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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-21
Town HoII Destroyed
Special to The Democrat)

Plymouth, July 21-A spectacular fire of undetermined origin de- stroyed the Plymouth community hall shortly before 5:30 this morn ing as most of the residents looked on.
 Terryville and Thomaston fire men responded to call from Mrs. Sam Larson, wife of the constable, who was notified of the blaze by passing, motorist. Bremen drained the contents of nearby well and were then helpless against the fire as they had no other source of water supply.
 Old Structure
 The disaster committee of the local Red Cross chapter served cof- fee to firemen.
 The community hall was a very old two-story wooden structure which served as a carriage shop originally. It was meeting place for Boy Scouts and other com- munity organizations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-21
FinoI Appeal
 By zukouskos

The transcript of the Francis Zukauskas trial and all exhibits in the case were transferred this week from the Waterbury Superior Court to the clerk of the Superior Court in New Haven, as the next to the final step in the appeal taken to the State Supreme Court of Er- TOTS in Hartford.
 After the transcript of evidence is printed, the case will be ready for an assignment in the Hartford court. possibly during the October term.
 Death Sentence
 Zukauskas, a former supernum- erary policeman, was sentenced to death February 8 for the staying O. Mrs. Stephanie Plungis last No- vember 1. Sentenced by three judges, following a three-week trial, to die in the electric chair April %, Zukauskas was given q stay of execution of the penalty after he appealed to the high court.
 The transcript, as deleted by Public Defender Edward T. Car lnody and Special Defense Attorney w. w. Gager. was submitted first to States Attorney William B. Fitz- gerald for approval. and then was turned over to Superior Court Clerk James E. Mcknight. who then trans- tered the document and exhibits to New Haven.
 In it's original form the transcript totaled 1888 pages. Certain testi- mony, which was repititious, was de- leted to have printing expense. All of the expenses of the appeal will De (Contlnued on Page N
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-21
Senate Works House Rests

Washington, July 2l.-(UP)-The House is scheduled to begin a To- week recess today, taking its long est vacation from the capitol since 1888.
 Although the Senate will stay un- til it has voted on the United Na- tions charter the House was pre- pared to quit until Oct. 8 after a perfunctory session today.
 It disposed of it's last must" leg islation yesterday by accepting mi- nor Senate amendments to the bill approving the Breton Woods mone- tary agreements and the reconverson tax bill.
 Recess Decision
 The House decided to recess with out acting immediately on three re- cent requests of Presidnt Truman They were for legislation CD to lib- eralize unemployment benefits dur Ing the Feconversion period. (2) e permit reorganization of the execu- tive branches and (9 to provide for one-man control Of surplus wal property disposal,
 Both House and senate. however have needed administration re- quests for passage Of bills to strene' then the governments position n international economic relations Those included measures approving the Breton Woods agreements, ex' tending the reciprocal trade iav with new taFiff.eutilng powers ans multiplying flyesfeld the lendlnI authority Of the expoFtslmpoF bank,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-21
JuryVerdiet For Frotten

Manchester, Vt., July 2i-(UP)- Jail.breaking Harold Frotten. 26. former Worcester. Mass, carnival worker, was in Windsor state prison today after being convicted Of thf first degree murder of his sf friends father. b6.yearsold Robe stratton. Of Woodford,
 Protten was convicted yesterday after a superior court jury dellbs erated five hours and nine minutes The crime carries . mandatory penalty of death in the electric chair under Vermont law, Judge Charles Adams will impose sentence Aug. 6, the deadllne for filing an appeal. Defense Counsel Collins w. Graves ssid an appeal would be filed,
 The defendant allsgedly shot and killeg @lrall0n last Oct, q lH the Kitchen 0l his Woodf0Fd nome when the latter objected to gYeitenk ID' lefast in his ie'yesFsold daughter, Harriet,
 Vgbilsn escaped from Bennington county inll several days before hil lFial epenen hecallse he wee bored but ho was eoen IeeepinTed,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-21
Famous Art
 Museum is
 |Undamaged
BY MALCOLM MUIR, JR

