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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-13
MussoIini's Aides
 Stort Prison Terms

Rome, March l3.-(UP)-Two nigh ranking members of Benito Mussolinis Fascist government be- gan long prison terms today follow ing their conviction of being in- volved in Fascist crimes.
 Fulvio Suvich, former undersec- retary of foreign affairs and one time ambassador to Washington, was sentenced to "A years at the con- clusion of the trial of IS Fascist leaders yesterday.
 Francesca Jacomoni. former lieu tenant general of Albania. was sen- sentenced to IS years. A belliger- ent crowd futilely tried to break into the military clinic where Ja- comoni was held last week, but 1t was not known what their intentions wera.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-13
Girl Dies After
 Tooth Extraction

New York, March l3-(UP)-An autopsy will be performed today to determine what caused the death of Maryanne Parker Hall. 2i, for- mer model and actress. while under gas for a tooth extraction.
 Mrs. Hall failed to respond yes- terday after Dr. Allen T. Newman had pulled her tooth. pr. Newman called a physician and police emergency squad. She was pro- nounced dead after police had worked over her for almost two Nours with an inhalator.
 Mrs. Edith Parker, her mother. told police that Mrs. Hall had not been lll.
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WayneSburg, Pa.. March l3 - (U. p - Miners sought to recover to- day the body of one of five fellow workers killed by a double slate fall at a mine of the Cruciblc Steel Company.
 The other four bodies were re- covered lated yesterday a few hours after thousands of tons of rock and earth had crushed them to death.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-13

Jacksonville, Fla, March B - U.P) Search continued today for l4-men missing since Saturday in a Navy patrol bomber in the Ba- hamas Islan area, Navy officials announced.
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Evening star., 1945-09-19
Automatic Ronee-Findine Fuse
Helped Win War, Army Reveals

Gen. Somervell did not say how
the burst was activated or specify
its targets but his reference to al
titude setting suggested 1t was used
against aircraft. At Cleveland, the
General Electric Corp. said that
Christmas tree light bulbs, filled
with strong acid and slightly
altered into basic parts of anti
aircraft shell fuses, contributed to
split-second precision in shattering
Japanese air attaCzs.
Recounting other accomplish
ments, Gen. Somervell declared that
the miracle which produced all
other miracles was something more
American than any one of them
1t was organizing and vitalizing OF
this vast machine"
Mr.. Bruce, he said, was zone OF
the great architects in the design
Of that machine. He didn't enter
military service. He Just exposed
himself to 1t. We tried to persuade
him to put on a uniform. We
didn't succeed in that. ..
Every man who fired a shell or
a cartridge on the front, every
man who had enough to eat, enough
to wear, who had shelter between
battles, owes Howard Bruce for a
part of this"
Mr.. Bruce, presented with a scroll
by Gov. O'Conor on behalf of the
States citizens, said that remark
able teamwork" led to the ac-
complishments that won the war
and IF our country can get the
same concerted teamwork" now I'VE
will walk away with reconversion
problems"
Evening star., 1945-09-19
Hospitals and Cities
Borrow Radio Series
OF Star and Schools

Army hospitals and schools all
over the country have borrowed
records OF an educational radio
series sponsored here last year by
The Star and the Public Schools
Radio Committee. the United States
Office of Education announced to-
lay.
The Star and the radio commit
tee will sponsor another series this
fall. designed to teach junior and
senior high school students about
life in other parts of the world. The
first series discussed peoples of
Asia.
The program will be broadcast on
Station WMAL and heard over am
plifying systems in the school audi
toriums.
Mrs. Gertrude Broderick of the
radio script and transcription ex-
change Of the ONCE of Education
said about 35 cities already have
borrowed the records of the Asia
series and many more have put in
requests. The Chicago Board of
Education, for example, broadcast
them on its own radio station. The
Army broadcast them on several of
its hospital radio systems. she
added.
Station WMAL and the ONCE OF
Education also will sponsor the
United States series this fall. Some
junior and senior high school stu
dents will be selected to appear on
the series.
Evening star., 1945-09-19
Jury Hears D. {. Man,;
Holds Sailor in SIayinq
By the Associated Press.

