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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-20
Navy Torpedo Planes Crash

Vineyard, Haven, Mass, March 20 -(UP)-Five Navy flyers are miss ing and presumed dead and one was saved following separate crashes of two torpedo planes in fog, the Navy announced today.
 Sole known survivor of the acci- dents that occurred off Martha's Vineyard island last night was It. Gg) John w. Riley of Q70D Cas- cade avenue) Chehalis, Wash, who padded ashore on liferaft and was found to be unhurt.
 The first accident occurred about 15 miles at sea when trio of the bombing planes were returning to the naval air facility on Martha's Vineyard.
 On running into fog, two of the planes climbed to clearer attitudes but the third plunged downward and apparently struck the sea.
 Fog impeded search by both air and sea and no trace was found of the wreckage or the officer and two enlisted men who were aboard.
 An hour later another group of planes was returning when Riley's plane plunged into the sea about a mile off Gay Head. The plane bounced along the waves and finally broke apart.
 The fog still was heavy but an emergency light flashed by Riley was sighted by shore party who directed him to land.
 Riley said he was thrown clear ot the wreckage and managed to ln- fate his literaft. He saw one of his passengers swimming in the water but lost him in the fog. Aboard the plane with Riley was an officer and an enlisted man.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-20
Jops Admit Raids Hurt

London, March 20-(UP)-An amazingly frank Japanese broad cast reported by the BEG said to- day that whole districts" of Tokyo were destroyed totally by American Superfortresses a few nights ago.
 The raid of which the Japanese gave vivid account apparently was the 2,300-ton incendiary attack by more than 300 Superfortresses on March 10.
 During the night we thought the whole of Tokyo had been reduced to ashes," a broadcaster said. That night will remain in the memory of all those who witnessed it."
 The report compared the bomb- ing of Tokyo with the heaviest ob- liberation raids on Germany, and said that more persons were bombed out than in the heaviest raids on the Reich.
 "The man who invented and car- ried out the large scale attacks on Hamburg is now directing attacks on Japan from the Marianas," the radio said. The reference apparent ly was to Maj. Gen. Curtis Lemay, Chief of the Fist bomber command. 'EIe repeated here in Tokyo what he once learned in Germany"
 Tn 6 raid on Tokyo few nights ago, owing to various unfavorable circumstances, fire caused by incen- diaries swept away whole districts of the Japanese capital which burned to the ground" the broad cast said.
 "As soon as the first incendiary bombs fell, the starlit night was lighted up. the report added. The clouds were suffused with red glow from the ground.
 "The Superfortresses flew incred- ibly low above the gradually spread ing fires. A B-2S exploded almost over the very heart of the city.
 Red fire clouds kept creeping higher, and the tower of the par liament buildings stuck out black against the background of a red sky.
 "The city was as bright as at
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-20
TANKS TABLE
 JAPAN RAIDS
 TEMPORARILY
BY FRANK TREMAINE

Guam, March 20. = (UP) = A powerful American car rier fleet apparently broke off its assault against Japan tenn porarily today after launch ing 1,400 planes against Kure, the enemy'S big gest naval base, and the great port of Kobe yesterday.
 Radio Tokyo, usually first to report new raids on the Japanes homeland, said no attacks were made today. The carrier planes had bombed 'Kyushu, southern most of the Japanese home islands, on the opening day of the current offensive Sun day.
 Most unofficial sources expected the fleet, presumably Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's famed Task Force 58, would resume its attacks within the next 24 to 48 hours, how ever.
 Jap Reports Confirmed
 Pacific fleet headquarters early today confirmed .,stanese reports that the carrier rlA;,as shifted the main weight If shGr assault from Kyushu to southwest Honshu yes- terday.
 It was possible Shat the planes caught a sizeable portion of the elusive Japanese flset at Kure, 413 miles southwest of Tokyo. Other tempting targets at the Imperial navy yard include the naval arsenal. aircraft engine plants and 8 30- ton electric steel furnace.
 The sector around Kure is among the most strongly fortified in the Japanese homeland.
 Kobe, 16O miles east of Kure, still was digging out from the shoulder ing debris left by 8 2,300-ton B-29 superfortress raid AS hours earlier when the SwarmS of carrier plans struck yesterday. Kobe is Japan's biggest port.
 Other objectives in and around the inland sea also were attacked, the Pacilc fleet communique said.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-20
Cooler Tomorrow Says ysWeothermon