United Press Staff Correspondent Paris, July 21-UP)-"Mona Lisa is smiling"
 Those four words, spoken by Brit ish Broadcasting announcers over transmitters beamed to the conti- nent, told the French underground that Frances famous art treasures were safe from Allied air lombard ment.
 The message meant that Royal Air Force pilots had been briefed on the hiding places of the price less art relics and would avoid those spots.
 The story was told the United Press today by high official Of the Louvre.
 Patriotic Teamwork
 During the weeks before the out break of the war, he said, the Louvre staff and the staffs of the other nine official state museums of France removed the entire contents of the institutions and carried them to 60 underground depots through out the country.
 Venus De Milo and the winged victory of Samathrace were hidden under the Chateau Valencay on the north bank of the Loire, 75 miles southwest of Paris.
 Leonardo Da Vincis Mona Lisa and Whistler's Mother, the only American painting in the Louvre, were kept in the cellar of the Cha teau Montal, 80 miles east of Lyons.
 When the Germans reached Paris in l94O they footed the city's pri- vate museums stripping to the walls the great collections such as the Seligmann, Weil-Picard. and Roths- child groups.
 But the hidden treasures were not found.
 Close. Calls
 "When the Allied planes began bombing and strafing our country side unmercifully a year ago last spring several depots had some un' comfortably narrow escapes" the Louvre official said.
 The underground tried to geI
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-21

 Discharges

Washington. July 21 - (UP) - The Navy had under consideration today discharge system for older officers and enlisted men based only on age and length of service.
 In announcing the tentative plan the Navy estimated total of 30,600 officers and men would be eligible for discharge under the system by next December.
 The minimum points needed range from 53 to 57 depending on the branch in which the men are serving.
 Statistical System
 Under the plan mans service age" is computed by allowing one point for each year of his age to his nearest birthday plus additional points for each four months of &C., tive duty since September l. 1889.
 Reserve officers of the line, enlist ed reservists, inductees and enlisted regulars serving despite expired en- listments would need 53 points for discharge.
 Reserve officers of supply would need 55 points while civil engineer
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Grectev Love Hoth No Husbond

White Plains, N. Y. July 2l -lUPl-The following i've en' tries appeared yesterday on the White Plains police bIetteri
 l,bS o. m.-lnjnFed iB fight Ernest Jenkins. 2i, esIeFed, 2s Spring street. During the course Of an argument Co thelr home his wife. RHby, struck hsr husband ever the eye with . piece ef wood, The couple then walked te White Plains hospital where he re- eeivea lhTss stitches. No eem' plalnt,
 SIS |, m,--intnFsd ID fisht- Ernest Jensins, sI, eeleFed, ss epFims siFees, iiFesied st Nhils Plains hospital feg lafeT' alien ef Tiahl forearm FesDlF' lne elgbt stllehes, Wound lns flleled by hls wife, nuby, win . milk bottle. No complaint
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-21
SAD PROBLEM
 OF EUROPE'S
 D|SPOsSEsSED
BY RALPH HEINZEN United Press War Analyst

The fate in the new world of tomorrow of millions of men, women and children without country-the "State- less", hopeless, dispossessed, and denaturalized humans whom no country wants-is but one of the many major problems facing the Pots dam conference.
 The parallel problems of statelessness and migration are tied directly to the prob lem of the realization of the Jewish National Home in Palestine, and it, in turn, is bound in the more general problem of an Inter-Allied common policy in the Mid dle East. Middle East prob lems are Myriad, and they must rank high on the Pots dam agenda if new conflicts are to be circumvented.
 Has Precedent
 Politically motivated stateless- ness is not a new problem. It was known in Schleswig- -Holstein after 1865. It became vast European problem after 1914, and a major world problem through the political revolutions that eliminated in this war and the defeat of authoritari- aniSm.
 In 1921, 1924 and 1881, the Soviet Union denationalized all actual and potential opponents of the regime residing abroad, numbering nearly SOC, O,0O0 At the outbreak of this war there were 225, GOO denatural- ized Armenian refugees in Europe and the Near East. In 1888, Poland decreed the standardization of Poles living abroad for five years or more who had Host contact with the Polish state" By 1940, 350,000 Rumanians, chiefly Jews, were stripped of their nationality. Two Million Dispossessed The German armies took the Nuremberg laws with them into conqured and occupied countries
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-21
Court Action Anticipated This Fall
(By ANNE ZEMAITIS)

