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pose was to make recommends ations, as 8 thin disguise" the newspaper said, "tl1e mission is out to- give all the expert help possible that will improve the military ability of Chiang's armies in fighting Japan. (The mission is part of the pattern of Pacific encirclement (of Japan). 7
 The newspaper Nichi Nichi quoted Lieut. Commander Kengo Tominaga of the naval intelligence department as having said in nationwide radio speech last night that the United States was trying to control the Pacific as the chief member of the "encirciement" group. He was quoted that the armaments of this group, exclusive of those of the Chungking regime, included more than 200 warships, 1,25O airplanes and 25O,O00 tropos, and that these were closing in upon our heads steadily, necessitating our serious ocncern and vigliant watch"
 Tominaga was quoted that the United States military mision was forerunner of more active Amer. ican participation in Far Eastern Affairs, and that Japan mus" now considered that substantially. the United States has already concluded military alliance with Chiang Kai- Shek against Japan"
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Mrs. Louise A. Marsh Will Probated Today
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be sold and included with rest of the estate.
 Specifications
 The document specifies that in the event that the estate Is insufficient to cover all the sums bequested, all the persons named are to receive the full amounts willed to them, and the residue is to be distributed pro- portionately among the societies and institutions noted. Any remainder, after all the terms have been met, becomes the property of Lotta A.. Husted, Kenneth Jones and Helen Jones WykS equally.
 Mrs. Marsh died here on August 9th. Although a native of Green wich, she was a lifelong resident of this city, and made her hame at 167 Columbia Boulevard. She was active in local organizations, and g mem Der of the Waterbury Women's Club, the D. A. R. and the Founders and Patriots of America. Her husband, the late Samuel J. Marsh, was clerk of Waterbury superior court for a great number of years.
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would have been impossible for flftk columnists to have turned on the lights since they were controlled by a clock which was put out of action near the start of the war. Cairo, Aug. 29.-(UP)-British general headquarters for the middle east reported new German and Italian air attacks on Tobruk, LIbya, but said that no damage Was caused.
 Artillery on both sides exchanged fire and artillery activity also was reported near the Egypt-Lihya from tier.
 Enemy aircraft bombed the Ia. rabus oasis, near the border, caEs- ing some daamge to the senussi moSquie.
 London, Aug. 20-(Upl-The air and home security ministries re- ported today that German planes dropped bombs on eastern England last night, causing . few casual ties at one point.
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Elmira B. BragEw of Brooklyn, N. Y, Alice M. Mansfield of wakefield, Mass, Caroline B. Lane of East Northneld, Mass, Bessie H. Jones of westwood, N. J., widow of Percy Q. Jones, Louis B. Byrnes of Water bury, and Robert P. Montague of Gouthbridge, Mass. A daughter of MT. Byrnes, Lois, will receive $l00l
 Two persons are named benef1- charles in the codicil, each in the amount of $2S0, Ruth Harwin Jones of Westwood, N. J. and Margery Florence Wyks of the same city. This document bears the date June 14, losT, and was drawn up short time after the will, which Is dated May q, 1887.
 The Colonial Trust Go. of this city is named executor of the estate, and is empowered to dispose of all personal effects, including furni- Gure, jewelry, etc. left by memor- Nndada to various persons. Any re- maining personal property is to
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Both bodies were recovered last night.
 Children Were Lucky
 A few of the children were shaken up, but no severe injuries were re- ported among them. All continued to New York later by bus and spe- cial train. Two counselors of camps in the Lee, Mass, area, however were injured.
 They are Albert J. Katz, head counselor of Camp Lenox, who sui fered lacerations of the scalp, and William Ephraim. New York, who susetained lacerations of the eye.
 They were treated at the scene, along with several of the boys and girls who were shaken up.s
 The locomotice and tender plunged into the lake and turned over in five feet of water. The first and second coaches went partially into the water, and the third and fourth coaches of the train were derailed. The fifth and sixth coaches re- mained on the tracks.