Boston, March 20 - (UPD - The New England extended weather forecast:
 'The temperature during the next four days will average from three to seven degrees above the season. al normal. Somewhat cooler Wea- ther Wednesday will be followed by slowly rising temperatures Thurs day and Friday with colero weather again Saturday.
 "A few normals for the period follows: Boston and New Haven, Conn, 38; Nantucket 37; Portland, Me, 34 Concord, N. H., 33; Bur lington, Vt., 32; Eastport, Me, 31.
 Rainfall will range from one third to two thirds of an inch and will occur as showers early We'd nesday and again about Friday
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-20
U. s. Closing In On IIoiIo
By K. ID. QUIGG

Manila, March 20 - UP) - American invasion forces expanded their beachhead on Panay, sixth largest of the Philippine Islands, to more than 28 square miles today and were rapidly closing in on the capital city of Iloilo.
 Combat teams of Major General Rapp Brush's 4Oth Division, veter- ans of the California National Guard, reached within seven miles of Iloilo only few hours after the invasion Sunday and may already be ct the city.
 Ideal Anchorage
 Iloilo, on Panays southern coast fronting on Iloilo strait, has one of the best anchorages in the central Philippines. The main Japanese strength on the island is believed centered around the capital, which had pre-war population of 90,000.
 The landing on Panay, a 4,611- square mile island in the Visaya group, and the seizure of tiny Ma lanaui island off southern Minda- mao also on Sunday brought to 26 the number of islands invaded by Gen. Douglas MacArthur's American forces in the Philippines.
 Brush's seasoned troops, supported by an air and naval bombardment, went ashore on Panay at Tigbauan, IA miles west of Iloilo, without op- position and quickly split into two forces, one driving east and the other north.
 One column pushed four miles in- land along single-track gravel road through Panay's rice paddles and seized the town of Cordova. The second force raced eastward along
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-20
WING APPROPRIATION

Washington, March 20.-(UP)- President Roosevelt asked congress today for $93 ,872, 300 to operate the war manpower commission during the fiscal year beginning July l.. This was an increase of approxi- mately 24,000,O00 over WING ap- propriations for the current fiscal year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-20
KONEV AIMS TO
 OPEN M0RAvIAN GAP GATEWAYS
BY ROBERT MUSEL

London, March 20. - (UP) - Nazi military sources re- ported today that two Rus sian drives were converging in the CzechoSlovak border area of southern Silesia anc threatening to trap the de- lenders of the upper Oder valley south of Oppeln.
 Berlin reports of brisk fighting in the highly indus" trialized southwestern corner of Silesia indicated that Mar shal Ivan s. Konev was try ing to blast open the ap- breaches to the Moravian gap, gateway to southern Germany.
 Hungary Flareup
 The renewed Silesian campaign coincided with flareup in Hungary, WIlSIC OUllC1 1tuOoAhAA l1 AAAASo WSAN grinding through the German de- lenses west of Budapest and around Lake Balaton. The NaziS acknoW- ledged impressive Soviet gains on the route to Vienna.
 Military observers noted that the new activity on the south wing of the eastern front closely. followed forecasts that fanatical Nazis would make their last fight in the moun- tains of southeastern Germany. The possibility was seen that Marshal Stalin now was moving to block that eventuality.
 Ernst Won Hammer, Nazi radio commentator, said Konev's First Ukranian Army was driving two wedges from the east and north into the area of Neustadt, four miles from the Czechoslovak border and 27 miles southwest of Oppeln.
 ''The Russian high command be- lieved itself near a realization of it's plans of effecting junction be- tween these shock wedges Won Hammer said. Such link would trap the German troops in pocket stretching 20 miles eastward to the upper Oder.
 Won Hammer said ''murderous battle" was going on between Rati- bor, at the extreme southwestern corner of SileSia, and Neisse, 48
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-20

confinement by the Japanese was released from Los Banos internment camp, Philippines by the liberating forces of Macarthur. The letter was received yesterday, together with a second, by a sister of the loca. priest, Mrs. Dennis Sullivan of Mar ion and Waterbury.
 Other than a lone Japanese Red Cross card signed by Father Mo- Carthy and received last January, before liberation, this is the first direct word received by the relatives of the priest since before Pearl Harbor.
 Accentuating the drama of the occasion was the second letter writ
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-20
WOMAN 1O2 TODAY

Bangor. Me, March 20-(UP)- Mrs. Parthenia Cameron celebrated her 102nd birthday today and said she attributed her longevity to plenty of good food, especially the homemade bread I used to make"
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The Weather

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Evening star., 1945-11-11
School Buzuur Scheduled

