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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18
Dodd Fails Qualify

Hartford, Conn, July IS - (UP) The Supreme Court of Errors to- day ruled that Thomas J. Dodd, Jr., Lebanon, special assistant to the attorney general attached to the Connecticut District for the past few years, cannot be admitted to the Connecticut bar without exam nation.
 Dodd's application for admission was granted by Superior Court Judge Edward J. Quinlan last Jan- uary after he denied a motion by New London Attorney William H. Shields that the application be de- nied because all requirements for admission had not been met. The Supreme Court has found error in Judge Quinlan's ruling and ordered Shields motion granted.
 The Supreme Court ruling held that Dodd had not met the mini mum requirements of length of practice before the Federal bar and the Bar of South Dakota and that "an applicant for the admission to the bar, however well fitted, may not be admitted solely on approval of the committee" Dodd took the examination, but failed to pass it in 1883 after his graduation from Yale Law School.
 Dodd recently was appointed to prosecute Axis war criminals in Eu- rope for the United Nations War Crimes Commission.
 In another decision, the Supreme Court upheld Superior Court Judge Ernest A. Inglis in a Willimantic land dispute, finding for the defend ant in the case of Mrs. Emmeline M. Haddad against MT. and Mrs. Herb- ert T. Clark. The court held that Clark had been under no obligation to sell Mrs. Haddad a small parcel of land was not included in a pur- chase she made.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18
Franco Advocates Spanish Monarchy

Madrid, July 1S-UP)-Gen. Francisco Franco told Span iards last night that monarchy is the only form of rule to solve the country's vital prob lems, but did not suggest a time for the restoration.
 Franco made 8 36-minute speech to the Falange party's national council. It was broad cast throughout the country.
 Franco said the British and American governments helped Spain maintain her neutrality during the war.
 Informed observers took the speech to indicate that Fran co intends to retain the lead- ership of Spain for many years to come.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18
3-Month Old Tot Accident Victim

Richmond, Va, July 18.-CUP)- A three-month old baby was miss ing today after a Greyhound bus carrying 47 persons plunged from a weakened bridge into rain-swollen Gliilies Creek within the Richmond city limits.
 Hospital authorities said the other 45 passengers and the bus driver had been rescued. They were treat ed for shock and exposure at To- cal hospitals. None was seriously injured.
 The driver, Layton Brepigan. re- mained in hospital for treatment.
 The mother of the missing baby told rescue workers that she was holding the child in her arms when she climbed out of bus window to the top Of the vehicle. She said she lost the baby while the pas sengers were standing on the crowd ed top of the submerged rus wait- ing for rescps
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18
1.5OO Planes Hit Tokyo Area; Formidable Task Predicted For Invasion
BY WILLIAM F. THREE

United Press War Correspondent
 Guam, July 18-(UP)- Japanese broadcaSts reported up to 1,500 American and British carrier planes struck from a task force lurking off the east coast of Honshu at air fields and military con- centrations in the Tokyo area today for the second straight day.
 The reported assault on the heart of the empire and neighboring districts fol- lowed by a few hours a 2,0O0- ton broadside leveled at Hon. shu's coast by the giant ri- fles of Allied warships sailing in to the approaches of To- kyo.
 Enemy accounts said the new car- rier-borne attack hit the districts of Chiba, Ibaragi, Kanagawa, To- chigi, Gumma and Ftikushinna as well as the Tokyo region.
 Japanese broadcasts said the great carrier strike that spread ha-l voc across Tolzyo's sprawling net work of airfields from dawn to dusk yesterday was resumed in force around noon today.
 Three hours later the attack WIS still raging and upwards of 800 AL lied warplaneS were bombing and strafing airdromes and other n1ili- tary installations on all sides of To- kyo, the enemy accounts said.
 The new air blow came less than 12 hours after a laundering night bonnibardnent by an Anglo-Amer- ican surface fleet against the de- fenseless Japanese coast, barely 25 miles from Tokyo.
 The Yokusuka naval station on the west side of Tokyo Bay was identified by the Japanese as one of the targets in the new attacks. They said it was attacked by more than 250 carrier planes for 25 min- utes.
 The Domei Agency reported that about 1000 persons were killed or injured in the weekend attack on Hokkaido, the northern home is- land. It claimed that anti-aircrafs gunners downed g carrier planes and damaged IT more in the as- sault Saturday and Sunday.
 Fleet dispatches hinted the Al- lied battlewagons were maneuver- ing off Tokyo bay this afternoon and the Japanese alerted their coastal population to expect further
 '"The enemy task force is liable to attack us at any chosen time and place." the Japanese Domei news agency admitted bleakly.
 The Japanese later reported that sizable formations of Liberators and fighters from Okinawa struck southern Kyushu and Shikoku to- day and that 100 fighters and bombers again raided Shanghai.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18
Social Security Beqins