| By the Associated Press.
NEW LONDON, Conn, Sept. 1s.-
Pharmacists Mate 2/c Archie E.
Williams, %, accused Of killing one
of mis- submarine base shipmates,
was indicted by New London
County grand jury yesterday on a
charge of second degree murder.
The indictment was voted after
the jury had heard nearly 80 wit
nesses, including George A. Burley
of Washington, D. c., FBI ballistics
expert.
Fireman &c James N. Halstead,
"a, of Orlando, Fla, was shot and
killed April % at Williams home
while in the company of Williams
25-year old wife Isabelle, secre-
tary at the New London USO Club.
She is at liberty under 5000 bail as
material witness.
Police quoted neighbors of the
Williams couple as saying the young
sailor came home from the base,
where he was on duty, early on the
evening of April % and asked about
his wife, who had gone out. Will
liams then left, the police report
said, but some hours later there was
a report of a disturbance at his
home, and Halstead was found lying
in the yard, bleeding from a bullet
wound in the abdomen. He died In
the submarine base sick bay.
Evening star., 1945-09-19
Sect Leader Says Worlds End,
Due Friday, Moy Be Delayed

part: THE exact time Of the end
OF the world. or the last age in
which shall be the contamination OF
all things and the sudden appear
ing Of Jesus Christ in the clouds
OF heaven, was revealed to the Rev
Charles G. Long one day In Sep
tember Of 1898, in q wonderful Vi
SION"
Brother Richard, as the son is
known to members of the group
which numbers 40 in Pasadena and
one In Arizona, added: THE Lord
informed the world through the
atomic bomb that atoms can be
separated. On Friday He will show
US that the atoms of all 96 ele-
ments can be split ut once.
Richard, who gave up his Job as
. food market manager because OF
the prophecy, said that only the
earth and moon will be affected
with the rest Of the universe re-
manning intact.
Evening star., 1945-09-19
Pearl Harbor Probers
Seek Legal Counsel
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The congressional Pearl Harbor
Investigating Committee today
sought a legal expert willing to
work for patriotic reasons and not
much cash.
Senate Majority Leader Barkley,
who was elected chairman of the
10-member Senate House group,
said that's the kind Of man he's
looking for.
Senator Barkley was commissioned
at an organization meeting yester-
day to look OVER the field and make
recommendations. Representative
Cooper, Democrat, of Tennessee was
named vice chairman.
Senator Barkley said he is setting
out to find man whose name
means something to the country"
When we pick the counsel" he
declared, I'VE want to get a man
more interested in patriotic service
to the country than in financial re-
ward. We can't pay much, because
we haven't the funds"
The committee was given s25 900
to conduct its inquiry.
Senator Barkley said he hoped
hearings could be started about Oc-
tober /. He added that they will
be open to the public. The commit
tee was ordered by Congress to
report by next January 3.
Evening star., 1945-09-19
BY the Associated Press.


