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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-01
.JobIess-Poy Bill Meets Opposition
 Unemployment
 Claims Mount
 To 600, 900

Washington, Sept. 1. (UP)- Prospects that President Truman's proposed $25-a-week unemployment compensation bill would emerge from committee without drastic amendment were dinner today.
 This was the picture as the so- cial security board reported that nearly 600,000 persons filed initial claims for joblsss pay in the week ended Aug. 25-an all-time record since the program began in 1888.
 Many Restriction
 Increasingly critical members of both the house ways and means committee and the Senate finance committee were expected to write in stringent restrictions, possibly do- ing away entirely with the $25 top urged by the President, before the bill is sent to the two houses for action.
 Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach was slated to appear before the Senate committee today to present the administrations case. Labor leaders and representatives of government employees organizations will appear before the house com- nlittee.
 Senate committee opposition, bol- stered by a string of state govern ment witnesses yesterday who were almost unanimously opposed to the pill, was expected to center on the e2S for % weeks provision. Under the bill 1t would be established as
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-01
Most OF Early War
 G Prisoners Dead
Americans Taken At Outbreak Die From Cruel Treatment
By FRANK TREMAINE

United Press Staff COrrespOndenD
 Aboard Hospital Ship Be- nevolence, Tokyo Bay, Sept. 1.-(UP)-An American doc tor said today at least 23, ,000 of the 30,000 American troops in the Far East at the outbreak of war have died, most of them in Japanese prison camps from brutality, neglect and Sadistic medical experiments" 2
 Others May Meet Same Fate
 The physician, Dr. Mack Leonard Gottlieb of New York City, said nc was unable to estimate how many additional thousands of soldiers sailors, Marines and airmen who arrived in the. Pacific later also had died in enemy prison camps.
 Dr. Gottlieb was captured by the Japanese in Guam in December 194l and spent the remainder of the Pacific war In prison camps.
 Dr. Harold w. Keschner of New York City, captured at Bataan, placed the death toll in the Philip pines alone at 5000 men. Both he and Dr. Gottlieb were liberated from camps near Tokyo by Ameri- can occupation forces.
 Airmen Abused
 Dr. Gottlieb said American air. men got special treatment, first from civilians who beat them wher ''EEthcy ia5iGAd hy parachute, and la ter from ofi3clais who tortured them for information.
 one B-29 pilot was dragged be- hind a motorcycle through streets of a Japanese town by civilians, then tied to the village 1iagpoLe and foully abused by men and
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-01
U. s. Must Feed Europe As Food Riots Beein

The harvests have been gathered throughout Europe, the first since hostilities ended. and they are de- lictent by more than half the mini- mum needed to preserve the con- tlnent from starvation and likely revolution this winter.
 News dispatches from Rouen to- day reported S revolt of Normandy peasants who attacked official meat collectors and drove them away from their herds. It is the first open rebellion reported from & Europe that Is at the boiling point.
 Food Riots
 It is significant that the first food rloting has occurred in FTanee. first continental country to be lib eFated. Normandy however. long was the hotbed of French Agrar.an agitation. It was there before the war. that the green sront" Of AgFarlan wascists Was born. Normandy always has been far ahead of ikH times, ct either extreme Fascist er Red Revolution AkN E a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-01
Arranged For 8 P. M. On Battleship Missouri; Truman To Broadcast
Hirohito Repre- sent0tive and Jap GeneroI Stuff Will Be Present
Be Present

By WILLIAM D. DICKINSON United Press staR COrrespOndentl
 Tokyo, Sept. 1-(UP)- Representatives of Emperor' Hirohito, the Japanese govt ernment and the Imperial general staff will sign Allied surrender terms aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay between g and 9:30 a. m tomorrow (8 and 8::30 p. m. EWT today)
 The entire surrender cere- mony formalizing Japan's first defeat in modern his tory will last only about 3. half-hour.
 However, censorship will not per- bit publication of descriptions of the ceremony until Il a. m. (10 D. m. today, EWT). an hour and a half after 1t Is scheduled to end.
 V"J Uay
 (In Washington, the White House announced that the surrender cex- emony would be broadcast and that President Truman would go on the air immediately afterward to pro- claim V-J Day. The White House said MT. Truman was expected to broadcast about 10 or Il D. m. EWT)
 The tentative program includes speeches by Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur, supreme Allied occupation commander, and Admr. Chester ". Nimitz, commander of the Pacific fleet. Ninlitz will sign the surrender as representative of President Tru- man.
 A Japanese foreign office SpOkes- man told newsnen that Premier Prince Naruhiko Higashi Kuni, cousin of. Hirohito and uncle of the Empress. would be the principal signer for Japan.
 Emperor Hirol1itc himself prob baly will announce the signing Of the surrender ternns to Japanese people in proclamation. (Continued on Page 4)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-01
Woinrieht
 ToFIyHon1e