Headings in the $500 900 Superior Court action of the Citizens Good Government Association and the City of Waterbury against Daniel J. Leary, fugitive ex-co1troller, are expected to be closed this summer, and the suit may be ready for a hearing during the fall term, it was reported today.
 Attorney w. w. Gager, special counsel for the plaintiffs, stated he and his assistant, Attorney Irving W. Johnson, have been working on the conspiracy case records now stored in the City Hall basement, and expect to file further pleadings shortly.
 Records Returned
 The city records, which cover the period of the Hayes-Leary admins tration, had been kept in Hartford since the conspiracy trial ended, but they were returned to Waterbury several months go at the request of the counsel for the plaintiffs in the recovery suit.
 MT. Gager said today he hoped to be ready for trial in the fall. Headings in the case will be closed
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-21
No Housing Relief
 Pending; Realtors
fBY BETTY BLANCHARD)

Waterbury,s perennial rent-seek- CTS, now waxing optimistic about ar easing in the city's housing short age because many immigrant work ere, are reported to be returning to their homes, will find their TO- seate dreams dashed to the dust un- til long after Japanese victory, according to several prominent realtors.
 Emphasizing the fact that the majority of workers who streamed into the city in 1942 from Maine, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and New York did not establish homes here but lived in rooms in private homes, local real estate agents could envis:on little relief in the housing situation until Waterbury's post war building program is in full sway. Too, they point out. many of the war workers are single wo- men who will vacate rooming hous- es when layoffs occur.
 Situation May Worsen
 In fact, the men who have been attempting to untangle the city'S most serious wartime problem pre- dicted the situation may become aggravated as more and more CTS return to the girl of their dreams and attempt to establish the homes they've long been planning.
 John J. Horan, veteran realtor who vividly remembers real estate trends during World War I, stated that the majority of the immigrant workers that arrived in Waterbury during 1917 and 1918 eventually be- came permanent residents.
 1918 Recalled
 "As in this wartime era, the people who came to Waterbury at
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Much Accomplished d
 At Potsdam Session
By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent

(Unlted PreSS StaH COrfcSpOnueHtj
 Potsdam, July 21 -(UP)- The American conference delegation in its first progress report on the delib- erations of the Big Three an- nounced today that the work of the meeting is going ahead steadily and that much serious business has been done"
 There was no immediate elabora- ton of the American announcement and no details on the nature of the discussions were given, although it was understood the conferees still were thrashing out political rather than military issues.
 Prime Minister Churchill took time of from the work of the con- ference this morning to take the victory salute of Britain'S famed Seventh Armored Division the Desert Rats" of Fl Alamein-at British victory parade in Berlln's TerSgarten.
 Big Parade
 An estimated 10000 British vet eranS paraded past the flag-draped reviewing stand where Churchill stood with Field Marshal Sir Ber- nard L. Montgomery and Maj. Gen. L. o. Lyme, commander of the Sev- enth Arfnored.
 Crowds of smiling, applauding Berliners tried to press around Churchills car when he set out for the parade, but there were few Ger man civilians along the British line of March.
 Clustered behind and around Churchill in the reviewing stand were scores of top-ranking British, American and Russian military fig ureS, including Field MarShals Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander and Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Gen. George c. Marshal, U. s. chief Of
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-21
Allow Europe More Coal
BY GWEN MORGAN
United Press Staff Correspondent


 Washington, July 2l - UP- High official circles saw the hand of President Truman at Potsdam today in Fuel Administrator Harold L. Ickes' decision to allow Europe 6.000,000 tons of American coal be- fore January 1.
 The decision, announced yester- Gay, constituted a sudden reversal in Ickes' position. He was said pre- viously to have ordered all coal shipments to liberated countries halted by Sept. 1 because of the critical U. S. shortage.
 The U. S. is currently sending 500.000 tons of coal month to Eu- rope. By Jan. this would add up to less than half the amount Ickes now recommends.
 Bad Situation
 Official sources said MT. Tru- man must have found bad situa- ton in Potsdam as far as prospects for European reconstruction are concerned"
 Coal Is considered the key to Eu- yopes political unrest. Ickes said yesterday that "the race in Europe Is one between coal and anarchy" The war shipping administration, caught by surprise by Iekes' an- nouneement said food shipments 10 Europe might have to be cut 70 make way for the coal,
 VISA officials said we've had no shipping request. We'll Feshuffle our ships and deal them agaln, We'll do our best 70 move the eeal," caTFys lng of the proposed tonnage would
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15O U. $. VARSHIPS HOVER NEAR JAPAN
FRANCO SEEN
 ENDORSING ! MONARCHY

