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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-27

Russian traffic signs, beneath similar warnings in English, have been posted on ramps leading to the Spokane Street Viaduct near Harbor Island. Too many Russian seamen on ships berthed there have met traffic difficulties, City Traffic Engineer J. w. A. Bollong explained.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-27
ANCHORAGE WOMEN HERE

Margaret Abercombie and Mary M. Achtechoff, of Anchorage, are guests at the Baranof.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-27

JORGENSON ARRIVES George Jorgenson, of Portland, is a guest at the Hotel Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-27

Continuation of Japa- nese reports that Allied warships have been hammering Balikpapan, Borneos great oil refinery center on the southeast coast, came today from an eyewitness-a war. correspondent for Aneta, the Netherlands news agency.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-27
GI1ARn MEETING FRIDAY

The Douglas unit of Territorial Guard will meet again on Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock at the Nat atorium. Capt Wendell Cahiil an- nounced there will be more special drill practice and Q good attend ance by all members is requested.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-27

GUAM = Gen. Joseph Stilwell made his first appearance on Okin- ava as Commander of the 10th U. S. Army today and Japan awaited the next move by American forces that conquered the strategic island only 325 miles south of Kyushu.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-27
WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON - Senator rom Connally D.-Tex0 predicted today that the Senate will ratify the Unit ed States charter after two to four weeks of debate and with not more than 10 votes in opposition.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-27


 WASHINGTON - By a one-vote margin the House Judiciary Com mittee today approved President Truman's recommendation tha t f Congress make the Speaker of the House next in line for the Presi- dency, after the Vice. President. The vote was 10 to 9, taken in executive session.
 BRUSSELS tense political sit uaticn is expected to ease amid indi- cations that King Leopold has de- i cided to abdicate One of Leopold's trusted advisers, Walter van der Meersch, says he feels he is not able to form a Kings government. A formal announcement on the Monarch's plan is expected tomor- row.
 LONDON-The British radio an- nounces Queen Wilhelmina will visit Amsterdam for the first time since she left Holland five years ago. She will attend a parade of Canadian forces as part of three-day cele- bration.
 STAUNTON, yirginia-A celebra- ton is underway here today well coming home It. Gen. Alexander Patch. Commander of the American Seventh Army in Europe.
 SEATTLE-A. L. Ganson, Man ager Of the Alaska and State De- velopment Department of the Se- attle Chamber of Commerce, left yesterday cn a 30-day trip for busi- ness conferences in Juneau, Peters, burg, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Fair banks. Anchorage. Seward, Valdez and Cordova.
 SAN FRANCISCO = A ra dio broadcast picked up here from Tokyo says dictatorial powers has resulted in control Of all military and private communications being taken over. Postal, telegraph, tele- phone and radio facilities will be affected.
 LONDON = BEG, in an English broadcast to Europe, said British troops and armor formed today to start the march to Berlin where they will join with Russians and Americans in occupation of the Ger man capital.
 MANILA Confirmation of Japa- nese reports that Allied warshlps have been hammering Balikpapan, Borneos great oil refinery center on the southeast coast, came today from an eyewitness-a war correspondent for Aneta, the Netherlands news agency.
 WASHINGTON = Senator Tom Connally D.-Texo predicted today that the Senate will ratify the Unit ed States charter after two to four weeks of debate and with net more than 10 votes in opposition.
 GUAM = Gen. Joseph Stilwel made his first appearance on Okin- ava as Commander of the 10th U. S. Army today and Japan awaited the next move by American forces that conquered the strategic island only 325 miles south of Kyushu.
 SEATTLE-Four men, one Az year-old hotel operator, were under arrest today as police investigated Skidroad district bootleg" ring be- lieyed to have caused the deaths of three men and the binding of Il fourth. The victims all lived at the hotel. The hotel man and the three others, laborers, were arrested in raid on tip"
 
 SEATTLE-Russian traffic signs, beneath similar warnings in English, have been posted on ramps leading to the Spokane Street Viaduct near Harbor Island. Too many Russian seamen on ships berthed there have met traffic difficulties, City Traffic | Enpineer J. w. A. BOllong explained. Pays $60 for
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-27
LONDON

LONDON = BEG, in an English broadcast to Europe, said British troops and armor formed today to start the march to Berlin" where they will join with Russians and Americans in occupation of the Ger man capital.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-27

SAN FKANJIStL = A broadcast picked up here from Tokyo says dictatorial powers has resulted in control of all military and private communications being taken over. Postal, telegraph, tele- phone and radio facilities will be affected.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-27
3 JULIE TINS.

