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favors as the jurist's foes claimed The judge was cleared by legis- lative committee.
 Again there were the tales of her three marriages, her quarrels and reconcilliations with her mother, Mrs. Minnie c'Ma') Ken nedy, her crusades against New York and Paris night life, world tours and international episodes to keep her in the public ken.
 Religious Rearing
 Born on farm near Ingersoll. Ontario, Canada, October g, 1890, she was baptized Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy and was reared in a home where religion dominated. School ing was obtained by riding horse back into fngersoll and it was while she was in high school there that she took the first step that led her into evangelistic work.
 She was attracted by sign ad- vertising Pentecostal mission and against the wishes of her parents attended one of the revival meet ings. She explained in later life that she was actuated only by curiosity, but the proceeding aroused her interest and she soon became a worker in the mission.
 Married At I9
 At the bedside of two sick chil- dren she met Robert Semple, tall, fair-haired Irish preacher. They were married when she was 19 years old.
 Through the states of the middle and far west and finally to China, they travelled as missionaries. In the Orient, both fell ill of an epi- demic, Semple died and shortly a daughter, Roberta Semple, was born to his widow.
 She returned to the United States with her baby, continued her evan gelistic work and, in the south, met and married Harold McPher- son, a grocery clerk. To them was born a son, Rolf McPherson. This marriage ended in a divorce.
 Her first visit to Los Angeles was in 1917. Five years later she and her mother had collected more than $500,OO0 to erect Angelus Temple. There Sister Aimee" as she became known, rose to the heights as expounder of her four square gospel"
 Kidnapped
 The first big sensation of her career came in the night of May 18, 1926. Clad in a green bathing suit, she walked into the breakers at Ocean Park, and was not seen to reappear. Searchlights glared across the waters all night andl thousands of her followers pa trolled the beach for weeks, pray ing for her safety.
 A week after the disappearance, a reward of $25,OO0 was offered for news of her. This offer was with drawn June 12 and on June 23 she stumbled into border settle ment near Douglas, Arizona, say- ing she had escaped from kidnapers who had been holding her in old Mexico.
 There were stories that she had been seen in vine-covered cot tage at Carmel By -The-Sea with Kenneth G. Ormiston, operator of her radio station, who also had disappeared. Hundreds flocked to the spot and some claimed to have glimpsed the couple, but there never was definite verification.
 The story of the evangelist was that she was lured from the ocean by two nondescript persons, Rosie" and Steve" on pretense that they needed help. She said they i'm prisoned her in an automobile and drove her hundreds of miles away to a shack in the Mexican desert.
 Grand Jury and Court investi- gations failed to shake this story
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 war policing and rehabilitation probably will keep millions abroad far into 1945 and others will be poured into the war in the Pacific. Even with the end of the global war, demobilization plans call for long, slow mastering -out process. If, however, great disruptions arise in employment, it is true that women workers may find themselves faced with greater dif- facilities than men. In such an
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"M0RNING THOUGHT" PROGRAM RESUMING
 ON KlNY BROADCAST

Beginning Monday morning, Oc- tober 2, the Morning Thought" program will be resumed over radio statlon KINY. This program is
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Last Rites for Famous
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COLISEUM SATURDAY ONLY I R U L K
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 Present Problems in
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-01
Blue Book Drops The CromWeIIs

New York, Dec. 1.-CUP)-Doris Duke Cromwell, one of the worlds richest women, and James H. R. Cromwell, former U. s. minister to Canada are conspicuously absent from the 1914 social register.
 While the Blue Book makes no comment on omissions and deletions it was generally believed that the Cromwells bitter and prolonged di- vorce court wranglings had cost them their listing. Another excision presumably based upon a court ap- pearance was that of socialite John Harjes who allowed Wayne Loner- gan to use his apartment the week. end Lonergan murdered his wife. Mrs. Alice HarjeS remains in the book; she divorced Harjes shortly after the Lonergan trial.
 Others still absent were Mrs. Regi-' nald Vanderbilt and her twin sister, Thelma, Lady Furness, who were re- moved after court proceedings over young Gloria Vanderbilt De Cicco some years ago, and Cornelius Van- derbilt, now a columniSt.