Ottawa, July 18.-(UP)-Canada began to put into effect one of the most extensive Social Security acts in the world today. The first cf 1,250,000 checks were mailed to mothers under the family allowances act. ~
 The checks total almost $2o 900 OOo for this month and will 20 to Canadian mothers to be spent on about 3,000,000 children under l6. The program will cost between S200.- 900, ,000," and 50,000, ,000.
 All mothers with children less tran 16 are eligible for payments. The payments start at $8 a month and become smaller for each ad- ditional child. Every child in Can- ada is entitled to receive l,1sO be- fore he is IS as the nations contri- button to his health, welfare, and education.
 Eskimo mothers can get their family allotments in the form of supplies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18
Whitehead Leads For East Force

Manila. July 18-(UP)-Lt. Gen. Ennis c. Whitehead, Fifth Airforce eonamander, is now in command of Far East airforce operations in the Ryukus. Gen. Douglas Macarthur announced today.
 Gen. Whitehead will coordinate the operation of all the airforces fin the Ryukus under Macarthur.
 Whitehead's Japanese war career began at Port Moresby in New Gui- uea late in 1942 when he assumed command of the Fifth Airforce's ad- vanced Echelon under Gen. George 0. Kenney. who now commands the Far Eastern airforces.
 Whitehead has such successes as the battle of the Bismarck Sea in March, 1943, to his credit. In that fight his planes sunk 22-ship Jap convoy. He also engineered attacks on Rabaul which halted that town as flourishing port of supply and staging center for invasion minded Japanese.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18

MT. Truman was scheduled to lunch with Churchill and pay a courtesy call on Stalin before the afternoon business session, but there was no immediate word from the heavily-guarded compound whether he had done so.
 In his capacity as chairman of che meeting, however, MT. Truman appeared to have already won a ma ior point in forcing the Pacific war to the top of the agenda.
 Truman Affirms
 WNhin few hours after his first formal meeting with Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin, the Missourian was understood to have made clear the American position that the swift defeat of Japan is the principal issue confronting the United Nations-and particularly America. Britain and Russia.
 MT. Truman was scheduled to lunch with Churchill today, after which he will call on Stalin. It was understood that the preliminary matters taken up yesterday will be discussed further today.
 MT. Truman, appointed chairman of the meeting by Churchill and Stain, stated his case at the first preliminary session in the new pal ace of Potsdam yesterday afternoon.
 A rigid censorship that evoked re- peated protests from Allied corres- pondents on the scene blacked out all detailed information on yester- days 90-minute meeting.
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Navy Scropes Jopon Coast Bottom
By RICHARD W. JOHNSTON United Press War Correspondent

United Press War Correspondent
 With U. S. naval bombardment force 10 minutes from Tokyo, July 1e-(UP)-Ships of this vast at tacking armada came as close to Tokyo today as ships can get un- less they tuck up their bottoms and walk on dry land.
 We knocked down Tokyo's front door early today and bowled 2,000 tons of exploding steel down the rice plain valley that leads to E1n- peror Hirohito's palace only 35 miles away.
 From a platform Ill feet above the swaying deck of this mighty battleship saw red hot salvoes roaring into the murky sky destined to smash against the vast Hitachi steel works at Mito.
 For 50 consecutive minutes we swept the Tokyo coast playing a as inch-gun tattoo on the great Industrial plants and housing areas in which it is estimated half a million Japanese are concentrated.
 Steady Bombardment
 This ship, like others in the force. fired nine gun salvoes with an occasional intermission as we moved from target to target. Some times for as much as a quarter of an hour we hurled steel toward the shore at the rate of half a ton a second.
 When the tactical commander finally ordered the force eastward we were only slightly more than 40 miles from Ginza and our last ex- pioding target-the Hftachi steel works at Mito-was a flaming beacon, lighting the skies for miles.
 Tn an almost incredible move we had dashed in and swept 20 miles of Japan's supposedly heavily de- fended shores and then withdrew without drawing a single bomb, bull Jet, or Kamikaze attack.
 A few enemy aircraft which clut-
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Chinese Take konhsien

