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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05
Big Three PorIey After JauorY 20

Washington, Jan. 5--tUP)-The Big Three meeting between Pres ident Roosevelt, Prime Ministe, Winston Churchill and Premier Jo- sci Stalin will be held sometime after Jan. 20. MT. Roosevelt said to- day The time and place, he added, depend good deal on what he called ice conditions
 Yielding only slightly in his re- ticence about plans for the Big Three barley, the president said a. his news conference. when asked if a date had been set, that the an. Swer was yes and no
 It will be after Jan 20. he said, and added his cryptic remark about ice conditions
 MT Roosevelt indicated, moreover, that the secrecy which surrounded thi historic Casablance and Tehe- ran meetings of the United Nations leaders would prevail at the forth coming conference
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05
Nuisonce Roid Mode On Jopon
RY TINTED PRESS

Four BPS Superiortresses from the MarianaS made lone nuisance raids on Japan yesterday and early today. two Of them dropping bombs and the other two apparently on reconnaissance radio Tokyo said
 The broadcast. recorded by the EGG. said the first plane appeared over the Hamamatsu area about ' D. m. yesterday Tokyo time and, although few bombs were dropped no damage was sustained
 Another BPS flew over the Nara area at ll:40 D. m. without drop ping bombs. Tokyo said.
 The third raider penetrated the Okazaki area at 5.30 a m. today. dropping bombs harmlessly, and the fourth flew over Nagoya and Hama mats at l030 a. m. on reconnais- sance, Tokyo said
 Another Tokyo broadcast quoted an Imperial headquarters com muntque claiming that 26 allied planes were shot down out of 30 which attacked Northern Sumatra from aircraft carriers yesterday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05
27O Million Spent Daily
 ByUncIe Sam
BY LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent

Onateu Press Staff Correspondent
 Washington. Jan. 5--(UP)-Year end treasury figures reveal that the nation has hit sustained war-ef fort spending rate of approximately $270, 100000 a day.
 These year-end figures coincided with announcement by Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., that virtually complete sixth war loan drive figures showed the $l4,- 000 100000 quota had bVn over-sub- scribed by $7,62l ,,OO0 ,OOO-for total of $2l ,62l 900, ,000
 Treasury tax revenue has been av- eraging over six months period approximately Sll2,00O,0OO a day. Comparison of that income with the daily outgo indicates the enormous treasury deficit this fiscal year will produce.
 Sunday, Dec. 3i and Monday, Jan. were holidays. So treasury year end figures do not precisely show the sums spent and received during the first six months of the fiscal year which began on July l, 1914. The foregoing calculations are based on spending from midnight. June %. l944 to the end of business on Jan. ?. l945. two days beyond the six months period.
 Spending has been stepped up in this fiscal year beyond the rate achieved in the last fiscal period, but the increase is comparatively
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05
1,5OO Planes
 Hit Germany

London, Jan. 5-(UP)-TheU U. s. Eighth Air Force, resuming its heavy assault on Germany, sent more than 1000 bombers and 800 fighters in a smashing attack to- day on at least 20 important enemy supply points behind the fighting lines.
 The attack, following a One-day break in the record winter offensive, was made by Flying Fortreses and Liberators, escorted by mustagns, mad covered an area extending from Karlsruhe to Cologne and eastward beyond Frankfurt.
 Communications centers and rail- yards used for funneling supplies 10 German armies on the western front were singled out for precision bombing by the big American fleet.
 Yesterdays lull was broken by four forces of British bombers which made night attacks on Berlin and German positions on the Gi- ronde estuary of western France.
 Two formations Of mosquito bombers attacked Berlin. The first was over the C '"rcan capita soon after 8 D. m. GlN .he second some three and a Ia hours later.
 Tn the early morning darkness two fleets of Lancaster heavy bomb- CTS made the attacks an hour and
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05
RetriaI Sought
 In Chaplin Case