 AuthorltieS Salu lt was consiuereo fortunate the accident occurred at lanch-time. because all the children in the forward coaches had retired to the rear section of the train to get something to eat.
 Nine years ago. Ice-House Corner was the scene of Q similar accident However, there were no injuries al that time. The railroad tracks are on. . steep bend at she spot.
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(Continued from Page D been acting as lend-lease expediter In London, and Biggers now becomes his assistant, specializing in in- tegration of U. S.-British arms pro- duction.
 MT. Roosevelt explained that when he first sent Hartman to London to assist in dispatching aid to the democracies, his duties were pri- rnarily those of a maritime dis- patcher.
 But his duties were gradually en- larged beyond shipping, MT. Roose- welt said, and Hartman finally be- came deeply involved in production questions.
 The situation developed until he finally needed another trouble shooter in London to assist Ezarri- man. he added, and that man will be Biggers.
 The Moscow mission, additionally. will take Hartman eway from G0ns don for . short time and Higgers will take care of hls work during his absence and also assume his own duties as q production eD66lalIst to intogFate more closely American production with the critical meeda ol the fighting asnaocraeisa.
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said Teraskaki started the meeting by discussing Japanese-American relations, with particular reference to "the important meeting" be- tween President Roosevelt and Am baasdor Admiral Kichisaburo Mo- mura at Washington yesterday.
 Premier Prince Fumimaro Ko- noye and Foreign Minister Admiral Teijiro Toyoda elaborated on Ter saki's remarks and then the cabi- net members exchanged their views without reservation, Domei said.
 Iichi Kichi, deputy government spokesmand, said the question oi United States hipmentS through Japanes-econtrolled waters to the Ruisan port of Vladivostok was among the topics discused by Mo- mura and MT. Roosevelt.
 It was announced officially that Nomura had handed MT. Roosevelt message from Premier Prince Funimaro Konoye regarding Japans conviction on pending prob- lens relative to the Pacific, between the United States and Japan"
 No Details Given
 Kichi gave no details of the con- ference but when asked whether Japan's representations to the Soviet Union and the United States this week regarding Vladivostok ship ments had been made of Japan'S free will or at the instigation of the Axis nations, he said: Tt was done from Japan,s own point of view, but I do not say it was done without considering the Axis"
 The influential Japan Times and Advertiser described President Rooseveltss military mission to Chunking as a form of participation in the war on Genera1issimo Chiang -Shek,s side, against Japan.
 Characterizing MT. Roosevelt's exclamation. that the missions pur-
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 and unoccupied France seeking new suspects in their purge of anti Vichy elements. Vichy authorities in Paris ar- ranged a speedy trial for Paul Col- cite, who shot Laval and Deat be- cause he opposed collaboration with Germany. N
 Fernand De Brinon, chief vichy envoy to occupied territory, an- nounced that Colette would be put on trial next week, and as the new special courts already had sen- fenced three men to death on less serious charges, 1t was assumed that Colette would die.
 Though vicEy authorities assert ed that great communist" plot was behind the Haval-Deat shoot ings, 1t apparently has been con- firmed that Colette was not q com munist, but, on the other hand, a Right -Winger, Q former member of the Nad Fascist Croix De Feu Youth group. Under persistent ques- tionir1g, Colette has said stoutly that he was against any collahpra- ton with Germany, and that he left the Youth group because the Croix De Ecu favored collabora- ton, whereas he is 6 free France sympathizer.
 Not Really Critical
 After Q consultation this morn. ing physicians reported that La- yals condition was not regarded as critical despite the rise in his tenn perature. One of the consulting surgeons said he believed Lavali wound would heal with extraction of the bullet unless a hemorrhage developed.
 The condition of Deat was re. garded as more serious. Some In. lection has deceloped in. Deat's wound and physicians withheld an opinion on his prospects for re. covery for the time being.
