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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-06
SummerShop CIosings Hit
 By Butchers

Newark, N. J., June 6-(UP)-Re- tail butchers of six states and the District of Columbia voted last night against closing their shops for the summer in protest against Office of Price Administration price policies.
 More than 5OO members of the New Jersey Retail Butchers Associa- ation and representatives from New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Delaware and Wash ington, D. C., attended meeting at the Robert Treat hotel.
 Rep. Frank L. Sundstrom, R., N. J., told the butchers that "OPA would like to see you do something to shift the blame for the meat shortage from it's shoulders. Don't let the OPA have the hook"
 In voting to remain in business during summer months, the butch CTS resolved to demand government control of slaughter houses and fed- eral purchasing of cattle to "see to it that the butchers get the meat" :"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-06
City Pension Bill Slated For Defect
By LEGISLATIVE REPORTER

Bitterness over the cltyS s proposed pension bill today practically assur- ed its defeat as general opinion held at the Capitol was that the bill would likely be passed in the House today with it's attached referendum amendment, and thereby become assured of either being stalemated and never returning to the Senate for reconsideration, or upon return to the Senate being vetoed again as to the amendment.
 Representatives of local firemen and policemen today were again at the Capitol together with repre- sentatives of teachers watching the bills progress. Republican party pressure was brought to bear on House members by former Senator Francis Summa in behalf of the party. With the House scheduled to convene at 11:30 a. m. (which means after F noon) the bill was not expected to come up before mid afternoon.
 Mayor John S. Monagan was the center of the criticism over the bill yesterday and today with opponents to it's passage, in original form, claiming he attempted to enforce passage of the bill last week aware that it contained no provisions for the teachers pension and also un- satisfactory provisions relative to widows benefits for fire and police departmental members.
 The Mayor in a statement, releas- ed this Monday, stated he had been opposed to the bill and had, with other city authorities, revamped it into its present form reinstating the teachers and providing for the vii dows. Critics, however, are contend ing that the Mayor had given the nod to the passage of the original bill last week, the one not contain ing these provisions, but had revised 1t only after word had leaked out to the public that the bill failed to provide for the principles involved.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-06
T0kY0FEARS
 U. 5. INVASION
 OF HOMELAND
BY WILLIAM F. THREE

Guam, June G. (UP) - The battle of Okinawa en- tered the mop-up stage today and Tokyo predicted Ameri- can invasion forces next will land in Japan itself in the near future".
 Admiral Chester w. Ninlitz was expected momentarily to issue a communique a1l- nouncing the end of all organized r esi s ta nc e on Okinawa, already being con- verted into a major base for the invasion of Japan.
 For the first time since the 10th Army landed on Okinawa 66 days ago, Ninitz failed to mention ground action in his regular Pa cific communique today. It was possible he was preparing a special victory" communique.
 Radio Tokyo, while regarding Okinawa as doomed, said Japanese troops were firmly entrenched III new positions yesterday and were locked in fierce fighting with numerically superior enemy forces.
 Tokyo estimated that 800 Ameri- can troops had gone ashore on Oroku peninsula on the southwest coast below Mana.
 10000 In Custody Ninlitz announced yesterday that the principal enemy forces in Oki- nawa already had been destroyed. Field dispatches said the Seventh Division overran Chinen Peninsula on the southeast coast of Okinawa | to its easternmost and southeastern most tips yesterday. Seventy-f1ve to 100 Japanese soldiers were killed on the peninsula and more than l0.- 900 hungry, ragged civilians were taken into custody.
 There have been no reports of American progress on the rest Of the island since Monday, but it was likely that Marines on the south- west coast had completed the cap ture of Mana airfield, biggest. best and last airfield on the island.
 Other units inland were believed to have squeezed the last survivors of the original garrison of perhaps 30, 900 Japanese into the southern tip of the island for final, mass annihilation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-06
GI s Occupy
 Bovoria Only
BY JOHN B. McDERMOTT

London, June G. CUP United States armies will turn over most of the territory they conquered in Ger many to British and Russian troops and occupy only Bavaria, 1t was be- lieved today.
 The Ninth army will yield such cities as Leipzig, fifth largest in Germany, Magdeburg, Chemnitz and Erfurt to the Russians. The Ninth had taken over much of the First army's sector when the first returned to the United States.
 The Rhineland and the Ruhr, in cluding Cologne. pre-war Germanys third largest city, Dueren, Dussel- dorf and Essen, will be taken over by British occupation forces.
 Though largely conquered by the American First, Ninth and Third armies, the Ruhr and Rhineland have been administered lately by the American 18th army.
 Unless radical changes were made yesterday at Berlin, correspondents who have been travelling with Amer ican armies in Germany believed the American occupation zone will be confined to Bavaria in southwest Germany.
 This sector probably will extend as far north as Frankfurt, at pres ent Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhowers headquarters, and certainly should require no more than one or per- haps two of the four American arm- ies at present in Germany.
 The division of Germany pre-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-06
BY SAM SOUKI