LONDON The Moscow radio said tonight that the Supreme Soviet has elevated Premier Marshal Stalin to the newly created rank of Gener- alissimo. The rank was created by the Presidium yesterday. Stalin was given four new decorations at the time.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-27

SEATTLE-A. L. Ganson, Man ager Of the Alaska and State De- velopment Department of the Se- attle Chamber of Commerce, left yesterday on a 30-day trip for busi- ness conferences in Juneau, Peters, burg, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Fair banks. Anchorage. Seward, Valdez and Cordova.
The messenger., 1945-07-01
0UICK-T K-THINKINC BOY AVERTS BIG BARN FIRE

Were it not for Dana Webber, his dad, Norman Webber of Terry Plains Road, and two 5-gallon fire extinguishers provid d by MT. Webber for just such an emerg- ency, Bloomfield might have wit messed another conflagration at The Imperial Tobacco Company's Farm on Terry Plains Road.
 During an electrical storm late last month, lightning, striking the barn, played a freakish prank in the hay loft, burning hole through an electrical conduit next to 80 tons of hay.
 The fire which started between the partitions of the barn was dis covered by Dana Webber who ran for his dad. MT. Webber, with the aid of neighbors, had the fire under control before the arrival of the Fire Department.
The messenger., 1945-07-01
LIGHTNING BOLT KILLS
 TEAM, INJURIES DRIVER

Two horses were killed by light ming and their driver knocked un conscious when struck by a bolt of lightning about 5 PM. Friday, June 15, on the farm of A. c. Petersen, Wintonbury, Avenue.
 Oscar Wright, 30, of Wadhams Road, Bloomfield, was using the team to plant corn. He was thrown from his seat on the corn planter and was pinned between one of the wheels and markers.
 Stephen Maxwell, foreman of the farm, was working in an ad- joining field and saw the lightning flash as it struck the team. The horses dropped in their tracks i'm mediately, he said, and he hurried to Wright's assistance when he saw him pitch from his seat. It is thought that the metal parts of the harness drew the force of the bolt toward the horses and away from the driver.
 Patrolman Bardon of the Police Department was sent immediately to the scene of the accident and medical aid was called. MT. Wright regained partial consciousness be- fore a doctor arrived. After first aid was administered, an ambu- lance took him to St. Francis Hos pital. He is recovering.
The messenger., 1945-07-01
JIMMY MILLER INJURED IN ACTION DURING HEAVY BATTLING ON OKINAWA
Comrade Advises Local Marines Mother Of His HOspitalizatiOn
CONDITION NOT DISCLOSED

Jimmy Miller, popular son of MT. and Mrs. James A. Miller, of Maple Avenue, lies in a Field Hos pital on Okinawa suffering an in- jury to his back inflicted in late June during the fierce battling for possession of the island.
 Word of the young Marines in- jury reached his mother by means of a letter dictated to a comrade who lies on an adjoining cot. The letter arrived Tuesday, July 3.
 The nature and extent of the injury suffered by Miller is not disclosed and the fact that he him. self was unable to write is con- sidered m ewh a t significant. However, his correspondent ad- vises- -"The doctor thinks Jimmy will be up in few days" There has been no word from the War Department.
 Miller enlisted in the Marines May 24, 1914 and went to Paris Island for his basic training. Fol lowing brief leave at home last August, he was sent to California where he remained until November when he was sent to Guadalcanal and thence to Okinawa.
 Miller's father, Sergeant James A. Miller, also in the service is sta- toned at Langley Field, Virginia.
The messenger., 1945-07-01
MANOCCHIO PROMOTED TO LIEUT.. COLONELCY

The promotion of Nicholas w. Manocchio of Duncaster Road has just been announced by the War Department.
 Colonel Manocchio is with the Army Supply Division based at Portsmouth, England. He entered service in March, 1922 and has been on overseas duty since Au- gust, 1943. Late last year he was awarded the Bronze Star for hero ic accomplishment in supplying combat troops on the FrenchGer- man frontier. Should his future assignments keep him in Europe, Mrs. Manocchio will join him.
The messenger., 1945-07-01
TAKES SECOND IN MISS CONNECTICUT" CONTEST

For the second successive year, Miss Shirley Mikkelsen, daughter of Mrs. Josephine Mikkelsen of 1912 Blue Hills Avenue, has been awarded second place in the State wide contest for the coveted title of "Miss Connecticut" the winner of which competes for the title of Miss America" in the annual Atlantic City Beauty Pageant.
 Miss Mikkelsen recently opened a dancing shcool here.
The messenger., 1945-07-01
CAPTAIN PAUL DOICAN AT NAVIGATION SCHOOL

