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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-24
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 shortly after noon Sunday and left today after conferring with Admiral Raymond A. Sprlance. commander Of the Fifth Fleet. Cice Admiral Richmond K Turner, commander of Pacific amphibious forces, and Let. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., commander of the 10th Army.
 The American ground offensive on southern Okinawa appeared to have stalled temporarily in the powerful network of Japanese de- lenses shielding Naha.
 GA Tokyo broadcast recorded by the EGG said Japanese suicide planes damaged two Allied sh;s,s northeast of Okinawa and set fire to a large transport off the south west coast. Tokyo said Japanese artillery on Okinawa fired on Allied ships which entered the Nakagusuku Bay Naval Anchorage yesterday and sank destroyer)
 Superfortresses which bombed the Hitachi aircraft plant today were striking at the Tokyo area for the first time this week. They attacked from medium altitude and good re- suits were expected.
 The plant, which covers 1000, 900 square feet, is only 19 miles from the Imperial palace and one of the few aircraft engine factories not attacked pl eviously by Maj. Gen. Curtis Lemay's MarianaS-baSed sup- erfortresses.
 Tokyo radio, in acknowledging the raid, said the force comprised 70 B-29'S and claimed that six of these were shot down and 20 dam aged. The enemy broadcast said the superforts also hit the air bases at Tachikawa and nearly To- korozawa, while another force of 20 B-29's ranged over the Shi- zuoko area, southwest of Tokyo, but dropped almost all it's bombs into the sea.
 In the fighting on Okinawa, Ad- miral Chester w. Nimitz announced that warships and carrier planes continued the heavy bombardment of Japanese positions in the south- ern part of the island although he had no report of further progress of the American Army offensive.
 Three U. s. Divisions of the 24th Corps have been attacking the Jap- anese in southern OkinaWa with tanks and flame -throwers since Thursday but the drive stalled tem- porarily three and a half miles north of the capital city of Naha.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-24
Pole Problem Is Alarming
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The American delegates awaited stettinlus' report and the arrival of their No. 2 colleague. Chairman Tom Connally. D.. Tex, of the Sen- ate Foreign Relations Committee. Hen be in today. Clement Attlee, Deputy Prime Minister of Great Britain. arrived yesterday but with- out significant comment.
 Many Sounding on
 The smaller nations are begin- ming to sound off. E. N. Van Klef- fens, the slight young man who is foreign minister of the Netherlands, announced his intention to submit seven amendment to the Dumbarton Oaks outline of a postwar security charter. The Dutch are of the mid de group" here. neither big powers nor little.
 Van Kleffens is believed to speak for some of the others here in his major amendment which would de- prive big power members of the pro- posed security council of the veto privilege against any use of force against themselves. That privilege, In effect, would permit the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union. China or France to veto use of force against themselves.
 That veto power was agreed upon at Russian insistence. It is in part responsible for the fact that the post-war security charter is design ed in last resort to compel peace among the smaller powers rather than to enforce it among the big ones.
 Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla, of Mexico, expressed here the hope that 'the heroic people of Poland" would be represented here. But he did not go on record for or against the Lublin government. And Padilla said he believed the American Re- publics would be glad to see Argen- tina represented at the conference.
 The Polish Argentine issues are somewhat connected. Moscow op- poses admission of Argentina to the conference. The United States, by implication at least. wants Argen- tina here.
 Commander Harold E. Stassen, here in civilian clothes as confer ence delegate, told Roosevelt memorial audience last night that the San Francisco conference could improve on the original Dumbarton Oaks security framework proposals.
 The document which We draw here" he said, will not and can- not represent exactly what any one nation or delegate would like to see. The important thing is that we agree on the fundamental question and then give and take to adjust the details"
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the report was tained with propa- ganda possibilities.
 Soviet front dispatches said the de- lenders of interior Berlin were be- ginning to show signs of cracking up. In one rubbish -heaped street 600 men surrendered Hundreds of Russian and Ukranian slave labor CTS were emerging from the ruins of the central district, to welcome the Red army.
