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Detroit evening times., 1945-10-04
HAL SLEEPS LATE

The Tiger Southpaw slated N
work in tho opener was not re-
quired IN appear with the early
birds IIe slept late and enioved
2 leiSurely breakfast Al home with
Mrs. NeWhouSer and their daugh-
Ter Hal appeared nn-thn- Scens
exactly ~ noon and announced no
WAS ready for tho days assign
ment
When Tho Tigers took their
carly batting practice a few NJ
tho Cubs sat on their bench and
watched What they saw was no,
10 their liking
Although there vas wind
blowing from the loft field stands
tho right handed hlttcrs found the
range carly and belted a number
into tho seats.
Rudy York collected a couple oi
long oneS and 50 did Paul Trout
Greenbcrg didn't bat until later
but he gave An encore NJ the long
one he hit in s. Louis 10 win the
title for the Tigers
For Tho Iefi hsndeTs Eddie Mayo
and Roy Cullenhine hit the long
est balls m practice Bobby Pierce
left handler. and Prince Dana
and AT Houtteman. right hand.
ers. worked IN the batting prsc-
tlcc.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-04
.312O, 744
TopC|dssii(

Three 700 totals two Of 800.
The forfeit of three games, almost
unheard OF in Detroit Times
Classic. and a change i'm the lead
erShip is the Gist Of the proceed
ings today. The league met last
night at tho Naples in Dearborn.
Steve Morris, I'll, took the
one spot in the prize list with 74i.
Joe Paulus. Chepe-Trombly, Of
fcred 722, Joe Norris, Stroh, 707.
For the second consecutive week,
Stroh had 300 with 3l07. + &, B
did 3l20.
Stroh and r e. r tied for first
when each scored shutouts respec-
lively over kractkc and DeluX-
weld MlneraliteS. although none
too hcfty in scoring. found 1885
enough for two over Parisclean
and showed Paris 10 second.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-04
Tdrs in Dark
About Series
Nv GEORGE r. VAN

This years Port Huron-Macki'
nae race banquet at the Bayview
Yacht Club was the biggest ever
held and the turnout fairly bulged
] the walls last night as nearly 30C
yachismen kicked up sea, mostly
vocal.
All were quite ObtfvtouS that
Mr.. Walter q. Briggs paid hands
were about 10 start q do-or-dle
deal with the Cubs today in the
large structure with tho open top
Out al Trumbull and Michigan.
Only six boats out Of 40 start
erS finished this years race and
here's the bilgewash from the
nautical shndig of last evening
Charley McGregor chairman,
loudly presided and you could tell
just AS plain that he never cot a
real tootin horn for Christmas by
the way he reverberated over the
p. A, system.
ACCOLADE FOR BLITZ
Ernie Crates and Murray
kpapp's Blitzen crew got a big
hand for beating everything and
Jimmy Grove, who owned and
sailed her in many of her ocean
races said the Detroit gang did
the best jOb ever with the big
b5-foot cutter.
There were hOnors for boats
which didn't get 10 Mackinac and
even for Clete Wellinc's VteSSe
which piled up on the beach at
Forster.
Joe Snsy of VilesSe got 4 book
on How 10 Abandon Ship"
Navigator ANerv MackleIn.
same ship, received a copy OF
How 10 Navigate d" -
Big sailor Theodore GriSWold
Coggln Jr.. who sailed on Ledge
Mitchell'S Soubrette which didn't
make IL, won the trophy for max
ing the fastest corrected time 10
Mackinac on A Greyhound bus.
A GREAT HEROIC JOB
Joe Andries and his ~
Chrome crew got the biggest
hand Of the night. RI Chrome,
coming hack from the storm.
saved 13 lives from the burning
Harmonic a. the big lake steamer &,
burned ~ the Sarnis docks.
Perce Darnell Of Pintail was
suitably awarded for being the
first skipper back 10 Detrnit-
Charley BuySee of Last Straw
said We were in tho middle of
the fleet last year This year We
were last This is underState-
nPnt because Last Straw did fin
ish. "a others didn't.
Bill Wagner received the
trophies that went tn Toot
Gmeiner's Class " winner,
Apache, and Eddie Wunsch took
the mods for Shamrock in the
racing class. Grove took a how
for Nanitou and Ken Stamford
for Hostess II. the Chicago Y. {.
yswl.
Clare UdcN vas over from the
Chicago Y C.. said their race
would he held before the Port
Huron race next year and that
WINDY City Skippers would be
coming on bunch.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-04
FINDS TROUBLE

