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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-10
SOVIET TANKS SMASH GERMAN
 DEFENSE LINE
BY ROBERT MUSEL

London, February lO. - CUP - Soviet tanks driving a wedge btween Berlin and the Silesian industrial Capi- tai of Breslau have smashed deep into the main Germna defenses more than 25 miles beyond the Oder River, the Nazis conceded today.
 North of Berlin, other Rus sian forces pushed to within 25 miles or less of the Baltic port of Stettin in a drive to seal off tens of thousands Of enemy troops in Northeast Germany, the Polish Corrl- dor and Danbig. .. .. .. ..
 The Soviet high command threw a cloak of secrecy over the Berlin front itself, but field dispatches told of fierce fighting in Kuestrin ana the suburbs of Frankfurt and Fuers- tenberg, main anchors of the Oder river line B to 42 miles from the bomb-wrecked capital.
 Ernst Won Hammer, military com mentator for the official German DNB agency, disclosed that Russian armored spearheads 120 miles south- east of Berlin had penetrated deep into the main German defenses' on both sides of Kotzenau, which lies 25 miles west of the Oder.
 Wedge BrOadened
 The report indicated that Marshel Ivan s. Konev's First Ukralnlan army had broadened to nearly 20 miles of the wedge it was ramming across southeast Germany. Other Nazi broadcasts said the SoViets were fighting in the outskirts or Liegnitz, 19 miles southeast Of ko- Zenau and 40 miles west Of Bres- lau.
 The Ukrainian forces thus already had cut one and perhaps two of the main railways between Berlin ano Breslau on the west bank of the Oder river and were threatening Breslau with encirclement.
 Won Hammer also acknowledged that the Russians had penetrated into the western defense system of the encircled Pomeranian border city of Schneidemuehl, 125 miles northeast of Berlin.
 Enemy deployments in the south ern and northern sectors, as well as constant attacks by the eenmy air force indicate the Soviet command has given the order to capture this bulWark at all cost" Won Hammer said
 It was possible the Russians were awaiting the capture of Stettin, at the mouth of the Oder 70 miles northeast of Berlin, and the Silesian capital of Breslau, ITO miles south east, to anchor their Hanks before launching a full-scale frontal as- sault Onberlin.
 The northern wing of Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's First White Russian army gained up to 10 miles
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-10

 NWASH|NGTON
 BIT CONFUSING
BY JOHN L. CUTTER

Washington, February 10. - CUP - There was confuS- ion in Capitol circles today about whether Admiral Thomas c. Hart will sit in the Senate as a Republican or Democrat and the Admiral isn't able yet to clear it up.
 Hart, appointed by Gov ernor Raymond c. Baldwin to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Francis Maloney, a Democrat, says he can't talk about it because he is still in uniform.
 Best gueSses are, however, that he will sit as Republican because he received the appointment from a Republican governor.
 Hart was closeted for a while late yesterday with Leslie L. Billie, secretary of the Senate, but neither of them would shed any light on the subject after the meeting.
 T can't help you," Hart told re- porters. q haven't left the Navy yet. I'm going to Connecticut next week if I can get square away. I'll naturally see Governor Baldwin at that time"
 Hart said the question of whether he will sit as a Democrat or Republican would be "one of the last things decided"
 The question of how the retir- ing Navy officer will classify him. self arose from series of circum- stances. For one thing, he is re- placing a Democrat. In addition, his appointment became possible only through cooperation of Con- necticut Democrats.
 It took a special act of the Con- necticut legislature, one chamber of which si controlled by Democrats, to grant Baldwin appointive power and eliminate the need for special election.
 Finally, there was the absence of any political background on the new appointee.
 Hart has been a Navy career man and refuses to discuss how he may have voted in past elections. An atatohe in the office of Chairman Robert A. Tafte, R., Ohio, the Sen- ate Republican steering committee said 1t was understood there, how ever, that Hart was registered as a Republican at Sharon, Conn.
 One of the questions involved in Hart's selection of political align ment is the matter of committee assignments.
 The Democrats have vacancies as a result of Maloney's death. Repub- licans filled every one of their assignments at the start of the present session.
 Hart's addition to the Republican side of the ailse would change the ratio slightly and possibly make some committe spots available. But there is no question that some Re- publicans would likewise have to make shifts if he is to get on any of the dozen major committees.
 One of the most local assign ments for a career Navy man ob- viously would be the Naval Affairs Committee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-10
Ace Of Aces Weeds Tonite
Ry PATRICIA CONAN