 All accounts pictured Berlin as a desolate waste. The Russian army Organ Red Star published pictures showing Soviet tanks rollin g through Uttered stre its where not a soul was in sight.
 If this is typical of the rest of the city. Berlin is wrecked worse than Stalingrad and Warsaw" 8 United Press dispatch describing the pictures said.
 An Izvestia correspondent said chaos and confusion were rife in the Geramn-held part of Berlin, where the warlords maintained some semblance' of discipline only by ter roriSm.
 Red Star said the shells of hun dreds of Russian guns had leveled the Stettin and Nord rail stations and demolished the Argus airplane engine and Heinkel aircraft plants on the BerlinerstraSse.
 Gas plants were blazing, burned out Panzers filtered the broad ave- nues, and many streets were impas- sable, Red Star correspondent said.
 Barricades Demolished
 Zhukov's tanks and motorized in- fantry broke across the circular railroad into inner Berlin from the north, east and south. They now were battering through the city, block by block, blasting out nests of SS Elite Guards and Volkssturm remnants from cellars and hideouts in the ruins, while Soviet artillery demolished row after row of street barricades.
 Some 50 miles north of Berlin. the North German Home Radio service said the Russians had broken across the lower Oder in the area of Gartz, 16 miles south of Stettin, and established bridge head 12 miles long and about two miles deep.
 "The Soviets are bringing up strong forces, and are sending tanks and artillery across the river, ap- parently with the intention of roll ing up the Oder front" the Nazis said.
 The Luxembourg radio said that at Berlin, the Russian flag already was flying over the ruins of the Reichstag, and Potsdammer platz, Anhalter station and the Tiergarten were in Soviet hands.
 Radio Luxembourg, regarded as the voice of Allied Supreme Head quarters, said the Americans and Russians had joined hands along a broad front near Torgau on the Elbe. The Russians reached the Elbe along a 3s-mile front yester- day.
 American and Russian tanks and motorized columns already are working together" the Luxembourg
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cious SS units, backbone of the de- fense, were being drowned in their own blood in a merciless street battle" one dispatch said.
 Briefing given Soviet units be- fore the battle left no doubt that the Russians were taking full measure of vengeance upon the ar- rogant SS in its own capital.
 Cleanup Nears
 Germans holding out behind barricades and inside the capitals stone buildings are being cut to pieces and the cleanup is only a matter of days, if not hours" M. $. Handler, United Pres War Corres- pendent at Moscow, cabled.
 For all practical purposes, the battle of Berlin has ended. De- struction throughout the city is inn mense."
 Stockholm dispatches said the entire government quarter between Unter Den Linden and the Leip- ziger station had been leveled by artillery fire and bombs.
 Other European sources said the Red Army was battling along Un- ter Den Linden and the Wilhelm strasse and had reached the Stet- tinger station. A London Daily tele- graph dispatch from Stockholm said the Russions were smashing through SS defenses near Alexan- derplatZ.
 Another Stockholm dispatch, thia one to the Daily Express, said Der. lin's southwestern suburb of Pots' dam had been captured.
 The Soviet high command re. ported that 53 Germans tanks and 160 guns were distroyed yesterday Some 25,000 Germans have bee4 killed or captured in or near th0 city in the past six days, it said.
 First to break into Berlin, StaliD revealed, was Marshal Gregory K. ZhukoV'S First White RusSiaA Army. White main forces were smashing into the capital from tll9 'east and northeast. zhukoc's souths ern wing toppled the anchor strongs hold of Frankfurt, 33 miles eaA southeast, and Cottbus, 53 mileA southeast.
 Konev's First Ukrainian Army smashed into Marienfelde in south- ern Berlin to complete the pincers. Other units of the First Ukrainian army, meantime, drove to the Elbe river at three pointed along 39- mile front within few hours march of junction with the Am erican First Army along the Nude river at Wuerzen.
 The SovietS reached the Elbe at Muehlberg, 30 miles northwest of Drenden! Zahna, g miles southeast of Dessau, and lessen, II miles southeast of Zahna. Also captured in the westward March farther north were Treuenbrietzen 30 miles east of American-he Magdeburg, and Beelitz, 50 miles east of Am. erican-held Magdeburg, and Beelitz, 12 miles south of Potsdam.
 North of Berlin, the First White Russian Army captured the indus trial suburb of Oranienburg, six miles above the capital. The army was led by record-breaking total of 97 generals.
 Altogether, the two armies ring ing Berlin advanced 50 to 100 miles along 105-mile front in the past week.
 Tn Czeclioslovakia, the Fourth Ukrainian Army captured Opava, IS miles northwest of Moravska Ostrava, gateway to the Noravian Gap to Prague. The Second Ukrain- ian Army seized Pavlov, 21 miles south of Brno.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-24
BAKING KILLED?

