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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05
Novy Loses Sub Triqqer

Washington July s. CUP)-The Navy today reported that the sub- marine U. S. s. Trigger is overdue from patrol operations and must be presumed lost with all It's ofi- cers and crew.
 The loss brings to 45 the number Of American submarines sunk or missing during this war.
 A submarine of the Trigger type nirmally carries 6 crew Of % to So men.th
 The lost submersible was skip- pered by cmdr David R. conno'e' Madison, Ill.
 The Trigger participated in the Battle Of Midway ssld was awarded Presidential unit citations for out. standing performances tn combat during other war patrals. ...
 Next Of kin Of aiI saen lost Win the Trigger have beer nctinea, ths
 lie submarine was the third ship Identified by the Navy within z4 hours as lost. Tt revealed yesterday that the destEoyers Twiges and William D. Foster were sunk py enemy action Of okinawa last month with 24l casualties. The losses had been revealed previously but the shlps had not been iideptlfield.
 Survivors ssid the TWsggs was sunk by an unidentified Jajanese mlsslIe thought te be torpedo esi June 70. Ti1e Porter sent down ca Junne 70, thExep hcnrs after it gse hlt by an ehemy suicide dise bomber.
 Next of kin .os casualties on both tie 1s11rQYeFl have been ncslncd. tne A>Ky esid
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05
Philippines As Invasion
 Base Hinted
By HUGH CRUMPLER

Manila, July 5 - (U.PO - Aus tralian troops pressed ahead from the captured center of Balikpapan to clean up the entire oil port to- day, while General Douglas Mac Arthur indicated the Philippines might be the major base for the in- vasion of Japan.
 The Australians had taken most of Balikpapan town, and now were pushing toward the Pandansari oil refinery area to the northeast. They fought against moderate opposition through streets filled with rubble from Sundays pre-invasion bom- bardment, which was estimated to have destroyed 60 per cent of Balik- papan.
 MacArthur's communique today announced the end of the Philip pines campaign with the destruction of 23 Japanese divisions. Only 30,- 900 enemy troops remained to wage guerrilla warfare from a force once numbering 450,000.
 In weighing the results of the vic- tory, Macarthur said significantly that they included:
 The acquisition of great land, sea and air base for future opera tions both to the north and to the south comparable to the British Is- lands in it's use as base for Allied operations from the west against Germany"
 The implication was that the Philippines now would be the scene of a tremendous build-up of Amer ican armed strength just as Eng land was in the few months preced- ing the invasion of western Europe.
 Macarthur said that American ground, air and naval forces in the Philippines had inflicted the great est disaster ever sustained by Jap anese arms
 The communique disclosed that the Japanese had IS divisions in the Philippines at the time of the Leyte landing. They stripped other defenses, including the homeland, of five more divisions for the Philip pines fighting, only to have all g wiped out. The Americans used IT divisions, most of which now would be free for other operations after sufficient rest.
 "This was one of the rare in- stances when in a long campaign a ground force superior in numbers was entirely destroyed by a numer- ically inferior opponent" Macarthur commented.
 The Borneo beachhead now meas ured eight miles long and two miles deep, according to the communique.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05
City Pension System To Be
 Reopproised

Waterbury's recently adopted pen- sion system will undergo reapprais- al as to actuarial study, it was re- vealed today as preparations were made to include $200 within the controllers general budget for addi- tional costs of study. Estimated cost of the new survey will be $1, 900 of which $500 is already available in the budget.
 Russel Hooker Hartford actuary who undertook the original survey will likely be retained, it was dis closed today.
 Because of the the last minute revisions of the city's pension bill before its adoption by the General Assembly it is felt necessary to re- view it for actuarial study in the belief that original estimate have been somewhat radically affected.
 New benefits and new contribu- tions are included in the final bill which would tend to throw out-of- line any original estimates.
 The bill still remains in the hands of the legislative expressing clerk and has not yet reached the desk of Governor Baldwin for study and likely signature. This is true of all other Waterbury bills passed this session comprised of the assessors bill, charter change etc.
 A request for the $200 will be made before today's meeting of the finance board. The orignal actual study, made by MT. Hooker, has cost the city, $3,000.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05