Paris expected 20 meet diff
Guilty with MineralitcS and found
It's expectation right. Fred Breckle
concocted GO for DeluXweld in
2s74. but F. g. BIS consistency. 573
10 64S, with Chet Bukowskl high,
was sufficient for three
KoeppIingcr forfeited three 20
Nye when only two regulars ap-
peared and there had not been
time ta-SiFR substitutes Roy
Milan was on the sick list. Albert
MaSsoll went pheasant hunting in
South Dakota and Bob Cole 5
father died Al 2 a. m Yesterday.
The Nye players rolled ny them
selves and made 1860. with Carl
Kersten putting up 662
Morris 279 provided I'll with
1924 in the middle. the best single
game OF the season 10 date and
one Of the few ll00s in the dis
trIct.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-04

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Detroit evening times., 1945-10-04
RAY FORSYTH NEXT

Next TO arrive was trainer Ray
Forsyth. Like Hank Greenberg
and Tommy Bridges il was the
fourth series for DR. Forsyth. He
was around in 1934-'35 and 40 as
top drummer Of Bill Finzels hand.
Bill, by the way, was appearing
at the seventh World Series with
his muSicianS- lie has also play yed
AZ every opener for AZ years.
Forsyth said his charges were
in the best condition they have
enjoyed all season and Manag ger
Steve O'Neill backed him up Ed
die Mayo said his bad arm was in
excellent condition and Hal New
houScr said his sore shoulder was
without tingo Of pain today.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-04
IT'S SELLOUT ANYWAY

Howev the management
wasn't worried; every seat had
been. sold for several days and all
would he filled before the teams
swung into action.
The Tigers were first on the
field, beating the Cubs by As min
utes.
First Of the Tigers 10 arrive AT
the park was groundkeeper Neal
Conway.
Despite the steady rains Of the
last week the field was in perfect
condition. Neal and his crew had
erased every hint of rain.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-04

Big sailor Theodore GriSwold
Coggin Jr. who sailed on Ledge
Mitchells Soubrctte, which didn't
make II, won the trophy for max
Ing the fastest corrected time 10
Mackinac on a Greyhound bus.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-04

The coffee vendors and hot dog
men were doing land office
business as the early arrivals
strove 10 keep warm. Charley
Jacobs. efficient head OF the con
ceSSien- company, WAS here 10 d.
rect personally the handling Of
the food and drinks for the crowd.
Senator A. r. CHappy) Chandler
Of Kentucky arrived carly 10 pre-
side over his first World Series as
high commissioner ot baseball He
had a box along the first base line
and posed for pictures. He warmed
up briefly for his official chore OF
throwing out the first ball.
BLIND VETS AT GAME
The 10 blind veterans here as
guests of Mr.. HeafSt'S San Fran
cisco Examiner visited the field
and met many Of the players from
both teams. All are ardent base
ball fans and attended frequent
games IN the Coast League.
Their enthusiasm for baseball
took them so far they got 10 dis
putting the decisions OF the UNI
pireS, according 10 Prescott Sulli-
van, coast sports editor, who ac-
companed the men.
When the weather showed no
signs of warming up trainer For
syth got couple Of electrical
heaters which ne Set up on the
bench IN help Harold Newhouser
keep his hand warm between
innings.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-04

The sun fans were the only
early arrivals. BY $50 when the
gates opened there were about
enough of them in line 10 fll the
stands. When the first Tigers ap-
peared on the field at IL the
bleaehers were filled.
The fans holding the precious
reserved seats were late in arriv-
ing. On a nice day the stands
would he half filled al noon. To-
day there were fewer than a thou
sand Of the expected $4,000 in
their seats.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-04
A GREAT HEROIC JOB

Joe Andries and his ~
Chrome crew got the biggest
hand Of the night. RI Chrome,
coming hack from the storm.
saved I3 lives from the burning
Harmonic a. the big lake steamer
burned at the SArnia docks.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-04
ACCOLADE FOR BLITZ

