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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-28
Byrnes May Take
 Stettinius' Post
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notes on the deliberations Of MT. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Josef Stalin. The president said yesterday that he would announce the date of the coming barley on Monday when he returns to the White House from , Independence Mo.
 Stettinius Lauded
 Members of Congress generally lauded Stettinius' work as Secretary of State. Some expressed regret at his resignation to become our United Nations representative.
 Senate Foreign Relations Chair man Tom Connally, D.. Tex, who worked under Stettinius at San Francisco said he would mo doubt contribute much to the world peace organization the good wishes of the United States delegation go with him."
 Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg, R., Mich, the other Senate delegate to San Francisco, said he would be Hess than frank" if he did not say he would like to have Stettinius continue as Secretary of State.
 Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers, R.. Mass, thought MT. Truman's choice excellent"
 The president disclosed the ca binet switch by making public letter to "dear Ed'' which was lav- ish in praise of the comparatively young Secretary of State.
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mick replied it was Monday, Oct. g. The inquest had been held on the day of the staying, Sept. 28.
 On re-cross- s-examination Masco- 10 asked the coroner if he claimed the first time he, Mascolo, talked to him was on Oct. 2. Fitzgerald objected, and the jurist ruled out the question on the ground cross examination was limited to state- ments taken by the coroner from Coscia. It was indicated Fitzger- aids question on the lawyer was al- lowed because no objection had been raised.
 Early in today's cross-examina- ton of Homick, Mascolo inquired about an error which Homick had claimed was made in the transcript by a stenographer. Homick had claimed Coscia referred to a wrist injury and not to rib injury as appeared in the transcript.
 Mascolo read various questions and answers dealing withi injuries sustained by Coscia in the encount- CT with Cyr in the cellar of their home just before the shooting. The examination was conducted in an attempt to show that the steno- graphers transcript was correct in listing the word rib
 Homick, in answer to 8 query, stated he made no notation on the transcript that there was an error, but that he told Fitzgerald about 1t.
 Cellar Not Inspected
 The coroner was asked if he in- spected the cellar of the Washing ton avenue house during the inquest and he said he did not.
 Numerous queries were raised on indications Coscia made in giving answers. At one point Homick test- flied Coscia put his hands on his (Homick's neck to illustrete how Cyr had allegedly grabbed him in the encounter in the cellar.
 Felix Braico, an Italian interpre- ter, followed O'Brien to the stand. He testified that he served as in- terpreter when Smyth questioned Coscia.
 He said that Coscia told him he was treated kindly and courteously by the police. He sad Smyth told Coscia he may or may not make a statement, and Coscia said he would.
 Court recessed until 2 p. m. after Atty. Mascolo studied the tran script of Smyths questions which Braico will read to the jury this afternoon.
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peace"
 Describing broadly the charters general provisions for international cooperation to prevent future ag- gression, by force if necessary, Connally conceded that it wasn't perfect.
 But he said it marked the be- ginning from which it could grow and develop to meet the needs of the world under international law, justice and freedom.
 Judged by that standard" he said, it is monumental perfrom- ance."
 Judged by that standard" he said, it is monumental perform ance."
 Connally pointed out these prin- cipal features of the charter: 1. A general assembly of all member nations to serve as town meeting of the world. He said it would serve to form mighty pub lie opinion and exert tremendous influence on questions relating to international peace and security. 3. The 11-nation executive coun- c:l empowered to act speedily and oecisively when aggression raises its ugly head" 3. The peaceful means by which the council first shall seek to settle any international dispute which threatens world peace.