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p; Lucy Kidwell, 64, September 28, 1940; Matte Steward, 48, No vember 2s, 1940; Josephine Robin son, 34, December 1, 1939.
 In addition, police said, he con- fessed to having raped six other women who survived his attacks.
 Killed in Car
 Police chemists examined stains found in Catoe'S automobile believed to have been made by blood. The seat covers had been removed. Police believed that Mrs. Anderson was slain in the car.
 Last June 15, a Sunday, Miss Strief was preparing dinner for her fiance in her apartment. It was raining. She put 8 transparent rain- coat over her play suit and ran out to get butter from a neighbor- hood delicatessen. Her naked body was found 20 hours later in 8 pri- vate garage facing on a nearby al- ley.
 The confessions were announced by Acting Chief Edward J. Kelly who was sworn into office yesterday pending the forthcoming retirement of Police Supt. Ernest w. Brown. It was one of many changes in the drastic Shake-up resulting from the wave of sex crimes.
 Kelly made public an abbreviated version of Catoe's COT fession to having murdered Miss Strietf. It said:
 T was going west on Florida ave- nue during the height of the storm. The girl was standing at the corner of 18th street and stuck up her hand and hailed me.
 Offered Her Ride
 "T beg your pardon, she said, I thought you were & cab
 No this isn't @ cab,' answered, and I offered her ride.
 T took her to an empty garage and attacked her.
 q used the belt of her playSuit to tie her up and then I strangled her with 1t.
 T then drove to the (another) garage in the alley and dumped her IOAJ bAACAEs
 Tt all happened in Q half an hour"
 Catoe was arrested because he stole wrist watch from Mrs. An- derson,s arm before she was flung, dead, from an automobile. Mrs. An- dersons husband, Eerhardt. had given her the watch and had made record of the case number. De- tectives found the watch in Q pawn shop. It had been pawned by Catoe's Harlem sweetheart. She said he had given it to her. and, at the request of New, York police. he was arrested ct his home here. in the iisighborhood where most of the rec cent crimes against women have oc- cured.
 Has Been Identified
 Police announced that he had been identlhed by four negro women who had been raped and survived and by two who had fought of the at- taeker.
 Police sald Catoe was born in Fer.
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Colored Man Admits Death of fSeven Women
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shaw, N. O., and had worked and lived in Washington most of the last 10 years. At one time he was a houseman in home near Miss Strief'S apartment. Last winter three negro women were raped and strangled and seven others were raped in that neighborhood. In each case, the assailant called at a house where a sign announced that rooms were for rent. After satisfying him. self that only the woman was in the house, he attacked her. It was the survivors among this group of wo. men who identified Catoe.
 How Clue Was Found New York, Aug. 29-(UP)-A hus- band who never forgot his wife's birthday, who pawned a watch so he would have the money for her an- nual present, provided the clew which led to the capture of Jarvis Roosevelt Catoe, 30-year old Negro on charges of murdering seven wo- men and raping six others.
 Erhardt Anderson, a baker, told about it today in 8 furnished room crowded with knickkacks and photo- graphs of his wife Evelyn, who was strangled and attacked by Catoe Aug. 4.
 April IS was Evelyn's birthday Erhardt asked her to let him wear the mans wrist watch he once had purchased for her and he pawned it because the birthday came a, day before pay day. He redeemed 1t the next day and Evelyn never knew 1t had been in pawn.
 With the money Erhardt bought his wife French doll. Then came Aug. {.
 "She kissed me before she went to work that day." he said. "She left at six o'clock in the morning to work in the restaurant and. waited until II o'clock that night for her to come home.
 No One Saw Her
 T asked the neighbors if they had seen her. They said no. And I went to sleep thinking she had de- cided to visit some friends.
 "The next day I saw the papers of the finding of the body. And 1t said this woman is wearing am old country wedding band. It was like the one they make in Denmark, and then I know that it is Evelyn" 1"
 When police asked him what his wife was wearing he remembered the wrist watch. The police said they would need the serial number and Erhardt said he did not know 1t but that once he had pawned the watch and maybe the pawn shop had 1t.
