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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-06
ARREST MAN
In SAL TE D.
TRUNK MURDER.
BY ROBERT T. LOUGHRAN
United Press staff Correspondentl

BY ROBERT T. LOUGHRAN
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
Chicago, May g. (UP)-
Police arrested Ricardo Mora,
26, today for questioning in
connection with the murder
of a dark-haired woman
whose semi-nude body was
found packed in salt in a
trunk at Los Angeles yester-
day.
Police said, however, that
Morals description did not
agree with that of the man
who shipped the trunk from
Chicago to Los Angeles un-
der the name Of John Lopez.
The homicide squad checked
hanky- tonks and chiep burlesque
houses in the South State street
district seeking clues to the iden-
tity Of the victim, described at about
80 years Of age.
Mora was arrested in an apart
ment where he was living with his
wife. Officers said he was younger
and lighter than the the man des-
cribed by railway express agency
clerk as having shipped the trunk
from Chicago early last Sunday.
Police 1t. Philip Breitzke said,
however, that Mora would be held
for investigation.
Charles r. Heniff, clerk who &C.
copied the trunk for shipment at
the Dearborn station, said Lopez
was about 40 years old, five feet,
five inches tall, and weighre about
1855 poupndsfl Mora gave his age as
26 and officers said he weighed
about $50 pounds.
The body was found at Los
Angeles when employees of the Rail-
way Express Co., noticed bloody
brine Seeping from the trunk, which
emitted q foul odor. Police opened
the trunk and found the woman's
body, clad only In underclothing and
bobby socks, beneath a sheet. She
was in a kneeling position and her
ankles and wrists were bound. No
marks Of violence were found on
the body and an autopsy was
ordered.
Circumstances surrounding dis
covery of the murder were strik-
ingly similar to those Of the Winnie
Ruth Judd murders nearly 10 years
ago. Mrs. Judd shot and killed her
two roommates in Phoenix, Ariz.,
hacked the bodies in small pieces
and shipped them to Los Angeles
in two trunks and hat box. She
later was found insane and sent
to a state mental hospital in
Arizona.
1H..Ai.A..aA a. nann
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-06
Jops QuitIn
Record Size

UNITED Press War Correspondent
Allied Headquarters, Southwest
Pacific, May 6.-(UP)-Groups of
japanese troops. half-staryed and
detected. are surrendering In record
numbers In Northern New Guinea.
1t was disclosed today as Allied
planes and PIT boots continued
their attacks on the enemy escape
routes and sank or damaged at least
20 barges along the coast.
Reports from the American beach
heads at Hollandia and Aitape dis
closed that the japanese were sur
rendering In numbers never equalled
before In any previous southwest
Pacific campaign, indicating that the
isolated enemy troops realize there
Is no hope OF getting supplies or
achievements through the Allied
enlightenment.
Japanese casualties IN the H0l-
Iandia area alone totaied 6eT killed
and more than $50 captured through
wednesday. The predieament Of
the enemy was apparent from one
typical American report which said
"a group Of IS half-staFved and
rejected japanese have suETen-
dered.s
Heavy and medium bombera hit
the enemy alFdrones "a Wewak, %
miles below Aitape, with 100 tonf
Of bombs which started huge flrel
while light naval patrols on tWc
nights destroyed two bargeg and
damaged seven others on the coast
Fighter planes and naval patrols
Ccontlnued a. PaGs y
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Worst Burned
Girl Dies