Ernie Crates and Murray
kpapp's Blitzen crew got a big
hand for beating everything and
Jimmy Grove, who owned and
sailed her in many NJ her ocean
races said the Detroit gang did
the best job ever with the big
hS-foot pUftpr
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-31
Yonks Gain
 Tn Germany
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on a rapidly widening front. At the top of the First Army Line, the 18th Division advanced as much as two miles through minefields hid- den in the Waist-deep snow to reach the German towns of Kisternach, Eicherscheid, Simmerath and Hup- penbroich, four to five miles north northeast of Monschau. Conzen two miles north of Mon schau, was captured in the advance.
 On the 78ths right flank, the ninth infantry pushed out two miles east of Monschau to take Rohren, while units of the 99th and second divisions farther to the south cap- tured Wirtzfeld and fought their way through Rocherath and Krin- kelt and moved ahead another mile or more to within rifleshot of the Siegfried line.
 The veteran first division, which kicked off the First Army offensive earlier this week, swung back to the attack today with a tWo-mile ad- vance east of the Murrange-Hun- nange line, 1-2 to three miles be- low Krinkelt. The new gains car ried the division up to the German border some Is miles east of Nal medy.
 Field dispatches said the Ger mans at most points were trying only to defend crossroads and towns regarded as vital to their Siegfried line positions and offering little resistance elsewhere. Nazi prisoners taken in the past few days said news of the Red Army advances in the east, coupled with the recent retreat from the Ardennes, was be- ginning to undermine morale among the German front-line troops in the west.
 Near Rriesach Bridge
 On the Alsace plain, meanwhile, the French First Army advanced more than a mile on a three-mile front south of the Colmar Rhine canal, moving to within a half-mile of the Briesach Bridge-the prin- cipal bottleneck CT the German es- cape route east Of Colniar. There was no confirmation of earlier re- ports that the French had recap tured Colmar.
 The French thrust carried into Wihr en Plaine, Bischwihr and Muntzenheim, 2 1-2 to six miles east-nOrtheast of- Colmar yester day. On the southern end Of the pocket, the French took Witten- heim, three miles north of Null house. and reached the southern outskirts of Wittelsheim, 4 1-2 miles to thC west.
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come to the aid of the country against the Red Army, which even as he spoke was plunging across the eastern approaches to Berlin.
 T expect every German to do his duty to the last" he said. q ex- pect him to do render every sacrifice demanded of him.
 However grave the German crisis may be at the moment, Hitler said it will finally be mastered by our unalterable will, by our readiness for sacrifice and by our abilities
 He predicted that Britain not only twill fail to tame Bolshevism, but her own line of development will run more and more on the lines o. this disintegrating disease"
 They will never get rid of the specters which they raised from the Steppes of Asia" he said.
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(Continued from Page D wooden structure became enveloped in smoke and flames so quickly that few of the victims were able to leave their beds.
 The South Main street house, sit uated in the New Auburn district, was a mass of flames when firemen arrived in response to the first alarm at $40 a. m. Other firemen from both Auburn and Lewiston raced to the scene over perilously icy high ways and battled the blaze for two hours in sub-freezing weather The City Welfare Department said that the victims the oldest only about eight---were the children of war workers employed in plants in the industrial tWin-cities of Auburn and Lewiston.
 A spokesman for tne department said they had no jurisdiction over these children, who apparently were boarded out by their working par ents.
 Nelghbors in the area reported that they were awakened by the piteous screams of the trapped children
 Even as the blaze mounted, their sobbing cries could be heard above the cracking flames that roared through the frame structure.
 Volunteer rescue workers were driven back as they sought to fight their way to the trapped tots as smoke and flame belched from doors and windows, cutting off all pos sible escape for those still within. Bremen reported finding evidence that some of the children had fought desperately for their lives. Those who. first reached the flame swept interior said that some of the charred bodies were entangled In burned bedding and the sham bles of cribs and furniture.
 The IT bodies removed from the ruins were taken to Dillingham's Funeral Parlor.
 Chief Harnden said that when he finally was able to get inside the burning building, he located one of the babies in the front room.
 T put my hand on the baby's face and 1t was plumb cold" he said T figured it must have been dead at least Is or 20 minutes. We got two babies out of the front room and eight out of the next room. Then we lost count. We kept Juggling them out. one after another"
 Chief Harnden said that prelim- mary investigation had failed to discover what caused the blaze. He said the house was centrally heated by hot air furnace, supplemented by kitchen range.
 The kitchen range was so badly
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tContinued from Page D to II miles west of positions seized only yesterday in their thrust across the Obra river into BrandenburC from Poland.
 Zhukov's army made it's closest app, oach to Berlin with a lunge though Stolzenburg, 73 miles north- east of the capital and only 53 miles southeast of the big Baltic Port of Stettin
 Elsewhere along the 800-mile of- fensive front from Czechoslovakia to East Prussia, the six attacking Red armies:
 Punched through to the Oder river at Kleinitz, 96 miles southeast of Berlin and eight miles inside Brandenburg.
 2-Advanced to within "A miles co Moravska -Ostrava, the Pittsburgh of Czechoslovakia' and gateway to the Moravian gap to Prague and Viena.
 3-Clamped pincers around the Pomeranian border fortress of Sch- neilemuhl, leaving only an eight mile escape gap to the west.
 4. Captured Metgethen, three miles west of Konigsberg, in drive to within a half-mile of the last
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(Continued from Page 1)
 both by means of practice and ma- chimes Of prime importance was the adopted suggestion calling for the revaluation of all real and per- sonal property in Waterbury.
 Upon recommendation of the state commissioner a city revalua- tion committee was formed which today presented the suggested bill to the mayor for offering to the legislature.
 It is stated in the bill that the purpose of the act is to establish a new system of assessment in the City of Waterbury in substitution for the present Board of Tax Com missioners and to have the Board of Tax Review appointed by the May or, instead of elected by the people. 7"
 Appointment Of chief assessor will be for six year term to be- come effective three months after successful enactment of the pro- posed bill. The assessor in turn may appoint number of assistants as may be authorized by the Mayor
 Upon appointment of these assist ants, all members of the present Board of Tax Commissioners and Apportionment" shall forthwith ter minate their present off1ce." These present assessors each receive $3,- 100 annually. It Is not stated in the proposed new bill just what is to be the salary of any new assist ants. Sources declared today that although no definite number of as- sistants have been decreed neceS- sary, as yet, it Is likely they may not exceed two.
 Proposed by the new "act" is the view of three members whose ap- pointments by the Mayor shall be for a tWo-year term commencing the first day of January, 1946. These members shall consist of a lawyer, an accountant and layman all of whom shall be electors of the city. By this section of the act, 1t has been deemed necessary to change that section of the Charter enumer- ating the elective offices to be acted upon each election year by the voters of the city, so that the amendment shall read to eliminate the Board of Tax Review.
 Qualifications for the position oi chief assessor decree that he Cor she shall be person qualified for the duties of office and have had ex- perience in municipal appraisals and assessments. His appointment, to the six year term. is to be made by the Board of Finance.
 Under the proposed act the new assessors are to prepare the annual tax rate, which heretofore has been done by the tax collectors office. Also, under the new administration
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-31
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road out of the East Prussian cap ital, now virtually encircled. The road, was under artillery fire, Mos COW said.
 5. Reduced the German pocket in East Prussia below Konigsberg to 1,500 square miles. Berlin said the Russians also had established two strong bridgeheads on the west bank of the Oder river at Steinau, 31 miles northwest of Breslau and Ohlau, 13 miles south east, leaving the garrison of the Si- lesian stronghold only four of their original 13 railways.
 Indicating the gigantic scope of the 19-day Soviet winter offensive, Radio Moscow said the Red Army had captured 337 major towns and 26,500 other localities, including 116 towns and 1000 villages in Ger many, in the first 18 days.
 zhukov's First White Russian Army broke across the Obra river frontier at Brandenburg yesterday along 40-n1le stretch due east of Berlin, giving the Russians con- tinuous 300-mile front inside the Reich.
 Dozens of reinforced concrete pill boxes in long prepared defense line along the Obra were destroyed in the powerful assault. More than 4,000 Germans were killed and about 10000 foreign workers liber- ated
 Ninety-t three Nazi guns, 600 trucks and 31 troop trains were captured.
 200 Towns Overrun
 Among the more than 200 towns and villages overrun were Prittisch, 85 miles east of Berlin and seven miles east of the railway junction of SchWerin, and Gross Dommer, 52 miles east of Frankfurt and Il miles east of Schweibus.
 The fall of Stolzenburg, 73 miles northeast of Berlin, to other First Army forces plunging through Po- merania, outflanked the Warthe- Oder bottleneck and put the Rus sians within 31 miles of Kustrin, Oder river stronghold on the Ber- lin-Stettin Railway.
 At Stolzenburg, the Russians were as close to Berlin as New Haven, is to New York City.
 zhukov's northern column, in a joint drive with the Second White Russian army, also captured Linde, 79 miles southwest of Danzig and 60 miles from the Baltic coast of Romerania.
 General Ivan D. Cherniakhovsky's Third White Russian Army killed B. 900 Germans in fighting yesterday around Konigsberg.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-31