Captain Paul Doigan, son of Mrs. Rebecca D.. Bercowetz, Cot tage Grove Road, has been as- signed to Navigation School at San Marcos, Texas Army Air Field as a base weather officer. Captain Doigan attended the Uni versity of Connecticut in 1941 and in 1943 received degree in meteorology from New York Uni versity.
The messenger., 1945-07-01
SEVERAL MORE GIVEN
 HONORABLE DISCHARGES

Six others honorable discharges brings the total number of local men relieved of further service duty to 46.
 Those reported discharged with in the past month are-Lieuten- ant Leslie Neilsen of the A.A.F. previously based in England.
 Sergeant Adolphe Radesky of the Army round Forces who spent nearly three years in the South Pacific.
 Sergeant Donald Kamerer who was formerly on European duty.
 Corporal Kenneth Barker, an- other teran of nearly three years service in the South Pacif- ic.
 P. F. c. John Murphy of the A. A. F. formerly located in the Aleutians.
 Robert Parmelee, ST 1/c, re- gently released from the United States N aval Hospital at New Orleans, Louisiana.
The messenger., 1945-07-01
SEVERAL CHANGES
 IN SCHOOL FACULTY
Mrs. Lagan Retired
 After 37 Years Service.

The retirement of Mrs. Della B. Lagan after 37 years continuous service in the local schools, the resignation of Miss Margaret G. Degan from the Blue Hills Junior High School staff, Miss Muriel Barbarick and Mrs. Iantha Will Hams of the Center School and Miss Ruth Fielden and Miss Con- cettina Signorelli of the High School faculty and the need for an additional teacher on the Blue Hills elementary staff, account for the recent appointment of seven new m m ITS to the 1945-1946 school year.
 Miss Virginia A. Adams has been appointed to the Junior High School E glis h position at the Blue Hills School being vacated by Miss Margaret c. Degnan who has accepted a position in the Hartford schools. Miss Adams, whose home is in Housatonic, Mass, holds an A.B. degree (1940) from the Col lege of Our Lady of the Films in Chic opee, Mass. She has had teaching experience in Great Bar rington, Mass, and Hyde Park, Vt., where she is now employed.
 Mrs. Ruth Knapp Whittier, who taught in the Blue Hills School from 1888 to 1914, is returning to Bloomfield as teacher of grade six at the Center School, succeeding Miss Muriel Barbarick, and Miss Natalie Dunsmoor of Waterbury will replace Mrs. Iantha Mansur Williams, who has resigned from the second grade position at the Center School. Miss Dunsmoor, who holds an A. B. degree from Middlebury College and master of arts degree from Teachers Col lege, Columbia, has had several years of experience as governess and private teacher and for the past two years has held a position in a private school in Savannah, Georgia.
 In Bloomfield High School, the vacancies caused by the resigna- tion of Miss Ruth Fielden and Miss Concettina Signorelli have been filled by the appointments of Miss Elsie R. DeFlong of Hart ford and Miss Leah A. Strong of Windsor. Miss DeFlong is grad uate of Connecticut College for Moment and has done additional work at Rider College, New Brit ain Teachers College and Trinity College. She has substituted in the Hartford schools and has taught in Berlin High School, Larson Junior College and John Fitch High School, Windsor. Miss Strong has an A. B. degree from Allegheny College and received her masters degree from Cornell Uni versity. She has taught in the Meadville, Pa. High School, in the Army Specialized Training pro-
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The messenger., 1945-07-01

A daughter was born June 12 to MT. and Mrs. John l.. Gamble, 234 Cottage Grove Road.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-08
Critical 40 Days Spelled
Destruction of Enemy

