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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-06
GI's Tonnented Jap Captors mManchurian Prison Comp

equipment in factories covering acres. All of us prisoners were exc pert machiniSts, or so we'd told th@ Japs, and they had to taks pretty good care of us = their machinery wouldn't work.
 The first thing they said for Aza to do was build . reinforced cone crete foundation for a giant plane ing machine, which must have c0sG 'em $300.0OO gold. It was atlll iHa crates and 1t was a beauty. We xsEe ured we'd better give 1t really fzne foundation.
 we poured in the cement and Ma reinforced 1t with Jap typewEikex9. cuspidors. coat racks. filing cahIne14 (with the papers still in 'aue1s wheelbarrows. electric light xlxtpeNs a couple of wash basins. mut3l* cycle, some new electric uloIt clocks, l50 shovels, the manaHgHH new overcoat and probably acme other stuff ] overlooked.
 Every night we'd sm1otn H concrete down: next morning w&'H start a new layer. FeinloE4'n8 we went with everything l41st
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sl5,ooo Suit Follows EuII On Stairway
 Five Contested
 Divorce Actions
 Also on Docket

A special assignment has been made for Oct. l6 in superior court In the $i5,000 personal Injury suit of Lucille Mcintosh of Waterbury against Morris and Lena 0anezer, also of this city. The litigation Is based on a stairway fall April 24, le44 ct premises at 036 North Main street.
 The plaintiff claims she was as- cending Q stairway just before 10 D. m. and reached for 0 bannister. The railing gave way and came apart, throwing the plaintiff ott balance and causing her to fall down backwards 10 steps and strike glass window doors ct the foot of the stairway, according to the coTn- plaint.
 Owner
 dane7er Is listed as the owner of the property and the writ states the other defendant was In charge of the premises.
 Five contested divorce actions are among the cases assigned for LElhl NeNb AuVbdhy' AbtJ wv 6Ahtt@ Boccl Amato against Joseph Amato, Grace Mulonet against Oscar Mulo- net, Joseph dianetti against Mary D. dianetti, Elizabeth Maclina against Frank Maclina, and Laura Barton Dunn against John P Dunn
 Default Case
 A hearing in damages has been set for Oct. le in the suit of Mary A. Williams Of Waterbury, adnlin- istratrix of the estate Of Ebert P. Williams, against Henry Czapor of Torrington. A judgment by de- fault was entered in the case for the plaintiff last March N.
 Mrs. williams brought the suit
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-06
House Thief Nabbed By Local Police
Youth Admits
 Breok In Harmon Home, Elsewhere

nronis spokas, ie, Hewey street, ae;f confessed automobile thief, ar' rested yesterday by Motor Patrol men Donald Monaghan and Frank Romano, and booked on . charge ot breaking and entering, admitted laSt night to breaking Into the nome oi Mrs, Chrls Harmon, 95 Luke street and taking 9TiS worth Of leweiry, including . diamond ring valued ~ o4So,
 fnspactor Joseph R. Bender stated that police believe the youth IS tne perpetrator Of the series ot nreaks that have been hesetting the elty within the past few days. The nattern followed in each break, nc sald. was almost Identical; A screen IA removed from the window and thus allows entry.
 Recover 0eeds
 Detective It. John Calvin and Detective nalal AkoRnihAYl said t0dAy Chat most Of the stolen goods have been recovered, including c small chest of drawers, 6 small hope chest and Q brown leather bag, removed with the iewelEy.
 With the arrest Of Spokas, who was on probation from the Cheshire Resormatory, having received Q sus. pended sentence in confessed series Of breaks earlier this year and also convicted at the June term of superior court on the charge of theft of an automobile; police be. lieve that the present series of breaks will cease. But 1t was re- ported last night that another break occurred in the city.
 Entry In this case was made through the second story window of
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Boston, Oct. 6-(UP)-Long dis tance telephone calls between New England stations and points outside the territory dropped 75 per cent during the four-nour strike vote taken by 460 long lines workers but intrasregionai service virtually was unaffected. except in Connecticut wherein about 5000 employees were
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-06
Local Phone Workers Back At Posts
 Vote for Strike
 Necessary

