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Evening star., 1945-03-10
BY MAI. BEN COTHRAN,

ON THE RHINE BRIDGEHEAD,
Mar. 10 (P.-On the morning of
Wednesday, March 7, we started a
drive at am, with Combat Com
mand B pushing on Remagen and
Combat Command A driving on our
left flank.
While we were on the road the
old man BRIG. Gen. William M.
Hoge Of Lexington, Mo-, commander
of Combat b was talking about
the bridge and the possibilities of
taking it. Our artillery had been
shooting only time fire on it because
we didn't want to damage it.
The division commander tMaj.
Gen. John w. Leonard of Toledo,
Ohio had told us if the bridge was
intact to put something across. OF
course, that worried us-having the
job of making a bridgehead with
our force. A combat force is not
such big force, although it does
sound imposing.
Order Passed Along.
This order was passed along to a
task force commanded by 1t. Col.
Leonard Engeman, Redwood Falls,
MINI.
We got to high ground overlook
ing Remagen about noon and we
could see German vehicles stream
ing across the bridge. Everything
IN the valley looked quiet and peace
ful. On the other side we could
see locomotives with steam up, pre-
pairing to move out.
We were apprehensive because II
just didn't look right. They knew
we were coming and this scene was
too quiet to be comfortable.
Col. Engeman decided to knock
out the town first before making q
grab for the bridge. That's what
we did and then he called up dough-
boys to take the bridge.
AS 1t developed our problem was
not so much taking the bridge as
getting something across to back up
those two battalions of infantry who
were across at daybreak Thursday,
That night in Remagen was rough,
plenty rough. The streets were
clogged with vehicles and tanks and
We had hell of a time getting it
sorted. The old man came in and
stormed and shouted and showed
people around until they got moving
Bridge Partly Damaged.
We wanted to get tanks and tank
destroyers across in case of a
counterattack. The Germans had
managed to do some damage to the
bridge, but the main charges had
failed to explode.
Anyway, at that time the bridge
could handle only one-way traffic.
Then a tank destroyer slid off the
bridging and 1t took three hours
to get it pulled out Of the way.
The engineers did a terrific Job
on the bridge. The first thing they
did was check for demolitions. They
found several heavy charges which
had not gone up because they were
defective.
The engineers ripped out all the
wiring and then went to work re-
pairing the damage to the bridge
from minor explosions.
They were under the command of
1t. John Mitchell, Brentwood, Pa.
They had the bridge repaired in
a couple of hours and about mid
night the first tank rolled across.
BY daybreak we had a company of
tanks over to support the infantry
and things were moving.
Evening star., 1945-03-10

Record for Last "a Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today0
Highest, 81, 6 pm. Year ago, Al.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 65, on March 3.
Lowest, IL, on January 26.
Evening star., 1945-03-10
Humidity Report.
River Report.

Potomac River muddy, Shenandoah
cloudy at Harpers Ferry. Potomac muddy
at Great Falls.
Evening star., 1945-03-10

The Sun and Moon.
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Precipitation

Monthly precipitation in inches in 1
Capital (current month to date):
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Furnished BY United States Goa
Evening star., 1945-03-10

KEYS, found on East Capitol ST: identity
Ii. 1897
ROLLER SKATES, corner Queensbury and
44th ave-, Hyattsville, Nd. Owner call
Union O1S2 and identify.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-10
Heroic Deeds Win CLenency For Seaman

New York, Noy. UP)- William H. Cahill, 29, of Dor chester, Mass, won clemency yes- terday because of his heroism as a merchant seaman.
 Cahill was tried on a grand larceny charge in General Ses- slons court for the theft of { truck containing $l0,000 in elec- trical equipment, Feb. 2 in New York. The jury disagreed. Judge John J, Sullivan investigated Ca- hills record, learned that he had survived several torpedoings and received the Merchant Marine combat bar for the rescue of Army personnel and crewmen.
 Previously, Sullivan learned, Ca- hill had won freedom from Charlestown, Mass, states prison by submitting voluntarily to Army medical tests that had killed one man. He was serving a l2 to 20 years term for bank robbery.
 Today the seaman was allowed 10 plead guilty to petit larceny and Sullivan dismissed that charge. Sullivan said that Ca- hill and another seaman were drunk and they stole the truck.
 I'm not going to send you to jail because believe you saw hell in all it's fury" Sullivan said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-10
18,233 Vets Are Expected
 European Vessels
 To Dock in Boston