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on Leyte, but American troops ring ing the enemy'S Ormoc corridor maintained patrol initiative. Artil- lery pounded Japanese positions on a 24-hour-a-day schedule.
 Japanese air activity slackened further, but patrolling American fighters shot down six enemy air. craft.
 American Liberators dropped 9S tons of bombs on two airdromes on Negros and also bomber two airfields at Davao -Mindanao Wednesday, destroying four parked planes in ids persal areas.
 American fighters struck all but one of the six vessels in the latest Ormoc-bound convoy in mast height dive bombing. The sixth, a small freighter, was sunk by a right patrol plane.
 The Japanese tried a new tactic, spreading the convoy over wide expanse instead of maintaining tight formation, but the maneuver failed.
 Part of the convoy was caught off Masbate, part off Cebu and one small freighter off Mindoro, all west or northwest of Ormoc. All six ves- sels were heavinly loaded with troops.
 General Douglas MacArthur'S
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of the House Foreign Affairs Com mittee, Introduced a repealer and announced hearings within week.
 Defaulted Debts
 The defaulted World War I debts are carried on the treasury books now in excess of $13,O0O, 100000. The debtors are: Belgium, Czechoslo- vakia, Estonia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Ro- mania, Yugoslavia, Armenia and Soviet Russia. Of all the borrowers, only Finland, with whom we recent ly broke diplomatic relations, has kept up payments.
 Germany is listed as World War I debtor because that nation ab-' sorbed Austria and therefore became responsible for that nations debt. Great Britain owes the most, up- wards of $5,570,Oo0000. France is next with more than $4,00O, 000, 900 and Italy owes about $2,000 ,000, ,000. The unpaid debts, however, are only small part of our national debt which is computed by the treasury at SPA ,922, IA, ,13403. If all the dabt- orS paid their bills today we still would be in the hole nearly two hundred billions of dollars.
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visions in default nst only on oblig- ations to the United States but on obligations to corporations or indi- vidual citizens of the United States. That latter language would have prohibited loans to many South American nations whose govern ments, municipalities or states had borrowed heavily here, frequently under high pressI'r from American investment houses, and who had not been able to pay their debts.
 At President Roosevelt's request, Johnson agreed to an amendment which limited his loan ban to those on default to the United States gov- ernment and to another which per- mitted indirect government loans to defaulters when specially author ized by congress.
 The export-import bank, for inc stance, or the reconstruction finance corporation can make direct loans to foreign governments regardless of past defaults. But the adminis- tation's purpose now Is to enable foreign governments to tap the vast store of private capital in the United States. So long as the Johnson act Is on the books, that would be im- possible for at least sixteen default- Ing governments. embracing most of Europe.
 The House military postwar plan- ming committee, which heard Ache- son yesterday, does not plan further hearings on repeal of the johnson cot. chaisman soi Bloom, p., N, F.,
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 The battle was fought at the low CT end of Ormoc Bay, 12 miles due south of Ormoc, last Japanese base on Leyte.
 The destroyer and other warships had plastered the Ormoc area with 1,2OO rounds of five-inch shells.
 Ut was a good job of smelling but it was a tame show because 1t lacked the spice of a naval engage ment,' said Capt Robert Hall Smith of Macon, Ga, commanding the naval unit.
 Smith decided to go on 8 prowl and ordered the force westward after completing the Ormoc bom- bardment just before midnight.
 At 12:30 a. m. we got a radio message from the pilot of sea- plane patroling the area, that he had spotted submarine earlier oil Pacijan Island.
 Sub Sighted
 As we came abreast of the north tip of Ponson Island at 1:30 a. m. we sighted sighted the submarine coming from the south. We eStab- lished contact at 10000 yards and quickly closed to 5000 The sea around the submarine was lighted by a curtain of suspended star shells.
 Then we opened up The first salvo off landed right in the target area. Red and white balls of fire skinned the water as the gunners fired point blank.
 Great splashes of water rose around the submarine but it did not attempt to dive, apparently because it was disabled
 Other warships including one commanded by Cmdr. John L. Kelley of Springfield, Mass, fired at longer range when they could without de11- ger of hitting our destroyer which drove straight at the submarine.