The annual bazaar of the Calvert
lSchool Mothers Guild will be held
"Wednesday from 5 to 10 pm. al
the school, TIT Rhode Island ave-
nue. NV. Dinner will be served.
Evening star., 1945-11-11

leased from the hospital and from
the Navy. She waited while he and
his brother hunted jobs from the
telephone company. She cheered
him up when he told her the COM
pany's answer was, "Sorry-lack of
experience.
She waited while he got a job, in
stead, with butcher at the Colony
Market on Georgia avenue.
Brother Best Man.
And then, last night, she married
him.
Yes, they were only % as they
stood at the altar before the Rev
Walter E. Price-but, as some one in
the congregation said, only some
one who had lived very long and
very bravely would dare to call them
young.
They were all there at the
Northminster Presbyterian Church
Charles Watson Hardy, of 321 Chan
ming street NE. stood at the altal
with the girl beside him-Betty Anr
Wickliffe, a civilian employe of the
Signal Corps who comes from
Springfield, Mo. The older brother
James, stood a little to one side
where the best man ought to stand
The boys mother, Mrs. Efie
Hardy, cried little, but she looked
awfully proud.
And so, bless her heart, did the
airl
Evening star., 1945-11-11
Valentino Marriage Report
Revived by Ex-Stor' S Illness
Ziegfeld Beauty
Suffers Overdose Of
Sleeping Tablets
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. l0.-Hos-
pitalization of Marion e. Wilson, 80
former Ziegfeld Follies beauty, to.
day led to claims and denials that
she was married to Rudolph Valen.
tino and later became the Lady ir
Black" who annually visited his
tomb.
Treated and released from 9
hospital in nearby Santa Monica
after an asserted overdose of sleep
ing tablets, Miss Wilson-aSked II
she had ever been married to the
late screen idol-said: Go to New
Jersey and you'll find out"
She denied she was the Lady ir
Black"
Previously, her cousin, Perry
Combs. Hollywood physical instruc-
tor, told reporters Miss Wilson had
secretly married the film star in
1925 and that a daughter, now Is
and in Europe, was born of the
union. Mr.. Combs said Miss VIII
son was the Lady in Black"
George Ullman, Valentines man.
ager and roommate at the time o.
his death in 1925, denied Mr.. Combs
assertions.
Rudy dated her from time tt
time, but I'm sure there was NJ
marriage he said. "As for he,
having a child by Rudy, there wer'
Evening star., 1945-11-11

mot many people know 1t, but the
biggest thing in the canary world
today Is the red canary" John D.
Allen. carpenter and canary fancier.
was talking amid warbling, whistling
and chirping from 800 tiny throats.
Seems everybody Is trying to
produce red canary" he explained.
mo ones ever done 1t, but they keep
trying. Been trying in Washington
for the last eight years."
Mr.. Allen, for 18 years employed
in the Georgetown University car
penter shop, was chosen manager Of
the 11th annual show of the Ma
tional Capital Canary Club. There
are $50 classes of entries in the
show in Odd Fellows Temple, 4l9
Seventh street NV.
Breeders Have Hopes.
Mr.. Allen explained breeders are
pinning hopes on a wren-sized bird
from Venezuela called the black
hooded siskin He pointed to one,
red with black wings and a black
cap. That's the kind that's going
to give us red canary some time, II
he said.
Fully a third of the entries are
"color-bred" canaries, shown for
Judging on the basis of color rather
than song. Five years ago, the
clubs show had only a few color
bred" entries.
The best bird In the show will be
chosen today. Trophies will be
awarded at pm.
Winners Named.
Winner of The Evening Star Chal-
lenge Trophy for best young AS
banded American canary exhibited
by club member within Is miles
of Washington was Mrs. Clara Ma.
honey, 1906 Seventh street NV. She
also won the trophy last year.
Smiths Challenge Trophy fol-
best young AS" banded Washington
Fancy was won by Mrs. Mahoney
for the third time.
/ Other winners: Best Yorkshire
Mrs. Maude Anderson, 532 Ninth
street NE: best Norwich, G. E. Let
Evening star., 1945-11-11
Two Killed in Traffic
Accidents; Woman
Seriously Injured

