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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-04
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THE WORLD WAS AGHAST {.

'The power in one pound of the (atomic) explosive equaled 10000 tons of TNr. IA great source of evil ;. a few pounds of bombs could wipe out such cities as New York or Chicago. A few tons could submerge such an island as Japan. A heavy enough bomb might cause an earthquake ...
 some people see the force inside the atom becoming a great power for good z. it could unshackle man forever from the chains of hard labor !. :"
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-04
State Holiday
 Troffic Heovy
BY UNITED PRESS

Thousands Of holiday travellers thTonged Connectic cut highways, beaches and resorts, observing Con. necticut's first peacetlme Labor Day in four years.
 There were nine violent deaths in the state. three highway fatalities, three dlownings. two fatal falls and one electrocutlon.
 Despite record numbers Of auto mobiles iammins maif highways, state police reported comparatively few accidents. State police commits sioner Edward ]. Hickey credited the new portable traffic tower sys- tem with making improved traffic cortrol possible.
 An estimated S0.o00 persons jam- med fairgrounds at Goshen, Had- dam Neck, South Woodstock and West Hartford.
 Vhstims e hnliday aoolAsaAs were:
 Herbert H. Melson, Kllllngly. and William. Oates. nanielson. who were (oonllmusd on Page Q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-04
Local Police Capture Hit Run Driver
 Ansonio Men Held
 As Autoist Who
 Struck MeKenno
 Boy
By JOSEPH GILLIAN

Thomas Carsella, 46, 204 Main street, AnsOnla, was apprehended this morning by It. Patrick RoSert and Patrolman John Walsh as tho hit-run driver who severely injured Jackie McKenna, 10, son of MT. and Mrs, John McKenna, East Main street, Saturday morning ct East Main and Wolcott streets.
 Police had followed many false leads in their search for the driver, including Q reported registration number which, after further investi- gatlon, proved to be false.
 Fled Scene
 After striking the McKenna boy, who had started to cross the street with Q group of companions, Car sella fled up Wolcott street, One Of the group of boys gave police the false marker number, and in spite of the fact that 1t was the wrong one, police investigation swiftly rounded up the hit-run offender.
 McKenna was rushed to St. Mary'S hospital in the police ambu- lance suffering with @ fractured left leg and head and face abraSions He was reported to be in good con- dition ct the hospital this after noon.
 Third Local Accident
 This Is the third accident in the city in the past few days. David Kinney, six-year-old son of Crosby high school teacher John Kinney Plank road, was killed week agt last Sunday when struck by Q bus or East Main street while returning home from church. John Corparvi 5, 1868 North Main street was injur' cd when struck by car on Nortf Main street Monday when he start cd across the street. to meet hi father.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-04
Air-Sea Ports Taken; MacArthur To Remove Headquarters To Tokyo
Prosrom Already l9-Doys Ahead of Schedule; GI Troops Move E~~A
By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press Stan COrrespOnasntl

By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press Stan COrrespcnasnsll
 Gen. MacArthur's Head quarters, Yokohama, Sept. { = (UP) - Thousands of American troops began the occupation of southern Ja~ pan by sea and air today, taking over Kyushlu's most important airfield and a large port,
 Some 500 miles to the northeast, the first 200 of on an ultimate force of 10000 American air and ground force crewmen moved into the Tachikawa army air base eight miles west of Tokyo under an occupatoin pro- gram that will put troops In the Tokyo metropolitan dis trict Friday.
 On Grand Scale
 Large-scale transfer of trooRe from Atsugi to the Tachikawa aaxe drome will begin Thursday. io dnSa ahead of schedule.
 Gen. Douglas MacArthIT. 9lzs preme Occupation Conmandsgs probably will move his headQunxlex8 from Yokohama to Tokyo propaz next week.
 Landings on the southern tlp ~ Kyushru, southernmost of the SnHs anese homo islands. began a& on#4 without incident. In complianoe VI MacArthur's surrender ogdexR no| . single Japanese plane vas sez In the air.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-04
NetVisits
 Dying Son