 {. The military might which the council can throw against an ag- gressor in the event that peaceful measures fail.
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Novel Jap Weapons
 In Mass Production
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[ ed the five-ship convoy between Harumukotan Island in the Kuriles and the Japanese owned half of Sakhalin Island.
 The daring strike carried the American battle flag within 635 miles of the Siberian coastline and within only 300 miles southwest of Petropavlovsk, capital of Kamchat- ka
 In other attacks on Japanese ship ping, Navy planes sank a trawler and damaged a small cargo ship off the east coast of Honshu Wednes- day and scored rocket hits on two mdeium- sized cargo ships south of Tokyo Tuesday.
 Five other small enemy craft were sunk and two damaged in at- tacks by Marine Corsairs and Avengers in the Sakishima Islands southwest of Okinawa. In placing American fleet casual ties in the Okinawa campaign from March IS to June 20 at 9,371, Nimitz added 637 dead or missing and 653 wounded to the toll announced May "A.
 With 36,588 American Army and Marine casualties on Okinawa, the total in all branches of the armed forces for the campaign now stood at 46,319, including 11,897 dead, as compared with 1851 Japanese cas- ualties, all but 9,498 of them dead.
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 don and Istanbol, because of her strategic stake in the Eastern Medi- terranean. ..
 Russia, it was believed here, would like to get some strategic island dominating the approaches to the Dardnelles which she could fortifuy
 Under the Montreaux pact, only Turkey has a fight to fortify the Straits.
 Under the Montreaux pact, only Turkey has right to fortify the OStraits.
 Diplomatic quarters also were watching for a possible Russian move to assure passage into the Aegean through Bulgaria and Greece in the event that her efforts to revise the Dardanelles control fail.
 Some Balkan experts suggested Russia might seek some kind of land passage to the sea west of Turkey thus in effect by-passing the Dar- danelleS. They pointed to repeated Bulgarian claims for passage through Eastern Greece to the sea as possibly connected with Russia.
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The mental, emotional, and phy- sical anguish. and the gradual deter ioration of the hopeless alcoholics who spend months befuddled by continuous elbow-bending, the mounting difficulties of the lone drinkers who are ever worried the hidden bottle may be found the terrorizing experiences Of the de- prayed drunks committed to jails and institutions, was graphically described last night by members of Alcoholics Anonymous, who had been restored to useful, full life through the efforts of the organ ization.
 12-Point Program
 The meeting at the Women's club, open to the public. was held in the hope of interesting others who cannot find assistance in fighting their way back to normal
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various parts of the country from the central government.
 Japanese broadcasts said Tokyo newspapers were predicting intensi- fled air raids on Japan in prepara- tion for invasion and warned that psychological warfare can "wreak havoc with a nation the moment the people lose confidence in vic- tory"
 The new American landings in the northern Marianas were design ed to discover islands on or near which American airmen returning from attacks on Japan could make emergency crash landings with damaged Superfortresses and other planes.
 Two platoons of Negro infantry went ashore on each of the islands from a destroyer escort and two landing g-craft-infantry without f1r- ing a shot, spokesman revealed.
 The islands reconnoitered stretch ed in straight line north of Saipan and were Anatahan, 95 miles above Saipan, Sarigan, Almagan, Agrihan, Ascunsion and Maug, the latter HOO miles south of Tokyo ard 40 miles southeast of Two.
 Largest of the group was Ana tahan, IA square miles in area.
 Japanese captured in earlier op- erations assured natives over loud speakers on the destroyer escort that they would be treated kindly. Native guides from Saipan assisted in the reconnoitering operations.