Boston. Nov. l0.-UP)-Pive transports dock here today, the first of 29 vessels which will ar- rive during the next nine days carrying 1928 soldiers home from Europe.
 Today's arrivals are the Grenyille Dodge, 502 soldiers scheduled for discharge; the Robert T. Paine, 528 men including members of the 36lst fighter squadron; the Thomas Johnson, 637; the Wallace Tyler, 3; and the Mathew Maury, 594.
 Other arrivals are:
 Sunday-Bret Harte, 573; Alex Wilson, 25;; Sam H, Walker, 97; Caleb Strong, 58ll; Anna Dickin- son, 27; Joseph Le Conte, p; Hood Victory, 1858.
 Monday-Smith Thompson, 662, Charles B. Aycock, 632; Bernard Carter, 5l2; John Mitchell, 23; Cranston Victory, 1869.
 Tuesday-Stage Door Canteen, 25.
 Wednesday-Walter E, Ranger 533; Tristram Dalton, 629; John Sergeant, 66ll; Fitzhugh Lee, 569; Jonathan Elmer, 575.
 Thursday-Kingston Victory, l. 969; Milford Victory, 1859; William wilkins, ll8; Marshall Elliott, STA.
 Friday-Eugene Hale, 669.
 Saturday-Iryin McDoWell, 56O,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-10
'. 5. Court ReserUes Decision in Siegel Plea

about the old Germany. and ms tours were in the nature of c0ln- mercial enterprise to rehabilitate his finances.
 K. D. Abbott. an attorney for the Department of Justice. told Judges Thomas W. Swan. Harrie Chase and Charles E. Clark, that Siegel bought a home on Lake Constance for &C., 900 marks in 1883, but bought no property here until ie4i. Abbott quoted siegel as writing a Berlin editor in 1888 that he would have been proud" if stories that he was a spy and raised si.000.000 for Ger. many were true.
 Tn another effort to show thai Siegel retained allegianda to Ger many, Abbott told about Jan alleged incident in 1888 when hleeel was granted his Anal cifIzensVip paper When neIehbor expresS'| surprise he said. When ] go baEk 10 Ger many that lthe papers) can go Into the waslehasket, Abbott said
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-10
COP Starts  Smear Drive
 Senotors Fire
 Guns" ot Trumon

Washington, Nov. 10.-lUP1-~ Sen. Scott W. Lucas. D., H., charged yesterday that Republican Senators have begun definite campaign to smear President Truman"
 The Republicans, Lucas said in an interview, are "caucusing all the time abuot it" with an eye on the Congressional elections of l946 and the presidential election of 104e.
 He said the opening guns in the "smear-Truman" drive were fired in two speeches by COP senators in recent days.
 The first speech, Lucas said, was the one by Sen. Alexander Wiley, R., Wis, who charged that MT. True man was inconsistent" n his labor policy and was headed down the CIO highway to ruin"
 The second, he said, came yes- terday when Sen. E. H. Moore, R. Okla, said that MT. Truman was "a captive of the CIO labor gov ernment."
 Lucas said this seemed to show definite COP trend to drop the honeymoon unity" which greeted MT. Truman's accession to offiee last April and to embark on open political warfare in preparation for the coming elections
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-10
Banquet
 Ends, So Man Dies

Canon City, Colo, Nov. l0- OUP)-The music and gay laugh ter of 600 banqueting citizens within the walls of the Colorado state penitentiary slowly faded.
 As the last strains of the dying music reached him, Charles Ford Silliman, a murderer, knew it was time for him to die.
 The 600 farmers and merchants who had attended their annual banquet last night in hte prison dining hall were escorted to the prison gates.
 A few minutes later, Silliman, 35-year- -old poisoner of his wife and daughter was led from his death cell to the lethal gas cham Der. He died l2 minutes after entering the chamber at 9.48 p. m.
 Through the early part of the evening, the music from the din- ing hall had carried faintly to Silliman as he waited in his cell, reading from a Bible.
 The annual banquet of Canon City's merchants and farmers WAS held as scheduled, despite the inn minence of the execution.
 Men and women sang old songs such as Home on the Range" laughed and talked and listened to a preacher talk on community problems. In his cell, Silliman who murdered his family in Dem yer, waited for the revelry to end.
 It finally stopped and when the last guest had left Warden Roy Best and other officials went to Silliman's cell for him. Appar- ently he was calm. Earlier he had broken a two-day fast and had eaten a large steak.
 Led from his cell, Silliman passed the cell of Prank Martz a condemned child slayer who dies next month.
 God bless you, Frank he called to MartZ,
 God be with you, Charlie, J Martz answered
 Then Sillimap distributed pen cils, paper and other personal items to prisoners and guards and began the quarter-mile walk to the lethal chamber placed high on a hill in the prison grounds.
 Shortly before entering the death chamber, Silliman said:
 1T do not fear I am going to a better world"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-10
TotuI Strike Threuteninq
 AFL of Conodo
 Asked to Join
International Soundphoto)