Superior, Wis, Feb. To- (UP) - This is Dick Bong's wedding day.
 The 24-year-old army air forces major who has shot down 40 Japa- nese planes, weds Marjorie Ann Vattendahl, 21, tonight. Their Ro- nance started a little over year ago when she crowned him king at the homecoming ceremonies at Wis consin State Teachers college.
 The ceremony will take place at Concordia Lutheran church. The largest crowd ever to attend 8 wedding in Superior is expected to turn out to see the nations ace of aces wed that girl whose picture adorned the side of his P-38 when he fought in the Pacific.
 Bong, VIII has won nearly every medal the U. s. awards its heroes, including the Congressional Medal of Honor, admitted he was "trifie nervous" as the time for the nuptials drew near. but Miss Vat tendahl insisted she was mot a bit upset"
 The wedding originally was sched- uled for p. m. but was moved up an hour so the couple could appear on a National Radio program later in the evening.
 The only military touch to the wedding will be the uniforms worn by the bridegroom's attendants, Capt. Walter M. Markey. Jr., "A, Long Island City, New York, who flew with Bong in the Pacific and has shot down four Japanese planes; T/Sgt. Lowell s. Vatten- dahl, Liberal. Kan, the brides brother, and S/Sgt. Edward Edget- te, Poplar, Wis, Bong's High school chum.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-10
Japs Transfer John Martino
 To Interior Camp In China

Washington, Feb 10.-UP)- The Japanese, jittery over the American offensive in the Pacific, have spirited one of their most i'm portant collections of war prisoners from the Island of RormoSa to the interior of China.
 Included in the list of important prisoners were It. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, who led the Ameri- cancans in their final stand on Bataan and Corregidor after Gen. Douglas Macarthur was ordered by President Roosevelt to escape to Australia.
 The entire list consists of Is gen. erals, five major generals and 12 brigadier generals: 119 colonels: six Navy captains; and 34 enlisted men.
 The War Department said 1t had been notified of them ove in a cable just received from it's pE oner of War Department.
 The prisoners, the department said, had been taken from camps at Tain Ku, Kaucho, Kago and Heito on Formosa to the Hoten Camp, Mukden, Manchuria.
 Wainwright, who is the Mikado'S most prized captive. held the for tress of Corregidor with his heroic band of men until he was forced to surrender on May 6, 1922.
 The sudden removal of Vain wright and the other 166 Americans to the Chinese mainland indicates that the Japanese are fearful of an early attack on the island of Formosa, which has already been attacked several times by U. s. task forces and Superfortresses.
 The emperor's jailers apparently don't want to be caught mapping again in the same fashion that permitted Gen. Macarthur to lib- crate large group of American military war prisoners in his quick advance on Manila In the Philip pines.
 The transferred prisoners in cluded:
 Col Albert F. Christie, Groton, Mass; Col. Irwin E. Doane, Boston, Mass; Col Arthur P. Moore, New port, R. l.; S/Sgt. Frank A. Kazer- ski, Boston; GYM John Martino, Waterbury, Conn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-10
Goess AppeoI Hearing Set For Feb. 20

The judgment of 15,356.68 re- turned in superior court last April for Mrs Yvonne Gaess of Water bury, as administrative of the estate of Roger w. Gaess, will be the sub ject of an appeal hearing in the state supreme court of errors Tues day, February 20. The case has been assigned for a hearing at 10:30 a. m.
 An agreement made February 3, 194l by the late MT. Gaess, Albert H. GaesS and Adam R. Muchalight, all of Waterbury, for setting up funds for a building was the basis of litigation.
 Judge Frank P. McEvoy found the issues for the plaintiff against AL bert H. Gaess only. and returned a judgment also for the other de- fendants. In the case as a party plaintiff was Lawrence Lewis, as guardian ad litem for Roger w.. Gaess, the other plaintiffs son.
 The three parties allegedly agreed to deposit funds to be used in pur- chasing or erecting building. The money was left in the care of AL bert Gaess as trustee, and was to be equally re-distributed in the event the funds were not used for the in- tended purpose, the plaintiffs con- tended. Mrs. Gaess brought the action to recover funds deposited by her late husband toward the undertaking.
 The total value of the fund on March 10. 1944 was set at $46, ,O70.63 and the jurist ruled the widow was entitled to a third of 1t. The othc: defendant, MT. Muchalight, was given a judgment to recover court costs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-10
Albert Goess
 Victim OfGos

