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ously and pounding the table be- fore her, she almost shouted:
 "Mussolini (she always referred to him that way) never had any, thing to do with women. He never let them have any influence over him. That was propaganda just to ruin him.
 "Mussolini at the most had five minutes with a woman, then he would leave her."
 She trembled with anger and emotion as she spoke. But the frail widow, still attractive in spite of her 56 years, maintained her dig nity, presenting a far different picture from the hulking, peasant type woman I had been led to ex- pect.
 T last saw Mussolini about eight days before he was killed" she went on, holding clenched hand kerchief before her face. T talked with him by telephone about six or seven hours before he met death
 He called me at three a. m. al Como that morning and told me to try to get into Switzerland, but that if I failed, to turn myself ano the children over to the American authorities.
 "Of course knew something was wrong. I knew he was in danger, because he told me he was with the PartisanS. But I did not know he was going to be killed"
 She broke down again at that point and began beating on the table with her clenched fists, sob- ping bitterly.
 Her ash-gray hair was bound up in light blue, printed silk ker- chief, Aunt Jemima scyle, and her startlingly-b blue eyes contrasted prettily with her pale, transparent skin.
 She wore a little, black real silk dress with a deepish V-neck, slightly puffed sleeves and a smart pleated skirt. Although stockingless, she had on high-heeled open-work black sandals that were the last word in style.
 Her entire appearance was far different than the general public had been led to believe.
 Influenced Dictator
 Asked if she believed she had had any influence over Mussolini, she laughed almost gaily, and shrugged her shoulders.
 Of course,' she replied, "in a way. He really trusted me. He was very, very sincere. He had a lot of affection for me. Probably I was teh only woman who really thought something of him. And I was the only woman he ever thought any, thing of.
 "He really did like his family - to such an extent that no other man in the world could"
 As she spoke, she tugged gently at a tiny, double-strand gold chain around her neck probably a gift from her dead husband. She wore Mussolinis plain gold wedding ring and cheap-looking rhinestone and silver band on her left hand. On the ring finger of her right hand, she wore a plain pewter or lead ring such as Il Duce once awarded to Fascist wives.
 T started to write book, the story of my life and his life," she recalled. T lived 36 years with Mus solini. knew him better than any, one else in the world"
 She broke into tears again and
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Fire Rebels
 Plot Smashed
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\SOLiIUIuCQ 4IOI1l rage IL bate in the country's newspapers to- day.
 The Irish Independent and Irish Times published De Valera's state ment under big headlines. The gov- ernment organ Irish press made only passindg reference to 1t, with out any headline display.
 Under the headline, Mystery of the Republic" the Irish Indepen- dent said:
 If MT. De Valera was noted for a sense of humor, the public would naturally take his statement that Fire is Republic to be nothing more than an attempt at a joke at MT. Dillon'S expense"
 Deputy James Dillon asked in Parliament whether Fire is a Re- public, and drew De Valeras as. surance that it is.
 But on this occasion Mir. DeVal- era was surprisingly unequivocal. He assures the people in casual, off, hand way that this is a Republic. How, when or why 1t became one he may reveal later on. It would be in- teresting to hear what date MT. De Valera fixed for the great trans formation. It must have been he who settled that matter. The Dali heard nothing about it, and the peo- pie heard nothing about it."
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Final reoty Hearings Set
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Continued from Page D Federation of Women's Clubs, Young Women's Christian AsSoci- ation, National Congress of Par ents and Teachers, National Coun- cil of Jewish Women, National Federation of Business and Pro- fessional Women's Clubs, Inc, and the United Council of Church Women.
 She said the authority to be granted the American delegate to the United Nations Security Coun- cf-which has been controverted point-is a domestic question and should not be handled in any res- ervation to the charter.
 Carr Fav0rs Ratification
 William G. Carr, associate Sec- retary of the National Education association, urged prompt ratifica- tion.
 '"Fhe United Nations charter is the first great international docu- ment to give explicit recognition to the powerful force of education in keeping the peace," he said.
 The committee also received statements of endorsement from Uric Bell, executive vice-president of Americans United for World Organization" and Leo Cherne, executive secretary of Research In- stitute of America and a member of the board of Americans United"
 This first step should be fol- lowed up by prompt implementing action so that the spirit of San Francisco can be carried forward" {" Bell said. We believe that other nations will then respond in & manner really making possible 8 world of good neighbors won't flourish long,"
 Opponents Outspoken
 The final witness Friday is ex- pected to be John Foster Dulles, a leading Republican in international affairs who served as a special State Department consultant at the San Francisco Conference which drafted the treaty.
 Connally was unperturbed by the burlesque nature of yesterdays ses- sion where the charter was attacked as a Communist plot, a military alliance and power grab by the pig three, British plan for world domination and as downright un- constitutional.
 The list o6 opposing witnesses