 At 800 yards the Japanese began spraying the destroyer with machine gun bullets but none found a human target. The submarines three inch gun fired only three shots before 1t was silenced.
 By this time our 40 and 20 milli- meter guns were cracking in unison and the deck of the submarine was swept clean.
 We were still running headon at the submarine. An order had been given to ram it but at the last min- ute 1t was countermanded by Smith who decided we could finish the sub marine without taking damage. The destroyer turned sharply and clear ed the submarine by barely 50 feet.
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2 Red Armies
 Push Forward
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 that city that won the village of Old and brought the Soviets abreast of the Drava rivers north bank on an 18-mile front.
 Northeast of Pecs, the SovietS pushed more than seven miles up to the west bank of the Danube to capture Kaksad, 77 miles below Budapest, and drove on into the open plains on the southwestern approaches to the capital.
 Meanwhile, Malinosky'S veteran to the north stormed into Eger from the south east and west, and routed the NaZi garrison after a sacage. all-day street battle. On the north ern wing, the Soviets drove four miles north of the Hernard river line and captured Szikszo, on the main railway line from the German Polish base at Tarnow to Miskolc, seven miles to the southwest
 MiSkolc itself was invested close ly on three sides and the fall of that Bastion seemed a matter of days at most.
 On the eastren Slovakian front. Gen. Ivan I. Petrov's Fourth Ukrainian Army hammered out small gains all along the line, des- pite sti enemy resistance and dif- ficult mountainous Terrain. Petrovs Vanguards were barely 20 miles east of the important railway cen ters of KasSa and Presov.
 German reports told of fierce fighting on the immediate eastern and southern approaches to Buda- pest, acknowledging that the thun- der of heavy artillery fire was shak- ing the capital
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 schools, art centers, undefended towns and the like" Because ordinary sanctions are inadequate against a nation of such atrocities he maintains that punishment of individuals is "the only deterrent and retributive remedy"
 Definition
 Dr. Glueck defines "war crim- inals" as those who have, in their official capacity, committed acts contrary either to the laws and customs of legitimate warfare, or the principles of criminal law gen. orally observed in civilized states.
 His program of prosecution and punishment may be summarized this way:
 l. Let the United Nations agree now to exchange war criminals among themselves, and warn neu- trals that economic and political pressure will be used if they refuse to deliver those sought for trial.
 2. Let the great majority of criminals be prosecuted in the countries where they have commit ted their atrocities. The super malefactors, whose deeds have af- fected several nations, should be tried and punished under the solemn auspices of the entire civil ized world" in an international criminal court, staffed by repre- sentatives of the United Nations, neutrals and possibly eminent jur- istS eXiled from AXis-held lands.
 Let the chief malefactors-Hit- Ter, Mussolini, Tojo and their gen. eral staffs-be given the death punishment. A basic consideration in determining the punishment of others should be the need for hun dreds of thousands of able-bodied workers to rebuild devastated areas. Hence, work in labor battalions ought to be the fate of the vast majority of those convicted.
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Noxon Seeks New Trial
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flanagan of the state prison and two guards, Noxon was brought here from Boston by train yesterday to attend the hearing.
 The latest new trial motion was supported by affidavits intended to show that two jurors named, D. Howard Brown, elderly Dalton pa- per maker, and Harvey s, Chitten- den, Canaan, war worker. had ex- pressed opinions regarding Noxon'S guilt prior to his trial.
 Tn one affidavit. F. Raymond Greene, North Canaan, Conn.,. constable, quoted Chittenden as hav- ing remarked, prior to the trial, If ever have anything to do with the case. I will hang the --- -- -----."
 Another affidavit, by Kenneth g. Reynard, Canaan war worker, stat- ed that from talks with Chlttenden prior to the trial he concluded that Chittenden disliked Noxon.
 4 third, by George F. New of Dal" ton, quoted Juror Brown as having remarked before the trial that he believed the man was guilty"
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3 Strikes Cut Production
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Continued from Page D seniority transfer of one employe. Some 4,000 other Dodge workers remain unaffected by the B-29 de- partmental strike, although the possibility exists of a plant-wide sympathy strike.