Windsor, Ont, Nov. 10. tUP)- Canada was threatened today with possible one-day dominion-wide work stoppage in which AFL unions would be asked to join striking CIO workers at the Ford Motor Com pany of Canada.
 The policy committee of the l0,- 900 striking United Automobile workers (CIO) whose two-month strike has idled another 10000 CIO workers, asked the national Cana dian Congress of Labor board last night to prepare for one-day stop page.
 The committee asked the CCL to ask AFT unions throughout Canada to join in a 24-hour protest. No date was asked for calling the work stopping,
 The demand came after a four hour meeting which resulted III unanimous endorsement of an earll- CT union rejection of the Ford com pany's arbitration proposal.
 Union leaders said the workers were ready to submit all differences but demanded the same union se- curity given Ford workers in tho United States and announced tht strikers were prepared to return to work immediately after the com pany agreed to that single demand
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-10

New York, Nov. l0-(UP)-A United States circuit court of ap- peals reserved decision yesterday on a plea of Theodore Karl Siegel, 47, former German instructor at the University of Connecticut, for re- versal of a standardization ruling handed down on Jan. II.
 Siegel's attorneys, Dennis P. o. Connor and John N, Joy, of Hart ford, admitted evidence of German sympathies related at Siegel's trial before Judge J. Joseph Smith in the U. s. district court in Connecticut. but told the three-man court that Siegel had acted as a pro- German to protect his crippled mother and his sisters in Germany. They denied he had expressed German sympa- thies after our entrance into the war,
 The attorneys admitted that Sie- gel had lectured extensively in this country on the Versailles Treaty, but said he had spoken mainly
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-10
Chase Local PIans Ballot
 565 Will Meet
 Tomorrow in HaII

Taking of a union strike-yote will be considered by Local 566 of the Chase Brass & Copper Go. at a meeting tomorrow afternoon at s:l5 at Concordia hall. Union represen- tatiyes meeting with management yesterday afternoon failed to make headway in demands for a 30 per cent wage increase, but indicated further negotiations would be at tempted next week with the aid of a national conciliator
 The Chase local last week peti- toned for an NIRB strike vote, and is now waiting out a 3O-day period preparatory to the vote. Union leaders, however, believe the "cooling-off period" provision in the smith-Connally Act may be re- scinded.
 The executive board of the local will meet early tomorrow afternoon to draw up recommendations for the membership session.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-10
to Mark Anniversary
 OfArmistice
Parade, Speeches,
 MedoI Presentation To Feature Program

Waterbury will mark its first peacetime Armistice day celebration tomorrow with one of the most elab- crate parades in many years.
 Headed by It. Col. Wilfred J, St. Martin, formerly of the 102d Infan- try and now on terminal leave, vet- erans of all wars, members of all local and state veterans organiza- tions, the State Guard, various drum corps, cadet nurses of the American Red Cross, Boy Scouts, and other organizations will march through downtown streets to the Library Park where families of Wa terbury servicemen who died in &C., tion will receive posthumous med- alS
 The parade will begin at o'clock in the afternoon on Freight street.
 Clergymen will speak at Il o'clock at the Honor Roll service in Li- brary Park when veterans organ izations and their auxiliaries will place wreaths at the Honor Roll.
 Pastors Aide To Speak
 Past Comdr. George F. Karnof- sky of Corp. Coyle post will preside at the honor roll ceremonies. City Comptroller Cornelius F. Maloney will represent Mayor John s. Mon- agan; the Rev. J. Oliver Cronan, assistant pastor of St. Margaret'S church, will deliver the principal address of the services. while Col. Henry A. Mucci, outstanding hero of World War II, also will speak. He is presently in Waterbury as guest of Florio Post, Italian Amer ican World War veterans.
 Various veterans delegations will place baskets of flowers and wreaths at the base of the honor roll. Taps and a volley blast of rifles will terminate the service.
 Approximately POO Gold Star mothers will meet at The Elton for dinner at noon. and will ride in cars in the Seventh and last divi- sion in the parade.
 Military Mass Set
 Gold Star mothers also have been invited to the military Mass at 8 o'clock in the Church of the Im- maculate Conception. Veterans at- tending the Mass are requested to congregate in front of the church at 7:55 and will march into the church sn masse in uniform.
 The various Armistice days activ- lties will be climaxed with a social at Hamilton Park pavilion at o'clock Dancing will be from to 12 D. m.
 The line Of march will be from Freight street to Meadow. to West
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-10
Doolittle's Remarks on Merger
 Draw CaLLous Reply byForrestal