Miami Beach, Fla, Sept. A-(UP) .-Ex.Egt, Frank ]. Wrlnu arrived here early today for 6 reunion with his wife anc their son. Jerry, eight- year-oid boy who Is dying apparent- ly of an incurable disease.
 The twice-wounded veteran Of more than two years overseas who was discharged recently hurried from the airport to the little apart ment od Miami Beach, only block from the ocean where Jerry takes . daily dip in hope that sun and water will aid his weakened mus eles.
 IncurabIe Disease
 The boy is suffering from n1uscu- lar dystrophy, disease that doctors say Is incurable and whicl will take ais life within four years. Know Ing only that he Is weaker than other boys, Jerry cheerfully but sleepily greeted his father this morning.
 Wrini learned from newspaper Gtories of Jerry's Golden Day when Ae was guest of the Roney Plaza hotel, thaC their child had little longer to live.
 Jerry was treated to 6 full days entertainment at one of the na- lions most famous resorts, when the story Of his illness and his almost certain death became known. He was che happiest boy in the world that day. and he repeated the perform nnce today-when he really woke up and realized his dad was home to Ntay.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-04
FoREAEEN ON sTRzKE

Akron, O.. Sept. 4-(UP)~Gtxiks ing members Of the FoUemsnh Aa= sociation of America set up n'eiEes lines today ct the B. 2. 0oa6fA@M Tire and Rubber Company.
 4 spokesman said that the faEes men were protesting against N1ass lay-ofIs which followed war cozs tract cancellations and tiaak kk wislaed to be placed on a aiw naH one-haif day week.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-04
First, Tokyo
 Raiders Land InAmericu
By MAUREEN GOTHLIN Limited Press Staff COrrespOndent)

NOAAWC0 ACoo 0essAA SS@eS~fS@~Ne~--~f
 Washington, Sept. - (UP) - Three American flyers who partici- pated in It. Gen. James H. Dooli- tiles historic raid on Tokyo April IS, 1942, returned to their native America today.
 At 12:42 a. m. a giant C-54 Army Transport plane set them down gently on the brilliantly lit runway of the Wasnington National Airport.
 Dazedly, as if not believing what was happening, It. Robert L. Hite, 25, Earth, Tex, It. Chase J. Neil- son, Hyru, Utah, and S/Sgt. Jacob S. Deshazer, a, Madras, Ore, step. ped down the ramp from the big plane.
 Joyous
 Tt sure is great to be back on Yankee soil," Deshazer said.
 For nearly 4l long and terrible months they had been prisoners of the Japanese. After Japan surrend- cred they were rescued August 20 by once of Strategic Services Para (Coiltinued on Page q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-04
Seek World  Says Emperor
 Hirohito coE,nmonds
 Peace Era Sought
 by Jap Peers
By FRANK H. BARTHOLOMEW

By FItANk H. BARTHOLOMEW United Press Stan Correspondent
 Tokyo, Sept. 4--(UP)-Emperor Hirohito, dressed in the khaki uni- form of a grand marshal of the Japanese army, commanded the first postwar session of the Imperial diet today to build a peaceful state from the ashes of his shattered nation.
 Opening the ssth session of Jap- ans Legislature" Hirohito read an imperial rescript to 8 joint session of the house of peers and the house of representatives in the lavish diet building which stands unmarked in
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-04
TotoI Defeat
 Unacceptable 

Editors Note: United Press correspondents have spent several days in carefully surveying Japa- nesc opinion on the outcome of the war. interviewing businessmen, journalists, and influential Iead- CTS The following dispatch is a result of the survey.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-04

EDITORS NOTEi The writer of the following dispatch Is vets eFan United Press War CoFress pondent. He was transferred Co the Pacific after covering She American advance through France and Germany, during which ne saw most of the heaviiysbembed cities of Europe.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-04
By RICHARD W. JOHNSTON

United Press Stan COrrespOndent)
 Tokyo, Sept. 4.-(UP)--The Japa- nese people, stubbornly proud to tine last, still don't realize that they have lost the war. The entire na ton lives behind comforting wall of excuses.
 The Japanese Navy, virtually blown out of the water. Blames its debacle on bad administration of the war effort by the Army.
 Japanese intellectuals criticize the military bitterly--pOt for taking Japan into the war, but only for failing to win 1t.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-04
By JAMES ?. AGe0LINcY (UnIted Press Stan Correspondent