 Vote Taken
 Graham-Paige's $500 workers voted to remain away from work until Tuesday when company sus- pensions handed g welders in a seniority row expire. This group left a four-hour secret meeting at mid night last night after booing down pleas from union chiefs to abide by the recently-reaff1rmed JAW mo- strike pledge.
 The unions executive board, in session at Cleveland when informed of the seriousness of the three walk outs, wired local officials to take the necessary action to halt the viola tions of union policy. Their order orders as well as War Labor Board appeals for resumption of all opera tions flor national security" had lit tie affect.
 Meanwhile, with no relation to the strike, 125,O0O Ford Motor Car Company employees were lead of until Monday when River Rouge, Lincoln, Highland Park, Willow Run bomber and several feeder plants will reopen after a company-order- ed inventory. A minor strike that hared earlier in the week at Rouge was expected to be settled by the first of next week. The Ford plants were sufficiently ahead of war pro- duction to warrant closing of most departments for inventory, the company said.
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 There was no loss of life reported, but several persons suffered minor injuries.
 Telephone and power lines, poles and trees were downed, homes flooded and damaged, and highway and rail traffic interrupted by winds WfliUA reached velocity or 85 mlles an hour at times.
 Steady 65 mile an hour winds buffeted Cape Cod, where residents said the storm was the worst northeaster in 40 years, and the Chatham Coast Guard station said the winds were almost" as strong as the recent hurricane
 Among the communities sustain ing the heaviest damage were New Bedford, Fairhaven and South Dartmouth, where waterfronts were filtered with wreckage, and Hyannis, Salisbury Beach, Long Beach, West Dennis. Fortune Rocks. Me, and Winthrop, where families were eva- cuated from flooded homes.
 Other Communities
 Other communities suffering hea- " damage included Quincy, Lynn. Salem, Portland, Me. Hampton Beach, N. H, Woods Hole. Hyan- nisport, West Yarmouth, Chatham and Provincetown.
 The Boston and Maine Railroad reported service was interrupted along the New Hampshire and Maine coasts. The eastern route of the railroad. Portland division. was disrupted when the Hampton river marshes were flooded and busses were used to transfer passengers between Newburyport and Ports- mouth. N. II.
 Busses were substituted also on the Rockland. Me, and Calais. Me, branches Of the B. & M,
 Surface water flowing Into the Kennebec river near Gardner. Me-, undermined i50 feet of Maine con- lral railroad traekage. Some trains were detoured and buses were called Into service to carry other pasSon- gers.
 The New England Telephone and
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Telegraph Company reported more than $500 telephones out of com-
 mission, 2,000 in Rhode Island alone.

Boston, December 1. (UP) - The rescue of a woman, five men, a dog and a cat from two disabled coal barges near Sandwich during the height of yesterdays northeast gale was disclosed by the Coast Guard today which said that during the past 13 days a total of 20 per- sons had been rescued in the area.
 Rescued from the barge Cutler" were Walter R. Twiford of (907 First street) Elizabeth City, N. C.. his wife Ruby, and cdewman Wal ter M. Frederickson of (634 Newhall street) Hamden, Conn.
 Taken from the barge "Winfred Sheridan" were Captain Christian Thorsen of (450 Laurel streeO Perth Amboy N. J., donkeyman Howard Hartman of Boston and crewman Egil Petersen Of (33 Pros pect street) Brooklyn, N. J.
 A beach party Of Coast Guards men from the Sandlch station shot a line to the Sheridan that founded 300 feet from short and surf boat brought the members of the crew ashore.
 Meanwhile Captain John P, White Of Mattapan, skipper of Coast Guard tug. went to the aid of the Cutler which was shipping water and flying distress signals.
 A Ilne was thrown aboard. the crew donned life packets and were drawn through the seas through the seas to the tug. First Co come aboard was Che harge's dog Spank followed by the cat Mac and then tho captains wife. The barge sank soon after being abandoned,
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was black nightgown for a lady's Christmas gift.
 I kept thinking of Mrs Roosevelt with her gifts wrapped these many months in rayon ribbons and stack ed in the attic: the books shed bought when there was a chance to buy books, the toys for the grand children, and maybe the nightgowns she'd purchased when the buying was good.