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ran out at mid afternoon and Con- naly filled in the remaining time by hearing two proponents. Mrs. Anna Lord Strauss, president of the National League of Women's Voters, and Ray Krimm, executive director of the United Nations Council of Philadelphia, both said their or- ganizations favor immediate rati- fication."
 Connally said he hoped to get senate consideration of the treaty started early next week and ratifi- cation without reservations by Aug i. He was confident that all res- ervations would be rejected.
 Bushfield for Ratification
 Sen. Harlan J. Bushfield, R., s. D., who plans to vote for ratification, said he first would offer reserva- tions "to give the senate chance to vote" on several particular ques- tions.
 He said he had not reduced his reservations to definite language yet but that they would include:
 1.A definition forbidding the American delegate on the security council to vote for the use of U. s. Armies without specific congress sional approval in each case.
 2 A stipulation that the treaty leaves inviolate the Monroe doc urine.
 3. A guarantee that the council shall not impose armaments re- strictions upon the United States.
 4. A guarantee of the right of the United States to withdraw from the security organization.
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BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
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ReStdurdteur Wins Verdict
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the day the alleged offense took place.
 Miss Alexander, who is the daugh- ter of Mrs. Leila T Alexander, di- rector of the Pearl Street Neighbor- hood House, said that she and Miss Solomon went into the Grotto Restaurant, a small establishment which serves spaghetti dishes, at 1 o'clock on the afternoon of Feb. 8, and after waiting few minutes. moved toward a booth in the rear which was vacated.
 and before they could sit down, told them that he couldn't serve them because she was Negro.
 Miss Alexander said she pointed out that that was in violationf of the law of Connecticut, to which MT. DiPesa replied that he had no
 personal prejudice, but that his customers objected to his serving Negroes and he was trying to build up his business. She said no dis turbance was created and the dis cussion was carried on in conversa- tional tones, after which she and Miss Solomon left.
 DiPesa told the court that his restaurant was unusually crowded on that day, and several persons were waiting for booths, when Miss Alexander and Miss Solomon walk ed in. ignoring the waiting cus- toners, and walked over to a booth which was about to be vacated.
 He said he went over to Miss Solomon and said to her, T am sorry, but I am not able to serve you at the moment. I you will wait we will be glad to take care of you"
 He said that Miss Alexander turn- ed to Miss Solomon and said, What aid he say" to which Miss Solomon replied, T told you so, he will not serve you because you're colored l"
 T said to them, Just a minute now, did not say that" MT. Di- Pesa declared. Miss Alexander then said to me, You're discrimin- atng because I'm colored'." he con- tinued.
 DiPesa said that Miss Alexander then told him that her mother was Mrs. Alexander, a national officer Of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and that she would have him ar- rested.
 DiPesa told her he had other people ahead of her, but if she would wait her turn he would take eff his apron and eat with her. She replied, not in this dumpy place, he said. MT. DiPesa also stated that he was not even aware that Miss Alexander was colored until she brought it up.
 Atty. Ciano also called to the stand, Raymond Rich, manager of the United Clothing Store, and Harry Perelman of New Haven, manager of the Carroll Cut Rate Store, who testified that they were in the restaurant waiting for booth when Miss Alexander and Miss Solomon walked in. Mrs. Perelman declared he was pretty we'll peeved when they walked in ahead of us." He said there was no booth vacant, and if there had been, they would have been entitled to it because they were waiting for ten minutes before the two women came in.
 Angelina Pernatodzi, 1S4 Colum- hia Blvd, was the last witness called by Atty. Ciano. She said she was seated in booth when the two women came in and the discussion took place. She said she heard Di- Pesa exclaim, T didn't say that" and she also heard him say to Miss Alexander, If you will wait you can eat here as my guests"
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New Carrier Strike
 Feared Off Homeland
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ec to the roster of targets now more than half destroyed, running the score to IA.
 In the great fire raid, it was dis closed, 64 per cent of Kofu was laid in ashes, including half the citys railroad installations. Kofu, Japan's largest inland city. is 65 miles southwest of Tokyo.
 The entire urban area of Shi- rnizu, 30 miles southwest of the capital, also was revealed to have been destroyed completely, excepting only a few small sections near the northern and southern city limits.
 Other Japanese war centers now more than half destroyed include Tokyo, Kobe, Yokkaichi, Toyohashi, Shizuoka, Okayama, Kochi. Toku- shima, Takamatsu. Himeji. Ham, matSu and Kure.
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least 154 Japanese planes were de- stroyed or damaged in the opening hours of the Tokyo strike Tuesday, indicated that Halseys task force had imposed radio silence immedi- ately on breaking off the attack.
 Further information on details of the strike by carrier aircraft is rot yet available" Ninitz's com- munique said.
 It reported however, that Navy bombers set three small cargo ships afire near the China coast Tues day and that Marine fighters raked the Amami islands, between Oki- nawa and the Japanese homeland, Monday and Tuesday.
 IA Cities Half Destroyed
 Meanwhile, the U. s. Army's B-2 headquarters announced that two more Japanese cities had been add
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-12
FOURTH "E" AWARD
 FOR CHROMIUM co.