Madrid, July 21-UP)-. Gen. Francisco Franco reor- ganized his cabinet today with a sweeping purge of Falangist party ministers that observers interpreted as a major step toward restora- tion of the monarchy and rapprochement with the AL lies.
 Diplomatic sources in London said Franco was pre- pairing to proclaim the g. year : old Alfonso Jaime, grandson of the exiled King Alfonso, king-designate and name himself as head of a regency to administer Spain until the boy monarch reach es his majority.)
 Cabinet Shake-up
 In the first thorough-going gov- ernment shake-up since the civil war, Franco busted nine of his 13 cabinet ministers and abolished the post of Falangist party secretary general.
 Jose Luis Arrese, former seer tary-general, was dismissed from his cabinet post of minister without portfolio and his position was not relied.
 Arrese's summary dismissal was regarded in authoritative sources as the beginning of the end" for the Falange.
 His chief opponent in the govern ment, foreign minister Jose Lequer- ica who helped steer Spain away from the Axis during the past year, also was eliminated in the new skake-up. Lequerica was believed to have been let out as conciliatory gesture to the -till-influential Fa- langist movement.
 Wooing Allies
 Alberto Martin Artajo. z0-year- old head of the Catholic Action party, replaced Lequerica in the foreign ministry. One of the young est men ever to hold the post, he was expected to follow his prede- ceasor's policies and work toward improved relations with France particularly and the Allied powers in general.
 The four holdovers from the old cabinet were Labor Minister Bias Perez Martin, and Interior Minister Joaquin Benjumea.
 Announcement of the shakeup came in last nights issue of the of ficail bulletin, and the news created a sensation throughout Madrid.
 Suner Removed
 Observers said the only other cab- inet change that made compar- able impression on the Madrid pub lie was the removal of pro-Axis Ser rano Suner from the foreign min- istery in the summer of 1942.
 The new cabinet members, in ad- dition to Arajo, included:
 Army: It. Gen. Fidel Davila.
 Navy: Vice-Admiral Francisco Regaldo.
 Air Gen. Eduardo Gonzalez Gal larza.
 Public Works: Jose Maria Fer nandez Ladrena.
 Agriculture: Carlos Rein.
 Justice: Raimundo Fernandez Cuesta.
 Industry and Commerce: Jose Antonio Stances.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-21
TryCriminoIs In Nuernbera

London, July 2i - (uP) - The tr,aIs of European war criminals will be held ln NueFnbeFg, the kaEl s. Flne city where the German Fas' slSl Yhlty met each year to lay ihe foundation for war, It was revealed today
 Examine Facilities
 AmeFlean, British and French daleestlOnS Ol the WaF crimes e0flls mission, which selected the site, leit by plsne today for NueTnbsTR 10 examine courtroom and other iaells Iiies for ,ihe irlalf, Decision t0 tFy the major Euro' pean wal criminals lil the plctlifs asaue German eltY where inc haslh heId tllslF annual party congresses wns . gesture of FsiFlbuilon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-21
Aussies Hit Jop OiI-Areo

Manila, July 2l-(UP)-Austral- ian troops pressed Japanese forces back along the Samarinda pipeline, on Borneo's southeast coast, today fighting toward the rich oil prize of the Rectal Delta.
 The Koetai Delta area around the mouth of the Mahakam River and the oilfields around Sambodja to the south before the war produced over 100000 barrels a year.
 Jsps Deploying
 Japanese units showed sur- prising reluctance to fight. perhaps husbanding their strength for an all-out blow.
 Tn the Brunei Bay area. south- east of Beaufort. Australian troops easily smothered a Japanese coun- ter-attack of less than company strength.
 Gen. Douglas MaeArthur's com. munique said that okinawa.based bombers and fighters struck shang. hai for the second successive day, hitting five airfields as well as dock areas and shipping.
 They destroyed or damaged nine grounded planes.
 Along the Indo-C China coast other planes strafed locomotives asld bok- ears, and shet.up ( small eoaStwlse fFelehieF, t.
 British Aircraft
 Naturalization Of enemy facilities ln the East Indies continued with RAAp planes striking alf and sup ply installations In the eeleeee, while iishl naval units Of the sev' enih Fleet shotsup shore positions along the Makahsag Straits, RhAp. nAAV, and marine Tnedlam and llehieE b0nibeTs attacked eIlss my lines Of communications and troop concentrations to New Guinea and the E0l0m0nh ares, Enemy po' KIiions in the Northern boleall' vllis aFaa Mefe bgmbafoed " . Reyal Australian Naval nnlk
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-21
GIRL KILLED