 She had her own troubles, even back last spring. She managed to find gifts for small girls in some profusion, but things for little boys, she said, mostly were not worth the buying. Too brittle. Mrs. FDR solved that one by putting war savings stamps where ever her list called for red iron fire engines.
 Good Idea
 Not bad idea, either. ! was con- templating the walls of feminine backs between me and the night gowns and thinking about Mrs. ktOOoCfCAI, WAACAA ~ AaNAy WAAO oCShASG to think I'd squeezed her on pur. pose, gripped her reticule in threat ening fashion. I got out Of there. Without my nightgown.
 The floor walker wouldn't let me light my pipe. Special orders from the Fire Department, he said. Quite Q crowd, I said. Yes 1t was, he re- piled, but wait until the government offices start closing at 4:30 p. m, Then, he said, @ floor walkers life isn't worth @ nickel.
 1 couldn't crowd on an elevator going down, but l did get aboard one of those moving stairways. It was wheezing under the load and Tnak- ing clanking sounds in its innards, On the main floor there was Q cir- cular counter with c sign; Fifty one gauge hose In stock today"
 Boy-oh-boy. l don't know what kind of hose Is q bi-gauger, but 1t must be Q beaut. There were 60 many ladies under that sign. they made in the aggregate Q kind Of low, whimperlng sound. They were co thick couldn't even sec one Of those hoses.
 Mrs, Roosevelt. with Q low bow, I ealnle you.
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Tanks Open Big Battles For Valleys
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were locked in a fierce street bat tie for tiny Merode. A German transocean dispatch said the Am erican Third Tank and Ninth In- fantry divisions were fighting at Merode in an effort to break through to Duren.
 The broadcast claimed that a German regiment consisting mostly of young 20-year old soldiers" had thrown the Americans out of Mer- ode, but indicated the DoughboyS had driven back into the town.
 Nearly 100 miles to the south, Patton's Third Army came under its heaviest artillery fire of the war as it pushed through to the Saar river opposite Merzig. Big guns of the Siegfried line ranging up to ITO millimeters were raining shells on the advancing columns.
 Eelements of the 10th Armored division reached the Saar three miles northeast of Merzig after a mile and a half advance. Other units cleared Fitten, mile and a half west of Merzig, and slashed through to the river bank opposite Merzig, while the 9th Infantry division came up to the Saar two and half miles south of Merzig.
 Towns Entered
 The central column entered Hil- bringen and Battern, both half mile west of MerZig, and arrived at the saar in time to see the Ger mans blow up the bridge leading directly into the east bank indus trial center.
 Farther southeast, the 90th divis- ion gained a half mile near Buren, four miles northwest of Saulertern. Eelements of the 95th division still were between two and three miles west and south of Saarlautern.
 The Saar river represents one of the most formidable natural defense barriers the Third Army yet has come up against. The flood-swollen river itself has overrun its banks, while behind it stretch 10 miles of tank traps, pillboxes, minefelds, barbed wire, anti-tank ditches and artillery supplements.
 In the past A hours, the Third Army captured 1,649 prisoners, boosting its bag since the start of it's offensive to 25,572.
 Patch'S Seventh
 It. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's Seventh Army closed to within one to two miles of the strategic road junction of Haguenau, 13 miles north of Strasbourg, in converging advances over radial roads against only small arms resistance.
 Seventeen miles west of Stras- bourg, American Forces occupied Barr at the foot of the Vosges moun- tains and repulsed counter attack three miles to the south.
 The Germans unleashed a heavy bombardment on Strasbough, ap- parently in an effort to disrupt preparations to convert it into a base for large-scale operations across the Rhine.
 French First Army Forces re- pulsed German counter attack near Bourbach, 12 miles west of Mulhouse, knocking out 10 German tanks and inflicting severe losses on infantry.
 Northeast of Mulhouse, the French pushed into the Harth Forest.
 At the northern end of the front, British Second Army Forces cap tured Wanssun, 12 miles north west of Venlo, and Broekhuizen, eight miles north, enemy strong points west of the MaaS. Thirty to 40 prisoners were taken in Brock huizen village and castle, including a number of Hitler youths.