Hollywood, Jan 5, CUP)-Attorney Joseph F. Scott planned to go to court today to ask for another hearing Of Joan Barry's paternity charges against Charlie Chaplin which snagged on hung jury yes- terday
 A retrial, if granted. may not come for several months, and ob- servers speculated on the possibility Of an out-of-court settlement rather than repetition Of the three-week trial that ended in embarrassing name-calling
 Scott declared that this fight has just begun l am not quitting now, just because the jurors could not agree"
 Chaplins attorneys were pleased but restrained.
 We are naturally disappointed but are glad that the jury was for Chaplin" said Charles E, tPap Millikan.
 Loyd Wright. his partner. said that he did not think it proper to make e statement" since this case undoubtedly will be tried again."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05
City Charter Changes May Be Proposed At Hartford

Establishment of a bureau Of H. censes for the city. provision al lowing the Bronson Library board of agents to hold property and re- tair specific bequests or gifts rela- tive to the fund under their juris- diction. a statute Of limitation Out- lawing overpayment claims two years after creation Of overpayment and many other provisions for amendment to the City Charter are likely to be proposed at the session of the General Assembly by local authorities together with other pro- posals.
 City budget director Arnold Fur long hAs suggested such recommend ations to the authorities here for possible presentation to the lagLAla- ture this year.
 Creation of a bureau of licenses as recommended by the city's hired auditors calls for the establishment
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05
3o,ooo Sick, Hurt, Back

Washington, Jan. 5 - U,PO - The large number of casualties re- turning from battlefront areas is making 1t impossible for the Army to send Ill patients to hospitals near their homes. Major General Norman T, Kirk. Army Surgeon General, reported today.
 He said efforts would be made to hospitaliz soldiers as close to home as possible but that the job Is get ting increasingly difiicult. For ex- ample, he said. more than 3O.0OO sick and wounded returned to this country in December, an increase Of 300 per cent over July.
 Meanwhile. Defense Transporta. ton Director J. Monroe Johnson warned that train schedules to Florida might be drastically cur- tailed due to an increase in casual ties caused by the German counter offensive in Western Europe.
 He said the wounded would be brought to the United States as soon as they were in condition to be movd and that railroads would be called on for needed equipment to rush the men from ships to hospi- tals.
 '"rhe first place We must look for extra equip ent is on the regular runs of the roads serving resort areas" he said
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05
Roosevelt On AirT omorroW

Washington, Jan 5-CUP)-PreS- ident Roosevelt, preparing an ex- traordinary long message for deliv- cry to Congress, said today he would give the American people a radio summary of the 8,00O-word docu- ment sometime between and lC D m EWT tomorrow night
 The message will touch on several foreign policy matters as well as on possible manpower draft moves, Mir Roosevelt told his news conference.
 One foreign policy issue to be dis. cussed, he said under persistent questioning, will be the shipment of additional war materials to France, which has indicated consistently that it desires to play agreater part in the war.
 The radio networks have not yet been consulted on the time of the Presidents broadcast but newsmen were told that he desired a half hour at 9, 9:30 or 10 p. m. EWT.
 The message to Congress, MT. Roosevelt said, would be unconsci- ousably long-about 5000 words. It will be read to Congress by clerks about 2 p. m. EWT.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05

of a central bureau whereby the ma Jority of licenses and permits issued now by various departments could be granted and recorded
 Other provisions such as that rel ative to the Bronson Library calls for allowing the Board of Agents to hold property subject to the Library Fund so as tO clarify all titles to such property.
 At present the city must be lsited aS such property holders.
 As to presentation of claims (bills owed by the city and the likel 1t is suggested that a charter amendment be made permitting the listing of all srch claims on the warrant payable sheets for presentation to the fl- nance board for Its approval and aignatur, % tha, checks may then be issued for payment on obliga-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05
50 JAP SHIPS WRECKEDNEAR
 LEYTE ISLAND
BY UNITED PRESS