Waterbury telephone workers yes' terday afternoon voted to request a strike vote "if deemed necessary or desirable" and after four.hour Stoppage of work re;urn to their jobs, A crew of r men and women substituted ct the Bwttchboards during the stoppage to handle es- sential calls.
 The local members of the Con- neet!cut Union of Telephone Work. CTS, meeting at Moose hall, voted to alipport the National Fedefation of Teiephone Workers iii tts dispute with the National Labor Relations board. tt
 James McGee. chairman of the local unit, said the 2i0 workers of the Waterbury exchange adopted a resolution which provided for con- alteration Of Q strike vote in the event the controversy between the union and the Western Electric Go. at Kearney, N, J., is not settled within 90 days.
 Crew
 Kenneth Meyer, district traffic manager, and Douglas Loring, dis- trict commercial manager, super VIsed the skeleton crew which han- dled emergency calls between and c p. m. yesterday. About 300 such calls were put through as compared to Q normal load Of more than four thousand. Unorganized employees of the company's headquarters in New Haven were in the emergency crew.
 The nationwide stoppage was a protest against 8 NLRB ruling that the union at the New Jersey com- pany was company dominated and should be disbanded.
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BEATTY AT POST

Portland, Me. Oct. 6-UP)- Rear Adm. Frank E. Beatty, for- mer aide to the late Secretary of Navy Frank Knox and a veteran of the Pacific, assumed his post as commander of Atlantic fleet de- stroyers today succeeding Rear Adm. Oliver M. Read, detached. Married couple wanted for work in Springfield home. Woman should be good cock. Permanent position with good pay ia excellent living quarters. ye'ephene ngr, Kays 2.lApA -
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the beginning for the Master Men talist who is slated to accomplish such future feats as making time stand still mentally and leaping over transcontinental distance to read mind!
 Tallest tale of the week is the one passed along by a former Wa terbury, Conn. newspaperman, Jim Hurley, on the WATR-American networks Fishing and Hunting Club of the Air" He tells of a friend who went rattlesnake hunt ing in Texas. A big rattler struck at the forked stick used by the hunter, and his poison swelled the stick so big that the sportsman hauled it away to sawmill and had it cut into enough timber for a seven room house. But when he began to paint the house, the tur- pentine in the paint took the swell ing down, and he ended up with a keg of nails!
 Summertime will be the theme of the Grand Ole Opry" on NEG Saturday, August II, when the Old Hickory Singers do that jolly old tune that first became popular around the turn of the century, "In The Good Old Summertime. The Duke of Paducah has some new jokes on vacations, and Roy Acuff expresses 8 longing to hit the rods and go places, in Freight Train Blues"
 If an expert tells you that you have the I. @. of 16-year-old child, it's not an insult. Just why it isn't will explained an "The Human Adventure when it tells the story of measurement of human intelligence, in its August IS broad cast over MES. Here's a hint, though I. o. and mental age not synonymous.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-08
Flying Home Casualties Chief Task
 Copt. Mitchell of
 Waterbury Teaches
 Swedish Flier s

Flying the wounded in from Paris and bringing the mails to the States every week brings Sapt. John R. Mitchell to this country often, but he has not been home since New Years Eve.
 Capt. Mitchell, 31, son of Mrs. Agnes Mitchell, 82 Chambers street. a former Pan-American Airways pilot, now flies for the Army Trans port Command.
 Heading for LaGuardia Field Monday, Capt. Mitchell was forced, due to weather conditions, to land at Brainard Field. On his trip. Mitchell was flying from Stockholm. where, as a member of the Swed- ish International Airlines, he is as- signed to assist Swedish flyers on experimental flights His plane car- ried eight Swedish flyers, a repre- sentative of the Danish government and another American airman.
 Capt. Mitchell, a former student at Leavenworth High school, was also employed by the Scovill Mfg. Co., and the Highland Market be- fore learning to fly at Brainard Field. He entered the Army Air Forces in November, 1942.
 Mitchell is married to former Mary Sterbaitis of this city and has son, 16 months old. His wife re- sides at 62 Poplar street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-08
VA VELET TS
By BILL HARRINGTON