 Notes onf survival possibilities of the islands were being prepared for distributionf to all Army and Navy commands operating in the central Pacific. The landing forces were commanded by It. Cmdr. w. E. Dunlap of Seattle. Wash, who par ticipated in similar operations in the Solomons earlier in the war.
 Radio Tokyo reported that seven Marianas-based B-29s sowed mines of Niigata. across Honshu from Tokyo, and nearby Sado Island shortly after midnight early today.
 Kagashima Hard Hit
 The 21st bomber command an- nounced that reconnaissance photo graphs showed that B-29s in recent raids had destroyed 2N square miles or 42 per cent of the built up area of Kagashima, 1.3 square miles or 20 per cent of Fukuoka, and 25 square miles of Omuta
 In the first officially reported American naval surface action west | of the Kurile Islands, cruisers and destroyers of the North Pacific fleet | sank 2.000-ton cargo ship. a small | cargo ship and large tug, prob ably sank small vessel and dam aged another small vessel in the Okhotsk Sea.
 The Japanese returned ineffective | automatic fire in the brief but vic- ious running battle in the Arctic | dawn. Good visibility prevailed in contrast to the usual fogs, but no Japanese planes went to the aid of | the convoy from nearby Paramu- shiru.
 American warships. commanded l oy eRar Admiral John H. Brown of | Washington, D. C.. suffered neither | damage nor casualties. They attack
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created post of assistant secretary in charge of cultural and public re- lations.
 Rockefeller, who arrived here by plane from the conference last night and then went on to New York City said, I will be glad to serve in what ever capacity I am assigned" MT. Truman's selection of Bynres will confirm long-standing reports from informed sources that the one- time senator, supreme court justice and assistant president" was to in- herit Stettinius' post. AS secretary of state, Byrnes will be next in line for the presidency unless Congress full fills MT. Truman's request for legis- lation changing the line of success sion to the White House. While the post of secretary of state is vacant, Secretary of Treasury Henry Nor genthau, Jr., is next in line of suc- cession to the presidency under the present law.
 Stettinius' appointment to the United Nations added something of story-book touch to his role in the march toward a world security or ganization.
 As undersecretary to ex-Secretary of State Cordell Hull last fall the former General Motors and U. s. Steel executive handled the Big Four World Security conferences at Dumbarton Oaks. When he succeed ed Hull seven months ago he turned his full energies to the task of pre- pairing for the San Francisco con- ference.
 There, as chief of the American delegation, he teamed with British, Russian and Chinese representa- tives to lead 50 United Nations to- ward complete agreement on a World Security Charter.
 Now, as American member of the Security Council, he will share with the four other delegates of the Big Five responsibility for maintaining peace and stopping aggression-by force if necessary. He will exercise in a manner expected to be pre- scribed by Congress, this country's veto power over the use Of United Nations troops, ships and planes against an aggressor nation.
 AS chief of the American delega- tion to the weaker. but not unim- portant assembly of the United Ma tions, Stettinius will help make po- Hey on the vital economic, social and procedural matters faced by the town meeting of the world"
 When he accepted Stettinius' res ignation and named him to the new post President Truman agreed to cross his name off the list of men who will go to the forthcoming Big Three meeting in Berlin. Instead. Stettinius will remain behind and work for speedy ratification of the United Nations charter by the U. S. Senate.
 Byrnes, however. will go to Ber- lin-probably as newly-confirmed Secretary of State. His nomination was expected to win Senate approv- al in a breeze. He spent II years in the Senate where he was a popular figure as wei as a leader.
 The Big Three Conference will be Byrnes' second. He sat at the late President Roosevelt's right hand during most of the Yalta confer ence last February, reportedly amas- sing a complete file of shorthand
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Motor Boat Owners Ask More Gasoline