Ankara, April A.-UP)--A re- port from Vienna said today that former King Ferdinand of Bulgaria had been killed in a road accident while attempting to flee from h1s home in 9lovaEia tO Austria.
 Ferdinand, 84 years old. abdicated his throne in 1918 in favor of his son, the late King Boris.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-24
Red Juncture Likely Foked
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(Continued from Page D that the Russians would have to cross the Elbe to meet the First Army, and river crossings are risky and costly in men and materiel.
 On that basis, it probably would be less costly for the Russians to swing north when they reached the Elbe and link up with the American Ninth Army en the east bank of the rivee..
 Stan Sergeant Alexander J. Bal- ter. Pittsburgh, Pa, translated the purported Russian military broad
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(Continued from Page D slight gains in the three-way drive against Baguio and the 43rd Divi- sion pushed within mile of Ma patad Mountain, in the Marakina watershed 2l miles northeast of Alinala.
 Strategic bomber forces from the Philippines again raided Formosa and sank . Japanese patrol boat, a freighter and small tanker in the China Sea blockade.
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sAst that was picked up on a field 'transmitter last night He said the transmission had "all the earmarks of a uhonay."
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Teachers in Fire want their pay raised to the levels of nearby coun- tries. ssz
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Petoin To Surrender

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Black Market Meot In N. E.

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Jops Split On Mindonoo

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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-06-22

military reasons, but would hold
them under a trusteeship rather
than on the basis of outright owner
ship.
AS matters now stand terms of
U. S. control of these inundated
areas taken from Japan at such high
cost will impose no restrictions nor
time limits for their use for military
purposes. More than likely we will
come to some terms with japan for
similar use of Okinawa.
Problem of Mandate
Islands in Pacific
It has cost us something like 200,-
600 casualties and upwards of hum
dred billion dollars to wrest these
inundated areas from Japan, and as
Secretary of the Navy Forrestal
said:
sit is unthinkable that those is
lands should not be a part of the
pattern of American security in the
Pacific" Resources of the islands
are negligible. Total population runs
about 10000 but as air and sea
bases they are important in guard
ing the Philippines and our route
across the Pacific.
There appear to be troubled times
ahead for amicable cooperation be-
tween the United States, Britain and
Russia in the Far East. In the first
place our leaders are not definitely
in agreement whether we want or
need Russia's help in the Japanese
war 4. they are not agreed wheth-
er complications which would arise
as result of Russian help may not
become more difficult to handle than
going it alone with the aid of the
British navy. Evidences of mistrust
on the part of Russia, and her fail
ure to carry out commitments made
at the Yalta conference is disturb
ing to American officials, for a set
Element in the Far East is directly
related to the degree Of cooperation
between the present allies.
Ambassador Patrick Hurley re-
Gently made trip to Moscow in an
attempt to obtain from Stain his in
tentions on the muddled Chinese sit
uation as between Chang Kai-shek
and the Yenan communists. We are
now fully committed to the support
of Chang Kai-shek and opposed to
aiding the Chinese communists UNI
less they are willing to take their
place in the Chang government. Sta
lin recently has been highly critical
of Chang and high officials here
profess to fear that if Russia par
ticipates in the Chinese war, she
may make territorial and other de-
mands in Manchuria, Inner Mongo-
liza and even In Korea.
The fear is openly expressed that
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-06-22
War Production Will
Begin to Decline