Washington, Nov. 10 - (UP) Congressional eff forts to promote greater CO., ordination between the Army and Navy led the services to- day into their bittereSt brawl since pre-Pearl Harbor days.
 The dispute reached cabinet level when Secretary of the Navy James " Forrestal protested to Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson about remarks made by It. Gen. James H. Doolittle of the Army Air Forces to the Senate Military Affairs com mittee.
 Doolittle, commander of the 8th Air force, berated Navy men who oppose establishment of single de- partment of national defense, de- scribing a hypocrisy the contention that you can have effective unity of command in the field in wartime without having unity of control in peacetime."
 DcitHuS b-S5 hOyS
 The hero of the first air raid on Tokyo-a carrier-born strike-said battleships were obsolete and air craft carriers had reached their peak and were going into obsolesc- ence." He said "our B-29 boys are probably resting uneasily in their graves" as the result of statements by Admirals Chester w. NimitZ and Mare A. Mitscher that sespower and carrier planes forced Japans surrender.
 ForreStal described Doolittle's tes- timony as injurious acrimony" and asked Patterson to join with me in seeking to keep the discussion ot the (Army-Nayy merger) proposal now before Congress free from per sonalities which may lave lasting scars" The Army fayors the mer- ger the Navy opposes it.
 If we allow an honest difference over principle to degenerate into an exchange of personalities" For restal wrote, i've shall do irrepar-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-10
FPHAto End House Leases In Waterbury
 25 Plots Affected
 As Negotiations
 Will Beqin Soon

Termination of government leases on about 25 pieces of Waterbury property may be effected shortly by the Federal Public Housing author ity, which has announced it will open negotiations for ending of the leases. The local property was leas- ed to the government for conversion to war housing, under a program which started in the fall of l942.
 FPHA Commissioner Philip M. Klutznick stated that early termin- ation of the leases will be possible, and immediate possession will be given to owners who purchase the unexpired lease contracts at fair value.
 It was reported a checknp will be conducted shortly to determine the value of the unexpired leases.
 Owners May Recover
 Since converted war housing, consisting of almost 50,000 dwelling units is no longer restricted to war
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-10
By FREDERICK c. OTHMAN

Washington, Nov. l0.-(UP)-As a wearer of rose-colored glasses, charter member of the Optimists' club, silyer-lining specialist, rain bow watcher, and a cheerful fellow generally, I thought the end of the war would bring peace to the Capi- tai, too.
 Wotta mistake that was; every body's mad at everybody about everything.
 So tomorrow'S Armistice day, the President and the Prime Minister are about to consider history's hot test potato, the atom bomb, and no Congressional atom expert agrees with any other expert what should be done.
 Leaders Left Snarling
 The peace conference between labor and industry finished the week at the d-trimmed Federal audi torium with the labor leaders snarl- ing at each other. Tn the midst of it the street car motormen called a strike which lasted a day and q half, or long enough to make sore a million feet. The taxi drivers said there were too many taxis and de- manded a hoist in fares.
 Three sisters pieketed the Supreme Court because the jurists wouldn't consider their charges against the mayor of Altoona, Pa, The charges; The mayor jailed one of the sisters because she put sign on her house saying the mayor was a bum. The chief of police, too.
 1.ae Soviet embassy celebrated the Russian revolution with party, but this time there was no caviar,
 Probe Continued
 Post ofiice ofilcials looked into q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-10
JAW Heads Summoned
 G-M Negotiations
 Foil in Results