Returning American Air Force pilots who were liberated from Ger man prisoner-of-war camps have a great sense of humor, according to Ted Malone. The former war corres- pondent, now heard week days over the WATR American network, told some of the stories he heard at a YMCA luncheon for the returning GIs, on a recent broadcast.
 Malone said the liberated GIs at his table laughed heartily over the girl who wrote her brother that she was glad he'd been shot down "be- fore it was really dangerous" But the letter that seemed to amuse them the most was from a doting mother to her prisoner son. Finding himself without shoes, he apparent ly wrote home to his Nom asking her to send' him some slippers. In her letter back to him, she asked, What color?"
 Malone added that the liberated prisoners found the German civil ians to be more dangerous than en- emy soldiers. The air force men told him that everyone had been struck a few times by civilians when they first parachuted down, but Nazi soldiers had rescued them!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-08

ella finds that Gonigle, her reformed crook friend, is suspected of the robbery because the jewels have been found in his possession. Things in mystery dramas, are seldom as they seem, and Pam and Jerry (Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin) eventually reach different solu- tion to the crime.
 Recognized as "the worlds fastest drummer" orchestra leader Johnny Morris has what it takes to beat it out! He owns 8 snare drums. six bass and 15 tom toms; enough, he says, to drive 100000 tender-eared persons to self-destruction. Johnny will bring fun instead when he and his noted orchestra visit the Welch Convalescent Hospital in Daytona Beach. Florida. this evening at 9:3O p. m. over Mutual, with "The Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands, which entertains the recuperating GI's there.
 An example of the work by which the Army Medical Corps has built up the astounding record of sav- ing 97 per cent of the wounded in World War II is presented in dramatic form on "The Human Adventure" when it airs How We Care for Our Wounded over MES stations this evening at 10 p. m. Both the physical and psychological aspects of the Medical Corps re- storation of maimed men are treat ed in this story of a man whose jaw is blown away. by a booby trap on Okinawa.
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of the world, is halfway betweer monster and laughing stock.
 asked her about her hus-
 bands much publicized love
 of ornate uniforms and dec-
 Ora4iOns.
 "It's true" she said, "that
 he was vain of them, but only
 in the beginning. In later years
 he wore only the grey Reichs-
 narshal's uniform, . blue one of
 the Duftwaffe, and in summer
 white ones. He had dozens of others but no longer wore them"
 He spoiled me unbelievably, 2 sine said of the husband who, fl has been understood, married hei only in compliance with Adolf Hitler's firm command. 'He was always in fear that something might happen to me. When went out he made me promise not to cross streets. He begged me to give up horseback riding for fear I would be thrown of and hurt When swarn, he was afraid l would drown"
 I questioned her about the
 wholesale robberies of art
 objects, particularly, attributed
 to Goering, and about his prodi-
 gious spending. Frau Emmy
 showed an attitude that is .ex-
 tremeIy common among the
 Nazis.
 LOST HIS FORTUNE
 When Hermann had to flee from Germany after the 1923 putsch he lost his entire fortune So Hitler had an obligation to make reimbursements. That was what he did after 1933. Most of the moneys we received were given us by either the Fuehrer or the State. Besides, Hermann worked exceedingly hard. Don't you think he deserved compensa- ton for that?"
 She disagreed with my idea that the millions he spent
 were excessive compensation.
 "Most of the estates and pal aces did. not belong to us but we just used them. They re- mained State property. Many of the pictures actually were bought for the State. Those pictures that really belonged to us were donated by states and cities"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-08
Wife Is Just Another Nazi Hausfrau To U. s. Occupation Authorities

The city of Cologne, for in. stance, gave 11er as . birthday present a LnlEas Cranach paint ing. she professed to see noth- ing noteworthy in gift of SO great value, or in the fact that museums were robbed to make art gifts available.
 Emmy said that when she ar- rived at this castle a few weeks ago she had 16O,0O0 marks. but she learned that there were ln- paid bills for renodeling and re- pairing the castle, and after pay- ing them she was down to 6O.OOO marks.
 ehe stiIl has some jewelry. but Allied authorities felt that she could get along for the present without her fur coats.
 Although she still lives in
 considerable comfort, and under
 protective guard, otherwise
 American occupation authorities
 treat her as just another Nazi
 hausfrau.
 NO FAvORS
 A few days before I saw her. the nearby village was searched for weapons. All residents were assembled, for the occasion, at the railroad station. Emmy was no exception. One of the Hl- lagers brought her chair, but U. s. soldiers intervened. They did not want her to be built up as a sympathetic symbol of the Nazi regime.
 Thus far she has not been per- mitted either to see or to com municate with her husband. She has asked permission for their daughter, Edda, to write to him, but it has not yet been granted.
 So, in the absence of direct news she is worried about poor Hermann. How is he standing imprisonment? How is he being treated? Is Robert, his valet. permitted to loo kfa etrShrdlu permitted to look after Her. n,ann's creature comforts?
 Freuuently in our talk she would interject: When Hermann comes back!"
 really believes he will return in the near future. I think she 1S whistling in the dark.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-08
New Haven Youth |WrongfuIIy Held