 It did and with that as the clue police began to SCOUT other pawn shops. They found it in Harlem, 1t had been brought in by . Negro woman. She told police oatoe gave her Che watch but she didn't have his address. But ia e few days she got a postcard from him bearing hls Washington address and she gave it to police.
 'T would Iike." E'rhar6E aald ,''to get . pa1s to sec hiIm burn"
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(Continued from Page D both banks of the Karun river tc Ahwaz, which now is in our hands Royal air force fighters provided at protection for our forward troop. In thes opeations. A new Russian column was reported to have reach ed Dilman, west of Lake Eurmia Their southward advance is con- tinuing."
 Referring to activities at Herman shah the communique said, it is significant that during the previous days action two anti-tank guns were captured intact with ammuni- ton and they proved to have been of the latest Skoda manufacture. Skoda is the great armaments works in CzechoSlovakia.
 Despite ofncial reluctance to dis cuss plans for Iran it was believed that Russian and British Imperial forces, fearful of Na1 sabotage would continue to march into new areas pending further agreements in Tehran.
 The Russians marched into Ban- dar Shah. at the southeast corner of the Caspian Sea, and nearby Gurgan, on the Gurgan river; Mia neh, 90 miles southeast of Tabriz; Maragheh, near the east shore oi Lake Urmia, and Urmia, near the west shore.
 British Keep Advancing
 Baghdad, Iraq, Aug 29 = (UP- British Imperial forces which stormed the important Pa-I-Tao pass in western Iran have moved on to occupy Karind and Shahabad in the same area, dispatches from the front said today.
 Indian infantry stormed and took the 4,000 foot pass in frontal at- tack and swept on direct to Karind which is 500 feet higher.
 There they found mobile column which had encircled the town and moved in from the rear.
 Karind was the base for the Tram ian troops who defended the pass.
 Troops have met a cordial recep- tion by all IranianS, dispatches said
 Shahabad was taken with little opposition. There was some anti. tank fire and the imperial forces encountered a few road barriers.
 Troops Are Rushed
 Cairo, Aug. % = (UP0 - Trans port of air-borne British troops fol the campaign in Iran was on g larger scale than ever before at. tempted b ythe Royal Air Force, il was learned today. At least severa battAlions were flown to Iran by the same squadron of troop carrier. which took soldiers to Iraq for the campaign there.
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| N@SASAAASANA A VAAA \ eA9C ~ | and thus advance what Nazis claim Is already 8 virtual encirclement of the former Czarist capital. (Other rail lines from Leningrad run north to Murmansk and westward indi- rectly to Moscow.
 The official agency said that all efforts of the Russians to rally air and land forces in defense on the Leningrad front had failed.
 In the Ukraine, the agency said, the Russians Thursday attempted to throw troops back across the Dniep- CT river to the west bank in 8 mum. Der ocounter -blows south of Kiey but German artillery smashed these attempts at the jumping of points on the east bank, illflicting heavy casualties" A large Russian river steamer carrying bombs down. stream also was reported exploded" and destroyed near Zaporozl1e Many Vessels Sunk Nineteen transports 1slled with Russian troops and equipment, one destroyer and nine other Russian war vessels were sunk in the Tallinn engagement, the communique as- serted.
 It said that six coastal batteries and an incalculable amount of war material fell into German hands.
 At Paldiski, the communique said, the Germans took several thousand prisoners.
 Tn the Tallinn fighting the Rus sian $500 ton ..cruiser Kirov, one destroyer ad five other Russian naval vessels were severely darn- aged, the high command said. Tallinn, which Russia had turn. ed into strong naval shases and Paldiski had been isolated and be- sieged since the German forces swept into Estonia ct the outset of the war.