The Chromium Corporation. of America recently received the fourth star to its Army-Navy E az. indicating that employees of the Huntington avenue met have met all production schedule for the past four years.
 Brief ceremonies will mark the appendage of the star to the Army Navy E flag. Ralph Cleveland. manager, has announced.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-12
SHE SHE SHOPS. CASH AND CARRY
Without Painful Backacho

Many sufferers relieve naggins backache quickly, once they discover that the real cause of their trouble may be tired kidneys.
 The kidneys are Natures chief way of talk ing the excess acids and waste out of the blood. They help most people pass about 8 pints day.
 When disorder of kidney function permits poisonous matter to remain in your blood, 1t maycause nagging backache, ,rheumaticpains, leg pains, loss of pep and energy, getting up nights. swelling. puffiness under the eyes, headaches and dizziness. Frequent or scanty your kidneys or bladder.
 Don't waitl Ask your druggist for Deans Pills, stimulant diuretic. used successfully by millions for over 70 years. Doan's give happy relief and will help the l5 miles of kidney tubes flush out poisonous waste from your blood. Get Doan's Pills.
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Youths Rob WAC $9O

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Dual Duties For Granger
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NO>AANS@~oSA CTS. last year. A native of this city. MT. Granger began his industrial career in this city in 1903 at Ben- edict and Burnham. He became associated with the Waterbury Clock company in 1908, serving there as clerk, assistant foreman, foreman, superintendent. vice-pres- ident and general manager, and finally assumed the position of president and general manager. In 1922 he severed his connections there when the corporation stock was sold to other interests.
 A few months after leaving the Waterbury Clock Co., he was ap- pointed chairman of Price Adjust ment Board of the Springfield Ord- nance district.
 MT. Granger is married and re- sides at 199 Euclid avenue.
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(Contlnued rom Page ) was found four blocks away. She was hysterical.
 She said the three youths forced her into a car and took her to a ground floor hallway.
 There she was raped and robbed of $90 she said.
 The WAC remembered birth mark on the face of one of her attackers. Detectives recalled that Colletti, whom they had arrested a week ago, had such mark. They arrested him in bed at his home. He implicated Fuco who was found in a car near his home. The WAC identified the car.
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MAN THROWING A TYPE
 WRITER

