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Jlfefittf trot FORECAST Mostly cloudy and continued cold with rain or wet snow beginning in afternoon' and continuing to Monday Temperature yesterday: High, 34, degree; low, 30 degree Sun rises today at net at 5:4 Tomorrow, rines at arts at IFOR VICTORY Buy Extra Bonds Sixth War Loan Drive SECTION A 112TH YEAR Thia newspaper Is servad by Associated Press, United Press. International News and Gannett National Service. ROCHESTER. N. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2C.

19M 72 Pages TEN CENTS Yanks Smash Na ip-on arner 3 Gr ry 77 77h 21 REDS SEIZE i Landis Passes at 78; Long Ruled Baseball "TV fj FOE CRUSHED IN HUERTGEN STEEL UNION WINS BOOSTS IN SHIFT PAY i fAl s4P 2 mi, ittria nrn xatiiiitiiaai YANKS SETTLE OLD SCORE WITH JAPS AT MANILA HATVAN HUB, BERLIN SAYS 30,000 Land on Isle Near Budapest, Nazis Admit Map on Page 4 'London (UP) Berlin said last night, that Red Army assault forces captured the great Hungarian rail hub of Hatvan, keystone of enemy defenses northeast of Budapest, and reported that 30,000 Russian troops had landed on Csepel Island in the Danube immediately south of the Capital city. The enemy reports were not confirmed by Moscow, but the Soviet High Command, reported that Russian tank and infantry forces had cut the vital railroad and highway, capturing Kere-khargszt, 21 miles "northeast of the Capital and two miles west of Hat-van, in a four-mile thrust through enemy The Soviet communiques re ported gains of up to five miles in Czechoslovakia where Gen. Ivan I. Petrov's Fourth Ukrainian 'Army smashed to within four miles east of the important communications center of Michalovce in the puppet Axis state of Slovakia. Shellfire Ruins City Afteiv, the Rusaians cut the Buda-pest-Hatvan railroad and highway, Berlin said shock troops 'attacked Hatvan seven times and the city, ruinea oy aays or ehelirire, was abandoned yesterday morning, the Germans taking up new positions in roadless country to the west The fall of Hatvan also collapsed the entire enemy defense line, and split the German defenders of Budapest from those in Northeastern Hungary.

In the center of the enemy defense line, the Germans gave way before Soviet troops that advanced up the mud-choked Tarna River Valley, 51 miles northeast of Buda pest to capture Tarnaszent-Marla, eight miles west of the fortress city of Eger. Nar.i Defense Keystone Hatvan, a big eight-w'ay rail and road junction, was evacuated to Red Army tanks and infantry this morning, the DNB Agency said. The great Junction Is the key stone of Nazi-Hungarian defenses between Budapest and Czechoslo vakia. At the northern end of the line. Marshal Ridion Y.

Maiinovsky's Second Ukrainian forced the Hernad River defense line and crossed to the west bank to can- ture Oregcsanalos, where they were seven miles east northeast of Miskolc, Hungary's fifth city and within three miles of the important Miskolc-Kassa Railroad. Budapest's elaborate defenses also were imperiled from the south as Berlin admitted Soviet shock troops had landed on 30-mile-lone Csepel Island and had captured the industrial center of Szieetszent- miklos, five miles south of the Hun garian Capital. Continued on l'x 4.V Battered Jap cargo ships, resting On the mud of Manila harbor, continue to burn after being bombed by U. S. Navy carrier-based planes in two-day raid.

(Navy photo) 4th Jap Convoy Destroyed Trying to Aid. Ley te Forces Ex-U. S. Jurist Known As Champion of 'Little Guy' Other Details on Sports Pages Chicago (AP) Death yesterday claimed 78-year-old Kenesaw Mountain Landis, baseball's "indispensable" man for nearly a quarter of a century. Unwavering, fearless, and always the champion of the "little guy," the Commissioner and former fed eral jurist died of heart disease in St.