Damascus, June G. (UP) The president of Syria, lingering his prayer beads while he fumed said in an interview today "this genera ton of Syrians will not tolerate seeing one Frenchmen walk again through the streets of Damascus"
 T believe we are rid of France at last now,' was one of series of angry statements President Shukri Fl Kuwaitly made, reflect in the unrelenting attitude in both Syria and Lebanon.
 In Beyrouth the United Press was informed today that the Lev antine nations will reject any con- ditional offers to settle their differ ences with the French.
 Kuwaitly was interviewed at his home, where he is now able to walk around following his recovery from an internal hemorrhage. He
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-06
Chinese Take 'Liuchow Base
By GEORGE WANG

Chungking, June 6.-UP)-Chi- nese troops have recaptured Liu- chow, former American air base which was overrun by 8 Japanese drive into Central Kwangsi province last November, a frontline dispatch said today.
 Although the dispatch was not confirmed officially, last communi- ques had reported Chinese columns closing in on the city, 400 miles southeast of Chungking from the southeast, west and north.
 Capture of Iiuchow would indi- cate an early collapse Of the entire Japanese hold in Kwangsi province. It was the last major enemy strong hold before Kweilin. another former American airbase, 90 miles to the northeast
 With Liuchow again in Chinese hands, Canton and Hong Kong to the southeast and Hengyang, Japa- nese base 180 miles northeast of Kweilin, would be brought within range of Allied fighters and medium bombers.
 Liuchow, junction of two main railways and the Kwangsi-I -Indo- China highway, fell to the Japa- nese last November in a three pronged offensive launched from the Canton area.
 A telegram from the Kwangsi province governor said Chinese troops had entered Ungshu, com munications center on the West river, 10 miles from Wuchow, ITO southeast of Liuchow.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-06
Kyushu Bases Hit Again
By WILLIAM F. THREE

Guam, June 6 - (U.P) - Thirty ''smaller-type" planes, apparently from new American airfields on Okinawa, attacked Japanese suicide plane bases on Kyushu in southern Japan for an hour today, Tokyo broadcasts reported.
 The raiders were said to have concentrated on airf1elds on Osumi and Satsuma Peninsulas.
 By this bombing raid," Tokyo said, the enemy apparently intend- ed to forestall the activities of our special attack (suicide) corps, which is wreaking havoc with enemy war craft in Okinawa waters"
 Superfortresses shot down at least 20 - and perhaps many more - Japanese fighters over burning Kobe during yesterdays 3,300-ton air raid.
 Eight B-29s were lost. One and perhaps more of them were rammed by a Japanese suicide pilot. Other enemy aircraft machine-gunned American crewmen parachuting from a crippled Superfortress.
 The Japanese also used "Baka" planes - rocket-propelled, explo- sive-laden suicide aircraft launch ed from mother plane - against the Superfortresses.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-06
Jops On Run Luzon
By DON CASWELL

Manila, June 6-(UP)-The Jap anese were on the run in northern Luzon today, offering only small arms fire in oppoistion to the 37th Division which crashed six miles along highway No. 5.
 The six-mile gain in one day car- ried the 37th 10 miles north of San ta Fe, at the head of the upper .Cagayan Valley, and within 16 miles of Bayombong, capital of Nue. va Vizcaya Province.
 To the west parallel drive into the Lortheru reacras of Luzon was opered by the 33rd Division On highway II, norm of Baguio, sum. mer capital of the Philippines. Tn, 33rd had reached a point about 70 miles northeast of Baguio. Highways II and eventually join at Bontoc in northern Luzon, but the two col umns still were far from a iinkup.
 Mitchell B26 medium bombers and Lightning P-37 fighter-Sombers made another milk-run the length of Cagayan valley to drop 250 tons on the revreating Japanese and their supply dumps and Bivouac areas Most of the bombing was in the Gattaran area in the northern par: of the valley.
 On Mindanao, American troops gained another five miles northwest of Mintal in the Davao area.
 The big bombers of the Far East ern Air Force again bucked bac weather to hit Formosa. Over 5( Liberators, escorted by Lightnings dropped 250 tons of bombs on in. dudstrial targets in the Takao sec. tor on the southwestern coasta plain.
 A communique reported that many barracks and storage buildings wer, destroyed and fires rekindled 1T previously damaged warehouses.
 Heavy, medium, and fighte, planes ranged through the East In. dies to loose 150 tons of bombs or assorted targets on Borneo, tn, Celebes, Halmahera and Timor.
 In the long drawn-out campaign on Bougainville in the Solomons Australian troops gained a mile go. ing southeast on the Buin road tt reach the crossroads south of Mon otto mission.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-06
|Rid or France At Last '' Fumes Syrian President

talked in a deep voice, and kept lingering his beads as he told how impossible 1t was for France and Syria to get along.
 For 9 years the Syrians and Lebanese have been living under a constant strain due to the presence of France" he said. Now at last because of their mad action I be- lieve We are rid of them. Now we can start improving our country. not basing ourselves on the whims of Frenchmen. There is much to be done, and we intend to call in American, British and other ex- perts to help and advise us."
 The Syrian president granted that diplomatic relations should be main- tained with France, but said the French should be represented merely by diplomatic representa- tive like Spain, Sweden and other nations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-06
Job Stoppoge Effected By
 280EmpIoyes