PASADENA. Calf, Sept. 19.-The
Rev. Charles G. Long, white haired
leader of religious group known
as the Remnant of the Church OF
God" has ended a 24-hour fast and
today he and his flock were waiting
for the end Of the world which he
predicts probably will occur Friday.
The Turkish-born prophet, who is
u, announced the exact time may be
at 5:33 pm, Pacific war time, or
1888 am, Pacific war time II the
last coming is according to Jerusalem
time.
However. the Rev. Mr.. Long, re-
ferring to certain Biblical passages,
stated there is the possibility Of 4
delay until September % or even
until the fall of 1916.
At a press conference yesterday
in the religious leaders modest
stucco bungalow, his son, Richard,
81, read a statement which said In
Evening star., 1945-09-19
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without previous judicial expert
ence, and will be the second Repub-
lican in the tribunal, Chief Justice
Stone Is the other.
The remaining seven members are
appointees of the late President
Roosevelt.
Before he came to the Senate, Mr..
Burton was best known in the field
OF municipal administration. He
was Mayor of Cleveland from 1885,
40, and at odd times in the previous
half dozen years had served as di-
rector OF law, acting city manager
and acting mayor.
Over span of three years before
the World War Mr.. Burton, then
two years out of law school, was as
sistant attorney for the Utah Power
d Light Co. and the Utah Light &
Traction Co. at Salt Lake and at
torney for the Idaho Power Co. at
Boise. Between 1925 he was a
member of counsel for Cleveland,
Oberlin and other Ohio municipali-
ties in gas and electric rate litiga-
| ton.
Born in Jamaica Plains, Mass. on
June %. 1888, Mr.. Burton attended
public schools and then Bowdoin
College. He was graduated in law
from Harvard in 1912 and entered
private practice in Cleveland.
Served in World War.
From 1917-19 he was in the Army,
serving as a first lieutenant and
captain in the 36lst Infantry. In
three battles, he was cited by this
Government; won the Belgian Croix
de Guerre and the Purple Heart.
He retained his military interests
after the war and was commissioned
a major Of infantry reserves.
Resuming the private practice of
law in Cleveland in 1919, Mr.. Burton
began to take an active part in civic
affairs. He was prominent in the
budding American Legion and was
president of the First Unitarian
Church of Cleveland.
His first venture into politics was
as a member of the Ohio House of
Representatives in 1929. He was
three times elected Mayor of Cleve-
land, and in that post, was one of
the leaders in the United States
Conference of Mayors.
The Senator is one of the authors
OF pending labor disputes arbitration
Legislation that labor is fighting.
On Truman's Committee,
He was associated with Truman
on the Senate War Investigating
Committee, and has also been serv-
ing on District, Appropriation and
Civil Service Committees, among
others.
4 A Phi Beta Kappa, Senator Bur-
ton is a member of the American,
Ohio and. Cleveland Bar Associa-
tions and several fraternal organi-
cations, including the Masonic Or
der, and number of clubs and
veterans groups.
He and Mrs. Burton have four
children-Mrs. H. Charles Weidner,
jr.: Mrs. I. w. Adler, 1t. William
S. Burton of the Navy and 1t. Rob-
ert S. Burton of the Marines.
The Senator expressed his deep
appreciation for the nomination.
Evening star., 1945-09-19
Patterson Is Facinq
Many Big Problems
In War Department