United Press stan CaFreap0ndentl
 Hiroshima, Sept. 3-(uP)-Hiro- shina is ail the ruined cities Of the world put together and spread out.
 Yet only one bomb did it-a sine gle atomic bomb dropped by an American SuperfoFtress on Aug. 2, the first atomic bomb to be ioosed on . hostile land.
 We drove into the center Of what Caly 6 mentk ego was q pgoeperons modern city and for two miles in every direction found nothing put complete and utter ruin.
 Dy Aug. 20, the 1ananase had
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Evening star., 1945-01-01

kept the organization alive, and
1T was hoped that a series of tire
thefts that followed the instiga-
ton of tire rationing at the be-
ginning of the war would reinvoke
the original purpose of the COM
pany-to apprehend thieves.
A historical "holdover" from re-
construction days, the company was
organized seven months after Gen.
Lees surrender to Gen. Grant at
Appomattox when Fairfax County
residents took active measures to
catch horse thieves in the neigh
borhood.
The effectiveness OF the organ
ization is shown in reports that
horse thefts stopped almost i'm
mediately, and it was not until
Evening star., 1945-01-01
WoodIown Horse Company,
Nemesis of Thieves, to Disbund

The Woodlawn Horse Company
organized in Fairfax County shortly
after the Civil War to break up
a series of horse thefts. faces
abandonment because of lack of in
terest on the part of its present
members.
A meeting of the company, called
Christmas Day for the annual cleo
ton of officers, was SO poorly at
tended the election was postponed
for lack of quorum, and so far
no meeting date has been set.
Once before, In 1899, interest was
at such low ebb that members
failed to attend 18th anniversary
celebration set for Christmas Day
of that year.
A few of the members, however
Evening star., 1945-01-01

mated to have cost $3.50 900 900 dur
ing this production season, the War
Food Administration has reported
A similar program cost the CCC
$3.50 900 900 last season.
Included are production payments
to dairymen, designed to encourage
them to increase production without
an increase in consumer ceiling
prices on milk: sales of wheat to
livestock feeders at prices below
what the CCC paid; and losses on
CCC purchases and resales of COM
modities for which producers were
assured returns in excess of ceiling
prices.
VITA reported that during the
1914 fiscal year financial operation
of the CCC-including commodity
loans to farmers, purchasers of food
for lease-lend, and subsidy pro-
$5,058 ,O00, ,000 COM
pared with s3.5O6, ,OOO, 900 in the pre-
ceding fiscal year.
Evening star., 1945-01-01

May 1s, 1870, that a horse was
stolen from Warrington Gilling-
ham. This animal was recovered
and the company voted $22.95 for
. reward and other expenses in
recovering Mr.. Gillingham's horse.
A Harmon Roberts, Colchester,
who now heads the company, is
its fourth president. Courtland
Lukens, the first president, held
office for 81 years, and was sue
ceeded by Alfred H. Roberts. Nor
man Gibbs, third president, was
succeeded by the present head Of
the company.
For the last several years the
company has held only one yearly
meeting-to elect officers.
Evening star., 1945-01-01
Army Officers Reported
Seeking Swiss Watches
By the Associated Press.

BERN, Jan. IA group OF
United States Army officers visited
Switzerland recently to negotiate
the purchase OF watches, typewrit-
ers and other Swiss manufactures
for the forces in France, it is learned
on good authority.
A first delegation arrived about
December 10, presumably from Su-
preme Allied Headquarters. At least
one of1icer still is here continuing
Evening star., 1945-01-01

negotiations with Swiss industrial
lists and the Swiss government. A
thigh Swiss ofilcial said as many
as SO have visited Switzerland. This
gave rise to reports recently that
an American business mission was
here.
Evening star., 1945-01-01
Seasons S Food Subsidies
Set at S75O,Ooo,O0O

BY the Associated Press.
Food production subsidies and
farm price supports financed by the
Commodity Credit Corp, are esti-
Evening star., 1945-01-01

Security Investment-War Savings
Bonds Secure the Four Freedoms
Buy one today.
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s348 8
Tax included!
Nl0rthern
Nuskrat
Back Pe|ts!

The fur ccot of the season achieved by JeIeffs fashion,
wthvoIue policy, Fur beauty fur satisfaction in Deep
furred, strong hide Northern Back muskro sobe-bend-
ed by A. HoIonder Full length, fuII-sIeeved tuxedo
model for misses and women Third Floor
Evening star., 1945-01-01
Silver Fox
Tor Women!

Shining, shimmering Silver Fox droped into lavish
fotterine collar, mounted on twin buttonnq coot in
block 1000 virgin WOOL The kind of coot that lends
elegance to any OCCASION Mink showIs, Persion Lomb
and Muskrot tuxedos as we'll os other handsome fur
collar ooots in this collection Sizes for oil women
Third Floor
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20
Ta1 included!
Fur Collar,
Tor Junior-Niss!

