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Evening star., 1944-08-30

James BRYANT. 81. 22l1 Bunker Hill I'd. ne.
Maisaret B. Norton. 81. 1l15 Buchanan n
Or7ille Breeding. 81. Alexandra, Va.
Herbert Lein. Al, 164S Trinidad ave, ne.
Ashton Cannon. "a, Gil New Jersey ave.
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Albert A Povilon. 27. Hartford, Conn.
Dolores A. Collins, ., SOL Longfellow st..
NV.
Betty Deming, 50. $50 Morton pl. ne.
Birdie Coleman. "a, 1921 9th ST. NV
Sydnor Corbin, 5S. 609 lst ST. s.w
Marie Bernard, 81. 65S Kenilworth ter ne
Lucy v. Winston, AZ. 739 cath st. NV.
John Kelley. 80. 1901 7tf St NV
Daisy M. Lewis, 80. 1870 Gales ST. ne
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Anna c. Wight, "a. 1909 18th st. NV.
Vincent v. Parks, 81, 1406h st. ne.
Ellen Clark. 80, go H st. ne
Cory I. Henderson, 80, 515 Fern pl. NV
Paul NJ. Goodrich. 72, 5516 Broad Branch
Jennie L. Davis SO. 734 varnum st. NV.
Clara l. Barseron. 81, 320S Q st. NV
sarah Klein, 66, 135 Kennedy st. NV.
Joseph Mather. So, g24 New York ave w.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-20
Post War Press Freedom
 Urged By Q. P. President

Detroit, Mich, Nov. 20-(UP)-A call for the people themselves, to put press freedom high on the list of things they desire in the New world after the war was sounded to- day by Hugh Ballie President of the United Press.
 In a luncheon address before the economic club of Detroit the news service executive said that a contir- uing public interest in uncontrolled and uncolored world news would strengthen the press ''in its task of keeping the lights bright so there wlil be fewer dark corners where wars might be brewed."
 Baillie told of his experiences last month on the western front where he saw the present offensive being mounted and predicted that the end of hostilities would see the worst economic and political 6,zlocet et1onz
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-20
Own Neckties Kill Two Men

New York, Nov. 20-(UP)-Police sought solution today for the deaths of Navy Yard crane oper- ator and an unidentified man. who were found dead a mile apart in Brooklyn, both garroted by their own neckties and both victims of asphyxiation.
 Frank J. Nelson, 49, crane opera tor, was found dead early yester- day in front of his rooming house with his body dangling from the open door of his automobile. He had been drinking, police said, but there were no indications that alcohol caused his death.
 Nelson's necktie was tied around his throat with 8 knot under his right ear.
 A few hours later in the park ing lot adjoining American Legion headquarters in Brooklyn, police discivered an unidentified dead man. he had been robbed. His pockets were inside out and 90 cents change was scattered around his body.
 His necktie was tightly bound around his throat and knotted un- der his right ear in the same man. ner that Nelson's Cravat was tied. His death was attributed to alco- holism and asphyxiation.
 Police did not list the deaths as homicideS, but unofficial explana- tions were that the two dead men had been involved in 8 waterfront fued or that the necktie deaths were the result of 8 new variation of "mugging."
 The unidentified man carried a wallet and Identification papers of 8 man who was found to be alive and who explained he had lost his wallet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-20
CIO To Organize
 Third Party Here