floor in front of the sofa, where the blood probably dripped, was covered with more than an inch Of water so I could find no stains.
 In the blasted garden outside. l saw c shallow. trenehlike hole about eight yards from the bunker en' trance. This was the hole where Kempka said Hitler's and Eya's bodies were burned In mid.after' noon of April 30th after being sat. urated with five jeTricans full os gasoline. To top t of, five bullet. ridden jerrieans lay to one side or the bunker entrance.
 No evidence of the eharred Te. mains of the bodies could be seen in the hole. However, during the nine weeks which have gone by since the burning, innumebable Russians and others have tIamped through the chancellory grounds. The ground also was torn up by shells ana bombs.
 TWO German workmen from the chanceiIory today confirmed that Ksmpka was among the last per. sons there ct the end of April. and one said. he should know the true story"
 nltiey's two-stoFy underground bunker was a thaniblee inslde. but It's reinforced concrete walls and Foof were intact. oelns doHnstaifs by candleliabt found Hitief's suits with Enc help Of a diagram Kempka ha6 sipen me'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05
Circumstantial Corroboration OfHitler's Death Found Ln ood-Stained LoDe Nest

The Fuehrer's sitting room was about i2 feet long and eight feet wide. Two small arinchairs were piled on the suicide sofa. Opposite was . work desk, also covered with chairs and other odds and ends
 4 door of to the right led to Hit- ler's cubby-hole bedroom. There was a fire.blackened big steel safe, which apparently the Russians had cracked open.
 To the left from the sitting room was a bathroom, which led to Eya's bedroom. Like all the other rooms everything was 6 horrible mess. But the furniture obviously was the kind which belongs in . woman's boudoir. The dresser was Uttered with feminine articles. including . bottle Of perfume,
 off the reception room of the apartment was the small conference room, where Hitler and his stan held daily meetings. The room was partly burned out, but q bench re- inalned around two sides of the wall. found typed copies Of . ssenographic report Of one of the last conferences. but the sheet was torn Into such small bits it would take days Co ht together. There alse were e few typewriter sheets oi Allied radio ness reports.
 The ether rooms = kitchen, nsed- icni once, and 70 on = eil were top0y- -tdrvey with furnlshlnes eil over. uitler's bunker, like kis lie was rlsSS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05
Spaatz To Command
 Air Attack On .Japs

Washington, July 5.-(UP)-Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, who commanded the U. s. Air Forces in the strateg- ical warfare which destroyed Ger man resources from the air will di- rect the strategic air attack on Japan, Undersecretary of War Rob- ert P. Patterson announced today.
 Spaatz will command the 20th Air Force, whose B-29's have been bat tering Japan's resources for more than year, and the Eighth Air Force, which now is being redeploy- ed from Europe to the Pacific.
 Maj. Gen. Curtis E. Lemay, who has commanded the 21st Bomber Command, will become commander of the 20th Air Force under Spaatz' overall command.
 Gen. Henry H. Arnold has held command of the 20th heretofore in addition to commanding the entire U. S. Army Air Forces.
 It. Gen. James A. Doolittle al- ready has been designated to com- mand the Eighth Air Force in the Pacific. Like Lemay, he will func- tion under Spaats' overall command.
 The new strategic command will be wnown as United States strategic air forces in the Pacific-"USASTAF in the Pacific" Its headquarters have not yet been designated, but it was speculated they probably would be on Guam where Adm. Chester w. Nimitz maintains Pacific fleet headquarters. Okinawa was regarded as another possibility.
 It. Gen. Barney M. Giles, who has been deputy commander of the 20th Air Force, will serve as deputy commander of USASTAF under Spaatz.
 Spaatz will report directly to Arnold, who has been named execu- tive agent of the joint chiefs of stan for this purpose. Patterson
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05
Six Killed
 By Tornado

Rising City, Neb., July 5.-(UP)- At least a dozen persons injured by a tornado which killed six people ss 1t tore through farm commun- fly west of here were taken to a hospital in Columbus today.
 The tornado struck last night at the James Henderson home, de- molished the house and killed Mrs. Henderson, her four year old son, and a guest. Dedie Alshouse, a beauty operator of Da- v!d City.
 The twister went south, demolished the home of Richard Uphoff. and killed his two small daughters. A moment later the home of Lester Shrunk was hit. Shrunk was hit. Shrunk's small daughter also was killed.
 Uphoffs legs were broken and Henderson also was critically in- jured.
 The tornaov also struck store at Surprise, Neb., six miles south of Rising City.
 The storm struck at 8 p. m. An automobile in front of the Tender son home was blown more than a quarter, of a mile.
 Frank Bottum, assistatn cashier of the Farmers State Bank and Rising City, said a rescue party raeched the community late last night and took the injured to Columbus and the dead to Rising City early to- day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05
BY JACK FLEIsCHER