Why Shouldn't you look Dazzling in q coafo For ex-
ompe-in fuchsio, coored and, cuffed in ustrous-
cured dyed black Persian Lamb This coot also in black
And many other young fashion models with fur ooors
and cuffs. fur t<edos
Third Fees
Evening star., 1945-01-01
Persian Tuxedo
Tor Misses!

The luxurious ncineed tuxedo hot fans out to shoulder
width lustrous dyed-bIock Person Lomb on black,
blue or green ooots, 1000 virgin wool and nter|ined
Soble-dyed Muskrot tlmedos and stunning fur collar
eoots in this group for misses, sizes 10 to 90 3rd fl
Kodiak mirror., 1945-12-01
THE HOME. FRONT ToUcHENs UP

THE American home front got tough in the first
 six months of
 Draft calls increased and the draft age widened to include from 18 to 45 Recruiting stations-Army, Navy, Marine Coast Guard-were swamped with volunteers A great movement of troops to vital defense like Australia, Alaska and the Panama Canal got under way. On January 26 the first troops of the American Ex- peditionary Force stepped off the gangplanks in North Ireland.
 When the blow fell at Pearl Harbor, America producing 2,000 planes a month. The two ocean Navy" was taking shape in Il government shpyards and 11O private yards. About 30 ordnance factories were in production with 30 more under construction or planned
 That was mere beginning. When America found herself at she set her sights on the greatest production goals in history.
 President Roosevelt grimly announced: "We shall carry the attack against the enemy-we shall hit him and hit him again wherever and whenever we can reach him." He called on the nation to spend $10O, ,000 every minute on war production. He called for the output in 1942 of 6000O planes 45OO0 tanks 8000,000 tons of shipping
 Old men came out of retirement to handle rvet guns Women left their kitchens to lathes Girls walked past their class rooms, put welding helmets over their heads and went into shipyards. A Wo- mems Army Corps, the WAACS, was set up to pro- vide workers for non-combatant jobs to free the men to fight" similar organization-the WAVES was created for the Navy Like units were planned for Marines and Coast Guard
Kodiak mirror., 1945-12-01

a4n June 3, neavy bombers lashed at Dutch Har- " Unalaska, in the first big attack on the North ifercan continent. The next day, U. s. Army and Ty fiers sighted enemy fleet apparently
 Fmed for Unalaska. They sank one cruiser and faged another.
 Feanwhile the main enemy force neared Mid f heading for Hawaii. Admiral Fletcher and Tral Raymond A. Spruance, commanding two f forces, were there to meet it. The American T command had out-guessed it's foe. T was an engagement like that of the Coral Sea. E fleets never actually sighted each other Tor TO and dive bombers from the Enterprise, the
 Fedly repaired Yorktown, and the Hornet did f hghting. The Torpedo Eight" squadron from T Hornet took on four carriers and scored hits, x only one pilot survived. Torpedo planes from R Enterprise and Yorktown picked up the attack hit two carriers. Then dive bombers raced in, Ilng two fattops out of action and damaging a fhe ' '' p' N' ' ~
 my one enemy carrier remained, and it sent \ planes screaming against the Yorktown. But
 Tfprlse and Hornet pilots, striking back, left N Icarrler in flames. Then they ripped a nearby Eeship and cruiser
 FFmy Flying Fortresses from Midway damaged
 Eavy cruiser, hit battleship and destroyer,
 inflicted more wounds on a damaged carrier ane night of June the Japanese were in flight davy and Army planes kept up the assault for f oays, smashing four more cruisers and de- fyer By then the banged-up Yorktown had been fsn Tn tow, and when the destroyer Hammann
 yea alongside to put salvage party aboard, I aemy submarine sneaked in close and sent T nrpedoes into the Yorktown and another into
 4 Hammann. The Hammanh went down and the j< uay the Yorktown joined it. M ...a .>e fT Battle of Midway was what the Navy had T Waiting for. It was the most decisive trouncing 4 japanese fleet had received since the Korean
 fsal sa Yi-sun smashed Nipponese forces off the t3san coast in 1892.
Kodiak mirror., 1945-12-01