Washington, June 28 CUP) - Motor boat owners today demanded more gasoline "to save our 22O 900 boats from ruin"
 Charging "inequities in the ra- tioning of gasoline the American Power Boat Association said that the lack of fuel was causing deter ioration to gasoline powered boats at the rate of $70.OOO, ,000 a year"
 During the European war motor boat owners were allowed two gall Ions of gasoline per horsepower with maximum of 12 gallons for three-month period until last Octo- Der. Then the maximum was cut to "A gallons, forcing thousands of these boats into dry dock deteriora- tion,''
 According to the association. The present allotment is 36 gallons for three months.
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Neus or Connecticut

West Haven, Conn, June 28- (UP)-An attempt to save his g. years-old son, Kurt, from drown ing, cost Ludwig L. Schutz, Jr., 38, Hamden, his life at Oyster River Beach late yesterday. The boy fell from a boat and the father swam to his aid. Both ware going down when Robert B. Bradley, Hamden, and William Rippe. West Haven, went to their rescue. Bradley was trying to bring them both ashore when Schutz sank.
 Wethersfield, Conn.,, June 28- (UP)-Wilson Greer, 51, schools superintendent for 17 years. died late yesterday after a short illness. He was 8 former school supervising agent for the Connecticut Board of Education, and a native of Toronto, Can.
 Stamford, Conn. June 28-(UP)- Standing atop an electric locomotive of troop train as it was passing through Stamford station late last night. Richard Wayne Stingley. 26, sailor was killed when he came In contact with the pentagraph. He was hurled from the locomotive as an 11,000 volt charge passed through his body.
 The train was enroute from New London to New York. Police were unable to learn how he came to be, riding on the locomotive.
 New Haven, Conn, June 28-(UP) The New Haven Restaurant As ,sociation proclaimed two meatless days a week today-Tuesdays and Fridnys-and reportedly will appeal to Gev. Baldwin to appeal for adop- .tion of the idea on statewide basiA
 The association recently an- nounced that the meat situation was 50 critical that several hun, dred restaurants would be forced to close during July unless relief shipments arrived.
 Noroton. Conn, June 28-(UP)- Ralph Gentle, Fairfield, succeeded Syanley Stroffolino. Norwalk, today as president of the Connecticut Pharmaceutical Association. Also elected at the Associations 69th an- nual convention were Vice Presi- dents Casey Caldwell, New Haven; Irving L. Kaufman, Hartford, and Philip c. Varnum, Stamford; and Secretary-Treasurer Miss Alice Es- ther Garvin, New Haven. L
 Waterford, Conn.,, July 28-(UP)- Falling into the waters of Smiths Cove, two-and- -one-half years old Carol Ash was drowned yesterday. A neighbor saw her body floating on the water and brought it ashore. Efforts by New London firemen to revive her were futile.
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Coscia Nervous When
 Probed Ayers Homick
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state at that time. Homick replied Coscia was not in highly excited state, although he was not calm. He said the accused was nervous, how ever.
 Did he appear belligerent?" Mas colo asked. Somewhat" the wit ress replied.
 Asked what he meant by "bellig- erent", Homick replied He ap- peared somewhat disgusted at my question"
 "Was he impatient?" the defense asked. The coroner replied in the affirmative.
 The coroner admitted that Cos cia was nervous throughout most of the examination. which lasted about an hour and Is minutes, and that the examination continued without a recess.
 Legal Advice Issue
 The issue on legal advice was raised again by Mascolo who then asked, Did you advise him that if he wanted any lawyer he was en- titled to have him?" The coroner said he did not. Homick likewise said he did not give any instruc- tions to the police as to who could see Coscia. He said he allowed As sistant States Attorney Walter Smyth and County Detective Thonl- as F. Laden to examine Coscia.
 Homick testified Coscia did not ask him for counsel. With that statement Mascolo concluded his cross examination.
 Fitzgerald then immediately ask ed Homick When was the first time any lawyer asked you for per- mission to see the accused?" Ho-
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Dod UphoIds Mrs. Stevens
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Dumas said he was anxious to meet his Son-in-law's father, George Stevens, and try and arrange for the $50,00O bail bond SO that Mrs. Stevens could be liberated from Jail ,, where she has been confined the past five days.
 He said he also was enxious to see his six-years-old granddaughter, Paula child by Mrs. Stevens first marriage - who was named after his own daughter, Mrs. Paula Gulick, whose husband is an Air Corps Sergeant enroute to the South Pacific.
 Dumas said that his daughters previous marriage to Carl Funder- burg, Amarillo, Tex, was unhappy and ended when she got divorce" ," He described Funderberg as a shift less boy"
 | Dumas said he had French name, but I'm almost 100 per cent Irish," and that he had been a Scout Ranger at Pampa the past IA months. Before that he was po- | liceman at Amarillo.
 Imogene, he said, was born on a farm and the family moved to Amarillo when she was child. After she graduated from high school she went to business college and obtained a secretarial position. The first time she was away from home for any length of time, he said was when she took secretarial po- sition at a Nebraska air field where she met her present husband, Ma jor G. Ralsey Stevens, III, para troop leader now in Germany.
 Dumas said he had two sons, Private First Class Foster, 27, at- tached to the Army Air Corps at Keesley Field, Miss, and Sergeant J. A. Dumas, p, crewman on B-29 in the South Pacific.
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Brass knuckIes Used In Staying Educator