Yokohama. Sept. --(UP)- Lt Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, commander of Bataan and Correg- idor, will fly to the United States next week to receive & long -poSt- poned hero's welcome.
 Here to witness Japan's formal surrender to the Allies aboard the battleship Missouri tomorrow. It. Gen. Wainwright broadcast to the United States today a message of gratitude for the nations generous understanding of his surrender Of the Philippines in l942.
 Will Fly Here
 Wainwright said he would return to Manila after the surrender cere- monies, stay two or three days there and thereafter expect to fly to the United States"
 T am looking forward to the time when can again set foot on the soil of our glorious democracy" he said.
 Wainwright was the highest ranking American officer to talk over the Tokyo radio since Japan's surrender. He flew here from Ma nila and Chungking after being lio- erated from a Japanese prison camp in Manchuria more than q week ago.
 In Good Spirits
 Thin and gray-haired but in high spirits, he met MacArthur in Yo- kohama last night for the first time since they parted on doomed Ba- taan early in l042.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-01
BY REUEL s. MOORE United PTess Stan CeFFesp0ual

V@ktgW Etee8 8A&A &@Kk@@N@AMg@s Washington, Sept. = tUP) - The end Of the war and relaxation of much of the secrecy surrounding war intelligence operations has made it possible for the first time for the story of the once Of Gtgas teglc Services to be told.
 It was created largely as q result of the imagination and energy Of Maj. Cen. William ]. Donovan. New York and Washington lawyer and winner of the Congregational Medal of Honor in the last war.
 DonOvan's Foresight
 'Wild Blll' Donovan had an inc tense interest in world events and saw ln what happened to Abyssinia the seeds of Q future world conflict. On his own initiative he went to Italy and spent several days with Marshal Bad0gliQ. He watched oeg- man troops march in Munich. He visited the Balkans as presldent Hoosevelk's personal representative a1ad Eatglnn4 as sell
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-01
22Common PI Ieos Court Appeals
 Hearing Slated
 For Sept. IT.;
 Court Opens 4th

Appeals from 9 convictions in the city court of Waterbury are on the criminal docket of the court of common pleas which opens for the September term Tuesday, Sept. {, Clerk Andrew D. Dawson announced today. Judge Vine R. Parmelee will preside. William J. Larkin is prose- cutting attorney.
 The court will adjourn on the 4th after the formality of the open ing ceremony. Actual hearings will not commence until Tuesday of the following week, Sept. II.
 Cases Scheduled
 The following cases are scheduled for hearing: Anthony Ciaramella, negligent homicide; Carroll Clark, operating without a license and while his right to operate is under suspension; Nicholas Impresa, non- support: Bertha Harrell, neglect of minor children; Helen Andrewski, drug using and misbehavior: James Gaudiosi, assault, breach of the peace, resistance, failure to ha.S an operators license; Joseph Francis breach of the peace; Thomas Cronin assault, breach of the peace: An. thony DiStefano, violation of thu liquor law, keeping liquor with in, tent to sell: Peter Kisonis, assault Gino Bocci, breach of the peace Edward Manti1ey, breach of ths peace, intoxication; Walter Davis breach of the peace, assault; Jesse Moses, breach of the peace, assault reckless driving; James Harrison, breach of the peace, assault: Joseph Delgsdo, breach of the peace, as- saul; Homer Desaulniers, operating under the in4iuenCe of liquor: Ethel Gatling. failure to grant right of way; John Savage, breach of the peace, assault; John Mcclure, breach of the peace, assault; Joseph Baudow, manufacturing liuuor with. out a permit; Harry Rosenfield. breach of the peace.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-01
Japan I1,uasior, Price Seen As Costly
Yokosuko AFea Found to Be
 Heavily Fortified
By FRANK H. BARTHOLOMEW