Luke's Hospital at 5:35 a. CWT. His death left the major leagues without a guiding genius for the first time since 1921 and placed tremendous importance on the National and American League winter meeting here Dec. 11 and 12 when a successor probably will be named. Just ja week ago when the white-thalchqd Commissioner was fretting over what he protested was an overly-long hospital stay, a joint committee of the two leagues recommended that Landis be reelected for another seven-year term when Ms current term expired Jan.

12, Had Sunday Landis suffered a setback Sunday and Friday night was placed under an oxgyen tent a. little more than an hour before he died. He entered the hospital Oct. 2, suffering from a severe cold, but previously had over-taxed his heart working in hia Victory Garden in suburban Glencoe. Baseball officials to a man his death as.

not only a great blow to the national pastime, but a keen loss to the nation 'at large. In compliance with Landis' wishes, there will be no funeral services. A cremation take place privately and friends have been requested not to send flowers. Until the major league meetings, at least, the Commissioner's office will'be conducted by-his secretary, Leslie M. O'Connor, who was at Landis' bedside with his family when he died and wept as he read a formal statement announcing the Commissioner's death.

Fought for Baseball The stern-visaged, shaggy-haired Landis, who was born Nov. 20, 18C6, at Millville, Ohio, loved and fought for baseball with an indescribable fervor ever since 1920 when he became high commissioner. When baseball strategist gave Landis that Job they knew they were picking an iron-handed ruler. It was "perhaps the only means of repairing the seemingly irre parable damage done by the "Black Sox" scandal in the World Scries of 1919 between Chicago and the Cincinnati Reds. Public confidence in baseball was at low ebb and the game was in danger of disorganiz ing.

Landis, down through the years, never faltered or wavered in decisions, lashing with' a sharp tongue and nimble wit at whomever he considered a wrong-doer official or hired hand. It had been the same in his legal career. Named a federal judge in Illinois in 1905, he served on the bench until 1922 when he resigned. Navy Resumes Seabee Enlisting Washingtcn UP) The Navy disclosed yesterday it is reopening en listments for the Navy construc tion battalion-; popularly known as Seabeej to men between the ages of 17 and 50. There was no announcement of the number being sought, but it has been reported that at least several thousand will be recruited.

Curtailment of Seabee recruiting was announced several month's ago. ARGENTINE PAPER BANNED Buenos Aires UP) Authorities in Buenos Aires Province last night ordered the newspaper El Liberal of Balcarce closed for publishing an editorial entitled, "We want to be By the Associated Press Desperate Japanese attempts lo land reinforcements on Leyte in the Central Philippines resulted in the destruction'-of a fourth Nippon convoy and loss of an estimated 2,000 troops, flen. Douglas MacArthur reported today. FOREST AREA Mopping Up Ends In Strasbourg-Towns Taken Paris (UP) Bayonet-wielding doughboys hacked their way out of the death ridden Huertgen forest to the Cologne plain yesterday, breaking the enemy's fanatic grip on the approaches of the third city of the Reich, Other Yanks streamed 11 miles through dismembered German defenses north of Strasbourg. The Germans were reported in general retreat into the Siegfried Line from the midsection of the front, faced with double envelopment by U.

S. Third Army's expanding fjout iu the western Saar. After 10 days of fighting through the gloomy Huertgen wood, often from tree to Yanks hav "got the ball rolling now," reported Henry T. Gorrell of the United Press in a Jront dispatch. "The Germans are ylelding ground and we aim to keep oa their heels," Gorrell added.

Tha U. S. First Army "also won half of Weisweiler, industrial center nin miles east of Aachen, and virtually surrounded its remaining garrison to take over the spotlight for the first time since the opening of the Allied grand offensive on Nov. 40 Towns Captured Five other armies were still attacking relentlessly along the 400-mile front. About 40 towns were captured during the day.

most of them by the U. S. First and Seventh armies In the Strasbourr Lbreak-through area, which register ed nu mriccj up to seven mues. Mopping up inside Strasbourg was completed except for a few snipers, and 5.000 prisoners had been taken. Thousands of others were streaming into Allied cages from the Vosges pocket to the south, where the French First Army was working with the Amfiimn Seventh In cleaning up the 75 mile long mountain innce.

wie most spectacular advance of the day, Infantrymen of Lieut. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's Seventh Army drove 11 miles north of Strasbourg to capture Weyer-shelm following the left bank of the Rhine. Patton's troops broadened their front in the Saar to 20 miles, capturing three more Reich towns, and to the southeast pounded to within five miles of Sarregue-mines, central communications funnel for the German retreat, which now presumably was under ur guns.