WRITER
 Not too many newspapers gave a play (conspicuously) to the spank ing that Rankin got from his col- leagues the other day Let's make it public right here Said Cong. Ned R. Healy: This move is typical of MT. Rankin's activities. He is obviously follow ing in the footsteps of his pre- decessor, Martin Dies. That is an attempt to drive Underground all memebrs of the motion picture industry who have in any way sup ported the liberal social program of President Roosevelt" Con. Ellis E. Patterson opined: '"The whole thing is an attempted smear of Hollywood in order to hurt the industry and to get a lot of pub ncity. It is entirely unjustifiable knd is a cheap, lowdown way to get newspaper space. To me it is ridiculous and un-American. It is the old red herring dragged across the path of freedom of speech and thought"
 Many American are fed up with the vile epithets used against min critics on every possible occasion by John E. (for Erythropia) Rankin Many of his colleagues in Congress are fed up, too. When for example, Rankin Gas acting chairman of the n-American Ac- t.v1ties Comm.) switched from pro- language to hot air (and charged Hollywoodiets with a plot against the U. S0, one Congressman jeer- ingly remarked: Rankin should stalkl He owes HIS seat in Congress to the poll-tax plot against de- mocracy in Mississippi"
 A reporter greeted Senator Cha veg of New Mexico at the close of an Upper Chamber session. T want tc congratulate you, Senator" de- tlared the scribe warmly. You were the only man to get up on his feet and rebuke Senator Bilbo last week for his batting of minorities. It was wonderful to see you, a Catholic, go to the defense of the Jews as well as your own people!"
 Thank you," replied Chavez smiling. ''You know, when Bilbo was filibustering, he read from the Lillian Smith novel and that struck me as quite appropriate. Bilbo himself seems to be some of that strange fruit, which blooms on the American tree of liberty"
 Colynmist Arthur Krock insists that the death of the Emperor, thorugh design or accident, would cause Jap fanaticism to be aroused to a pitch not yet attained :. Such rot! We have adopted a fuddy-duddy policy toward Hirohito but that hasn't prevented Jap suicide missions. Is there anything n1ore fantastic than a Jap suicide pilots
 Jean Luchaire, former vichy pro- paeanda chief, is back in Paris where he'll stand trial as colla- borationist, and, like all such so- and-sos, he swears that he was never partisan of the Nazi re- glme" But Frenchmen know his background well, including the fact that his actress daughter, Cor lnne, was mistress of Nazi Ambas- sador Otto Abetz As one French official put it to an American Ecrihe. "YOil See-vnlIr Mir Tjncoly, was right. We are catching up with the traitors, which proves that you can't fool all the people all of the time" "Yes,' sighed the reporter, but, unfortunately, there's somebody trying it all the time"
 When the boat with Genl Terry Allen (and his famous division sboarO steamed into N. Y. harbor the faces of the GIs wore grins as broad as the base of the Statue of Liberty. But there were also
The Nome nugget., 1945-07-13
Two Planes Collide In Air

COLUMBIA, s. C., July 13-(P) A two year old boy is one of the seventeen passengers on a Boston, Miami Eastern Airliner, and two flyers in an Army plane were killed in an air collision of the two planes.
 The child's mother, Mrs. A. E. Williams of Miami, is in a serious condition. Three others were hurt. One army flyer escaped by para chute. The airliner pilot had to land his plane in a cornfield with both motors torn away and one wing damaged.
The Nome nugget., 1945-07-13
TWO SEAMEN SAVE COMRADE IN ICY WATERS OF BERINC SEA

skipper of the boat brought it around sharply and eased the craft alongside of Johnson, Ensign R. w. Kohanki, Loveland, Ohio, tossed him a life preserver, but Johnson's arms were so numbed from freezing water he couldn't hold it. Crewmen tried to lower a small boat but the high seas de- feated the effort.
 Seaman John Connolly, Roches- ter N. Y., donning a life vest, leaped over the side into the cold water where he was numbed quickly but managed to reach the
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STORM LASH ESFLEET
TyphOOn Does More Ship Damage Than Japs