damaged that we couldn't tell whether 1t burned oil or coal"
 As he related his experiences, Chief Harnden's voice broke.
 "If you had ever been through it -lugging out dead baby after dead baby" he said, you wouldn't be able to describe it."
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 Scene of the fire was a large gray cottage house situated in a middle class residential district on the out skirts Of Auburn. Police said that the mystery of how 24 persons were living in cottage was explained by the fact that sizable addition had been built on the rear of the home.
 In the original building there were six large rooms on the first floor and four in the half-story above. The addition contained sev- eral smaller rooms.
 The establishment has been oper- ated as Q babies boarding house for about three years, police said.
 The two children saved by Mrs Fournier were her 17-month old Nto oN6AAISl SCSAS dIlO yCdIsOlu JO- anne Foisy
 Mrs. La Coste told investigators she believed the fire started from some sort of explosion in the kit chen stove.
 Two of those killed, Donald and Gerald Laneville, 8-month old twins, had arrived at the home only few hours before the fire started.
 Still standing after fire was put out were the charred walls of the death trap. The flame -blackened interior presented an awesome spec tacle, with partly burned teddy bears and dolls peeping grotesquely from Scorched basSinets.
 When We arrived, flames were spouting from every door and win- dow" Fire Chief Ralph B. Harn- den related.
 We carried out babies-God, I don't know how many babies"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-31