wheeled northward toward the
Seine.
Field Marshal Gen. Guenther
Won Kluge, German commander
in the West, had stripped the
defenses of Brittany, and drain
ed divisions from the 18th Army
north of the Seine to bolster his
defenses in the rugged territory
below Caen on the Allied left
flank, where the ferocity and
determination of Marshal Sir
Bernard L. Montgomery's Brit
ish Second Army and Canadians
had led him to believe that-the
main attack would be delivered
KLUGE HUNG ON
Here Won Kluge held on, de-
spite Patton's spectacular pene-
trations toward Paris, in the ap-
parent delusion that as long as
the Caen anchor positions held
the Allies would not venture far
inland. From the mortain area
he had mounted his fiercest ar
mored counter-attack toward
avranches in the mistaken be-
lief that he could split the AL
lied armies and bring them to
disaster.
Suddenly all these German
forces were threatened with en-
trapment. The attacks by Mont
gomery and the newly created
First Canadian Army under 1t
Gen. H. D. c.. Credar became an
anvil upon which Patton and 1t
Gen. Courtney H. Hodges of the
u. S. First Army beat the Ger
man 7th Army to pieces.
Dragged into the German dis
aster were a newly organized
German 5th Tank army and
substantial part of the 18th Ar
my charged with the defense OF
the rocket coast and the remain
der of northern France.
BY Aug. Fl Gen. Montgom-
cry was able to proclaim that
the bulk of German forces in
northwestern France had mel
with definite, complete, decis.
i've" defeat and that the end Of
the war was in sight.
Already Patton's forces were
plunging south of Paris ano
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-08
How Second Battle Of France Shattered Maxi Hopes

across the Seine northwest of
Paris to carry out even more
audacious plans.
The underground in Paris
rose in battle. The City OF Light
and symbol Of liberty in the
Western world was liberated on
Aug. Is, just a month after the
breakthrough at st. Lo, by
French and American troops en-
tering the city.
On Aug. IS the Army of
France under Gen. Jean De Lat
try De Tassigny and the u. S.
7th Army under 1t. Gen. Alex
ander M. Patch invaded South
ern France from the Mediterran-
can in huge and skillfully CO.
ordinated action which speedily
won control of the whole coast.
The Germans began a precipi-
tate withdrawal from all South
ern France, but by the first of
September the German 10th Ar
my was fighting for its life up
the Rhone valley where it had
been intercepted by fast armor-
ed columns slicing across the
French Alps.
While Allied forces In the
north and south neared a juno
ton, the American First and
Third armies began a series of
amazing dashes toward the
Rhine. Old battlefields along
the Marine, the Aisne, the Disc,
were reached and passed with
bewildering rapidity. The Am
orleans hurtled in a single day
the Meuse Argonne b att ! e.
ground where their fathers
fought for six bloody weeks in
1918. Belgium was invaded
Sept. 2 along the road to Mons,
Namur, Liege and Aachen in
Germany.
ASTOUNDING ADVANCE
1t. Gen. Sir Miles G. Demp-
sey's British Second Army tanks
made an astounding march of
more than 200 miles in four
days, roaring through the Bel
gian capital of Brussels, the big
port of Antwerp and into the
Netherlands.
On Sept. s, just three months
after the invasion and on the
44th, day of the offensive which
had begun at st. Lo, and with
more than 100000 casualties in
flicted upon the Germans who
had lost Is divisions and suffer
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-08

ed heavy casualties to at least 10
others, Gen. Eisenhower pro-
claimed the battle Of Germany
about to begin. His armies al
ready had probed German soil,
the liberation of France and Bel
GUM was all but complete, the
freeing of the Netherlands not
far off.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-08
Says DemIoeraeIes
Invited The War
GullibiIity Of Free
Peoples 10 BIsmed
By LORD VANSITTART
Written for the United Pre-

By LORD vANSITTART
Written for the United Press
LONDON-W.H-The story of
Germany's second World War is
quite simple. The Huns always
meant to make another bid.
The treaty Of Versailles had
practically nothing to do with
it. That was all German propa-
ganda. mechanically swallowed
by the people of Britain and the
United States, who had mostly
never read the treaty.
For that matter, not one Ger
man in 1000 could give q CO.
herent account of it either. One
of our greatest contemporary
historians has called 1t one of
the best treaties ever made. That
is nearer to the truth.
GERMANS BEGAN
REARMING
The fools who swallowed the
German propaganda began this
war by quavering: "We won't
have another Versailles" Quite
right. This war will end by a
far more drastic instrument and,
unlike Versailles. it will be en-
forced.
After the last war German de-
mocracy sold the pass again to
militarism, and German rearma-
ment began forthwith, while the
real democracies disarmed. The
United States, having repudiat-
ed their guarantee to France and
concluded a separate peace with
Germany, desired naval parity
with Britain.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-08