Boston, May 6. (UP)-Little Flor
ence Ward, g.. of Woburn died at
a hospital early today after a
three-day fight to live despite fear
full burns sustained when a bottle
Of fingernail polish toppled from a
stove in her home and she was en-
veloped in the flaming liquid.
Death came at 2:45 a. m. after
some so blood transfusions had been
given in an effort to combat liyid
second and third degree burns that
covered three-fourths Of her body
from chin to knees.
The child had passed the 8
p. m. mark which physicians had
believed would be the crisis in her
plucky battle and nurses and doc
tors who had maintained 24-hour
vigil at her bedside since Wednes-
day were somewhat hopeful shat
by some unforeseen miracle" she
would pull through.
No member Of her family wns
present as she died. Her father, a
constant attendant since the al-
eident, was at home with his three
smaller children. He arrived nearly
an hour later and tearfulIy entered
the hospital room.
Her mother, Florence, was not
told Immediately Of her daughters
death because she, herself, Is con
fined 10 a Woburn hospital with
severe arm, face and hand burns
sustained as she tried 70 extinguifh
the flames shat ignited her dangh-
teF's clothes.
More than 900 persons inelndirs
y. q. sailors. British tafE and men !.
bers Of an ALL Milkmen's unsaa
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OrIemonski
Quotes StoIin

Moscow. May 6 - (u.PD - The
Rev. stanislaus orlemanski OF
Springfield, Mass, said today after
his second conference with Josef
Stain that the Soviet premier us
very friendly disposed toward the
Roman Catholic church."
A week after his unprecedented
meeting with Stain, OFlemanski
again was In conference with the
premier and Foreign CommisSaF v.
M, Molotoy for more than two
hours last night.
oremanski, leader OF the Kos
eionski League. which opposes the
exiled Polish government IN Lon
don and supports the Goylet-spon.
sored Union Of Polish Patriots.
came 10 Russia 10 discuss Polish
Affairs.
Again I was In conference with
Marshal Stain and Molotov last
night" he told reporters today.
They are two great men. ] fully
appreciate and ! am very thankful
70 both these gentlemen for the
democratic reception ! received"
In the week between the two
meetings. oFlemansld visited the
tcnntipBaA - paaa y
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Soviet LuII
Continues
BY HARRISON SALISBURY

UNITED Press Sta, Correspondent
Moscow, May 6-CUP)-The lull
in large-scale ground action on
the Russian front entered its third
week today, but Radio Moscow said
preparations were under way fol-
decisive battles"
"a German DNB Agency Dis
patch said the Red Army launched
an attack against the naval base OF
Sevastopol in the crimea yester-
day.
At sea, ships and planes of the
red banner Black sea fleet sank II
more vessels, including five trans
ports totaling $4,000 tons. and dam
aged many others in a series Of at
tacks on conveys seeking to eyacu-
ate some Of the Axis garrison from
the besieged Crimean stronghold Of
Seyastopol.
A 3,000-ton transport and two
barges were sent TO the bottom by
torpedoes from warshlps, WHINE a.
rect bomb hits accounted for -four
transports totaling 10000 tons, three
landing barges and q patrol vessel
The bag increased TO at least liz
the number Of ships sunk or dam
aged In 20 days OF the battle oi
eeyastopol.
In Romania. Soviet stormoyik at'
tack planes inflicted heavy losses
on enemy troops and supply eon'
centFatlons in bombing and STRAIT
ing raids.
Red Army forces continued Il
repulse German attacks southeast
OF stanlslawow In old Poland. kill
ing 800 enemy troops. and In one
sector captured several German
bloekhouses.
other Soviet troops broke int
enemy trenches south OF T1Taspol
near the Dnestr estuary. and KILLED
200 Officers and men in a reconnais'
sance raid.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-06
Nozis Rush
roops To
Scandinavia
BY ROBERT DOWSON
UNITED Press STAFF Correspondent