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 Tokyo said today that one or more American conveys and a big naval task force were sailing through the Philippines south of Luzon under attack by Japanese planes which already have sunk an aircraft carrier and two battleships or cruisers.
 The report followed in- creased Japanese speculation that an American landing on Luzon was imminent and coincided with a whirlwind American air offensive that already has wrecked 60 Japanese ships In three days around that strategic island.
 Pacific fleet headquarters at Pearl Harbor and Gen. Douglas Mac Arthurs headquarters at Leyte re- mained silent on the Japanese re- port of new conveys loose in Philip pines waters. but confirmed that American carrier planes blasted FormoSa and Okinawa to the north yesterday for the second straight day.
 A Japanese imperial headquarters communique broadcast by the Tokyo radio said American "convoyS" pene- trated the Bay of San Jose, south west Mindoro Island. at dawn yes- terday.
 Carrier Sunk That afternoon, the communique said, an American naval task force entered the waters west of Panay, just southeast of Mindoro. and came under attack by Japanese planes which "instantaneously sank" an aircraft carrier and two battleships or cruisers.
 It marked the first time that American battleShipS or aircraft carriers have been reported in the inland seas of the Philippines since the invasion of Leyte last October. Only cruisers and destroyerS ac- companied the troops which landed near San Jose. Mindoro, last month and on the east and west coasts of Mindoro this week.
 Mindoro lies across nine-mile wide channel from southern Luzon.
 The Japanese communique said Japanese planes stil were continuing their attacks on American airfields at San Jose and on Leyte with at least IT planes set afire at San Jose alone from Tuesday night through Thursday.
 Three Japanese planes were miss ing from the raids on the airflelds, the communique said, and three others from raids on the task force.
 A communique from MacArthurs headquarters announced that 35
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05
Akyob Falls Without Shot
BY McQUOWN WRIGHT United Press War Correspondent

NOHbtCu kECoO war NOTTcspObtuentD
 With British Forces at Akyab Island. Burma, Jan. 3.-UP)-The largest combined operations force ever launched againstt he Asiatic continent seized Akyab, Burmas s third largest port, without opposi- tion today
 The Japanese. who Savagely re- pulsed smaller scale British attempts to reach Akyab in overland thrllsts through the Burma jungle from h. dia in l942 and l943, evacuated the stronghold without a figth while cruisers, destroyers. transports and planes were convreging on them for mighty land, sea and air blow.
 (BBC said not shot was fired in the landing)
 Seizure of Akyab, a small island at the mouth Of the Kaladan and Mayu rivers 75 miles south of the Indian border. gave the British harbor capable Of handling ships up 10 5000 tons and air bases little more than 300 miles northwest of Rangoon
 With Akyab In their hands. the British 18th Corps won control of all ArakaI province west of the Kaladan river and put it in a posi- tion to cut the enemy's only escape route from the province road from Kyauktaw. Through Taunguo to Prone. the latter on one of the main railways out of Rangoon.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05
NAzIS PUSH BACK AMERICAN SEVENTH
Continued German Pressure Forces Retreat-Weather Handicaps Tanks Air Units
BY J. EDWARD MURRAY

BY J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press War COrrespOndentN
 Paris, January 5. - (UP) - Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery sent three Al. lied Armies today into an ate tack on the north side of the Nazi Ardennes salient, push ing forward in an armored drive that gained more than a mile at some points despite bitter cold and powerful Ger man resistance by crack di- visions.
 Front dispatches said the Americans were having tough going" but said they were inching forward under point-blank German artillery | fire which inflicted severe" tank losses.
 From the south. Lieutenant General George s. Pattons Third Army tended of IT successive NaA tank assaults on their Bastogne springboard and maintained north ward pressure which now has com- pressed the waist of the Ardennes salient to a minimum of less than l2 miles.
 But SHAEF and front reports em- Dhasized that il was hard, tough fighting with gains being measured in yards for teh most part, rather than miles.
 The weather was too overcast to allow the Allied tactical air force to hurl its full weight into battle but the Eighth Air Force sent 1000 fly ing FortreSses and Liberators with smash at communications points and functions behind Field Marshal Karl Von Rundstedt's salient.
 Bad News At the extreme southern end of the front the American Seventh Army still was falling back under continued German pressure. First news of the U. s. retreat was given in a United Press front dispatch Wednesday.
 The latest reports said that Lieu tenant General Alexander Patch's troops were fighting hard in the Bitche area where the Germans at talked Lemberg to the west and Barenthal on the cast. Nazi forces infiltrated to Wingen, three miles south of ReipertSweler, and threat ened the main Sarrguemines-H -Hage- nau highway and railroad.
 The push threatened the com munications line of American troops still in the Wssembourg corridor.
 Announcement that Montgomery had assumed command of the American First and Ninth Armies and all Allied forces on the north shoulder of the Ardennes bulge was made officially today. Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley retained
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05
 To Commond Two Armies