On the extreme north flank of the front, the' British Second Army smashed up to the Dutch Mass at Grubbenvorst, four miles north of Venlo, and. apparently intended to by-pass that fortress. Continued on Pace 1 Argentine Tells Training Program Buenos Aires (Jp) The Wsr Ministry, aiming to dispel what it calledt "misleading interpretations" of the pre-mllitary training program announced last week, issued a six-page statement yesterday saying the program is intended only as a defense measure in improving the physical health of individuals. The announcement, made through the press secretariat, said the nejv regulation seeks solution of the problem of an alarming percentage of citizens being unfit for military service. Colorado Blizzard Stalls Bus with 20 Denver, Colo.

JP) A cross country bus carrying about 20 persons was stalled yesterday in an eastern Colorado blizzard that piled snow in 10 and 12-foot drifts on main rust-went highways. The 37 passenger Denver-Kansas City Greyhound bus was reported blizzard-bound on highway 24 east of Limon. Snowplows were dispatched yesterday morning. Other plow crews set out from Hugo westward toward Limon' to pull stalled autos from drifts on Highway 40 and to try to reach the bus. Index Labor Board Puts Annual Wage Up to FDR "Washington (AP) Steel trorkers won "wage adjustments last night expected to average about 5 cents an hour, but their main demands for a base pay raise and guaranteed annual pay -were checked to White House.

The War Labor Board approved several other changes in the compensation and employment conditions of the CIO United Steel Workers which could add materially to the amount of cash the workers take home in a year. Figures were not immediately available, however, on Just what their effect might be. Chairman William H. Davis of the WLB said the order did not break the Little Steel Formula nor even "bend" it. The formula limits general raises, to compensate for living costs, to 15 per cent of the rates of Jan.

1, It makes provision, however, for increases to meet "inequities" or "sub-standards." The changes approved by WLB were all under the "inequities" provision. Outside Limit tia main demand, for 17 cents an hour, was all outside the Little Steel limit. The board on Oct. 11 decided it vould not recommend that President Roosevelt ease the Little Steel Formula to allow an increase. The formula is binding on the board by presidential order.

Yesterday's WLB order left, the way open for the question of a general wage increase to, be reinstated, however, in case basic government wage policy is changed. The board is working on a report "on the question of revision of the Little Steel Formula which is to be referred to President Roosevelt. Indications are that the Administration will try to hold the line on wages at least until the defeat of Germany. On the guaranteed wage demand, the WLB proposed creation of a study commission by the President to consider the question nationally. Two Shifts Raised The main increase ordered was premium of 4.

cents an hour for the second or early nignt emit, and 6 cents for the third, or late night tour. Since the majority of workers in most steel mills rotate through the shifts at intervals, that increase would affect most of the men. The union had asked for differentials of 5 and 10 cents an hour. Continued on Page 10A Navy Takes Over 13th Big Carrier At Rites Today New York UP) The $60,000,000 aircraft carrier Bon Homme Richard, 13th Essex Class carrier to be launched since the beginning of the war, will be commissioned at the Navy Yard in Brooklyn today. Rear Admiral Monroe Kelly, Third Naval District commandant, will place the warship in commission And turn her over to her new skipper, Capt.

A. O. Rule, native of St. Louis and former commandant of the naval air station at Miami, Fla. The Bon Homme Richard, named after the frigate of Capt.