 It had been known that the Ger mans were attacking Tallinn and Paldiski heavily. Airplanes which bombed the twons mercilessiy were reinforced with big. guns which had been pushed within range of them
 German informants said the Ger man forces were closing in on Lem ingrad from the west, south and southeast and that the Germans and Films were advancing steadily down the Karelian peninsula to the north.
 At some points German troops are within 30 miles of Leningrad they said, and added that the city'i defense was becoming difficult. Emphasis put on air force op- erations in the south indicated that the German drive in the Ukraine had been slowed, possibly to per- init the moving up of infantry and supplies.
 StiM in Dam Area Though Russia admitted the blow ing up of the Dniener dam, and the loss of Dniepropetroysk. Nazs now said that they assumed" some Russian forces were still "clinging to" the dam area, though 1t was within range of German weaR- ons."'
 The Nazi party newspaper VoeI- kischer Beabachter said today that the Russians had lost 183,O00 men in casualties and prisoners in ad- dition to five divisions CTS 900 men) on the Finnish front in the first ] five days of the third month of the Russo German war, which started June 22.
 Complaining that the British had asserted that there was nothing unusual to report on the eastern front, the newspaper said the Ger man victory over the Russians at Tannenberg, in 1914, the anniver- sary of which is today, "astound- ed the entire world" even though Russia lost only half as many men then as had been lost in the five days specified. f
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roared out in q cloudy dawn to att tack cbiectives on the European coast. N
 The daylight offensive operations were conducted after Q night in which British bombers blasted puisburg, Germany, causing heavy explosions and great fires. Docks at Ostend also were attacked dur ing the night.
 The roar Of British planes fly- ing to daylight attacks today awak- ened people in coast areas.
 The outbound procession con- tinred for an hour over F'OlkeStone, Ramsgate, Southe1ld and other points and some of the hombers did not return for more than two hours, indicating that they had struck deep into the continent.
 Planes passing eouthend were headed almost due east, apparently in search Of shipping off the Duth and Belgian coasts or en route to bomb inland objectives of Holland and Belgium.
 Raiders Sccreened
 At T'olkestone watchers reported that no German anti~aircroft fire was heard, appartently because the raiders were screened by clouds. Af- ter 46 minutes, some of the fighters returned, flying low, soon followed by bonbers hidden by the clouds.
 One formation of heavy bombers seen re-croSSing the EngIish coast at Ra1nsgate was escorted by many fighters. as
 FOlkestOne watchers reported a five-minute battle over the middle of the channel, during which Ger man Messerschnitts and British Spitfires and hurricanes could be seen zoorning and diving in . patch of clear sky.
 Authoritative sources said British bomberS had raided Germany again last night, with Duisburg their main objective. It was understood that fairly large forces were used in the raid, which was the 48th of the war on Duisburg.
 German Ace Missing
 Berlin, Aug. 29.-(UP)-German bombers sank two merchant ships totaling 12,O0O tons, west of Penn broke last night, the hig hcommand said today. One of the vessels was Q tanker.
 A communique said that 3l Bril- hsh planes were destroyed yester- day, including seven bombers shot down during daylight raids on oc- cupied territory.
 The high command said that Capt. Hermann Joppien, a group commander in Q pursuit plane squadron, was missing. He was one of 0ermany's leading air aces and was credited with the destruction of 70 enemy planes.
 '"The air force loses in hom one of its boldest fighter pilots" the high command said.
 The communiQue said that Ger man and Italian dive bombers had made destructive attacks on port works and anti-aircraft gun posi- tions around Tobruk, Libya. War supply dumps also were attacked.
 The high command said that Wednesday night German planes effectively bombed" military ob- jectives on the Suez canal.
 London, Aug. 20-(UP)-Authori- ties today were Investigating why all seven street lights. in the vil- lage of UgborOaigh near Plymouth were lighted for an hour and 40 minutes during the darkness of Tuesday morning.
 Power station officials said it
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THE "UN1TED STATES"

There is more than one "United States" in the world. Others are the United States of Mexico, United States of Colombia and the United States of Brazil.