Local Democratic party and ad- ministration leaders today declined to comment on the proposed plan of the c. I. O. Council to organize 8 third party of 1beral leaningS here in Waterbury.
 Authorization was given the state council of the CIO at its meeting in New Haven yesterday to organize a party for purposes described as "to indorse the most liberal members of both parties or the nomination of its own candidates at future cleo tionS."
 Formal plans for organization of the party win likely be held at the next meeting of the state coun- Gil tentatively scheduled for Dec. g. John J. DriScou head of local 251 is at present attending the national convention in Chicago.
 Under state statutes the c. I. O.. will need submit a list of names comparable in number to one per cent of the recent total vote of 42000 cast in the last cleo tion, to become an authorized party.
 Formation of the party stems from what has been termed the "maction of Waterbury's party leaders" in the recent election. The party will act in Waterbury and the fiftR congressional district comprised Of S6 Connecticut cities and towns.
 On Saturday last Peter B. Hig- gins, Democratic candidate endorsed by the CIO for the fifth congress sional district and who lost to his oppent Cong. Joseph E. Talbot (R) by 10000 votes, bitterly attacked Waterbury's party leaders with declarations that they had taken a walk" in support of many party candidates.
 Waterbury, normally, a Demo- cratic leader among the biggest cities of the state, boiled only $500 plurality for President Roosevelt on Nov. 2 in comparison to a 9,200 plurality four years before.
 Higgins declared that these these party leaders, who were de- feated in their attempts to place state candidates on the Democratic nominating slate last July, returned here after their defeat bitter and wrathful, remained so, and injected their bitterness and wrath into the election last Nov. 7.'
 "They went onto the sidelines with their wrath, Higgins con- tinued in his address before the CIO council on Saturday, 'brooding
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-20
State Rejects School Site

State vocational education author ities today declared themselves in opposition to adoption of the now idle Mulcahy school building, Fair mount street as potential site for 8 state trade school for Waterbury.
 In a letter forwarded by A. S.. Boynton, director of the bureau of Vocational Education to Waterbury's authorities, the former enumerated nine disadvantages" to the use of the Mulcahy building.
 The nine are.
 l. The Mulcahy school building is not pleasing architecturally, and it would probably be impossible to make it into an harmonious whole with the addition.
 2. The site is at considerable distance from Waterbury's high schools so that cooperative courses are difficult of operation.
 3. The land at the rear probably has considerably solid rock beneath the surface, making excavation for a building construction expensive.
 4. Out of town students coming from the east and west must change busses at the center of Waterbury.
 5. Because the site is in resi- dential district near the outskirts of the populated portion of the city, 1t would be inconspicuous to the gen. eral public.
 6. Difficult to change the room layout of the school since all four walls of rooms are brick bearing partitions.
 T. If decision is now made to use this location for a school and the addition is built, then, the city would never be willing to abandon the in- vestment and locate elsewhere.
 8. It is not centrally located to the industrial plants. This is a fac- tor which adversely influences even- ing enrollments.
 g. Not much can be done at this location except for theory class work until the addition is built, which,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-20
Reds Mass For Winter Offensive
By ROBERT s. MUSEL

United Press War Correspondent)
 London, Nov. 20.-(UP)-Rein- forced Soviet shock troops, per- haps a half-milIion strong, cracked through the 80-mile German flank northeast of Budapest at a half dozen points today. as Axis and Al- lied sources hinted that Russia's northern armies were about ot ex- plode their last and greatest win ter offensive of the war in Poland and East Prussia.
 Berlin, apparently paving the way for news. of a smashing Rus sian triumph, reported that fresh Soviet troops were pouring into the battle for Budapest hourly swelling Marshal Rodion Y. Nal inovsky's 2nd Ukrainian army to 35 infantry divisions and seven mo- bile corps.
 Stalled at the southern gates of the capital by ferocious German and Hungarian resistance, Malin- ovsky shifted the main weight of his assault to the northeast in a great enveloping sweep that crushed through a maze of Nazi tank traps and pillboxes extending up across the plains and rolling foothills to Miskolc, 30 miles away.
 Moscow dispatches said the So- viets forced at least six breaches in the enemy line, cutting direct communications between Budapest and Miskolc and drviing to within less than 19 miles of the upper Danube at one point.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-20
Truck Strike 8 Days Young

Boston, Nov. 20-(UP)-A lean Thanksgiving was predicted Tor graater Boston housewives today as a wildcat strike of 5000 truck drly- CTS entered its eighth day on de- fiance of the War Labor Board.
 Officials expected food supplies in retail outlets, reduced last week. would decrease sharply with a surge of pre-holiday purchasing.
 Director John P. Mcbride of tho State Division of the necessarieS life said a survey disclosed severe shortages would be felt immediate
 The Boston Terminal Company. which has brought an injunction against the strikers, reported many carloads of periShableS were bean8 diverted from the city.
 The efforts of state and union o1- cials. including Gov. Ieverett 8Al- tonstall and State Labor COmmis- sioner James T. Moriarty, to end the intra-union controversy were unavailing yesterday.
 A compromise worked out ny state officials and representatives Of Local 25, international Brother hood of Teamsters. ChauReurs. Warehouse Men and Helpers Of America (AFL) was rejected decis- lively by more than 5000 strikers at Q mass meeting.
 The men struck to their original demand that their local elections be restored, and if members S11- spended as result of the strike be reinstated.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-20
CurIey's Trial Dote Not Set