Hartford, Conn. July 2i-lypl- BanaTa White, (, daughter of Fyt, and Mrs, Nelson H, White, was Killed HFlday night when she whf SlPufk by q aiE.Viheeled truck lleaI her nome, Truck driver Victor ! ilell, 70. told police Inc child ran in front Of hls gehlcle,
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-01-25
Pledges About
Drive To Recruit
Wur Workers

Chicago (ILNS). Following a
meeting with Army representatives,
organized labor here pledged it's COM
plete support to a drive to recruit
more war workers.
Goal of the campaign is to over
come manpower shortages in 16 war
production plants. 1t was the first
time that War Department repre-
sentatives had approached organized
labor locally and asked it to do a
specific war manpower recruiting job
Labor leaders asked that seniority
rights be guaranteed to workers in
non-essential jobs, and proposed that
pay for war work be equal to that
received in non-essential jobs. These
steps, they said, would go long way
toward solving the manpower prob
lem.
Asked his opinion Of the labor draft
and other proposals to force workers
into war jobs, Victor A. Olander,
secretary-treasurer of the Illinois
State Federation Of Labor, told a
representative Of international Labor
News Service that his position against
compulsion i'm the field of labor is the
same as it has always been. He has
held from the beginning that "our
slogan should be work and fight
rather than work or fight"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-01-25
New Program
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been granted in recognition of the
rise in the cost of living. | recommend
prompt re-examination of Federal
salary rates with view to making
adjustments consistent with the ma
tional stabilization policy"
The basic pay rates of most Federal
workers is still based on the Reclassi-
fication Act of 1923, which is mani
festly unfair in view of the tremend-
Gus increase in the cost of living since
that date.
Meanwhile the international FEEDER
alton of Technical Engineers, Archi-
tects and Draftsmen's Unions, at a
conference in Washington drafted a
Legislative program along the lines Of
the AFL conference, with these addi-
tions:
Pay for holiday work retroactive to
January, 1912; reduction of waiting
periods for in-grade promotions; and
empowering the Civil Service Com
mission to grant minimum rates COM
mensurate with those established for
private industry.
Speaking in support of the general
terms of the engineers proposals
were Admiral Crisp, Chief of the
Navy Departments Division of Shore
Establishments and Civilian Person
mel; Civil Service Commissioner
Arthur Flemming; and AFL Presi-
dent William Green.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-01-25

the amendments will meet with the
approval of the membership of the
Ohio State Federation of Labor. The
resolutions adopted by the Goth An
nual Convention of the Ohio State
Federation of Labor served as basis
for our arguments in these negotia-
tions.
House Bills
H. B. 1-Deming (R)-To provide
retirement system for superannuated
and incapacitated state highway en-
ployees.
Fl. B. 18- Mooney (R) - To pre-
scribe maximum working hours for
firemen.
H. B. 38-Huml (D)-To create the
Ohio Labor Mediation Board, to de-
fine it's powers and duties and re-
sponsiDilities; to protect the rights
and privileges of employees, includ-
ing the right to organize and engage
in other concerted activities.
H. B. 56-Fleckner (R)-To pro-
vide for substituting the office group
ballot in place of the existing ballot
II. b. 59-Sotak Officiating to
the assignment of employees wages.
H. b. 60 - O'Brien (D), Svoboda
CD - Relative to the filing of peti-
tions in work m e. MS compensation
cases.
Senate Bills
S. B. -Metzenbaum CD, McKie
(R), Daniels (R)-To create a public
building commission for the purpose
of constructing and equipping build
ings, for the disqualification and care
Of feeble-minded, insane, criminal in
sane, psychopathic and epileptic per-
sons, and to appropriate funds for
such purpose.
S. b. 5--Cramer, (R), Hilderbrand
(R)-To provide for the creation Of
a commission to make a thorough
study of the taxation program for the
state and its subdivisions with view
to revamping the entire tax structure
of the state on the basis of the evil
1ence collected.