Tallahasse, Fla, Aug. 1(UP)- Florida tried to right a wrong today by granting a full pardon to . youth who was jailed as a vagrant after being in Greenville. Fla. for only two hours.
 The state pardon and parole board pardoned Salvatore B. Amendola. 2l. of New Haven. Conn. two months after he began a six-month jail sentence. Gov. Willard Caldwell in- formed the board that he "could see no reason to justify that boys being sent to jail"
 The youth was discharged from the Navy and came south to seek farm work. He lost his discharge papers on the bus and. in Green vile. was arrested for vagrancy. He was advised to plead guilty and re- ceived a six-month sentence from Jackson County Judge D. H. Oswald.
 The bus company later found the papers and sent them to Amendola's mother, Mrs. s. c. Amendola, of New Haven. She forwarded them to Caldwell in her attempt to free her son.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-08
By CURT RIEsS


 Copyright, 1945 NEA Service, Incl
 Near German Czechoslovak Bor- der, Aug. S.-Frau Emmy Goering, erstwhile first lady of Germany, hopes that sher husband will read or hear the story that she wants to divorce him.
 '"That will have been the first time since he was taken prisoner" !" she old me, "that he will have laugh ed heartily. He knows that never will divorce him. He is my whole life. If he dies I don't think I'll survive. I won't commit suicide, but I just couldn't go on living"
 I talked with Emmy Goering in an old castle, overlooking village of about $50 inhabitants located between Bayreuth and the Czechoslovak border. The castle belonged formerly to Rit- ter von Eppenstein, millionaire physician who did not practice. He. was a close friend of Her mann Goering,s father since the days when both were in Africa. Hermann grew up in the castle and attended school in the vil- lage.
 Mrs. von Eppenstein died in 1889 and bequeathed the castle to the Reichsmarshal. There Frau Emmy, no longer a prisoner of the occupying Americans, lives under a protective guard of U. s. soldiers. When our troops took the village the furniture was removed from the castle, partly in the mistaken belief that it hid stolen art but also be- cause it was needed to furnish di- visional headquarters nearby.
 When 1t was decided to move the castle here was completely unfurnished. Emmy, her eight year-old daughter Edda, her niece Frau Emmy from Zell am See "a member of the family since 1934-and the children's nurse had not even a bed. At the suggestion
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David Harding will match wits with beautiful female spy involved in fradulent deal to protect the foreign deposits of Nazi Hermann Goering in the Case of the Safety Box," the 'Counterspy for tonight, at 10:00 p. m., over WATR, ABC.
 Harding gathers the essential clues toward tracing the lovely spy who led bank teller to his suicide. By brilliant maneuver, the Amer ican investigator pits one woman against another to gather the final truth nesded to convict the enemy agent.
 How can a man induce his wife to take her own fish off the hook? That question. which has puzzled many sportsman, will be answered by Dave Newell and Jim Hurley, outdoor sports experts, on the Fish ing and Hunting Club of the Air over station WATR. Wednesday. Aug. 8. at 8:30 p. m.' With the help of Roland Winters, host, and two guest experts, they also will answer such questions as How do newly created waters suddenly become alive with fish without being stock ed?" and "Why is a shark afraid of porpoise?" Tall tales and help full tips also will be included in the program.
 Alfred Wallenstein has resigned as musical director for WOR to de- vote his full time to his duties as conductor of the Los Angeles Phil- harmonic Orchestra. At present he is on his way to Mexico City to con- duct several concerts, after which he will return to California to be- gin his third season in Los Angeles. :. Pamela North drops in at the jewellers, to pick out gift for Jerry to buy her. and comes home to first-class jewel robbery and murder mystery, when MT. and Mrs. North" air their weekly mur- |0er and nirth session over Station VITO this evening at 6 ?. m. Pam
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-08
Brass Nuggets