Washington, Nov. 2O.-(UP)-The trial of U. s. Rep. James M. Cur ley, D., Mass, and six others in connection with an alleged govern ment war contract brokerage racket" probably will not open un- til the end of the current Sedition trial, it was learned today.
 Atty. William A. Gallagher, coun- sel for Curley and for co-defend- ant Donald Wakefield Smith of Washington, also is counsel for two defendants in the sedition trial, which already has consumed sev- eral months and the end of which is not yet in sight.
 Curley and five others were in- dicted on 21 counts in Seutemher, 1943. In a re-indictment, seventh defendant was added and the 21 counts were reduced to 16.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-20
ALLIES WITHIN 26 MILES OF COLOGNE
.WLBATTACKED
 BYMURRAYAT
 CONVENTION
BY ARTHUR GUNDERSON United Press Staff COrrespOndent)

0L Ah1nOh UONOER0ON United Press Staff CorrespOndent)
 Chicago, November 20. Fl (UP) = The CLOS seventh annual constitutional con- vention opened today with the War Labor Board as the principal target of criticism by President Philip Murray who advocated a change in either the boards policies or it's personnel.
 In a 73-page report to the convention, Murray charged that the VILE has "refrained from making any contribu- tion to the improvement of labor relations or meeting the basic wartime problems of labor.'' 5
 "The only effective job that has been done by the WLB in the past year is to freeze wages" Murray said.
 "It is imperative" he added, that there be either complete change in the policies, approach and atti- tude of the board or a change in personnel"
 Murray described the boards fail- ure to act on labor's request for an upward revision of the little steel formula as a "travesty, a reflection of all the problems which the board has created as result of its weak ness, fears and lack of courage to meet its grave responsibility to the nation"
 Murray also recommended the continuation of the political action committee and advocated a program which would guarantee an annual wage to all workers, cooperation be- tween industry and labor, elimina- tion of racial discrimination through a permanent fair employment.
 'It is now realized that the future security of the nation is a political question to be decided by political means" he said in reference to the pact. ''The common people do not propose to leave this all important issue in the hands of individuals who care less for their country than for partisan advantage, as happened after World War l."
 He also urged increased coopera- tion between labor, management and government to develop peace- time economy of plenty and advo- cated increased labor participation in government agencies. Reconver- sion measures already enacted by congress ignore human needs" he said.
 Successful handling of American war mobilization still is hampered by the "unnatural and artificial sep- aration" of such agencies as the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-20
Fire Destroys .Wuqon Wheels

DanverS, Mass, Nov. 20-(UP)- For the second time in less than a year, fire destroyed the Wagon Wheels, dine and dance spot on the Newburyport Turnpike, early today. Loss was estimated at $20,000.
 The building destroyed today formerly was known as the New Moon Inn but became Wagon Wheels last year when the original Wagon Wheels, situated on the turnpike in nearby Peabody, was leveled by fire.
 A general alarm was sounded and apparatus from Peabody and Mid- dleton responded. Large stores of liquor and food were ruined.
 The Wagon Wheels was managed by Miss Phyllis Lord who also op- erated the original Wagon Wheels. Cause of the fire was undetermined Nobody was injured.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-20
GeIsenkirchen Oil PIont In Ruhr Hit

London, Nov. 2O-(UP)- American Flying Fortresses today bombed a synthetic oil plant at Gelsenkirchen in the Ruhr and rail yards at near by Munster, main supply base for the German armies on the northwestern front.
 The United States strategic air force announced that . about 160 fOrtresses of the Eighth Air Force acrried out the d0uble-barreled bOmbard- ment of the Munster yards and the SchOlven-Buer oil plant at Gelsenkirchen.
 More than 700 Mustang and Thunderbolt fighters escorted the heavy b0mbers and shot up targets in western Ger many.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-20
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Maxi Nurse
 Helps Yonks
By COLLIE SMALL