Two men, one of whom had not
yet been identified, were killed and
q woman was seriously hurt In
traffic accidents on Washington
streets yesterday.
The deaths brought the toll OF
traffic fatalities for the year to IS
compared with II at this time last
year. Traffic deaths in 1914
totaled SO.
The unidentified man, colored,
and about so. was struck by a
Thompson Dairy truck In the SOC
block of Florida avenue NV. early
yesterday, according to police. He
was pronounced dead on arrival at
Freedmen's Hospital.
Carl Schinner, 80, of 1909 Black
foot road, Berwyn, Md. said by po-
lice to have been driving the truck,
was released pending an inquest.
Man Killed by Streetcar.
The second victim was George
Baxter Thomas, Sc, Baltimore, IA
tally injured when he was struck
by a streetcar on Seventh street
near Constitution avenue NV. Ac-
cording to police, Mr.. Thomas was
hit as he and companion attempt
ed to cross Seventh street.
Charles C. Goldsborough, ~, OF
the 600 block Of K street NV. was
operator of the streetcar, accord
ing to police. Mr.. Thomas, police
said, was not in a crosswalk.
Miss Pauline Rayes, 80, of 2419
Pennsylvania avenue NV, was
struck by a streetcar while crossing
the avenue near her home last
night.
Five Die in "a Hours.
She was taken to Emergency Hos
pital in Rescue Squad ambulance
Attendants said she suffered a pos.
sible skull fracture and that hel
condition was serious.
According to police, the streetcal
was operated by Henry L. Heish-
man, 4s, Of 1907 Wisconsin aveune
NV.
The fatal accidents brought the
death toll to five in the Washington
area within 24-hour period.
Other victims were:
Walter Williams, At, colored, 1925
o street NV, struck by streetcar
as he stepped from a loading plat
form at Seventh and p streets NV
Evening star., 1945-11-11
II Killed in Tennessee
In Crashes Of Two Planes

BY the Associated Press.
LEBANON, Tenn, Nov. 10.-Six
men died in the flaming wreckage
of an Army plane which crashed
and burned miles west of here
this afternoon.
Jackson Dies, on whose farm the
plane-believed to have been a
Gas transport-crashed, said 1t first
circled a field, obviously in trouble
then crashed into clump of trees
on a hillside.
PRUDEN, Tenn, Nov. 10 P.--
Five men were killed today when ar
Army B-25 crashed near the top OF
Canada Mountain, short distance
from the Kentucky Tennessee State
line.
A guard was thrown around the
crash area pending the arrival oi
Army. investigators from Bowman
Field, Louisville, KY.
Evening star., 1945-11-11
U. S, Britain Reported
In Agreement 10 Form
Palestine Committee
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON, Nov. 10. Reliable
sources said tonight that Great
Britain and the United States had
agreed on creation OF a joint COM
mittee to deal with questions Of
Jewish immigration into Palestine
and displaced European Jews.
These sources said agreement on
main issues was reached recently,
but Prime Minister Attlee wanted
to discuss the question with Presi-
dent Truman In their Washington
talks before any British statement
on Palestine is made.
Statement Likely Tuesday.
Foreign ONCE sources said For
eign Secretary Ernest Bevin would
state the Labor Governments po-
sition on Palestine, with ia refer
ence to Americas attitude, in COM
mons possibly next Tuesday.
Diplomatic quarters believed Mr..
Bevin would announce formation
of a British american plan calling
for immediate rather than long
term action.
The Hritish were said to believe
substantial increase of immigra-
tion into Palestine would be possible
If the country were placed under
international trusteeship, while If
they Eear sole responsibility only a
small increase would be possible.
Also diplomatic quarters said it,
was fairly certain" that Mr.. Beyin
would deal with the problem of
thousands of Jewish refugees in the
British and American zones of oc-
cupation in Germany.
5000 in u. S. Zone.
London estimates say there are
$1,000 Jewish refugees in the Ameri-
can and 100000 In the British zone
who want to go to Palestine or some
other country. Some European ex-
perts here declare, however, that If
the Jews were given a guarantee
against persecution many would pre-
fer to remain in Europe.
Meanwhile, a Cairo dispatch said
the Arab League would inform the
oi1e1olA d110 AlllCl1CdlI SOfcIIullcIitS
that no decision should be taken on
Palestine without prior consultation
and agreement with the Arabs.
CAIRO, Nov. 10 (P.-The Arab
League reached a secret decision on
the Palestine question at q meeting
tonight and declined to announce
any details except that the decision
was unanimous and that notes had
been prepared for presentation to
Britain and the United States.
Evening star., 1945-11-11