Paul Jones, wilt carry about 80 planes and will have a speed of more than SO knots. She was- built in 15 months by men wot king on a basis. DUTCH LEADERS CONFER" Somewhere in Holland UP) Pieter S. derbrandy. Prime Minister of Holland, and four members of his cabinet arrived here yesterday by plane from London to consult with Dutch leaders on problems facing Holland this winter.

Football Scores Notre Dame 21, Georgia Tech 0. Ohio State 18, Michigan 14 Pennsylvania 20, Cornell 0 Brown 32, Colgate 20 Illinois 25, Northwestern 6 Yale 6, Virginia 6 Pittsburgh 14, Penn State 0 Bainbridge 21, Camp Peary 13 Minnesota 28, Wisconsin 26 Duke 33, North Carolina 0 Indiana 14, Purdue 6 Texas Christian 9, Iflce 6 Southern Methodist 7, Texa3 Tech 6 Great Lakes 28, Fort Warren 7 GUNFIRE ENDS ANGRYPARADE AT BRUSSELS Brussels CP) Gunfire froke out and hand grenades were thrown yesterday during a street demon stration against the of Premier Hubert Pierlot. F. Demany Belgian resistance lender, said- four civilians were killed and 28 wounded in the clash with police. j.

ne ponce, nowever, said six gendarmes were injured with fists and sticks not by gunfire and inai zooaa aemonstrators were wounded by the gunfire and hand grenades of their own group. A police spokesman said -all shots by the police were fired into the air. He said the outbreak started when a demonstrator in an automobile threV a grenade, a policeman threw it back, and it landed In the crowd in front of the Chamber of Deputies. The three-mile-long procession of demonstrators immediately changed their chant of "Down with Pierlot" to "Pierlot Assassin," and a melee began. About 50 shots were fired in 30 seconds, then the crowd broke and left the wounded on the bloody street.

Most of therrj went on to the Palais de Sport for a mass meet ing. Persons estimated to number 8,000 crowded the hall, with a sprinkling of sober-faced policemen who kept their pistols under their coats. Demany and other resistance leaders instructed the crowd at the mass meetinsr to eo ouietlv to their homes when the meeting ended and to avoid further clashes In the tense city. ne crowd broke up into small groups as it left the Palais de Sport and scattered without incident. Police were frank In predicting more trouble later.

NAMED HOSPITAL I IK A Albany CP) Appointment of Dr. Francis D. Shaw as director of Dannemora State Hospital, effective Dec. 1, was annnounced yesterday by State Correction Commissioner Jolin Lyons. i 'm'n-iiMiniir'-'- Here's typical pose of Kenesaw Mountain Landis, 78, baseball's high commissioner who died yesterday, snapped during World Series game.

CRISIS FACED TOMORROW ON CANADA DRAFT Ottawa CP) Canada's red-hot overseas conscription issue is due to come to anew -tomorrow when the House of Commons debates a motion to "aid the govern ment in its policy of maintaining a vigorous war effort." The question was not settled by last week's order-in-council per mitting employment in foreign service of drafted men, who here tofore have been subject only to duty in Canada. The newspaper Le Soleil, in Que center of resistance to the conscription movement, said yesterday that "with few exceptions French-speaking members of the House of Commons will vote against the King government if the Prime Minister moves his confidence motion." Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King placed a motion on the House of Commons order paper yesterday providing or adjournment of the present emergency session until Jan. 31 as soon as the conscription discussion is nded.

He has said the life of the present Parliament will end Apr. 17 in any case. The depth of the dissent over conscription, however, 'could force an earlier dissolution and a general election. While the present state of flux makes party lines in the House of previous standing gave an overwhelming majority to King's Liberal Party, with 161 members compared with 39 for the Progressive-Conservatives, next most numerous, and a total opposition of 73. Heal over the conscription issue was not confined to Parliament.

Nearly 1,000 soldiers paraded Friday night through the streets of Vernon, B. and an uniden tified captain was knocked dow when he tried to stop th marchers, who shouted, "Down with conscription," and "Conscript wealth and industry as well as manpower." 200 Nai Legionnaires Seized in Romania Bucharest, Romania, Nov. 24 (Delayed) -UP) Two hundred Nazi Legionnaire leaders, amog them university professors, attorneys, officials and writers, were arrested in Bucharest yesterday and sent to (concentration camps. bodies cremated at Rirkennti alone Itetwern April, 1IM2, and April. 1144.