Paris, Jan. 5 - O.PD - Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, com mander of the British 2lSt Army group has been given overall com mand of the American First and Ninth Armies and is directing the assault against the Ardennes bulge from the north and west, it can be revealed today,
 General Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander, shifted the overall command of the two armies from Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley, commander of the Amer lean l2th Army Group, to Mont gomery after the German offensive disrupted communications between them and Lieutenant General George S. Patton's Third Army south of the bulge.
 It was also disclosed today that Montgomery has thrown units Of the British Second Army against the Ardennes bulge.
 News of the shift in command followed recent reports that Mont gomery would be made deputy sup reme commander under EisnhoWer with jurisdiction over all ground forces on the western front.
 There was no immediate indica- ton whether the shift was perma- nent or whether the command of the First and Ninth Armies would revert to Bradley after the Ar Gennes breach has been mended and communications restored.
 Bradley presumably still was com- mander of the 18th Army Group, though the group for the moment apeared to consist only of the Third Army. He decorated Patton on the battlefield only last week for the laC- ter's leadership of the American dash across France last August.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05
SHEAFPress Policy
 Results m Mixups
By JAMES F. McGLINCY


 United Press War COrrespOndent)
 Paris, Jan. 5-(UP) )-ndigation of American war correspondents at the Supreme Allied Headquarters press policy boiled over today both at SHEAF and at the front with charges that SHEAF policy is giving the American public distorted and confused picture of the situation.
 The outburSt was touched of by two fresh miXupS on news Of the western front.
 The first concerned reports of the shift of the American First and Ninth Armies to the command of Field Marshal Sir Bernard Mont gomery under 2lst Army Group, rather than under It. Gen. Omar N. Bradley Of l2th Army Group.
 The second concerned the release of news on the Allied counter-offen- sive. Both SHEAF and front cor- respondents protested bitterly that British Broadcasting corporation broke a security blackout on news of the offensive, presenting the news II hours before prevlouSly fixed dcaoliEc.
 Despite publication Of the Mont 2omery shalt by Time magazine SHEAF correspondents were told today by Brig. Gen. Frank A. Allen, chief of SHEAF public relations that the story could not be written from SHEAF until an official chron- ology of the German attack, now being prepared, has been made pub- lie.
 Previously, when the Montgomery report first appeared in print in Stockholm newspapers and later in various British publications SHEAF correspondents were told they would not be allowed to speculate on this subject from SHEAF but that cor respondents in London, farther from official sources, would be laloWed more freedom "to speculate" Pre- Sumably. any SHEAF correspond ent could have flown to London and written an accurate "specula- tive" story.
 Despite evidence that the Mont gomery story mad been published in the United States, SHAEF censors today still refused to pas the full United Press story of the command changes which is on file with them.
 SHAEF correspondents futile pointed out to public relations off, cers that the news biackout policy followed since the German counter offensive was bound to lead to ex-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05
City Exceeds 9th fhWorLoon By 7 Million

