Afford. Will
bert Coleman, Gustava Hamilton,
I. j. aBrria, Inez Coleman, Joyce
Ward, Clara Jean Buckley. Fran
ces Jones. Dolores Nelson and
Crane Hamilton. Mrs. Marvin
Green is director and admission
will be 20 cents for children and
IS cents for adults.