One, by two young Slovakian Jews who for two years had clerical posts in the camp through which they could keep fairly close track of events, set. the figure at 1,765,000. The second account was by a non-Jewish Polish major. AH three escaped. For their protection, their names were withheld by the Board which said In an accompanying statement: "It is a fact beyond denial that the Germans have deliberately and systematically murdered millions of Innocent civilians Jews and Christians alike all over Europe.

"This campaign of terror and brutality, which is unprecedented In all history and which even now continues unabated. Is part of the German plan to subjugate the free people of the world." The Board, of which W. Pehln Is- executive director, Is responsible lor carrying butthe Miaair urasn Gets Only Ii-29 Lost over Tokyo ny.CLARK LEW Ii-29 Base, Saipan (INS) A headlong crash Into the tail of a B-29 bomber a Japanese plane, either thrown out of control by American crossfire or flown by a suicide pilot, accounted for our only e'ombat loss in Friday's mammoth Superfortress raid on Tokyo, Brig. Gen. Haywood Hansell disclosed yesterday.

Both planes dived into the ocean a considerable distance off the coast. The Jap "Tony" fighter attacked No." 6 plane in a ron from the rear, apparently killing the rear gunner. Other planes in the squadron caught the Jap fighter in crossfire and tore big pieces out of the plane before it crashed headlong into the Superfort Liferafts with 12 or 15 men aboard, meanwhile, were sighted near Saipan, the men believed to be the crew of ihe only other Superfortress which failed to return to Saipan. Rescue ships now are en route. Commenting frankCy on th raid, General Hansell, commander of the- B-29 Twenty-First Bomber Command, said: "The mission was not perfect-not as good as we can hope for in the future.

"Less than half of the planes hit the primary targets. Others because of difficult weather conditions, had to bomb the industrial-areas of Tokyo and the "Reconnaissance photos were not too good," he continued. "Later ones will tell the exact damage." ijDctober Strikes The general said four troop ships! (Philippine time) off the island of Cebu, west of Leyte, by Yank pilots who sank three of them and left the fourth in flames. All troops ond cargo aboard the ships were loaf. Reinforcement attempts have cost, the Japanese a total of some 17.C00 troops, 16 transports rfggre gating 65,000 tons, and 14 escorting warships.

Meanwhile the U. S. Navy re ported the sinking of 27 additional Japanese ships by American sub marines in Pacific and Far Eas waters. In a Pacific Fleet Headquarters communique, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz disclosed American Army bombers heavily hit Japan's Bonin Islands on the air route between Saipan 'and Tokyo before and after U.

S. struck for the first time ajainst industrial targets in the Nip-in capital. He also reported raids on Marcus Island, 1,000 miles southeast of Tokyo, and on the Palaus arid Yap. Radio Tokyo claimed that U. S.

carrier, planes bombed Manila shipping and struck airfields on Luzon Island, and that Japanese airmen sank two American trans ports and damaged a transport and a destroyer in Leyte Gulf. The claims remained unconfirmed. On Leyte Island hard-hitting American Doughboys cleared Japanese from heights east of Ormoc Road while Yank artillery blasted enemy big gun positions in battle areas and along the Ormoc corridor. The Japanese lost six more planes as they continued raiding in the Leyte sector. The U.

S. Navy's report on latest submarine operations in Japanese-controlled waters showed that of the 27 ships bagged one was a destroyer, one a converted gunboat, fur tankers, one a large transport and the others cargo transports or merchantmen ranging from small to large. oners who were to lie gnssetS! and then burned. These 'selectees' were loaded Into trucks and brought to the birch forest. Those still alive upon arrival were gassed in a big barrack erected near the trench used for burning the bodies.