Resident bond purchasers of Wa terbury exceeded their Sixth War Loan Drive overall bond quota by seven million dollars and the "E" bond quota by close to one-half mil- lion 1t was revealed today to The Democrat.
 Actual final results reported today included sale of $25, ,770, ,760 in all type bonds as compared to a quota of $l8,636,000, and "E" bond sales in amount of $4,712,767 as compared to quota of $4,250,000.
 The figures are compiled as of the close of l944.
 James E. Moran, war finance chairman for the city, today extend- ed his congratulations to resident purchasers here and to all volun- teers who participated in the cam- paign. Rather than enumerate those who participated MT. Moran extend- ed a general congratulation to all stating:
 '"The city, as a whole, has again proven Its ability and willingness to back-the-attack by the purchases of bonds. The Sixth War Loan Drive coming as it did upon the heavy burdens of the Christmas holidays presented handicap which the residents here did not permit to stand in their way. wish to extend my sincere thanks and congratula- tions to all participants, both pur- chaSerS and the many volunteers"
 As reported yesterday, Scovill Company employees purchased to- tai of $l.060.59l in all type bonds during the recent Sixth War Loan Drive to make total of $4,247, 093 in all type bonds purchased by em- ployeS during l944. During the last
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05
Two Moine People Killed By TFoins

Brunswick. Me. Jan. 5--OUP)- The bodies of young woman and a crippled man were discovered on the Maine Central Railroad tracks here today after both apparently had been killed by train. Police believed. however. the accidents were unrelated.
 The body of Mrs. Athalle Schor- cite. about g, of Bradley was found first. Four hours later. only a mile and a half distant. the body of William Roy. 66. of Topsham was discovered Police said Roy lost one lot last May when struck by a train.
 Investigators believed the man and women were killed while taking shortcuts across the tracks. A check was begun of trains which passed the spots during the night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05
Spies Money
 ToAid Yonks
By ARTHUR F. DEGREVE

NOssAS~ee . ASDo fSSSAA hNSPVHOCAAsJ
 Washington. Jan. 5-(UP)- -Nazi agents smuggled into America by U- boats to spy on it's var effort and to sabotage its arms production have helped to pay not on'y for their capture but for arms being used against their own country.
 This ironical situation was em- phasized by the recent capture in the New York area of two Nazi agents. supplied originally with about $60,0O0 in American money plus almost 100 diamonds which could be converted into cash if the spies original supply of money was exhausted.
 The latest German invaders VII liam Curtis Colepaugh. a native born Connecticut resident and Erie Gimpel, German citizen who spent seven years as a radio engineer in South America prior to the war spent approximately S4,0O0 of the money advanced to them by their Nazi superiors before they were caught by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
 Whether the diamonds were inc dlIstrial or gem grade was not re- Vealed. But authorities made 1t plain that this government will utilize the gems and money to the best advantage of the war effort.
 When the FBI took the eight German saboteurs who landed by submarine on the Atlantic coast in I942, more than $i80.OOO in bills they carried was turned over to the treasury department.
 The money. officials said, weni into the treasury's general fund which is drawn upon to finance various phases of the war produc- ton program and other government activities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05
Native Bride-to-Be Confuses Chaplain

With the American Division Somewhere in the Southwest Pacific, Jan. 5-(UP)-After trying five languages with no success, an army chaplain lapsed desperately into Pidgin English to marry three native couple and babtize "A native babies.
 While It. Col. James E. Dun- ford of Boston slipped from Gaelic, to Spanish, Italian, French and Latin, the faces of the natives were heavy with non comprehension. Finally, Father DunfOrd cried out:
 "Hey you Mary tall women are Mary tO natives) this man belong yOu?" Frightening im- mediately, the woman replied. Me like man OK"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05
SORRY HE CHECKED

Gilbertville. Mass. Jan. 5-tUP) -- John Lucicr of Gilbertville went to the town clerks office to inquire about the unauthorized sale of land on which he had paid taxes for 20 years.
 Checking up, the clerk discovered that Lucier had never owned the land.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05
THOUGHTFUL GRAD

Durham. N. H.. Jan. 5-tUP)- Commemorating the 60th anniver- sary of his graduation, Sylvester N. Foster oe WegtpoFt, Conn. has presented . q 900 war bond to the University of New Hampshire, 1t was announced today.
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NsglntratIOn week Jan. I-0 Day and Night School. Pest Junior College. of Commerce.
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