Chungking, July 18-.UP) The Chinese communique officially an- nounced today the recapture of kanhsien, former American 14th a1rforce airbase city in southern Kiangsi Province.
 The communique said that Kanh- Sien (Kanchow) was retaken early yesterday and that Japanese troops south of Suichwan, AS miles north west of Kanhsien, are pulling out to the north.
 Chinese troops closing around kweil1n have reached Liangkiang, IA miles to the west.
 Other Chinese troops are attack ing Yungfu, 26 miles southwest of Kweilin and closing in on other points along the Liuchow-Kweilin highway while Japanese forces at Chaunhsien, 76 miles northeast of Kweilin, have launched an unsuc- ceSSful counter offensive against Chinese positions. N
 The Central News Agency report ed that forward Japanese units, fighting their way north by river and highway, have by-passed Suichwan and Wan-an, 45 miles north of Kanhsien, in apparent ef- forts to make swift withdrawal.
 Chinese troops waylaid a main convoy moving up the Kan Chiang river between Kanhsien and Wan an, capturing four artillery pieces, 110 gas masks, a dozen rifles and HAa ANa4 A supplies.
 Just south of Wan-An, Chinese forces also sunk 35 Japanese Junks and Sampans causing hundreds of enemy casualties. Two of the cap- tured Japanese reported that Chi- nese forces have already re-captur- ed the former American airfleld at Suichwan and are now fighting the Japanese as they bypass the town.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18
Girl Appearing As Witness

Manchester, Vt, July 1s--(UP)- The prosecution at Harold Frot- tens murder trial was to call as its star witness today 15-year- -old Georgiana Stratton, the farmers daughter who was raped by the former carnival roustabout after he allegedly slew her father.
 It was the third day of the trial of the 26-year-old former Wor- cester, Mass, resident who faces death in the electric chair if com victed of the shotgun murder last Oct. 2l of Robert Stratton. 55, of Woodford. Only witness of the shooting was Georgianna.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18
ToRRINGToN OFFICIAL DIES

Torrington, Conn. July 1S(UP)- Henry c. Goodwin, TO, member of the board of tax review and for. mer state legislator, died at his home here yesterday. Funeral serv- ices will be held tomorrow.
 Goodwin formerly served as borough burgess, selectman and assessor of Torrington, his native town. He was . member of the re- publican town committee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18
Mediterranean Wor Areo Inoctivoted

CaSerta, July 18-(UP)-Lt. Gen. Joseph T. McNarney an- nounced today that his com- mand, Mediterranean theater of operations United States army, would be inactivated in December leaving only an oc- cupational force of around 28,000 men.
 McNarney said the army hopes to send all men not as- signed to occupation forces out of the Mediterranean theater by the end of Decem- Der, but added everything depends on the shipping sit uation."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18
HEART OF JAPANESE EMPIRE BLASTED
Secrecy Cloaks Big Three Farley; High
 Issues Resolved
BY MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent

Potsdam, July 18-(UP)-The Big Three meeting was resumed this afternoon and President Truman was under stood to have informed Premier Stan Prime Minister Churchill that he regards the against Japan as the first problem of the conference
 In their second joint meeting since the conference opened yesterday the thre cliffs of stat beevd to opened yesterday the three chiefs of state believed be still limiting their discussions to preninaries appar- enty establishing the order in which the high issues at stake will be resolved
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18
COMBAT TROOPS INsULTED

Bremen. July lS.-(UP)-Some- body gave Bob Hope a bum steer, and he opened his tour of Ger many last night by referring to some 5000 battle-hardened veterans as occupation troops"-tighting words.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-20
Man Admits 6 Murders