all Grand Lists must be filed in the office of the assessor on or before the first Monday of December.
 Tn their letter to the Mayor &C., companying the proposed act the Revaluation committee states that the work of revaluation (of all city property) is progressing satisfac- torily and we believe it will be fin ished according to schedule.
 Because of the advanced stage of work, 1t seems necessary, at this time, to give consideration to the reorganization of the board of tax commissioners and apportlonment and appointment of board of Tax Review"
 Members of the Revaluation com mittee are as follows: John P. Bro- phy, chairman; Lester E. Young: Orton P. Camp, Patrick F. Shea, James w. Aberctombie and c. Ar thur Dubois.
 Present assessors for board of Tax Commissioners) are as follows: John Kilduff, Miss Jane Kilduff, Joseph McGinnis, John Jenusaitis and Robert Stone. The Board of Tax Review now consists of Bernard Kelley, Michael Toma and Carmen Calo.
 It was not mentioned today just who will receive consideration for the new post as chief assessor.
 It is expected that Republican in- terest will sharply oppose adoption of the bill by the legislature either by presentation of a new bill or other similar means.
 The revaluation of all city prop erty is now being undertaken by the firm of George B. Horan re- tained last year. It is expected that such survey will cost upward of ! $60,O00 or more.
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Continued from Page 1) acter will definitely and under all cireumstances die ingloriously." he warned.
 Whatever our enemies may de- wise, whatever suffering they may inflict on Germna towns, German provinces and especially on German people," he said, it paleS compared with the unimgainable misery and distress which would befall us If the plutocratic Bolshevist conspiracy should become victorious"
 Hitler appealed to every man. woman and child in the Reich to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-31

iCortinued from Page D been "too much sparring" over the matter and that i've ought to think Of the people of the state and their feelings in the matter"
 Mulvihill indicated that other Democratic senators shared his opinion.
 The judiciary committee held 8 public hearing on a Republican, sponsored bill which would allow the governor to fill the vacancy until the day after election day in 1946, when an elected successor would takt over. Republicans solidly sup ported the proposal and few Dem ocrats also spoke in favor of 1t.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-31
Mochinists PIon
 Newport Holiday

Newport. R. L, Jan. 31 --CUP)- Representatives of 5000 civilian en- ployes of the Newport Naval Tor pedo Station today threatened tc declare 24-hour holiday" to meet any disciplinary actoni resulting from their opposition to pro- posed efficiency study at the plant
 The workers, members of the h. ternational Association of Machin- ists (AFL) refuse to sign production control cards, contending they vio- late a public law which prohibits time-study devices in Navy Depart ment plants.
 Capt. John H. Carson, commando ing officer of the station, said that union members, who comprise about half the personnel, would be dis ciplined unless the cards were signed today.
 The controversy has bene going on for several weeks at the naval station which is engaged almost exclusively in the manufacture oi torpedos.