Berlin, July 5-(UP)-Two weeks ago Hitler's chauffeur, Erich Kemp- ka, told me how the Feuhrer and Eva Braun had committed suicide a bunker behind the Relchs cham cellofy.
 Kempka described the sofa where Eva sat, the hole in the ground where the bodies were burned, and other details such as the five ter. ricans used to pour gasoline on the bodies.
 Today, in that bunker, I found everything, just as kempka had de- scribed it-even to the five jerricans with bullet holes in them.
 The evidence was eircunpstantlal, but overwhelming. thet the suicide story was true.
 (bBc Correspondent RiehaTd Dimbieby, in ( Berlia br0adeagt, said that doctors nov called the body originally thought to be 4iits lsr's that . bad double of HltleF's.)
 The most sensational piece Of evl. denee were the linmlstakeable blood stains on q sofa where Kempka said Eva sat when else put 6 bullet Into her heart. The stains were on the tapostried seat and back and on the wooden top piece of the right- hand sofa arm.
 No stains Were vIsible in the een- ter er left hsnd portion of the sofa. ahere Kempkn Gaid Hitler Gst when hs plil g shot into nir head. Inc
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05
Nagasaki, Honshu, Kyushu Hit By 300 U. s. Planes In Virtual
 Nonstop Daylight Offensive.
BY WILLIAM F. TYREE

Guam, July 5-UP) The Japanese radio said two powerful American air fleets totalling some 300 superforts, liberators and fighters at- tackled the Tokyo area, tl1e port of Nagasaki and other targets on Honshu and Kyu- Shu today.
 The pre-invaSion soften ing up of the Japanese home land roared through it's 30th straight day with morning and afternoon assaults paced by superforts and liberators with a strong fighter screen, Tokyo broadcastS reported.
 The raiding forces were reported ranging widely over the main Jap anese Islands in what had become virtually nonstop offensive by daylight.
 The first enemy accounts of to. days attacks said nine superforts and about 100 long range Mustang fighters hit Honshu. They concen- trated on the Chiba, Ibrraki and Tockigi perfectures in the Tokyo area.
 Omura Shelled
 A few hours later about 200 Lib orators and fighters attacked ob- jectives in Kyushu. The heaviest blow was struck at Nagasaki and nearby Omura, the Japanese said. Other targets in Miyazaki, Otto. Saga and Nagasaki perfectures were attacked.
 Thundering in across the Japan ese coast in three formations. the raiders bombed and shot up ground targets in eastern Honshu for a full hour beteen II a. m. and noon fI0 to Il p. m. EWT), according to the enemy version.
 The attackers centered their fire on Japanese airfields in Chiba, l Ibaraki and Tochigi perfectures east and north of Tokyo proper. The same general area was pounded by similar superfortress-fig fighter team yesterday.
 Meanwhile, Tokyo reported that an American battle fleet was men acing the northern coast of Japan after surprise bonnbardment Tues day against Japanese-held Sakhalin Island in the sea of the Ol3aotsk. Deepest Penetration The strike on Sakhalif1 carried American naval power almost within sight of Russian Siberia for the fleets deepest penetration of Jap anese waters since the war began.
 It came as hundreds of American warplanes ranged at will over cen tral and southern Japan with bombs and gunfire, finding Tokyo itself virtually stripped of defending air power.
 First word of the fleet attack on Sakhalin and the presence of Amer
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05
Navy Takes Over Akron
 Tire Plants