Little Rock, Ark, March 20.-(UP) James w. Hall, "A, self-Styleo hitchhike- murder artist who has ad- mitted staying six persons in the past seven years, led of1cers to- day to the scene of his final con- fessed crime.
 Meanwhile, police began an in- ouiry into the reported disappear ance of one of Halls brothers, oi whom the handsome Little Rock taxi driver said casually: "He left home and I suppose someone naur- dered him."
 smiling and boastful, Hall was taken to Heber Spring, Ark. by state officers to corroborate his con- fession that he killed J. D. New comb, Jr., Arkansas labor depart ment chief boiler inspector.
 Newcomb's charred body was found Feb. g on a desolate logging road north of Heber Springs.
 En route, Hall and his guards stopped at a point near Conway Ark, where, he told investigators the Newcomb killing occurred.
 Police quoted Hall as saying he shot the state official, stuffed his body in the victims car, drove it te near Reber Springs and burned both the vehicle and the body.
 Yesterday, Hall led Arkansas of- flcers to point near Stuttgart where they said he re-enacted the robbery murder of Doyle Mullerin Little Rock truck driver.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-20
Rev. Mccarthy Freed
 As Japanese Prisoner
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was becoming so weak that I would have had to spend the whole day in bed. Yet even more, the expectation of Japanese fury was becoming more marked. The danger of death at the points of Jap bayonets was growing possibility. Surely the protecting hand of God was direct ing another course. Our rescue bor- dered on the miracle.
 "A quick thrust by the Americans, frantic ride across a lake and a ride by Army trucks brought us to our present harbor of safety.
 "The blessings of freedom com- pensate for any and all the trials and hardships of the past 30 months of imprisonment. No more rice for we are now tasting food that is wonderful! good coffee, bread, butter, milk, sugar, canned meats and sweets-as well as good old American cigarettes!
 T expect it will be some six months before I could return to Cebu Father McCarthy's foreign mission station) and in the mean time I may be sent to the U. s. to recuperate. would like to enter the Army as chaplain"
 Father Rance" well known in this city, as stated, was captured by the Japs shortly after Pearl Harbor when the enemy forces attacked Ce- bu. Joining with a force of Army men he retreated to the hills until eventually overwhelming numbers forced the surrender. He was then confined to the Santo Tomas prison camp and was believed to have VOL unteered as chaplain for transfer to the Los Banos camp.
 No direct word ever was received as to his welfare from the time of capture until last January. How ever his relatives did meet with re- patriates returl.-ag on the Grips holm who had been imprisoned with him. These individuals highly praised his work in maintaining the morale of the internees through such means as daily prayer serv- ices, loud speaker system of daily activities mad as a liaison man be- tween the internees and their Jap captors by which means he gained his fellow prisoners many conces- SionS.
 He was ordained in 1940 and left for the Philippines that Fall where he served at the Cebu City mission of the Marylnoll Mission Order. His local relatives other than Mrs. Sullivan consist of Miss Esther Mo- Carthy of Johnson street and John E. Mccarthy of " Thompson steret. Also 8 brother Henry J. Mccarthy, formerly of Waterbury now of White Plains, N. Y. Other than the ne- phew reported killed in action three other sons of his'sister are now serv- ing. They are: Pvt. William Sulli- van now at Camp Edwards hospita- tai, following receipt of severe wounds in the invasion of Norman dy; Pvt. John Sullivan now returned to action in Italy following receipt of minor wounds there and Pvt. Roger Sullivan of the U. s. Marine Corp, who has been serving at Two Jima,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-20
Legislature
 Weeds Bills