Brass Nuggets Disciples of St. swithn must have requested recount These beautiful, summer days" are not in tune with the expected desired Even the pigeons about the Central Green appear dis gusted Or haven't you noticed them of late? Perhaps had better page "Bl' Joy and give them shot of "Dunphy's Emulsion. Well, it came to pass that the opposition papers announced the sale of the Aer can Legion home on Holmes to "Joe' Mulvlle the undertaken Remember, folks, what commotion the Democrats front page story of July 26th caused among certain folks of the trade? The story not only recorded the pending sale but intimated that certain Legionnaires had been "eyeng" Lakewood Park as possible spa recreation center. We still claim
 that these certain leaders entered into discussions on the matter, but reached definite decision So we scotch with scorn" the guys who tried to scotch us maybe compromise on another brand of scotch and invite the posts big shots in). Well, we're setting up the old reliable system for another exclusive shortly. Ray Tanning the smiling police commis- soner has denied current reports that he going to advo cate ban abbreviated bathing suits by the fair sex After being judge at the Scovll Company outing Ray gives official approval of surrent designs in fact his photo would indicate that he is for them in big smiling way Thanks to Frank Smith and the Scovin committee for the invitation to attend the family outing. It was
 great and hope that in the postwar days these morale-suStaners will remain in vogue The U s. Rubber Company thanks to Ed McGrath and his ener- getc associates recently staged memorable event. It adds lot to the real worktogether sociabe spirit of work-day We are for 'em and more of em.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-08

of American authorities villagers provided simple furnishings.
 Here Emmy lives entirely cut
 off from the outside world. She
 has no radio and gets no news.
 papers.
 LIVES ON RATION
 We live entirely on our ra- tion," she told me, "by personal preference"
 Most of the reports about food supplies brought here from Zell am See were exaggerated. She does have a stock of pre-war American popular brand cigarettes, but she
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does not smoke and presumably is holding them in hope that Hermann will come back to enjoy them.
 Her life here is in great contrast to the days when she lived with the man who had more estates more cars. more planes, more ser- vants-and spent more money than any other NaM big-wig.
 But that does not appear to worry her so much as her in- ability to visit Hermann = her fear that he will never be per- n1itted to return. There can be no question that she sees through biased eyes the Nazi who, to most
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-08

This Is the last of three ar- IticIes by Curt Riess, NEA foreign correspondent, based on an ex- elusive interview with Emmy Goering, wife of the No. 2 Nazi leader.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-08

RANDOM RAMBLINGS: Frank Johnson, former Waterbury scribe, and his charming missus, talk ing up residence in Greenwich according to reports Frank, who for Congress several years ago from this district, is associated with Allied China Relief in Manhattan three-foot portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt conspicuously placed in the of flee of Postmaster Babn attracts pleasing comment from the many admirers of the late chief of state twO-seated buggy displayed an East Main street lot by secondha dealer is also attracting much attention It is particularly fascinating to children who apparently view it as relic of the stone age. Lucy Minahan, able assistant to Town Clerk Mary c. Kill martin, is on vacation Smiling Fay Clark always has time for cheery "hello despite very full day. Fay not only handles several programs day on local station but also edits Watch Ingersol, U. S. Time paper
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-08

On the Up Beat .. The popular Gene" Oviatt did
 of guest reporting for the other night writing up the seout Pops concert at Hamilton Park Pavilion
 Mir Ovatt has had long association among the musical and banos, so pinch-hitting in sharps and flats has been right up his musical alley Writing, said Gene is his regular business but he gave his assistance any way giving the high spots of the Sunday night con- cert when Mario Di Cecco led his band in it's most Suc- cessfu presentation of the summer season. Everybody had good time listening to the music and all felt happy that the Park Department and the Civic Orchestra giving the public such good time this summer Gene Cviatt who misses musical event in Waterbury, was hand Sunday listener and to pass on the good word about the concert as well.