Washington, July 5 - U.P0 - President Truman today ordered the Navy to seize the Goodyear Tire and Rubber plants at Akron, O., scene of a persistent, 19-day strike.
 MT. Truman acted after the Union, the United Rubber Workers of America (CIO), refused to abide by reported War Labor Board orders for the 16,700 strikers to return to work. The strike began June 16.
 MT. Truman acted on the recom- mendation of Economic Stabiliza- tion Director William H. Davis. Davis said the Goodyear production was urgently needed by our mili- tary forces"
 The plants were producing heavy duty tires, aircraft tires, refueling hose and other rubber products for war use.
 The Presidents seizure order au- thorized the Navy to aake any ac- ton necessary = including use of armed forces = to provide protec- ton for the plants and all persons employed in them or seeking em- ployment, and their families and homes.
 Navy control will end within 60 days after the Secretary of Navy determines that the productive efl- ciency of the plants has been re- stored to level prevailing prior to the strike.
 According to Davis, union repre- sentatives said that the underlying cause of the work stoppage was "an accumulation of grievances" but the local declined to abide by WLB requests that these grievances be settled through normal government channels.
 The International Union has des- cribed the strike as unauthorized and as in violation of the unions no-strike pledge.
 The Army reported that the plants involved produce more than one-third of the airplane tires made in this country, as well as 'substan- tial numbers of other tires.
 Davis said the Army regarded the strike as so serious that it threat ems to upset operational plans in | the Pacific"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05
Transatlantic Routes To Europe Authorized

Washington, July 5-(UP)-The Civil Aeronautics board today au- thorized Pan American AirwayS, American Export Airways and Transcontinental & Western Air, to fly transatlantic routes to Europe.
 The board also issued decision approving the acquisition of American Export Airlines by Amer ican Airlines.
 The decisions thus would put two domestic air lines-TWA and American (through acquisition of national aviation business along American Export)-into the inter- with Pan America. Hotherto only American and American ex- port have operated commercial service abroad.
 The allocation of routes on the important transatlantic service to Europe was approved by President Truman. He did not wait for the final outcome of a fight in the sem ate over proposals to change the law regulating air routes.
 The CABS certificates today pro- vided for the following services:
 Pan American-its existing route to London is extended through Eu- rope and the Near East to Calcutta, India, via Brussels. Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest. Is- tanbill Ankara, Beirut, Baghdad, Teheran and Karachi.
 Between Vienna and Istanbul Pan-A American On some schedules wlli serve Budapest and Bucharest and other schedules will serve Bel grade. Likewise, between Ankara and Karachi, some Pan-American schedules will serve Teheran and others will serve Beirut and Bagh- dad.
 Barcelona is added to Pan-Amer- ican's present route between Lisbon and Marseilles.
 American Export-previously au- thorized to provide service to Spain and Ireland, is now permitted oper- ation to Moscow. The line will op- crate by way of Labrador. Green land, Stockholm, Helsinki and Lem ingrad. American Export also will fly to Moscow via Newfoundland, the Az5res, Foynes. Glasgow, Lon- don, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Ber- lin and Warsaw, terminating at
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05
Old Glory
 Over Berlin

Berlin, July 5.-(UP)-The Stars snd Stripes and the Union Jack flew alongside the Russian hammer and sickle over Berlin today as American and British troops took over the occupation zones in the German capital,
 The Russian commandant in Ber- lin. Maj. Vigtor Baranoy, formally turned over the American zone to Gen, Omar W. Bradley at { D. m. yesterday, to the thunder Of q 4s. salute,
 An honor guard Of the U. 6. Sec. end ArmoFed Division and first slFborne army flanked Bradley at the ceremony, and military bands played the American and Russian national anthems.
 BeFanov, in c short speech tFails- lated by an American officer, ex. pressed Russia's thank for AFieri. can asd during the war end his hope for Q permanent friendship between the two countries,
 Bradley in reply said he hoped C never again would be necessary to conquer a nation co completely kk the Allies had to conquer def- many in order to prevent the Eazlz from establishing their tyranny over their nciehbOFB.
 Vaneuards of the British occnpa- ton force arrived in Beyiln ahoFllf after 6 D. m.'dFawlna faint chffn from e efoHd Of I.s90 BefIInef1 Vilc gnthaffd te Watch lhoIr entry
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05
.SugorCzor
 