Improvement was reported this morning at Waterbury hospital in the condition of Mrs. Albert H, Gaess and her daughter, Minnie, 26, who were overcome last night by an Illuminating gas leak which penetrated their home at 228 Coun- try Club road to claim the life of Albert H. GaeSs, 57-year old manu- facturer and treasurer Of the GaeSs Manufacturing Go.
 Mrs. Gaess was reported in fair condition, and her daughter in fairly good condition by hospital authorities. Both have regained consciousness.
 A spokesman for the Connecti- cut Light & Power company stated that the source of the leak was either in the main or connecting service pipe. the gas flowing along side the pipe Into the residence. Engineers commenced digging this morning to locate the origin Of the break.
 The tragedy was discovered by Adam Muchalight, 379 Chase Park way, secretary of the Gaess Co.,, and son-in-law of MT. Gaess, when unable to contact the family by phone, he went to the home in person at 8 p. m, Police Lieut.. John Calvin reported.
 He found MT. and Mrs. Gaess in bed, apparently overcome while sleeping, and their daughter un- conscious outside her bedroom across the hallway from her parents, room on the second floor.
 A call was immediately made to police and fire headquarters at 8:l8 D. m, and the emergency truck was sent out with Deputy Fire Chief Stephen Bloomfield in charge. The police ambulance als was called when the victims were found.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-10
Smoke Shortage Solution Given

New York, Feb. 10 - (U.P) - The Wall Street Journal suggested a solution to the cigarette short age today.
 It related some calculations of a federal functionary" as follows:
 Thirty-two million smokers spend 15 minutes each daily looking for cigarettes.
 That's 8,000,O0O man-hours daily A full days working time for l. GOO 900 men.
 Only 12O,O0O man-hours of work daily (15,0OO men) in tobacco fac- tories would solve the smoke situa- tion.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-10
Congress Studies Super Spy System
By CHARLES B. DEGGES

Washington, Feb. 10-(UP)-Con- gress indicated today it would give cautious and careful consideration to the proposed super-intelligence service now under consideration by President Roosevelt, his cabinet and high Army and Navy officials.
 While some members of both houses thought the proposal good they differed as to how and by whom the service should be admin istered. Others feared that an oVer- all information service might be- come an American "Gestapo."
 Authoritative sources, disclosing that consideration was now being given the proposal, said Maj. Gen. William J. Donovan, director of the Office of Strategic Services, had outlined the organization which would operate directly under the president. It would coordinate the intelligence activities of the armed forces and various civilian govern ment agencies.
 Sen. Edwin c. Johnson, D., Colo, who himself proposed real infor- nation service" for the United States yesterday as the best means of halting preparations for aggreS- sion tat the outset" endorsed the Donovan proposal "in principal,
 Johnson withheld approval of Donovan's proposed method of op- erating such a service because T don't know much about the meth od"
 The United States must have an effective intelligence system operat- ing in every country of the world" Johnson said, "becauSe our State, War and Navy departments must know what is going on. Then we can be advised the moment coun- try starts preparing for aggression and take the steps necessary to stop that aggression cold at the outset" ,"
 Sen. Homer Ferguson, R., Mich, said that while he was not opposed to centralization of American Intel- ligence Services they should be placed under the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
 An independent agency would have to come directly to Congress for appropriations and would be re- sponsible to the people" Ferguson said. That is why I would not favor centering it under the Pres ident or the military authorities.
 We must be careful. We do not want any semblance of Gestapo here"
 Sen. Robert F. Wagner, D., N. Y., one of the Presidents staunch Sen ate supporters, said he was gen erally in favor" of the proposal. but that he would want to study it care fully before endorsing it.
 In the House, Rep. Hatton Sum- ners. D., Texas chairman of the judiciary committee, said the plan was "very important and far reach ing" but required "a most careful and close examination by Congress.
 Chairman Sol. Bloom, D., N, Y, of the House Foreign Affairs Con- mittee said heads of the present
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-10
Death Stand In Manila By Japs Awaited
By FRANCIS MCCARTHY