The first 40 days after Gen,
Eisenhower's forces landed in
Normandy were spent in secur-
ing, charging and building up
the beachhead. Extremely
bloody battles were fought in
beating the Germans back from
one hedgerow and sunken road
to the next. Cherbourg, the AL
lies first major port in France,
was taken by American troops
on June ~ just three weeks af-
ter D-Day after bitter fight.
Then American, British, Can
adam and Allied troops liberat-
ed France in one of the swiftest
campaigns on record. They did
1t from a beachhead-one of the
most unusual of military feats.
While still depending on
beach installations for a flow of
supplies, 1t. Gen. Omar N. Brad
ley struck out on July rs for the
great detectives Of the invasion.
Bradley's u. S. First Army
broke through at st. Lo and be-
gan throwing armOred hooks
westward toward the Normandy
coast which repeatedly trapped
large numbers of German
troops. --------
SENSATIONAL MANEUVER
Taking command of a new u.
S. Third Army, 1t. Gen. George
S. Patton began a sensational
sprint southwark through avran-
ches into Brittany, sent roaming
columns speeding westward and
southwark to Brest at the tip OF
Brittany, st. Nazaire, Lorient,
Nantes and across the Loire,
then turned his main forces east
ward in q stabbing offensive
which seemed aimed straight al
Paris.
Out-generaled, out-numbered
and overwhelmed by superior
equipment, fire power and air
power, the Germans seemed
powerless in the face of light
ming moves such as they had
employed so successfully to con.
Quer France in 1910.
At Chartres, IS miles south.
west Of Paris, Patton suddenly
unmasked his real intent and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-03
AINnsnae Assn.
 Hold Meeting

The Waterbury Catholic High School Alumnae Association held it's February dinner meeting recent ly at the Silver Chalet. Miss Mary A. Quinlan was chairman of the af , fair and Miss Patricia Malone was co-chairman. Attending were:
 Alice Baribault, Lillian Bari bault, Blanche Beliveau, Eleanor Bilancia, Claire Bernier, Dorothy Bernier, Mary Blacker Mary Bowl CT, Barbara Burns, Mary Cappel- letti, Jean Carlin, Mrs. Helen Car roll, Lorraine CaShin, Shirley Cos griff, Angela Greece, Annette Cyr, Julia D'Angelo. Eleanor DeLlllo, Ruth Fallon, Marie Filipelli, Cor- inda Fiorucci, Mae Fruin, Eleanor Griffin, Helen Holihan, Frances Joe doin, Mrs. Kay Kelly, Mary E. kenney, Helen Kieley, Marie Kyle, Patricia Malone, Shirley Maloney, Mary Maroney, Rita ODonneli, Mary A. Quinlan, Alba Saturno, Kay Scattina, Kay Summa, Doris Veilette and Irene Welch.
 The next meeting will be held Monday at 7:45 D. m. at the Water- bury Catholic high school audi torium. All members are urged to attend.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-03

Miss Doris K. Schneider. dauChtem of MT. and Mrs. Philip Schneider. Esther avenue, has joined the Army Nurses Aide Corps and will leavs Monday for the Triton General hos~ pital, Fort Dix, N. J., Miss Schnelsicr is a graduate of Wilby High school and was formerly employed at the Chase Brass and Copper Company.
 Mrs. Margaret Ragis, Central ave- nue, is spending few months aA Miami Beach, Fla.
 Captain and Mrs. F. L. Polla. Woodbury, and their children. Nancy, Nathan and Lawrence. have returned from a l0-day stay In Snow Valley, Vt. Captain Pond re~ gently returned after a years service in the European theater of war with the Air Force Command.
 Miss Nora LePage, a member of the staff of the Waterbury Visitinm Nurse Association. has been accepts ed by the Army Nurse Corps. Miss LePage is a graduate of the Water- bury Hospital School of Nursing. class Of l943, and has been a mem- Der Of the staff of the V. N. A., since last fall.
 Mrs Joel Anderson, Prospect street, is visiting for several .ayS in Wallingford.
 Mrs. Edna Kelder, Harker avenue. has returned after spending several days in New York City.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-03
SOCIAL FUNCTIONS
TTibe Beck
 Bridal Feb. 27

Announcement has been made of the marriage of Miss Constance Beck, Spencer avenue, daughter of Joseph Beck, North Riverside street, to Armand o. Tribe, MM3-c, US.N.R., Los Angeles, Calf, which took place Tuesday evening at 6 o'clock at the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, New York City. Rev. James P, Burke performed the ceremony.
 The bride wore a grey pencil- stripe tailored suit, a fuchSia hat and accessories and corsage of roses and gardenias. Mrs Lawrence Beck, sister-in-law of the bride. as matron of honor, was attired in a black wool pin-stripe suit black hat, black and white accessories and corsage of gardenias. Charles Call, MM3-c, U.SN.R., Soda Springs Idaho, was best man.
 Mrs. Tribe will reside at Spencer avenue and her husband will be sta- toned at New York.