With the snort of the bulldozer setting the tempo. engineers, concrete mixers steel workers, elec- tricanS moved onto the plains of Kansas, the corn fields of Indiana, the cattle ranges of Texas, the groves of California to rear monstrouS, mile-long factories that began to spew out planes, guns, tanks and thousands of other items of equipment
 Production of automobiles, refrigerators, wash ing machines, clocks, vacuum cleaners was shut of. The Office of Price Administration fixed price ceil- ings on virtually everything the nation ate, wore used Sugar rationed-and prospects that many other things would be doled out by ra- ton before the war was over. Lingerie manu- lecturers began making mosquito netting. Watch makers were fashioning fuses. lz
 Soon merchant vessels-"L Liberty ships" and tank ers-were being added at the rate of one day. Real rifles and machineguns were being put in the hands of the forces in training. Powerful tanks, versatile jeep" cars, landing craft began to speed from the assembly lines.
 tremendous synthetic rubber program got under way to offset the Japanese capture of most of the worlds natural rubber resources in Malaya and the Netherlands East Indies. Scientists and ex- plorers working for Henry A. Wallace's Board of Economic Warfare struggled to find substitutes or new sources for quinine, tin and hemp.
Kodiak mirror., 1945-12-01

A part of the Japanese fleet could be chalked off The threat of invasion of Hawaii was averted
 week later, however, Army pilots over the foggy, desolate Aleutians discovered the Japanese had invaded those islands.
 America could worry about the threat of enemy push onto Alaska.
Kodiak mirror., 1945-12-01
THE U-BoATs STRIKE

HITLER could not hit remote America with his Luftwaffe, but he knew he had to do some- thing to cut down the value of American produc- tion going to England and Russia.
 The surface vessels of his navy already had been proved unsafe the seas The great battleship Bismarck had been sunk after thrilling 1750-miIe sea-air chase in 1941, and while the British had lost their big cruiser Hood in that engagement the Ger hesitated to risk their remaining ships in an- other battle.
 . So Hitler called on his U-boats to do the job.
 One month after the war began Nazi submarines were proving the Atlantic coast and the Gulf of
The Apache sentinel., 1945-03-16
American Negro Troops
Fight on All Wor Fronts

But, culled from War Department
releases, here are few of the
things for which Negroes have been
cited
A Negro Field Artillery Battalion,
the 969th, participated in the he
roic defense of Bastogne, where the
back of Field Marshal Won Rund-
Stedt's winter offensive was broken,
firing their 155 nm. howitzers un-
der rain of mortar fire and beat
ing off German attacks infantry
style"
A Negro Ordnance Group, the
list, saved three ammunition sup
ply points, following the German
break-through on the First Army
front, evacuating them under fire.
Negro and White MPs, working
in teams, smashed a black market
ring in Cherbourg. =.
Negro enlisted men of the -Fngi-
neer General Service Regiment of
Peninsular Base Section in Italy
cleared more than 10000 mines
from the vitally important Leghorn
port area. A Negro service unit was
the first to win the Fifth Army
Plaque for providing a smoke screen
under heavy aid attack at another
important harbor.
A Negro anti-aircraft balloon
battalion and a Negro Quartermas-
ter Truck Company were specially
commended by Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Com
mander, for meritorious services in
the invasion of France. And every
member of the Red Ball Express"
so per cent Negroes-was honored
by General Eisenhower for tireless
devotion to duty in keeping sup
plies abreast Of our fast-advancing
armies following the break-through
in France.
The Apache sentinel., 1945-03-16
Vol. II. No. %.
By Camp Newspaper Service

BY Camp Newspaper Service
Whether it's building B-29 bases
in India, pushing the vitality needed
Ledo Road through the jungles of
Burma, "red-balling" supplies across
France or engaging an enemy in
deadly combat, the Negro soldier
in this war is proving his inettle,
as he has in every war in which
America has been a participant, be-
ginning with the War for Indepen-
dence.
More than 100000 Negro soldiers
were on the Armys rolls at the end
of 1914 Almost 5000 were commits
stoned officers. Although many Ne
groes are doing the tough, unglar11-
orouS jobs of service and supply,
others are distinguishing themselves
in combat in every theater of war.
Nine per cent of all United States
soldiers who participated in the
Normandy invasion were Negroes.
There are Negro air fighter squad
ron. Negro infantry divisions, Ne
gro paratroopers, Negro "medics," !"
Negro tank men and anti-tank men.
Negro mine-sapperS, Negro artillery
men, ordnancemen etc. The Arn1y'S
top generals say all are doing a
bang up job.
A Negro fighter pilot, Lieut.. Lee
A. Archer, of New York City, has 10
enemy planes to his credit, four in
the air and six on the ground. He
is a member of the '332nd Fighter
Group in Italy, and has completed
1873 missions.
The Army has no breakdown on
how many Negroes have wop cita-
tions and Communications for hero
ism or exceptional service, just as
it has no breakdown on the number
of Irish-Americans or Polish-Ame
leans who have been so honored.