London, May 6 - (U.P.) Stock
holm dispatches today reported
multiplying signs that the Allies in
tend to invade Scandinavia and
said the Germans have rushed 3d.
900 more troops to Denmark and
Norway to meet the threat
Brigadier General Leroy Collins,
commander of a Northern Ireland
base section for the U. S. Army,
said a speech at Belfast yesterday
that Allied armies would finish the
job in Europe in 1914, but warned
losses probably would be heavy.
"a German DNB broadcast re-
ported by U. s. government moni-
tors said Marshal Erwin Rommel,
German anti-invasion commander,
had again inspected defense install
lations along the French Mediter-
ranean coast during the past few
days)
The London Daily Sketch report
ed from Stockholm that the Ger
mans were understood to have re-
ceiyed information of large Allied
shipping concentrations at Iceland,
obviously a possible springboard for
a landing in Norway.
Coincidentally, German recon-
Nuisance planes few over north
east Scotland last night. presum-
ably attempting to spy out any Al
lied preparations for thrust across
the North Sea to Denmark, one Of
the shortest routes to Berlin.
Other Swedish press reports said
the Germans had sent $4,000 men
to Denmark and 10000 to Norway
to reinforce the garrisons in those
countries, while the London Daily
Mail relayed a Stockholm rumor
that German naval units were NOV
ing between the Baltic and the
North Sea.
THE rumors are unconfirmed, but
there seems to be tension in the
Oresund between Sweden and Den
mark and vague talk also is heard
of naval activity" the Daily Mail
said.
American and British aerial re-
connaiSsance units, were revealed
to have completed the photograph
ing of the entire 3.000-mile Atlantic
coastline Of Axis Europe to a con-
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Bross Co.,CIO
Resume Talk

Continuance of a conference be.
tween labor and management rep
resentatives of the G. I. o. and the
American Brass Co., respectively and
presided over by James Healey OF
Boston, vice-chairman of the New
England War Labor Board will get
underway again today at The Ell
ton after an all day session yester.
day when final settlement OF the
contract disputes failed to be met.
Central point of dispute is the
unions demand for pay increase
which the company has refused on
the grounds that they violate the
Little Steel formula. The original
contract between the union and
company expired Sept. 80 last and
under proposed new terms the union
demands IS varied points.
The union has asked a raise OF
II cents an hour; a guarantee OF
annual wage; severance pay for
employees laid off unavoidably; night
shift bonuses; sick leave pay and
others. Although the company
has not agreed to these proposals
1t has agreed 10 an extension OF
at least so days.
Mr.. Healey yesterday cautioned
principals Of both contestants not
TO discuss the progress of yester-
days conference. About 10000 EN-
ployes OF the Waterbury. Ansonia
and Torrington branches Of the
ABC are affected.
At yesterdays meeting those at
tending included John J. Mankows
sky Of Ansonia, @. ]. o.. district
manager; 6ecy. John J. Drlscoll
and is members OF the O. ]. o.
unions OF this city, Torrington and
Ansonia; J. Harold Madden. direc-
tor of labor relations OF the AmeFi-
can Brass Co, william Clark, man
ager OF labor relations Of that com.
pany and the supsrlntendents Of
the various branches Of the CON-
pany.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-06
POUND NAZI
DEFENSES IN
RTHFRANCE
BY WALTER CRONKITE
United Press War Correspondent

BY WALTER CRONKITE
UNITED Press War Correspondent
London, May g. (UP) -
American LiberatorS fought
their way through the worst
spring gales in years today to
pound Germany's anti-invas-
ion defenses in northern
France and send the wars
greatest air offensive into its
goth straight day.
Defying weather that grounded
most other Allied planes, the four
engined bombers of the 9th Air
Force sent another cargo Of block
busters crashing down on military
installations" in the Pas De Calais
area across the Straits Of Dover
from England, USAAF COM
munique announced.
Mustangs, Lightnings and Thun-
derbolts of both the 9th and 9th
Air Forces escorted the Liberia
tors. At least two formations Of
bombers and fighters roared over
London at breakfast time and la
ter we're heard crossing the Chan
mel above clouds.
1t was the 9th Air Forces 18th
operation in is days and 10th in 20
days.
In the Mediterranean theater,
Raj Halifaxes and Wellingtons at
tackled railway yards and oil stor-
age tanks at Campina, 10 miles
northwest of Ploesti, Romania, in
the pre- dawn darkness today.
The raid the first by Raj night
bombers on the Romanian oil
fields, followed daylight attacks
yesterday by American Flying For
tresses and Liberators on the Plo-
esti railway yards and the Danu-
bian communication center of Tur-
nu-Severin just below the Iron
Gate.
Dwindling Attack
Though American and British
planes have been over western Eu-
rope every day and night since
April II, the scale of their attacks
has dwindled in the past week be-
cause Of gradually worsening
weather.
Only a few hundred planes at
most participated in yesterdays
raids on France, while last nights
Raj operations were confined to
mine laying and Mosquito patrol
over southern France, where three
Junkers 88S were shot up on air.
fields at Mont-De- HarSan, 70 miles
south of Bordeaux.
Coastal reports said winter condi-
tons returned to the Dover Straits
last night. with gales reaching an
intensity Of so miles an hour, rain
squalls plotting out visibility and
the temperature dropping many de-
grees in few hours.
10000 Sortees
The American and British Air
Forces besad in Britain barely man
aged to reach 10000 Sorties in the
past week, less than the total re-
corded In three days of the previous
week. American heavy bombers have
not been out in large force since
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Hollywood, May 8 uPJ -
Movie Star Judy Garland, VINO
once said she would make her mar
Fied life stick, filed suit for divorce
today from Sergeant David Rose,
charging him with causing her
great humiliation.
Miss Garland, who Just turned
n. parted from Rose. former ar
ranger and composer. . year ago.
announcing that they had decided
to take q matrimonial vacation.
Last January she announced she
would divorce Rose. now N tne
army.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-06
DOG GIVES LIFE