Manila, Feb. 10 - (U.PD - Jap anese resistance in southern Manila flared with renewed violence today as the cornered enemy fell back slowly toward the waterfront for 8 death stand inside the old walled city.
 Fighting through a choking pail of smoke that covered virtually all South Manila, elements of two American divisions hit the Jap anese front and rear in the Panda- can and Paco districts below the PaSig river.
 The converging attack was squeez- ing several thousand Japanese slow ly westward toward the burned-out port area, where they were expected to make their last stand behind the massive walls of the old Spanish city - the Intramuros.
 After yielding the Pasig river crossing opposite the Malacanang Palace to the U. s. 37th Division al- most without a struggle, the Jap anese laShed back suddenly at their pursuerS with artillery, mortarS and rifle fire.
 ht last reports, the 37th and van- guards of the American 11th. air. borne division advancing from the south were roofing the Japanese from their street barricadeS and ruined houses in a hand-to-hand battle that outdid in sheer ferocity anything General Douglas MacAr- thurs tsoops have experienced since they entered Manila week ago.
 "The fighting is of the fiercest sort" MacArthur'S communique re- ported tersely.
 (Tokyo, after announcing that all but skeleton force had been evacuated from Manila, began boast ing that the Americans had fallen into trap in the capital. That version appeared purely propa- ganda invention, however, as front dispatches said MacArthur was moving overwhelming forces into the city and that its complete lib- eration could not be long delayedO
 More than 30 miles south of Ma nila, equally heavy fighting broke out around Tagatay, where pock- eted Japanese force launched two counter attacks against units of the 11th airborne division. Both thrusts were beaten off with serious losses to the enemy.
 Northwest of Mania, vanguards of the 38th division pushed ten miles down the west coast of Ba- taan from the recaptured Llongapo naval base to reach Moron.
 Seventy to 75 miles north of Ma nila, the hard-fought Pampanga River crossings at Rizal and Bon- gabon finally were secured by the U. s. Sixth Division. Another 3 miles (Continued on Page 9
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-10
CANADIANS PUNCTURE SIEcFR|ED LINE
 Wedge Driven Between Berlin, BreSIau
FIRST REACHES kLEvESUbURBS
 NPOWERPUSH
BY JACK FLEISCHER

Paris, February 10. CUP - The Canadian First Army offensive ground stead- ily forward on a front of more than ten miles today, broke clear through the Siegfried Line within two miles of Kleve and reached the Rhine in a powerful flanking sweep north of that German strong hold.
 Alarmed Berlin spokesmen said British and American troops massed along the Roer river to the south were about to loose another big offensive into the Cologne plain, and the Nazis apparently were trying to forestall the drive by releasing the flood waters backed up behind the Roer dams below Aachen.
 Field dispatches said the Nazis had opened or blown up some of the spillways yesterday, and that the Roer was rising rapidly. There was no immediate indication, however, that the Germans had blasted open the main SchWammenauel Dam, which was under direct fire from the American First Army.
 Front reports said the Germans were rushing up reserves to dam the Canadian breakthrough that threat eped to turn the soft" northern corner of their west wall and lay the industrial Ruhr open to invasion.
 Resistance StiffenS
 Resistance was stiffening slowly as the Nazi endorsements swung into line, but headquarters spokes- men and correspondents at the front said Canadian and British infantry men still were making good prorgess.
 Moving forward in drizzling rain that turned the battlefield into 8 Quagmire and practically immobil- izeG their tank support, the Allied ground troops carved out gains run ming to three miles and more in the past "A hours.
 In the first 48 hours of their big push, Gen. H. D. G. Crerar'S Cana dian First Army forces had driven as much as eight miles through the bristling wall of concrete pillboxes and tank traps protecting Kleve and, beyond it, the industrial heart of Germany.
 Field dispatches said more than 2,5OO prisoners had been taken since the Canadians and BritonS went over to the attack Thursday morn- ing, indicating that virtually all the 3 1000 to 4,OOO combat troops of the German 84th division holding that front had been knocked out of ac- ton.
 The German village of Nutterden. on the northern edge of the Reich yald Forest two miles from the out skirts of Kleve, fell last night and
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-10
Ne1O Long Range Enemy
 U-Boats Sink 6 Ships