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are helping disabled veterans to
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Evening star., 1945-11-11
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the burns on his face had tenn
porarily blinded him.
Somehow he managed to stay
sfioat for an hour and a half. A
minesweeper picked him up and
took him to Okinawa. From a base
hospital there he was sent to Saipan
aboard transport being used as
an evacuation ship which, although
plainly marked with red crosses, was
hit on the way by another Kamikaze.
They flew him from Saipan to
Pearl Harbor, where he stayed two
months. When he got there, he
could see hazily, but he weighed 80
pounds-exactly half as much as
he had three weeks beforehand
they had to give him nine pints Of
blood a day to keep him alive.
No Interest in Life.
His 24-year- brother, another
Navy man who saw service with
the amphibious forces at Okinawa,
found him at Pearl Harbor. He
could barely recognize the disfgured
skeleton they showed him. The boy
was dying and knew 1t.
His brother tried to rouse him
tried to bring some flicker of in
terest into the dull eyes by talking
of things they would do when the
boy was well. They had always
been interested in the idea of work
ing together in the communications
field.
when we get back" the brother
said, well get ourselves a job with
the telephone company in Wash
ington. That's a business with q
future"
The boy nodded slowly, but saio
nothing.
When his brother tried to mention
the girl, the boy just turned hi
face to the wall.
The brother went away, positive
he would never see the boy again
He was wrong.
"Went and Saw Him"
They took the boy by airplane II
San Francisco, where he was pu
on hospital train bound for tht
naval hospital at Portsmouth, Va
She came to him there.
II didn't do anything for him,
she said later. Il just went ane
saw him"
No, she didn't do anything. Sh,
just waited. Slowly, he began tt
rally-began to fight his agonizin,
way back. She waited while tn,
plastic surgeons worked their mira
cles and while he underwent
critical eye operation which com
pletely restored his sight.
On September %, the boy was re
Evening star., 1945-11-11

ner, 1910 Ridge place Sc; border
fancy, Mrs. Lillian Martin, 1918
South Dakota avenue NE; best
fancy, Fonce Ford, Rockville, Md;
best in wild and miscellaneouS class,
Mrs. H. B. McElwain, Baltimore.
Best cinnamon and white ground,
J. q. Allen, 1906 North Cleveland
street, Arlington; best red factor,
Mrs. Raymond w. Barclay, Balti-
more; best red siskin, Mrs. Martin:
best parakeet, Clarence @. Moore,
$50 Lebaum street Sc.
Evening star., 1945-11-11
Dental Society to Meet

The District Dental Society will
be addressed by DR.. Karl Hayden
Wood, oral surgeon, on the Treat
ment OF Fractures Of the Mandible
and Facial Bones" at pm. Tues
day at the Medical Society Audito-
rum. A dinner, to which the chiefs
Of the Army and Navy Dental Corps
have been invited, will precede the
meeting.
Evening star., 1945-11-11
81 ,000, 900 Fire Races
Air Forces Warehouse

BY the Associated Press.
FAIRFIELD, Calf, Nov. 10.-Fire
today destroyed an Army airforces
warehouse containing more than
81 600, 900 worth of aircraft parts at
the Fairfeld-Suisun base. Col. Hor-
ace Aynesworth, commanding OIL
! GER said,
Evening star., 1945-11-11

IS women who advanced that claim
after he died"
Mr.. Ullman declared that he
certainly would have known Of the
marriage II it had occurred"
The lady in black, believed by
some to have been a publicity
stunt, for many years annually left
roses at Valentines tomb in Holly.
wood Cemetery.
Miss Wilson Is reported to have
been married three times, the las
time to DR.. Blake H. Watson O
Santa Monica. from whom she wa,
divorced in 1941.
Evening star., 1945-11-11
Ford Strike Will Go
ToCanadian Cabinet

Ey the Associated Press.
WINDSOR, Ontario, Nov. 10.-The
problem of settling the prolonged
strike at the Ford Motor Co. of Can
ada appeared headed for the Domin-
ion cabinet at Ottawa today as fur
ther government efforts to mediate
ended in failure.
Humphrey Mitchell, Canadian
minister of labor. left for Ottawa
by plane after four days of confer
ences with Ford officials and strike
leaders.
Mr.. Mitchell said he probably
would not return here, but would re-
port, without recommendations, to
the Dominion cabinet.
| His departure came as more sup
port for the Ford strike, which with
sympathy walkouts here already has
virtually paralyzed the city's indus
trial operations. was gaining mo-
mentum.
The Joint Policy Committee of the
striking CIO United Automobile
Workers began making plans for .
one-day work stoppage of all CIc
members throughout Canada anc
invited all AFL unions in Canada tc
join in the holiday" An estimated
| 800 900 workers would be affected.
At Toronto, George Harris, secre.
tary of the United Electrical Work
ers (CIO), said all Canadian locals
of his union had been asked to pre-
pare for strike action in support Of
the Ford workers. A date for the
walkout will be set later, he said.
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learn new trades while they are
Evening star., 1945-11-11
|AttIee to Attend Luncheon

Prime Minister Clement Attlee
will be the guest Of Overseas Writers
at I luncheon to be given At l2:45
pm, Wednesday, at the Statler. At
tendance is restricted to members
only.