S0meFyille, Mass, May Q - ~,
P.D - An e-yeaF-0ld dog named
Bud" collapsed and died OF smoke
inhalation today soon after he had
baFlSed q warning which enabled
two families 10 escape q tenement
house FIRE here early today. The
blaze was quickly alelied.
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New YeFk. Agay e-luPl-
The War Department reported
yesterday that George kylVess
YER VleFeek, ~. son 81 the
writer serving q prison term
foF failure % register ~ .
German agent. was killed IN
aeiion en Afaseh -, ~ Italy.
The elder VieFeek b en- trial
An Waahlngtem with 20 ethefs,
charges With ae6iliom,
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Whitman. Mas, May 9 - CUP
.-ThieVes pried open the front doc
OF q store containing Saily's Ores
shop early today ana escaped viii
wonien's clothing worth about ~
600.
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Evening star., 1944-10-01

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Evening star., 1944-10-01
Mickey Rooney Wed,
Miss Birmingham
.By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Sept. 30.-
Mickey Rooney, now private In
the Army, and Miss Betty Jane
Rase, the Miss Birmingham of 1914
were married here this afternoon
after a whirlwind courtship of less
than week.
Miss Rase, tall T-year-old
blond, was introduced to Pvt
Rooney who is stationed at Camp
Sibert, Ala, last Sunday at movie
preview here, by Lily May Caldwell
Birmingham News reporter who ac-
companied Miss Rase to the recent
Atlantic City beauty pageant where
she was NTH in the Miss America
contest.
Rumors Of the wedding had been
current here for two days. Miss
Rase wore a diamond engagement
ring when she returned from a visit
to Gadsden Ala, near Camp Sibert
in midweek.
Mickey, one of the highest
salaried players in the film industry
was inducted into the Army last
June IA after earlier having been
rejected on physical grounds.
He Is the divorced husband OF
Actress Ava Gardner, whom he
Evening star., 1944-10-01
Monpower
Continued From First Page.)