was not announced. but the Claqo- quot was sunk in January
 In permitting disclosure of the sinkings, censors said the submar- ines, evidently new long range U-Eoats of which the Germans have
 cen boasting, operated some times within the sight of Nova Scotia.
 Thirty-siX men, eight of them members of the Royal Canadian Navy, were lost. More than 200 sur vivors were landed at Atlantic ports. Many of them required hospital treatment for wounds and exposure.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-10
Spy Admits Preference
 To Fight hn Nazi Army

military commission on Governors Island developed that Colepaugn ad- mitted to the Fbi that he would have had no objection to fighting the American Army as a soldier of Hitler.
 The American defendant was quoted by the FBI as having said:
 T do not feel owe any particu- lar allegiance to the United States. It would have been difficult to fight my friends, but 1t would have made no difference to fight the Amer ican Army"
 Testimony disclosed that Cole paugh was Schooled in Dresden. under penalty of death If he dis cussed what took place there. He received no salary, but was given spending money for the asking.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-10
Poultry Shortage Affecting State

Hartford, Conn, Feb. 10 - GU. P) - State Department of Agricul- ture Marketing Specialist Lloyd R. Williams charged today that black market activities were causing a serious shortage of poultry and a sharp drop in egg production.
 Serious is mild word to describe the poultry situation here today" he said. Thousands of dollars worth of poultry are being shipped from Connecticut each day by black mar kets operators, most of whom are selling the poultry to buyers in the New York City area"
 He estimated a 35 per cent drop in egg production because some farmers were selling off their laying hens at attractive prices.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-10

Halifax, Feb. 10 - (UP) Enemy submarines have sunk six Allied ships, one man of war and five mer- chantmen, within 22-day period, it was revealed today.
 The warship was the Canadian minesweeper Clayoquot, whose sim ing was announced by the Naval De- partment last month. One of the merchant ship was a Canadian freighter. The othe were not ident- flied.
 The period covered by the A> days
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-10

New York, Feb. 10. UP)-Alert federal bureau of investigation agents were watching every port of entry in the nation for William c. Colepaugh, Mantle, Conn.,, when he shipped in the back door by Nazi submarine.
 FBI testimony yesterday at the espionage trial of Colepaugh and Erich Gimpel, his German co-de- fendant, disclosed that Calepaugh's presence In Germany and his in- tention to enlist in the German Army were known to the FBI.
 An FBI official said that Cole paughs re-entry into the United States through regular ports. any time after April, 1924, was antici- pated and blocked.
 Testimony before the seven-man
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-10
so BE IT!

Boston, Feb. O. (U.P) - New England's bees were not so busy as usual last year.
 The E9w England crop reporting service announced today that oney production in the area in 1914 was only 1,336.0O0 pounds. That was the smallest since 1040.
 However, the number of colonies bees increased from 53,0OO in 194S to 57,OO0 in 1914.
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Partly Cloudy Tonight
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Hon1eEditiOn NeUs Flashes
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Evening star., 1945-12-01
Women Voters Hear
Discussion on UN0

eve are too occupied with ques-
tioning differences instead of culti-
waiting common features of democ-
racy," Valery ]. Tereshtenko, Rus
sian-born adviser on Eastern Euro
pean Section of UNRRA, told the
Montgomery County League of
Women Voters at its conference yes
terday in Chevy Chase Methodist
Church.
Also participating in the confer
ence to discuss varying points of
view on United Nations questions
were Michael Wright, counselor at
the British Embassy, and 1t. Liv-
ingstone Hartley. UNO. Mrs. Cleon
Swazee of the leagues Foreign Pol
icy Committee was moderator.
Participants in the discussion
agreed there can be no such thing
as a standard model of democracy
that could be applied with equal
success in all countries.
Mr.. Wright said there is "a press
ing need for closer contact between
the partners in the UNO, not only
on the official level but in all walks
Of life"
"Since the only available ma
chinery to maintain peace is the
UNo," 1t. Hartley said. "its success
has become an essential require
ment of our national security"