By FRANK Fl. BARTHOLOMEW Limited Press Staff COrresp0ndent)
 Yokosuka Naval Base, Sept. r. (UP)-Examination of Notifications in the Yokosuka area indicated to- day that the Allied invasion of Japan reputedly scheduled for Nov. 1-would have been one of the bIoodiest struggles in history.
 Yokosuka nestles inside Tokyo Bay. To have landed here the American fleet would have had first to blast It's way through the narrow Uraga Strait. Then the ships and landing parties would have faced Elassed guns as powerful as any Notifications that saw either on Okinawa or Luzon.
 I drove along the Yokosuka- Yokohama highway today and saw guns and dug-in positions which would have made the march to Tokyo an inch-by-inch struggle all the way.
 Caves and Tunnels
 The road between Yokosuka and 1OAOl1a4lAAp W1l4CIl WQUA0 4l0VS nCCkA the probable path to Tokyo for any American forces landing in the Sagani Bay area, runs a gantlet of newly constructed caves which are connected by tunnels.
 Wherever the terrain permitted, the tunnel entrances were no more than 50 feet apart. Tn addition to the caves. I saw countless revet- ments for machine guns and nnor- tars
 The caves begin right inside Yoko- suka city limits, immediately out- side the naval yard. Many were built of debris and rubbIe, while others were bored deeply into convenient elnbankments and cliffs lining the haghWay.
 The caves were obviously built to serve both as air raid shelters and ambush points. They were almost exact duplicates of caves which I have seen on Okinawa, Luzon, and other Pacific fronts,
 Ammunition Dumps
 The highway at many points split into left and right hand tame lanes which passed through sepa.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-01

General Dwight D. Eisenhower has now declared that 1t is ines capable" that the United States will have to feed the Reich, partially, this winter. That is an unexpect- cd development, because at the start Of occupation the supreme coni- mander warned the German people against waste by telling them they were not going to get any aid this winter. Now he says he will have to provide food for the defeated en. eEny to maintain daily rations at a level of 2O00 ealorles. Yet there are many people of Europe who have not had 1000 caloFies q day since the invasion of Europe by German armies began.
 It Is now three months since alI iighting stopped in Europe. Il look that long to organize tho pro. visional administration. The food distribution has not improved. There is virtually no domeskic coal and very little gas and electricity.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-01
Con RedepIoy Over Million U. s. Troops
BY DOROTHY WILLIAMS United Press Staff Corresponden

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Washington, Sept. l. - (UP) - Rep. Forest A. Harness, R., Ind. said today that the War Depart ment has informed him that there are 100000 troops in this country who could be sent overseas as re- placements.
 This convinces him, he said, that i've could relieve every man who has seen considerable foreign serv- ice and still stop the draft"
 Navy Lowers Points
 Meanwhile, the Navy lowered its critical point score for release of Naval Reserve aviators to A after launching a recruiting drive for men IT to 30 in an effort to cut down on draft needs.
 The Navy announced plans to re- lease S,200 doctors in the next year and the Army said it will release l3,000 doctors, $500 dentists and 25,000 nurses by the end of this year.
 Harness, a member of the House Military Affairs Committee, empha- sized that he believes men who have had overseas service of any conse- quence should be returned home at once.
 If continuing the draft is the only way to relieve men aboard, then I favor extending it," he said. However, I don't think that is necessary. I think it could be halted and perhaps ended"
 Statistics
 He quoted the following figures, furnished him by the War Depart
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-01
 Clergy Will Officiote
 Funeral for
 Beloved Postor
 On Monday