industrial employers, including the
Navy Yard and the public utilities,
asked for 1000 new workers. VINO
cut the estimates to 1000, was actu-
ally able to supply net increase
of only 626 workers. For that net
increase, 10000 workers were hired
and lost through turnover, Mr.. Con-
molly said.
The "a leading trade and service
establishments sought 10ca addi-
tional workers but got net increase
of 308 workers in the six-month
period. To get that increase, 16,600
workers were hired and lost through
turnover. ,
Controls Curb Turnover.
On the subject of turnover, Mr..
Connolly asserted that the controls
placed on hiring through the prior
ity referral program. which went
into effect July /, greatly reduced
the shifting of workers from job
to job during the past summer.
In the trades and services, he
reported, turnover increased by 16
per cent from June to August of
last year but decreased by nearly
10 per cent in the comparable period
this year, despite the pressure to
go back to peacetime jobs" How
ever, in August, 1914, workers were
quitting their jobs at the rate of
ISL per hundred workers employed.
In the industrial establishments,
turnover increased by IS per cent
from June to August of last year
and only per cent in the same
period this year. The turnover
rate in August, 1914, was Sc per
hundred workers employed.
One suggested method of drawing
manpower into the essential indus
tries is reducing the employment
ceilings of less essential employers
Without formally reducing ceilings
Mr.. Connolly said, the less essential
employers are below their permitted
level of employment now because
of the refusal of USES to send them
workers. Department stores, he
said, are hoping to meet their needs
by hiring women over IS, who are
not under USES control.
11S Less Essential Employers.
OF the 715 Washington employers
who have applied for employment
ceiling adjustment or for a priority
rating which would give them bet
ter chance of getting workers
through the USES, Mr.. Connolly
reported, 1l8 were less essential en-
ployers. No action has been taken
on these requests.
Three employers, including two
working on secret projects, now have
been given group one priorities, en-
titling them to first choice on
available workers. One employer
has been given a group two priority;
36 have been placed in group three
and 159 in group four, Mr.. Connolly
said.
After the needs of all these en-
ployers have been considered, the
remainder of the dwindling labor
supply goes to the essential and
local employers whose labor short
ages are not critical enough to get
Evening star., 1944-10-01
Ensiqn's Death Held Suicide

Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
yesterday issued a certificate of sui
eide in the death of Ensign Joseph
M. Collins of Cleveland. Ensign
Collins was found in St. Elizabeth's S
Hospital last Monday hanging from
the head of his bed with a sheet
tied around his neck. He never re-
gained consciousness, hospital au-
thorities said.
Evening star., 1944-10-01

armored truck they had captured
from Costa Ricans yesterday.
The spokesman said the Costa
Rican government considered the
incident closed since the Nicaraguan
exiles were dispersing and their an..-
Somoza coup apparently had failed.
Serious clashes had been expected
II the rebels reached the border,
where President Somoza has mobil-
lied the national guard, leaders Of
Evening star., 1944-10-01

to attempt to re-enter Nicaragua
and overthrow President Somoza, 1t
was reported. They also had at
tempted to take other border towns
in executing their plan.
Picado's spokesman said the
Nicaraguan band fled aboard a
motor launch headed down the San
Carlos River, probably in the direc-
tion Of the Nicaraguan border. when
the Costa Ricans arrived at Muelle
de San Carlos. They abandoned an
Evening star., 1944-10-01
Nicardguans 0usfed
From Costa Rica Town

By the Associated Press.
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Sept. 3d.
A Spokesman for President Teodoro
Picado reported tonight that Costa
Rican patrol had recaptured the
town of Muelle de San Carlos with
out struggle, from Nicaraguan
revolutionaries who siezed it this
morning.
The exiled Nicaraguans occupied
the town as part of a general plan
Evening star., 1944-10-01

groups one to four priority ratings
And last of all come the less essen
tial employers, who get workers not
covered by the priority referral pro-
gram and those who cannot be
placed in any essential or locally
needed work.
Evening star., 1944-10-01

married ct Ballard. Calf, Januar,
10, 1912.
They separated about q year latei
and in September, l943, Miss Gard
ner obtained divorce in Las Vegas
New, after testifying that Mickey
informed her he no longer cared
for her and regarded their mar
riage as mistake.
Evening star., 1944-10-01
Mrs. Margaret Gruhom Dies

WASHINGTON. Ind, Sept. 80 lF1.
Mrs. Margaret Graham, SO, mother
LOT Joseph B. and Robert Graham,
former automobile manufacturers.
died at the family home today. The
two sons live here.
Evening star., 1944-10-01

Insure your future security by
!buvinx War Bonds and hanging on
to them.
Evening star., 1944-10-01

the Nicaraguan oppositionists have
been placed under arrest by Costa
Rican authorities IN other border
towns.
Evening star., 1944-10-01

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