Demobilization and defense to-
day posed tasks only slightly less
complex than those of the war
years for Robert P. Patterson, NOM
mated by President Truman to be
Secretary of War.
The big job facing the former
Federal judge is to get the wartime
Army shaken down from combat
strength, with due regard for the
necessities of occupation In Ger
many and the Pacific.
After that comes such items as
proposals for consolidation of the
armed forces-favored by the Army
and opposed by the Navy: policies
concerning the atomic bomb, with a
decision on whether the War De-
partment should recommend for or
against revealing the secret to
friendly nations; arguments over a
separate air force.
And finally, the impending con-
gressional Pearl Harbor investiga-
ton which will dig deeply into War
annd Navy departments.
In Mr.. Patterson's favor is the fact
that he takes on the new assignment
after more than five years service
as Assistant Secretary of War and
Undersecretary.
His promotion from the latter post
was announced by President Truman
at news conference late yesterday,
concurrently with the disclosure that
Secretary Stimson, who will be 78
Friday, was reSigning
MI. Truman announced also that
Assistant Secretary John J. McCloy
and Robert A. Lovett, Assistant Sec
retary for Air, had submitted resig-
nations, but said he was not accept
ing them Immediately.
Mr.. Lovett has directed the Army's
aviation affairs since l941. Like
Mr.. Patterson and Mr.. McCloy, he
was awarded the Distinguished
Service Medal yesterday by direction
OF the President
Possesses Legal Background.
Mr.. Patterson, New York law
yer who won the Distinguished
Service Gross in the World War,
came to the War Department in
1910 from the I'd Federal Circuit
Court of Appeals.
His selection to head the War
Department brought praise and
criticism from both sides of the
political fence.
Senator Taft of Ohio, chairman
of the Minority Steering Commit
tee, said Republicans do not regard
MIR. Patterson as a Republican. He
registered in Putnam County, New
York, as a Republican until 1889.
He registered then without stating
any party affiliation.
Tonight the War Department
will give Secretary and Mrs. Stim-
son a reception. attended by high
Government officials, members of
Congress, Army and Navy officers
and others and held at the Dum-
barton Oaks estate.
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Mamoru Shigemitsu as Foreign Min
lister was the tipoff that all was not
we'll within the cabinet, the jap
anese sources said.
Higashi-Kuni himself said "he
was Foreign Minister during the war,
and now we are launched in build
ing new Japan"
Konoye, Obata and Ogata, the
sources recalled. also had been as
sociated with the war-minded seq
ments of the Japanese government
since 1887, Konoye as two-time Pre-
mier.
Larger Than Original List.
Brig. Gen. Elliot Thorpe, chief
Of American counterintelligence
said the new list of japanese wanted
for questioning will be much larger
than the original one Of Al, which
began with Hideki TOTO and ranged
down through his cabinet.
All but two men of that infamous
Japanese cabinet which started the
war were on the first list and Gen.
Thorpe said their omission was
clerical error"
The next list is expected to bulge
with names of Japanese wanted for
interrogation concerning the tor
lures of Allied prisoners in japanese
war camps, where mistreatment was
heaped alike on generals and pri-
Yates in the ranks.
Tokyo newspapers today said
Premier Higashi-Kuni will send an
envoy of apology" to China because
of war crimes committed against
that republic. There was no
elaboration.
The newspapers also reported that
Gen. Kenji Doihara, known as
Japan's Lawrence of Manchuria,
has been named to succeed Field
Marshal Gen. Sugiyama as com
mander in chief of the 1st General
Army. Sugiyama committed suicide.
Gen. Doihara, active before 1881
in Manchuria where he was con-
sidered the advance agent for the
militariSts, will hold the post con-
currently with MS present command
as commander in chief of the east
ern army. q
Occupation Proceeds.
The American Army OF Occupa-
ton proceeded about its tasks with
such dispatch that the United
States 9th Army was taking up the
matter of rest camps and recre-
ational areas for the troops.
Another suicide of high-ranking
Japanese military leader was re-
ported today by Domei news agency.
The agency said that Gen. Shizu-
ichi Tanaka, formerly japanese
commander Of the Philippines
killed himself here August "a.
Domei said Tanaka shot himself
at headquarters of the internal de-
fense army. which he commanded.
BY his suicide, Tanaka accepted
Evening star., 1945-09-19

responsibility for the damaging of
one of the imperial palaces in an
American air raid, Domei added.
His command included aerial de-
Tense of Tokyo.
Tanaka had succeeded 1t. Gen.
Masaharu Homma as commander in
the Philippines after they fell to
the Japanese, but was replaced be-
fore the American reconquest.
The War Once in London said
1t. Gen. Hamada Hitoshi, deputy
chief of staff of the Japanese 18th
Area Army, committed suicide Sep
tember 7 at Bangkok, nine days after
receiving Allied orders to disarm his
forces.
Evening star., 1945-09-19
Canadians and Dutch
Clash Over Girls
y the Associated F.tss.

bs tne AseoClAteQ trtSs.
UTRECHT, Holland, Sept. ia
Sunday night fracas which Burgo-
master Tir Pilkwijk said involved
300 to 400 Canadian soldiers and
citizens of the Vreeburg district of
Utrecht, has caused the city to be
declared out of bounds for troops.
Pilkwijk attributed the incident to
the girl question" He said the
soldiers famed out through the dis
trict and began assaulting citizens.
He expressed belief that they acted
on the basis of unconfirmed reports
that two or three soldiers escorting
Dutch girls had been beaten up.
Canadian authorities remained 81
lent. Casualties were limited to one
girl wounded.
Evening star., 1945-09-19
By the Associated Press.

BALTIMORE, Sept. ia top
secret of the war was out today fol-
lowing Gen. Brehon B. Somervells S
disclosure of existence of a "prox-
unity fuse" which explodes a shell
at the best distance from the target
and crediting Howard Bruce of
Maryland with an important part in
development of that and other
miracles that won the conflict.
Gen. Somevell's statements were
made last night at a testimonial
dinner for Mr.. Bruce, attended by
approximately TOO representatives
of all branches of business. indus
try and Government from through
out the Free State.
Mr.. Bruce, before his recent re-
tirement from duty as a civilian ex-
pert with the Army Service Forces,
was presented the Distinguished
Service Medal by President Truman
on the White House grounds, be-
coming one Of four to receive the
highest military award given civil
ians.
Gen. Somervell discussed various
war developments last year and de-
clared:
Other miracles came to pass in
this year, miracles of the ordnance
department. Long a dream of artil-
lerymen was shell which would
burst of itself when at the best dis
tance from the target, burst with
out man-made efforts in estimat-
ing distances and attitudes in fuse
setting.
Such self-operating shells came
into being and were hurled with
deadly effect against the enemy"
Evening star., 1945-09-19
Congress in Brief
gy the Associated Press.