Washington, July S. (UP) The
 Republican Congressional Food Study committee today called upon Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson to appoint a sugar czar to relieve the shortage.
 Rep. William s. Hill, R., Colo, a committee member, made the sug- gestion in a speech prepared for delivery in the house. He urged an adequate sugar beet support price and steps to provide needed farm labor.
 The support program, Hill said, should be sufficient to place beet sugar in competition with other crops and should be announced as soon as possible to stimulate early planting.
 Increased production is the only possible remedy for the shortage, he declared.
 "Rationing will probably con tinue into 1946," Hill continued, "and unless the control of our sugar supply is administered more wisely in the future than it has been ir the past, rationing might well con- tinue for several years
 To provide more effective control advocated the appointment of "a man of rare ability to administer and direct all sugar activities"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05
K. ChiIds Resigns War Plants Post

Kenneth L. Childs, manager of the Smaller, War Plants Corpora tion, New Haven District, announc- ed today that he is resigning from that position on July 3lst to become vice-president and general manager of the Interstate Manufacturing Corporation of New Haven. In addi- ton to the company,s regular line of business, they plan to manufac- ture as part of their postwar pro- gram, specialized steel products on which MT. Childs holds patents.
 Since the inception of SWPC on May 1, 1943, MT. Childs has been in charge of the New Haven District. Prior to that time. he was with the WIPE where he headed the ship building section for the State of Connecticut.
 When MT. Childs assumed the management of the New Haven Dis- trict there were no firms registered with Smaller War Plants Corpora tion; now 570 companies are regist- cred. From 1943 to the present time, LklOIS b1ldIl pOU,UOO,VVVs 4h R4 AuAC 11Ao sub-contracts has been placed with local plants.
 MT. Childs experience in civilian life more than fitted him for his work in government service. For many years he was active in the automotive industry in Detroit where his original work in auto body construction gained promin- ence. He has also been an active member in the Society of Automo- tive Engineers for the past 20 years where he serves on various stand ards committees. MT. Childs' man. ufacturing experience has been broad and varied, and as a result, he has been able to render prompt ly SWPC assistance to nanufactur- CTS in need of help.
 Tn announcing his departure, MT. Childs voiced his appreciation for the splendid cooperation he has re- ceived from local manufacturers and said that it had been pleas ure to serve Connecticut business in this area. He also expressed his gratitude to his office staff for their loyalty and efficiency in aiding him to fulfill the duties of SWPC.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05
U. s. Breaks With ExiIes

Washington, July 5-(UP)-The United States will break off rela- tions with the Polish government in-exile late today or tonight and formally recognize the Polish gov- ernment of National Unity at War saw, 1t was learned.
 The action will complete the switch in this country's Polish poli- cy which began at the Crimea con- ference when the United States, Britain and Russia agreed to pro- mote jointly more Democratic Pol- ish government. It was to be based on the Sovie t-spviIsored provisional goverr.nent then functioning at Lublin.
 Arthur Bliss Lane, who has been awaiting here for several months for settlement of the big three dis pute over Poland. left this morning by plane to take up his assignment as q. 6. ambassador to Poland.
 Formation Of the new Warsaw regime was complete last week when Poles from within Poland and from abroad were brought into the pro. yisicnal government. nov seated ct Warsaw.
 Russia has recognized the LublIn government from its inception, but the United States and Britain have maintained diplomats relations with the exile government in London.
 American recognition of the new. iy-foFmed government has been withheld pending Q pledge on the part Of the new Warsaw government to give the people Of Poland free. nnfettsred elecfiois" based On the secret ballot and universal suffrage. The new government HoW has made that promise.
 Britain was expected to join the United states ir bEeakiag with the London exile regime and recogniz. ing the new government of national unity. Z
 me recognition vii erase the A. Hes major political trouble, spot. asonmAns that the Warsaw govern menf keeps ils promise to h3d free elections ss 4ec1 a@ pakHiele'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05
Sudden Strike Hits
 Toronto Street Gers

Toronto. Juiy B--tuP)-Torontos street railway system was para- iyaed today by 6 sudden power houss strike.
 Tha strike by 70 electrical work. CTS, tied up approximately 700 street cars when the power vas 1hnf off without warning. It fol- leWe6 e dispute between the workers and the Toronto transpor-, falIon commission over e0i'ecs tive bargaining agreement and had esntsred around alleged elf~ feF1nees of wages paid to the TaSonto transportation fcmmis- aIon electrical workers and to Toronto hydro eomm.gGi0n em- Nioges doing similar work.
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