Naugatuck, Aug. 3l-Six priests who were reared in St. FranciS' parish, will oficiate at the funeral services Monday at 10:30 a. m. for Rt. Rev. Msgr. John J. Fitzgerald, 85. pastor of the church, who died Thursday.
 Most Rev. Bishop Henry J. OBrien will celebrate the pontih- cal solemn high Mass.
 O6iclatlng
 The former local priests who will of1lciate are:
 Rev. James T. Butler, pastor of St. Mary's church, Portland, Conn: !: fDsv. William s. Kearney, pastor of the Sacred Heart church, Bridge port; his brother, Rev. Michael Kearney, pastor of St. Mary's church, Bridgeport; Rev. Francis M. Monahan of St. Joeph's church, Bristol; Rev. William Leary of St. Mary's church, Derby, and Rev. Henry ?. Dullard of St. Patrick's church, Hartford.
 Rt. Rev. Msgr. William H. Flynn, vicar-general of the diocese, will act as assistant priest Rev Joseph E. Seiferman of New Haven, former aS. sistant pastor ct St. Francis church, and Father Butler will be deacons of honor. Rev. William Kearney will be deacon and Rev. Michael Kearney will be assistant deacon Father Monahan will act as thurifer and Father Leary and Father Dullard will be acolytes.
 Rev. John J. Hayes, chancellor of the diocese, Rev. Joseph s Cleary, assistant chancellor, and Rev John F. Hackett, secretary to the bishop, will be masters of ceremonies.
 Rev. John J. Kane, pastor of St. Sebastian's church, Middletown, a close friend of Msgr Fitzgerald, will deliver the eulogy. Rev. Harold Daly will direct the priests choir which will sing the Mass. 4. . S Funeral Monday =
 The body will lie in state in the gectory today and will be taken to
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-01
Wars Forrsao End Toniqhts 5

Washington, Sept. 1-(UPl--Pres ident Truman is expected to pro- claim V-J Day around ii D. m. EWT tonight, thus signaling the final end of World War II which plunged the world into its hloodiest conflict just six years ago today.
 Tomorrow will probably be V-J Day.
 To the wurl6's millions it will mean that psAes-.iie peace that men fought, were maimed and died for-again has come to the torn and ravaged earth.
 Era of Hope
 To most it begins an era of hope that nations as well as men can learn to live in harmony in the future. Those seeking to make that hope come true have before them the dreadful warning of the atomic b@Eb should their efforts once again come tc nothing.
 The White House has not yet azs- nounced definitely the time for the psssident's proclamation which wlll end as far as history is concerned. the war against Japan that began three years, eight months and 2s days ago with the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
 White House Press Secretary Charles c. Ross said yesterday that MT. Truman would make the y~g Day proclamation immediately asAaR the signing of the surrender docsse mcrt aboard the USS Missouri nH Tokyo.
 Ross said he was not in a posl- tion to name the day but he hoped the broadcast would go on the alr with the presidents announcemen at about 10 or II ?. m. EWT. All adyices from Yokohama indicate that the surrender win be slened before noon Sunday Tokyo tlnfe. That's II ?. m. EWT tonight gaa6- urday).
 Broadcast
 According to the White NoNeA announcement the actual el3nInz ceremony will first he bg0adsass fa the American people directly from
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-01
tFike Unchanged fodoy

NO change t1 the situation was reported today as between 600 and TOO employees in Waterbury and An- sonia branches of the American Brass Co. remained on strike. No disturbances were reported and hope for an early settlement of the dis pnte was expressed in some quarters.
 Workers who are not involved in the dispute. but who left their work in sympathy with the strikers, are returning to their jobs. John J. Driscoll. state CIO secretary, is in Washington conferring with the War Labor Board on the dispute, which involves a compensatory bonus totaling over million dollars.
 Company Conforming
 Clark s. Judd. chairman of the board of the American Brass Co.,, said the company will conform to the Labor Boards ruling requesting that management and the union confer in New York at a convenient date with I. Robert Feinberg. VILE conciliator.
 If agreement is not so reached, Feinbsrg is under instructions to inform the board. which will then decide further action to be taken, according to a telegram it sent the union and the company Thursday night.
 The walkout is not authorized by the union. Workers refused advice of Robert Waikinshaw, CIO repre- sentative that they return to work immediately yesterday.
 Previous Events
 The issue goes back to i043 when swing shifts were installed in the branches involved to expedite war production and to compensate for overtime and double time earnings for Saturdays, Sundays and holt- days abolished by presidential ex-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-01
JEWEL THEFTs

Providence, R. T.. (UPl--sebastlan BordieFi Of Providence. owner of the Grown gJewelryl golderlgn CO, re- ported t@ police today that thieves had stolen some $500 in gems he had hidden in the attic of his home pending compilation ol work on the ssons aallhF1s
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-01
More Jobs Foreseen In State
BY UNITED PRESS