Senate.
Continues debate of bill liberal
lzing unemployment compensation
system.
Naval Affairs Committee opens
hearing on legislation to stimulate
enllstments in Regular Army and
Navy.
Military Affairs Committee hears
Coast Guard officials on demobiliza-
ton plans.
Commerce Committee considers
sale OF Government-owned ships.
House.
Routine session.
Naval Affairs Committee hears
Secretary Of the Navy Forrestal and
Admiral King on peacetime Navy.
Evening star., 1945-09-19
Kramer Indifferent
10 BeIsen Captives'
Health, Briton Says
Ey the Associated Press.

Ly INC AbkGCldted FreSS.
LUENEBURG, Germany, Sept. 10.
Josef Kramer and his stafY of A
men and women at the Belsen hor-
ror camp were perfectly indiffer-
ent" to the welfare and health Of
internees, Brig. Hugh Llewellyn
Glyn Hughes declared today during
re-examination by the prosecutor as
the first mass trial OF accused war
criminals entered its third day.
Brig. Hughes, the British medical
officer who first inspected the no.
torious Nazi concentration camp,
said there was a large number of
medical personnel among the in
ternees. but that Kramer and his
staff made no effort to organize
them.
They made efforts to organize
themselves but they were unfit"
Brig. Hughes testified. Under uues-
tioning he also reiterated there
were large stocks Of unused medical
supplies and Wehrmacht food de-
pot. well-stocked, only 2 miles from
the camp.
Prosecutor Col. T. M. Backhouse
later today will question other
British of1cers-Capt. Derrick Sing
ton, Maj. Adolphus L. Berney and
Capt. S. M. Stewart-who collected
evidence as investigators and were
among the first soldiers to enter the
camp after its liberation.
The pattern Of the defense was
disclosed yesterday during the five
and-one-half-hour testimony OF
Brig. Hughes, when several of the
defense ofilcers-11 Britons and l
Pole-cross-examined the witness as
to "the principal cause" OF condi-
tions at the camp.
Brig. Hughes did not fs,ter in his
testimony that gross neglect" was
the cause.
Failure Of ordinary human rules
to feed them, keep them clean.
provide sanitation" was the basic
factor, he declared.
I have seen all the horrors Of
war, but nothing that can touch
what I found at Belsen."
Uncensored moving pictures taken
at Belsen as well as Oswiecim
(Auschwitz) gas-chamber compound
are expected to be shown in court
today by the prosecution, whose star
witness, Lublin-born Sophia Lit
winska, 28-year- -old Pole, probably
will not appear before tomorrow.
She Is one of the few reported to
have escaped from the shower
room Of death"-the Oswiecim gas
chamber.
Evening star., 1945-09-19
Cathedral Paving Stone
Sent to u. S. Church

The Presbytery of Edinburgh,
Scotland, recently granted the re-
quest Of Rev. DR.. George Stewart,
Presbyterian minister of Stamford,
Conn, for a piece of paving stone
from st. Giles Cathedral in Eden
burgh. DR.. Stewart explained he is
building new church in Stamford
and hopes to lay into its wall stones
from significant spiritual centers
in other countries"
Evening star., 1945-09-19
Macarthur Silent
On Capital Reaction
To 200, 900 Force
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TOKYO, Sept. 1s.-Gen. Mac
Arthur is allowing his 100000
occupation force statement to
stand without further comment,
his public relations Office said
today.
The Office described the state
ment as quite clear and ex-
planatory." and said there
would be no comment on official
Washington's mixed reaction to
the supreme commanders pre-
diction that occupation forces
probably could be halved in six
months.