Boston, June 28.-(UP) - Two sailors were sought today in the brass knuckle" staying of a mid- dle-aged educator whose nude body was found on cot in Turkish bath last night.
 Chase MacRrthur, 56, who re- signed last week as superintendent of schools at Foxboro to take po- sition at Houlton. Me, junior col- lege. was said to have registered at the baths in the south end with the sailors.
 Shortly after the sailors left, a night porter discovered MacArthur's body lying on cot. Police said his head had been bashed with brass knuckles.
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Tropical Storm
 Hurts Cope Cod

Boston, June 28.-UP)-A trops ical storm which had been drift- ing slowly up the coast for several days was blowing itself out on southern New England today.
 Still moving northeastward at 10 miles an hour or less, the storm center was about 160 miles east of Nantucket at 7:45 a. n., according to the weather bureau. The dis turbance was gradually diminishing in intensity.
 However, winds of 40 to 50 miles per hour will continue over the water within radius of 100 to l50 miles of the center today, the weather bureau said. Near the New England coast, northeast winds will diminish after causing extensive damage on Cape Cod yesterday.
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Casualties 7,226

Washington, June 28.-(UP)-U s. combat casualties reached 1,030,- 679 today, an increase of 7,226 in a week.
 The total, of which 236,7 were killed, includes 9O8,025 Army and 122634 Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard casualties.
 Meanwhile, Gen. Joseph T. Mo Narney, commander of U. s. forces in the Mediterranean theater, re- ported at a press conference that American casualties in his theater totaled 186,616.
 He said this figure included 30,- 910 killed, 108,271 wounded, and 47,- 435 missing.
 McNarney said the best estimate of German casualties in the Medi- terranean theater was 1,341 ,000 killed, wounded or captured.
 The overall casualty table:
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Compensation Agreements

Compensation Comsr. John J. O. Connell today approved the follow irg agreements for weekly payments curing disability or for specific pay ment in case of permanent injury:
 Jean Carmichael of 415 Waterville street against Grieve, Bisset & Holland. Inc, of Waterbury, $7 be- ginning June IS, confusion of right elbow.
 John Galanti of 37 Fuller street against Scovill Mfg. O.. $29.20 be- ginning Sept. l, back sprain.
 Willie Courtney of Jamaican bar racks, Meriden, against Scovill Mfg. Co.,. $23.22 for 3.8 weeks. 10 per cent loss of function of second fin- ger of left hand.
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DELINQUENCY
 TAKES UPWARD LEAP

A jump to 45 new cases in the Juvenile court for the first two weeks of June, as compared with II new cases in the proceeding two weeks, was noted yesterday by Henry I. Begnal, Juvenile court probation officer. Arrests by police of several gang, bands of IA and 15 year-old Schoolboys, led by Old CT boys, was partially responsible for the increase.
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tContlnued from Page D at 113,593, and said that the graves of many thousands more had been found but not counted. American casualties were 3,793 dead, 34 miss ing and 11,351 wounded.
 On the other active front in the southwest Pacific, on northwest Borneo, Australian troops contin- ued to advance against very little opposition. Patrols flaming out from the captured oil center of Seria took Kuala Belait, a river port seven miles to the southwest.
 Northeast of Brunei bay other Australian units were losing in on the rubber town of Beaufort after cutting the railway two miles south of the town.
 The Fifth and 18th Airforces combined to send 150 medium and heavy bombers and fightesr on two raids on Balikpapan. Over 220 tons Of bombs were dropped on the oi! center and the nearby Manggar airdrome.
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(COntinued from Page D London, Democrat.
 Fairfield county: Axel Lindstrom, Stamford Republican, succeeding James J. Whelan. Bridgeport Demo- crat.
 New Haven county: Democratic Rep. Daniel J. Mahaney, Waterbury, succeeding the late James F. Hines, East Haven Democrat.
 The governor reappointed:
 Holland county: Hubert P. Col lins, Columbia Republican.
 Windham county: Albert J. Cav- anaugh, Killingly Democrat.
 Litchfield county: Charles P. Har- rington of Kent, Democrat.
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HOSPITAL BULLETINS

Patrick s. Bergin, president and treasurer of Martin Bergin's Sons, Inc, was discharged late yester- day from St. Mary's hospital where he wa staken after being taken m at the funeral of Judge Frank P. McEvoy.
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ACCOUNTANT SEEKS
 CHANGE OF NAME

An application for permission to thange their surname to Kent was ned in superior court today by Paul Richard Kantrowitz, New Ha- ven accountant, and his wife, Ruth eerbroth Kantrowitz.
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Totals 9Os,o25 122,e54 1.03o 67s

McNarney's figure for missing in his theater was higher than the War Departments total for all Army forces in all theaters. It was ex- plained, however, that in the capitu- lations made here missing are transferred to other categories when their status is clarified.
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Glove manufacturer of Argen- tina are preparing for . postwar boom
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BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
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Ratification Speed Urged

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Reds Seek New Bases

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TroIond Gets Job

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