Metz, France, Nov. l9-(UP)- American tanks and Doughboys fought street by street through Metz tonight after crossing the Moselle river in assault boats this afternoon to the northern part of the ancient fortress city.
 Other troops battled in the south ern suburbs of the city, now com- pletely eneircled and its garrison trapped.
 I entered Metz shortly after noon and made way to an island in the MoSelle from where I watched the battle rage inside the smoke and fire ringed city.
 Exactly at noon 12 assault boats pushed oil from the north shore of the Moselle under cover of a smoke screen after a short artillery barrage.
 Mortars and heavy machine guns played along the smoky river as the Doughboys padded furious1y across the 400 yard stretch of water but there were surprisingly few casual ties and they clambered ashore and daught their way into the north eastern section of the city.
 As the German defenders fell slowly back, the battle in the north ern section became snipers para disc.
 Heavy machine gun nests set up in buildings on streets alcng the south bank of the river had been knocked out by artillery but farther back, infantrymen, penetrating toward the center of the city, were being knocked out methodically one by one.
 Burning buildings along the waterfront sent up great clouds of smoke. But historic buildings to- ward the heart of the city had not been damaged much since the ar- tillery barrage had been directed at the fringes to enable the Dough- boys to win footholds.
 AS 95th Division infantrymen 6tormed the central part of the city, I could see the gun shouts of tanks. which slipped into the northeastern tip, belching fire as they numbered through the empty streets.
 Snipers took pot shots at the island all afternoon. Once bullet snapped twig off a tree while Chuck Hacker, Acme cameraman, another correspondent and I stood
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-20
Own
 Monoger In
 Disagreement

John Mama, union campaign manager for Peter B. Higgins, the latter the unsuccessful candidate for congressman from tn Fifth District, today declared as ''un- fortunate" the attack by Higgins on Waterbury's Democratic leaders who were charged as having taken walk" in the recent election.
 In 8 statement issued today Mama declared it is understand able that MT. Higgins would be disappointed over his defeat, but I do not feel he should have permit ted his disappointment to have overcome his sense of fair play".
 Higgins at the 0. I. O. state con- vention last Saturday accused Wa terbury's Democratic leaders of be- ing responsible for the low plur- ality of 3,20O shown for President Roosevelt last election. Higgins was defeated by Cong. Talbot.
 In his statement Mama de- tended the Waterbury Democratic party and stated that he personally had many conferences with these leaders all of whom supported fully
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-20
6 KA|-SHEk
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BY WALTER BUNDLE Limited Press War Correspondent

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 Chungking, November 2O.' (UP) GeneraliSSimo Chiang Kai-Shek removed six of his top-ranking cabinet members from office today, including the war and fi- nance ministers, in a govern mental Shake-up apparently aimed at silencing the recent barrage of criticism directed against his regime.
 Chinese government cen sors prohibited amplification of the reasons behind the re- organization, permitting cor respondents to say only that it was undertaken to meet the objections of the peoples political council, which is headed by Chiang.
 CThe shake-up, however, appear ed to stem directly from U. s. Gen. Joseph w. Stilwell's recall from China last month, following a dis agreement with Chiang on the prosecution of the war.)
 Major victim of the wholesale cabinet purge" was Gen. Ho Ying Chin, who was busted as minister of war. Ho, whose direction of China's armies long has been the butt of criticism from the Peoples Political Council as well as Ameri- can quarters, retained his post as chief of staff of the army, how ever.
 His war ministry was taken over by Gen. Chen Cheng, former com- mander of the first war zone and for years a confidential adviser to Chiang. He is regarded here as one of China's strong men,"
 H. H. Kung, brother-in-law of Mime. Chiang Kai-shek, was re- placed as finance minister by O. K. Yui, formerly his assistant in that ministry. Yui also assumed con- current management of the four national banks administered by Kung in his capacity as finance uzAuWtrEs -- -.se-saes ,4-ssees.ss-gs s1s
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-20
MoteMurders Mother Of 5