War production will drop consid-
erably and reconversion in some in
dustries will get underway as re-
suit of We Day on the German front,
but the army and navy will get ev-
erything it asks in the way Of pro-
duction for the big push against the
Jap mainland which may get under
way as early as August. AS the
Okinawa campaign ends and our air
bases are set up on that island Of
the Jap homeland, routine bomb
ing of Jap naval bases at Nagasaki,
Sasebo, Kure and Kobe may be ex-
pected in preparing the way for in
vasion of the Japan sea, that stretch
of water between the Japanese Is
lands and the mainland of China.
Not only will Okinawa serve as a
base for land based planes, but it
may prove to be the jumping off
place for invasion movements, so it
may be assured that the new stage
in the Jap war will get under way
when Okinawa is finally set up as an
operating base for the army and
navy and our powerful air arm {.
which will not only include a larger
fleet Of BIOS but Flying Fortresses,
Liberators and medium bombers,
accompanied by fighter planes and
fighter bombers.
No other outside territory except
Korea is so strategically located as
Okinawa with reference to Japan,
controlling as it does the approach
to Japan from Formosa and China.
1t may be that one more advance to
Korea will be made to forge this
circular ring about Japan.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-06-22

These military bases include the
Marshall Islands, the Marianas, the
Carolines, the BONN and Volcano
groups, all of which were inundated
to Japan after World War I. 1t also
likely would include the Gilbert Is
lands, perhaps bases In the Solo
mons and elsewhere in the South
Pacific, Palau Islands, and also per-
haps at Dakar on the west African
coast and in Greenland.
Under the principles established in
the Atlantic charter we are not
land-grabbing for territory but we
have taken the position that strate-
gic areas should be regarded sep
arately from colonial areas. With
this in mind, the late President
Roosevelt apparently made commit
ments that this country would not
ask title to islands claimed by us for
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-06-22

unless base for agreement can be
reached between Stain and the
U. S. on the Chinese question, that
war-weary nation is ripe for a revo-
luton or civil war which may af-
feet the entire Far East situation.
Our official attitude is that we
have done everything we can do to
assure Russia of our postwar in
tentions which includes in the back
ground the possibility of a six bill
lion dollar loan to Russia to be used
for financing purchases Of needed
industrial equipment.
In the meantime, despite specula-
ton that Japan may fold up and
surrender on short notice, our mill
tary leaders are gearing their prep
aration for the Japanese war, fig
uring that it will take at least a
year and despite the fact that
the army has announced it will re-
lease some million and half troops,
redeployment is being conducted
with the idea that the five-million
army will be necessary to whip the
Japs. We cannot afford to take
chances with speculation, but must
prepare for the most the Japs can
throw at us as we invade their main
land.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-06-22

under the domination of various
forms of monarchy and banditry.
When the Manchu monarchy was
overthrown in 1911 the Republic Of
China had practically. nothing. upon
which to form a government. For
almost $50 years the people had been
living under the protection of for
eign nations who had established ex-
traterritorial rights and this consul
lar jurisdiction.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-06-22
Chiang's Hold a Precarious One

China's millions are an incohesive
mass of hard-fghting patriotic peo-
pie. They have suffered years of
starvation diet and hardships, how
ever, and the hold of Chang over
these millions is a precarious one.
The Chinese Republic has been in
existence since 1911, but after "a
years she has not even adopted a
constitution. For centuries before
that time the Chinese people lived
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-06-22

While we have lost several Of our
established air bases inside China,
as a result of Japanese action, we
are still making use of these bases
for bombing flights to the Jap-held
centers in French Indo-China and
Thailand and, with the recent cap
ture of Rangoon by the British forces
in Burma and defeat of the Jap
armies in that country, concerted
drive by the British through Thai
land and down the Malayan penin-
sula may be expected to coincide
with our invasion of the China coast.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-06-22
while Others Sleep

Nettie-No wonder Betty is always
getting the best of you. She's SOM
nambulist.
Lettie-What's that, a kind Of eff
cheney expert?
Nettie-Sort of, she walks in her
sleep so she can get her rest and
her exercise at the same timel
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-06-22
Precisely Located

Hi-Where does that new farm
hand come from?
Swell, from his description, I'd
say it was Warm Mattress, Virginia.
Hi-Never heard of such a placei
Si-He says it's just above Hot
Springs.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-06-22
ON a Crowded Bus

First Strap Hai1ger--Are you toe
dancer?
Second Ditto-Why, no.
First S. H.-Then viii you please
get OF my feet?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-06-22
Objective: Tokyo
Objective: Tokyo
Long, Hard War Planned
Against Japan by Allies
Aid of Russia Still ON Open
Question as to Effect on China
BY Walter A. Shead
WNU Staff C0rrespORdenf.