Thousands of jobs for Connecti- cut workers were opening up today as thre eof the states largest indus trial plants announced they had re- sumed peacetime production and other factories announced plans to reopen next week after holidays fol- lowing the Japanese surrender.
 Winchester Repeating Arms in New Haven, Remington Arms in Bridgeport and Royal Typewriter, Inc, Hartford, have resumed peace- time work; while Chance Vought Air Craft Division, United Air- craft Corporation. at stratford. and the Meriden Branch of New Depar- ture Division. General Motors, were to reopen Tuesday with approxi- ately $500 and 5000 workers respec- lively.
 Town Meeting
 Meanwhile, at Bridgeport, q town meeting heard Carl A. Gray, chair man of the Connecticut Veterans Unemployment and advisory com- mittee outline the problems facing his group in finding jobs for the 100000 veterans expected to return to Connecticut and the 100000 form CT war workers. This task is a col- lossal challenge to all our resources It will require the best brains, the best planning, the best services and the best facilities at our command, the real job here and all over the state is just beginning" he said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-01
Aldermen Bensen New GOPLeoder Accepts Chair
 manship oF LoeoI
 Town Committee :.

Alderman Richard D. Bensen. is Birchwood street. was elected chair man of the Republican town cor1- lnittee last night at . meeting in A11n Central Y. M, 0. A,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-01
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: Tn quiet and orderly fashion. the town committee members consid~ cred the report of the special com- mittee named by Vernon L. Hall, who resigned as Republican town
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-04
Ex-Mayor Citizen Group
Rap Anti Extensionists

we are favoring the pampered
aristocrats by letting them escape
taxes.
eff the city spent its own money
to pave streets and sidewalks in
the annexed areas, it would be gull
ty of waste and Of giving the sub
urbs without cost the same streets
and sidewalks they would have to
pay for if they remained outside
and which every citizen Of Will
mington now has to pay for. If the
| city does not promise to spend
money for this purpose, it is guilty
of false estimates Of the cost OF
installing facilities in the suburbs.
$50 the enemies of extension are
in the fortunate position of having
choice of reasons for opposition
to the cause Of progress.
"This proves all over again that
those who oppose this city extension
plan are opposed not merely to
this plan but to any such plan, and
| that they will seize upon any handy
method of justifying their opposi
ton. These people are in minori-
| ty, but it is an active minority,
and it is up to the thinking and
progressive citizens of the COM
munity- to outvote them"
Committee Statement
BeIamy's statement was releas'
ed simultaneously with a declara-
ton by the Citizens Committee
replying to anti-extensionist ale
cations that the city will be I'm.
willing or unable to furnish prompt.
ly to the people in the suburbs the
services and facilities required in
the annexation act.
sThis is a desperate and DELHI
crate attempt to defeat the cause
of progress for our community,
the committee's declaration said.
''It is desperate because i casts
doubt upon the integrity of the
Mayor and City council and upon
the hundreds of men and women
who are fighting for the extension
program.
"Of course the facilities and
services will be provided and
promptly. The opponents know this.
They are familiar with the exhaus-
tive safeguards set up in the bill
to assure that this will be done.
1.-THE bill requires that prior
to the calling of the election, the
council and city manager must
sign and publish a statement to
the effect that services and facL-
tiles equal to those provided in
the present city will be furnished
without delay in the annexed sub
urbs. This statement has been Of
ficially adopted, signed by every
one Of the five members of the
present council and by the city
manager, and has been published
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-04
More Than 500 Ministers
and Laymen Expected To
Attend Sessions

GOLDSBORO, Nov. 3-R-The
North Carolina Conference of the
Methodist Church will hold its an
nual meeting here next week, be-
ginning Wednesday and ending
Sunday. More than 500 ministers
and laymen from the eastern half
of the state are expected to at
tend.
Bishop W. W. Peele of the Rich
mond area, a North Carolinian,
will preside and at the final ses-
sion will read the list of minis
terial appointments for the COM
ing year. st. Paul church is host
to the conference.
A featured speaker on the pro-
gram will be DR.. Albert E. Day,
of the church's general board u
evangelism and leader Of the new
life movement, who will deliver q
series of five addresses.
Before taking his present posi-
ton DR.. Day was pastor Of the
First Church at Pasadena, Calf
The conference will get under
way Wednesday evening with ar