Typical of the descriptions given of thn) fate of individual groups are these: "2,000 Frenchmen (Aryans) Communists and other political prisoners, among them ther brother of Thorez and the young brother of Leon Blum. The latter was atrociously tortured, then gassed and burned. I dirge family convoys arrived from various Kuropeun countries and were at once directed to the birch wood. The special squad fsonderkommando') employed for gassing and burning worked In day and night shifts. Hundreds of thousands of Jews were gassed during this period.

"The men (themselves prisoners) belonging to the Special squad' lived separately. On account of the dreadful smell spread by them, people had but War Refugee Board Bares Report of German Murder by Million in Camps Reported at 440 Washington CP) The Labor Department reported yesterday there were 440 strikes in'October, involving 220,000 workers. The work stoppages cost 690,000 man days of idleness, or approximately 9100 of 1 per cent, of the available time, the Bureau added. A strike of maintenance workers in a large number of Detroit plants Involved the greatest number of workers, with strikes In the To ledo, Ohio, area contributing a substantial portion of the total. policy of the federal government for rescue of.

Hie victim of enemy oppression. Throughout the more detailed story of the two Jews' appeared such gruesome statistics as these: "Conservative estimate" that to 70,000 of 80,000 persons re-ceived at the camp were gassed; "lowest estimate" 30,000 gassed out of another group; one month's gassings total capacity of crematoria 6,000 a day but for a period it was overloaded and bodies burned in great open pits. Taken from the reports are these excerpts and piiruphmses: "The meres fact of neglecting to give Information on the. whereabouts of a prisoner, not to speak of extending help, is punished by death. If the escapee Is caught he Is hanged In the presence of the whole camp; but If he is found dead, his body-wherever it may have been located is brought back to camp and seated at the entrance gate, a small notice clasped In his hands, reading, 'Here I am'." Washington The War Rffiitr-e Hoard three member of 1'rcnhlcnt Roosevelt's Cablnrt MpoiiMorcd yesterday a detailed report of bestial cruelty and murder by the million In German extermination camps.

Said the Board, comprising Secretary 'of State Hull, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau and Secretary of War Stimson: The Board has every reason to tx'lieve that these reports present a true picture of the frightful happenings in these camps. It is making the reports public in the firm conviction that they fthutiU read and understood by all Atiierirans." The. report consisted of two eye-witness accounts of Ufe in the Nazi camps at Auschwitz and Rirkenau In Southwestern Poland, prepared independently but almost precisely parallel. Each included an estimate that more than a million and a half Jews from various Kuropeun countries were gassed and their Camp buildings are divided Into little cubicles, each occupied by tlm-e. itersons, each cubicle "too narrow for a man to lie stretched out and not high enough for him to sit upright "Working conditions were inconceivably hard, so that the majority of us, weakened by starvation and the inedible, food, could not stand It.

The mortality was so high that every day bur group of 200 had 30 to 35 dead. Many were simply beaten to death by the overseers the 'capos' during work, without the slightest provocation." Litter A "sick building" was set up. "Actually this building was nothing else than an assembly center for death candidates. All prisoners incapable of working were sent there. There was no iiestion of any medical attention or care.

"At the same time, the so-called 'selections' were Introduced. Twice, weekly, Mondays and Thursdays', the camp doctor indicated tha number of pris III (In contact with tliem. Reside they went nlwuys filthy, destitute, half wild and extraordinarily brutal and ruthless. "It was not uncommon to see one of them kill another. This was considered by the others a sensation, a change.

"At the end of February. 1943. a hew modern crematoria and gassing plant was inaugurated at Birkenau The large ditch was filled in, the ground leveled and the ashes used as before for fertilizer at the farm labor camp of Ilermense Next to the furnace room was a large "reception hull" arranged to give the Impression of the antechamber of a bathing establishment. ''It holds 2,000 people and apparently there is a similar waiting room on the floor below. From there a door and a few steps lead down Into the very long and narrow gas chamber." The walls of this chamber a-re also camouflaged with simulated entries to shower rooms to mislead the victims.

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