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How the United States maintain military
bases the Pacific and elsewhere without setting off
national landgrab the peace settlement the subject
much discussion.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-06-22
Music in the Air

Proud Mama-My.l little girl Is very
precocious. She's learning to play
the piano In no time.
Suffering Neighbor-Yes. 30 I've
noticedi
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-06-22
WHO? ME?
hos the responsible man

CaIler-WhO's the Responsible man
around here?
Office Boy-If you mean the guy
who always gets blamed for every
thing, I'm the man.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-06-22
BRIGHT IDEA

Mac-Every time one Of those big
army guns goes off, $1,000 goes up
in smoke.
Jack-Why don't they use smoke
less powder?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-06-22
Upset Stomach

Relieved In minutes or double money back
When excess stomach acid causes painful suffocat-
Ing gas, stomach and heartburn doctors usually
prescribe the fastest-acting medicines known for
symptomatic relic medicines like those in Be-ans
Tablets No laxative. Bell-ans brings comfort in o
fifty or double your money back return Of bottle
10 Us. Csc at all druggists.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-06-22
Pending Disaster

She-Oh, darling, I'll just love to
share all your troublesl
He-But, honey, I haven't any.
She-Oh, mean after we're mar
ried.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-06-22
This Smells!

Dumb-There's something wen
always be able to get cheap.
Dora-What's that?
Dumb-Toilet water. You can al
ways get all you want for . scent.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-06-22
Badge of Courage

bauge OF COuraS6
Angry Wife-When you married
me, you weasel, I thought you were
daring and courageous.
Patient Hubby-That's nothing.
Everyone else thought the same
thing.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-06-22
Swing Time

Swing Time
Harry-How did Bill get that bump
on his head?
Jerry-Playing the saxophone.
Harry-Oh, in front Of someone's
house, Ell?
Jerry-No. In front of the from
bone playerl
Evening star., 1945-12-23
Homeward Over the Bridge of Sighs'

Out of the Urals, the Don River basin,
the Caucasus and even Siberia come
thousands OF Poles. They are on their
way back to find new homes in new
Poland. Many of them had to give up
homes because of the cession of a big
slice Of Eastern Poland to the Soviets
IN the reconstruction of Poland's pres
-ent borders.
No one knows exactly how many
Polish men, women and children are
yet to come from the east-some say
as many as 100000. And another
100000 Poles are on their way back
from half dozen European countries
in the west
NO migration as great as this can be
without suffering-and those who pass
to the east and to the west over the
Bridge of Signs" suffer.
Many Are Ragged
Many travellers are without shoes.
Their clothes are patchde-up bits of
rags. For many of them, all of their
worldly possessions are tied up in
shawl or feed sack slung over their
shoulders. The more fortunate have
their own straw-bedded wagons, and
the really lucky ones have covered
wagons which help to keep off biting
winds, rain, sleet and snow.
Smiles are few and far between These
people have little about which to smile.
Many have traversed hundreds of miles
on foot. They have hungered and
thirsted to get back to their own coun-
try. A great majority suffer some kind
of illness and all have suffered from ex-
posure
Those from the east and those from
the west have little to eat Often it is
only semidark bread, hunk of meat,
or potatoes. There doesn't seem to be
any shortage of vodka which many buy,
if they can, instead of food, for 'it helps
to keep us warm"
Stretching Rations
Russian and Polish relief agencies
help all they can, but many times
single days ration must be stretched
into week. In Praga and in Warsaw,
Poles give generously to the hungry
and shivering.
Nighttime, on the outskirts of both
Praga and Warsaw, red flames of camp
fires light the skies. Here and there
caravans have paused for nights rest,
to broil chunks of meat, to MUNICH bread,
wrap themselves in sackcloth, blankets,
any covering available and lay beside the
campfires, to await the coming of dawn
and another push onward to the east
or west.
Relief officials and foreign doctors say
many thousands undoubtedly will die