Hartford. Conn, March 20-(UP) A bill to set up a five-member state fair employment commission to prevent racial and religious dis criminations faced a stormy hearing today before the general assembly's labor committee.
 Resembling in many respects the bill recently adopted in New York, the bill guarantees equal opportuni- ties for employment and promotion. It defines as unlawful employment practices" the discharge of employees for racial or religious reasons and discrimination because of union membership. The commission would have board powers to subpoena wit nesses, compel attendance at hear ings, administer oaths and to order employers to produce books and records Learing on matters under investigation.
 Proposed by Sen. Nathan Aaron, D., Hartfo.d, to eliminate domestic strife and unrest" the bill was con- sidered by nNny to contain too vague descriptions of violations. Penalties would consist of $500 fine and a maximum of three months in jail for disregarding findings of the commission.
 The legislature, starting t h twelfth week of it's 23-week session, was rapidly wedding out scores ot minor bills an dnearing the main business of the session.
 Immediately being considered was state labor relations act, which found Democrats and Republicans at odds but reportedly near an &C., cepted compromiss. There were pros
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miles northwest.
 He said the German front was shifted to the north of Neisse," :" suggesting that the Nazis had lost a number of the towns in that area.
 On the Hungarian front, the Rus eianS were reported to have thrown in all their reserves between Lake Balaton and Budapest. In the area of Nor, 38 miles west of Budapest. the situation admittedly became temporarily critical for the German and Hungarian forces"
 On the left wing of the Berlin front, the Russians were reported to have wedged more than half a mile into the defenseS of Altdamm, across the lower Oder from Stettin.
 Berlin acknowledged. however, that the Russians had whittled down the Altdamm pocket to 25 square miles in savage attacks with three armies. The latest Soviet penetra- tion was scored on the southeast, Berlin said.
 BrldgeS COuapSe
 Due east of Berlin the Germans said, Nazi artillery and mortar fire collapsed two Soviet-held bridges the Oder 30-odd miles from the Nazi capital. Russian attacks on the west bank between Frankfurt and Kuestrin ceased at least temporar- fly, Berlin said.
 Southeast of Berlin, other Soviet forces were approaching, if not across, the former Czechoslovak bor- der after advancing 30 miles in three days through upper Silesia, Nazi accounts said.
 The Nazis placed units of Marshal Ivan s. Konev's first Ukrainian Army on both sides of Leobschult 32 miles south of Oppelm on both sides of Neisse, 28 miles west of Leobschultz, and in the streets of Neustart, midway between the two towns.
 Still anNther Soviet offensive was under way in Hungary, the Ger mans said. Elements of two Rus sian Army groups were said to have broken into the suburbs of Szekes- fehervar, 32 miles west of Budapest, and into the railway town of Mor, 40 miles west of Budapest.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-20

(COnClnueQ rom rage U The inland sea is bounded by north east Kyushu, northern Shikoku and southwest Honshu.
 Tokyo broadcasts said objectives on Shikoku and the Osaka-Kob6 area of Honshu were raided for nine hours.
 A Japanese communique said that Japanese planes sank two American Warships of unknown type" and shot down 137 carrier planes in at- tacks on the carrier force of south ern Japan yesterday.
 The claims apparently were in addition to those of another Jap anese communique yesterday, which said five American ships had been sunk, one heavily damaged and 46 planes shot down.
 Tokyo also said that the carrier force was made up of the "main strength" of Task Force 58 and in- cluded IS to 16 aircraft carriers in i've different groups.
 Admit Plane Loss
 The broadcast admitted that 20 Japanese planes had failed to re- turn from attacks on Sunday and Monday. Seven others were listed as damaged.
 Pacific fleet headquarters said Marines mopping up Two. 750 miles south of Tokyo. containued to search out snipers and isolated remnants of the Japanese garrison yesterday.
 Army fighters from Two bombed and strafed the islands of Chich1 and Haha in the Bonin group Sum day. Only one enemy fighter wai observed in the air at Chichi
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-20

3,OOO-ton freighter off the China coast, while Mitchell Mediums sank similar sized merchantmen oH Hong Kong.
 The Zamboanga beachhead on Mindanao was further strengthened with the seizure of Malanaui Is- land, just north of American-Held Basilan. The communique, which said tank k-supported infantrymen continued to push into the hills above Zamboanga, disclosed that 289 Japanese dead had been found abandoned so far in the Mindanao campaign.
 On Luzon, advance forces of the 43rd Division. pushed into Tanay on Laguna Bay, 20 miles southeast of Manila, while other units advanced. up the Morong Valley to the out skirts of Pantay, four miles north east of Antipolo.
 The Sixth Division, which pierced the center of the Japanese Shimbu line, between Antipolo and Wawa, repulsed fierce counter-attack near Mount Baytangan.
 The communique revealed that 38th Division troops, clearing out the Zambales area above Bataan, killed an additional 2,654 Japanese from March II to IS.