GUAM, July 13, (P)-A typhoon lashed Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet with a one hundred thirty eight mile an hour wind on June fifth and tore the bow off the Cruiser Pittsburgh. It damaged at least twenty other warships, Admiral Nimitz said, after vir- tually every damaged ship was back in action.
 At least four of the damaged ships were oattleships: the Massa- chusetts, Indiana, Carrier San Ja- cinto and Destroyer John Rodgers, which participated in Tuesdays thousand plane carrier strike on Tokyo
 The typhoon damaged more ships than the Jap navy was able to do in action in any single battle but Admiral Nimitz made no men ton of anyone being killed or seri- ously injured, and said no ships were sunk. He listed twenty dam aged ships repaired and back in action, including three fast new battleships, two Essex class carri- CTS, the cruiser Pittsburgh, which miraculously stayed afloat.
 Presumably some additional ships not identified were damaged and not returned to the sea. Many ships were badly hurt in the tow ering hundred foot high seas. None were more heavily hit than the Pittsburgh which was caught near the center of the storm off the
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Army Discloses New "Kickless'' Cannon

WASHINGTON, July 13-tR)- The Army disclosed the perform ance of a new kickless cannon which fires artillery shells with no more recoil than a twenty-two.
 Two guns, a fifty-seven anG a seventy-five millimeter, were bat tie tested in Europe. They were fired from the shoulder. The fifty seven weighs forty-five pounds and shoots a three pound shell two miles, the sevnety-five weighs one hundred ten pounds and shoots a fourteen pound shell four miles.
The Nome nugget., 1945-07-13
Aussies Advance In Steaming Rain On BOrneO

MANILA, July 13-P Aus tralian Seventh Division troops, paced by flamethrowers and tanks knived deep into Jap defenses and smashed the stone ridge north of captured Balikpapan in southeast Borneo after heavy fighting head quarters reported.
 Dutch units joined the Austra- lians' left flank in the march up Kariango peninsula to execute brilliant encircling maneuver against the entrenched Japs who are pocketed some six miles north of Balikpapan.
 The Borneo campaign is being fought in steaming, ain-drencheJ forests, deceptive bogs overgrown with mangrove under a blazing tropical sun. In the main assault northeast of Balikpapan in the Sepunggang Ketjil river sector the Australians are advancing over scrubby rolling terrain which per- mits the use of their famed medi- um Matilda" tanks.
The Nome nugget., 1945-07-13
By OLEN CLEMENTS

The skilled seamanship of a Navy Patrol craft skipper and the heroism of two comrades are cred ited with saving a fellow crewman in the frigid waters of Bering Sea few minutes before he would hay perished.
 Fireman William E. Johnson of Pendleton, Oregon was swept into the icy water while the ship was battling rough weather. The propeller wake kicked him under but the lookout in the crows nest spotted him.
 It. F. L. Matheson, Miami,
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Japan Does Not Choose To Fight U. s. Planes

GUAM, July 13-(P)-Virtually unopposed were the air blows of around seven hundred Superfort- resses and heavy and medium bombers, fighters and long range search planes across a seven hun dred seventy mile arc of Japan, extending north and south of Tokyo, announced U. S. General Hutchinson of the Far East Air Force on Okinawa.
 He declared "The Japs, in my opinion don't intend to engage the United States air force" Rear Ad- miral D. c. Ramsey, new chief staff of the Fifth Fleet estimated that Japan might have nine thou sand planes available and possi- bly, could throw four thousand in- to battle over Japan.
 Only weak fighter opposition was encountered over Tokyo Bay as Superfortresses dumpd three thousand tons of fire and demoli- ton bombs on five homeland cen ters before dawn today.
The Nome nugget., 1945-07-13

Mrs. Alice Nugent, mother of Mrs. Ken Rank, who has been v:s- iting in Nome for several months returned to he rhome in Seattle via P.A.A. last Wednesday night.
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the Pioneers of Alaska, Igloo No. 1, were in attendance.
 The body was inferred at the Belmont Point Cemetery after the funeral.
The Nome nugget., 1945-07-13
FUNERAL SERVICES HELD FOR CHARLES GoETZENBERGER

Funeral services were held for Charles Goetzenberger, aged Noweite, yesterday afternoon at the Catholic Church. Members of
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