Worcester, Mass, Nov. 20 = (U. P) = Frederick Des Rosters, 3l- year-old Worcester war worker, was arraigned in district court today in the strangulation-murder of his at tractive wife-mother of five chil- dren who spurned his affections when he came home Saturday mid night after 8 round of the city'S tavernS.
 Des Rosters, who fed his 20-month old son Ronald after allegedly com- mitting the crime, surrendered to police and said he punched and choked his 28-year-old wife Daisy May before garroting her with an electric light cord.
 Dressed in his Sunday best, Des Rosters walked into a police station and told the officer on duty that he needed someone to care for his ch1l- dren-because he had just slain his wife.
 Calmly, he told how he left work at the Worcester Taper Pin Com- pany plant and stopped in at Sev- eral taverns enroute home. Once at the house he pounded on the door until his wife got out of bed and let him in. She returned to bed and she allegedly spurned his advances and said she no longer lived him.
 Des Rosters said in his alleged confession that he struck his wife in the mouth, choked her with his hands and then, to make certain she was dead, ripped down an electric cord and bound it around her neck.
 After staring at the body for some minutes, Des Rosters said, he washed the blood from his wife's mouth, folded her arms across her breast and then heated milk for his infant son. Then, leaving the baby drink ing from the bottle and the others, asleep, Des Rosters changed his clothes and walked to the police sta- tinn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-20
Most Powerful Attack Yet On Western Front Finds Foe Retreating
BY J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press War Correspondent

United Press War CorrespondentJ
 Paris, November 20. UP) = Allied Armies, gain, ing momentum in their a1l-out offensive, Slashe0 through the Belfort gap to the Rhine river today, cap tured one-third of encircled Metz, drove up to four miles into the Saar basin and Slashed to within 26 miles of the outskirts of Cologne.
 The honor of being the first Allied troops to reach the Rhine fell to units of the French 1st Motorized Divis- ion and armored cars of a Motorized French Colonial Infantry Regiment. They reached the broad river op- posite Bavaria southeast of Mulhouse and just north of the Swiss border after a 28- mile advance through the Belfort gap. Other French forces entered outflanked Belfort itself.
 From Switzerland came word that the French had captured Hengel1- heim,, Neuwiller and Bourgfelden, along a three-mile stretch of the Rhine opposite the Swiss town of Basel and 15 miles southeast Of Mulhouse. The Germans have evacuated Huningue and St. Louis, also opposite Basel, the Swiss dis patch said.
 The Germans were retreatiug all along the 4OO-mile offensive front. At some points in eastern France, their withdrawal MaS approaching a rout with vehicles clogging roads bumped to bumper under fierce Allied air attack.
 Break Through Planned
 Only on the Coaogne Plain were the, Germans putting up stiff and effective resistance, but even there three Allied armies were punching slowly forward in the most power- ful attack ever mounted on the western front in an attempt to break through to the Rhine and the great Ruhr va1ley.
 Lieut.. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges American 1st Army made the clos est approach to the great citadel of Cologne itself with an advance to Wenau, 26 miles to the south- west and four miles southeast or embattled ESchWeiller.
 Farther north. the American 0th Army drove into the outskirts 0f Freialdenhoven, z7 miles west Of Cologne and seven miles southeast of Geilkirchen after general ad- vance of 2,0OO yards all along the 11-mile offensive sector.
 The twin advance put the two American armies within five to Six (Coutinued on Page 9
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-20
RooseUelt, Eisenhower
 Urge Bond OHensiue

was delayed by 8 shortage of ar- tillery ammunition, said that al- though much has been accom- plished in war production a new and even greater miracle" will save countless lives and shorten the war.
 More than 6,OO0,OOO volunteer wokers are enrolled in the sixth war loan which seeks $5,OOO, ,0OO,- 900 from individuals and 5000, ,O0O- GOO from non-bank investors by Dec. 16. They will attempt to boost over the $1OO,OOO, GOO. 900 mark the the total of $S7.815, ,OOO.O raised in five previous loans.
 Director Ted R. Gamble, of the Treaslry's War Finance Division, said that newspapers. magazines, radio stations. the advertising in-
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