Detroit, Nov, lO-CUP)-Officials of the United Automobile Workers union (CIO) left for Washington today to attend an executive board meeting which may be followed py possible strike call against the General Motors Corporation.
 Walter P. Reuther, JAW vice. president, said last night as he left for Washington today to attend an executive board meeting which may be followed by possible strike call against the General Motors corporation.
 Walter P. Reuther, JAW vice. president, said last night as he left for the executive meeting that ne- gotiations for a 30 per cent wage increase were deadlocked and only stern measures could break the impaSse.
 Reuther said CIO President Philip Murray also would attend the ses- sion. Asked if the union might strike before the National Labor Relations board ruled on a JAW charge of unfair labor practices by G-M, Reuther said "only the inter national executive board can make such a decision
 Offer Rejected
 Reuther and G-M negotiators met briefly yesterday after the corpora ton had countered the 30 per cenl demand with an offer to grant cost of living increase of eight to ter ] Continued on Page p
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-10
CIO Sticks To Issues
 To Push ProposoI
 At Full Meeting

Washington, Nov. 10. UP) The Congress of hdustrial Organizations is determined to push the wage issue before the full labor-manage- ment conference even if it loses it's light in the executive committee, it was understood today,
 A CIO resolution, pending before the executive committee, has run into apparently unanimous opposi- tion from other labor and manage ment delegates. It calls for an en- dorsement of President Trumans statement that there is 'an inns perative need" for wage increases,
 Executive committee members expected the resolution to be put to a vote next Tuesday or We'd nesdsy. Except for one committee meeting Sunday and Monday, none of the conference groups was sched : uled to reconyene until Tuesday
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-10
German Girls Fail in Task

Boston, Nov 10.-(UP)-Ger- man girls are not succeeding in selling Naz,sm to American GIs, it was said today.
 It. Col. Clark Newton of Dallas, Tex. 32-year old Army Air Force officer who was in charge of pub lie relations at Wiesbaden, Ger many, arrived here aboard the transport Kemp Battle and said that for every soldier who dates a fraulein there are 50 who do not.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-10
Reds Charge
 U. s. Lending Of Munitions
$64,0oo, 900 Loon Reported by Daily; Flyers Run Guns

Chungking, Nov. 10-(UP)-Lt. Gen. Albert c. Wedemeyer said today that the United States was bent on avoiding involvement in China's civil war, but admitted that American forces already had been drawn into 'httle, isolated clashes"
 Wedemeyer, commander of U. S. forces in China, implied at a press conference on his return from Washington that the United States was prepared to furnish the Chungking government with transport planes to move its troops to Manchuria by air.
 He said the Americans were not moving Chinese forces to Manchuria by air, and if the Central government wanted to do so it must use Chinese air crews and perhaps American transports transferred to it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-10
AH Worries in Capital
 Leaue Othn1an Optimistic

fuh-page advertisement in the Journal of the American Medical association, eXtolling a particular brand of contraceptiye, Narcotics agents raided joint after joint, most ly within easy walking distance Of the Justice Department, arrested 25O men and women and captured $5O,- 900 worth of dope.
 The auto dealers forces the OPA to hold up its price lists on l946- model sedans by the sheer weight of their telegrams to Congress, They claimed the OPA was trying to ruin 'em. Chester BoWles said if he wanted to get rich (he's million aire) he'd like nothing better than to run. an auto agency under his own rules.
 RingWorm infection broke out on juvenile scalps; the health depart ment said no youngster suffering from same could attend school un- less he wore a skull cap
 Soldiers Reminds Army
 HoWis kept coming wholesale from soldiers who claimed the Army had forgotten they were alive. Rep Wright Patman charged the real estate dealers with lobbying for still higher prices of scarce houses, The realty men said the gentleman from Texas was talking through his big black hat.
 President Truman signed the tax bill; many an economist said he shouldn't have; many another said the bill was a big step toward put ting American back on its feet.
 But I'm still an optimist I in- tend to close this dispatch with some cheerful news. Or at least I think it's cheerful: T.le OPA has removed all controls from corset strings.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-10
.U. s. GIs Build
 Unneeded Field

Washington, Nov, l0-CUP)-Rep. Philip J. Philbin, D., Mass, charged today that U. s soldiers were being kept in Saudi Arabia to complete a $6 GOO, 900 airport which has mo military value' and which will be turned over to the Saudi Arabian government
 He said in a statement that the War Department doubted the ad- visibility of completing the project, which was started before the end oi hostilities But the State Depart ment he added, wanted it finished and plans to turn 1t over to Saudi Arabia.