DSpleasure over alleged com pany action relative to payment of back-pay today resulted in a work stoppage being effected by 280 em- ployes of the Torrington branch of the Americna Brass Go.
 At press time today CIO officials headed by Thomas Baccei, interna- tional representative had induced the men to return to work. The en- ployes were members of the casting shop and scrap rooms of the com pany. No effects were felt among workers in the Waterbury or An- sonia branches.
 John J. Driscoll executive secre- tary of the CIO in Waterbury and negotiator for the three ABC To- calls stated today that the "com- pany's failure to meet directives of the National Labor Relation Board ordering the ABC to pay 'compen- satory bonuses irked these men to the point where they stopped work without union authorization.
 CIO statistics reveal, MT. Dris- coll stated, that over a million dol sarz is due in bonus payments to
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-06
EXAMS REVEAL DEATHCAUSED
 BY POISONING
BY JOSEPH w. GREGG Representing Combined U. s. Press


 Representing Combined U. s. Press
 Berlin, June G. (UP) - Adolf Hitler's body has been found and identified with fair certainty, it was learned from a high Russian military source here today.
 The body, smoke-black- ened and charred, was one of four discovered in the ruins of the great under ground fortress beneath the new reich-chancellery after the fall of Berlin.
 These four bodies, any one of which answered pretty well to Hit ler's description, were removed and carefully examined by Russian Army physicians. All were badly burned from the flame throwers with which the Red Army soldiers finally cleared out the underground command post where Hitler and his leading Nazis made their last ditch stand.
 Careful Test
 After careful examination of teeth and other characteristics, the Russians singled out one body which they believed almost cer- tainly is that of the Nazi fuehrer.
 Asked why no official announce ment of the discovery has been made by Moscow, this Russian source said as long as any element of uncertainty exists the Russians do not wish to state definitely that Hitler's body has been found.
 The source added, however. that there seems little doubt that this actually is the corpse of Hitler.
 Examination of the body showed that Hitler almost certainly died of poisoning. Whether this was self administered or whether Hitler was killed by one of his henchmen there is no sure means of knowing. It will be recalled, however, that Russian sources recently reported that Hitler died of an injection given him by his physician, Dr. Morel, after he had been insane and partly paralyzed for several days.
 According to a telegram sent by Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels to Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, Hitler died at 3:30 p. m. on May 1. Goebbels himself appar- ently committed suicide shortly af- terward, just before the last strong
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-06

MOtner UT lnIant
 The widow, who is now the mother of an infant son, was led into the courtroom by court at- taches after her name was called early in the morning hearing by States Attorney William B. Fftz- gerald. Dressed in a black dress, a black hat and shoes, and a dark navy blue coat, she walked slowly to the stand, and responded in low clear voice to the questions placed by the prosecutor. Not once did she raise her voice as she answered the queries.
 To the accused she referred inter- changeably as my brother-in-law'' or as "Domenic Coscia." She always referred to the wife of the accused as my sister"
 In the course of her testimony both on direct and cross examina- tion later by Attorney Edward Mas colo, vivid glimpse was given of the antagaonism between her hus- band and Coscia.
 Coscia appeared pale and in deep thought as he sat at the counsel table and listened intently to his sister-in-law's testimony. His wife, Carmella, and sister, Mrs. Antonio 1nSogna, sat at the side of the court room as the witness unraveled the tale of what occurred before and after the shooting at 419 Washing ton avenue.
 Mrs. Cyr, who said she now lives at SIS Hamilton avenue, related that she and her husbanG yeeksl at the American Brass Company from 2:30 to 10:30 p. m. on Sep tember 27 and were in bed on the morning of September 28.
 Her sisters voice was like a scream" she said.
 How many times did you hear her say don't" the states attor- ney asked. Two times" she replied.
 Attorney Mascolo objected to the question, stating there was nothing
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-06
Restaurants Meot Rotion To Be Cut

Washington, June 6.-(UP)-Res- taurants are due for 20 per cent cut in meat rations in July and August.
 The Office of Price Administra- tion soon will announce an allot- ment cut for institutional users for this period.
 OPA also will slash their canned fruits and vegetables rations about 12 to 1S per cent and sugar about 20 to s per cent below amounts available in May and June.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-06
President HumbIes Humble Oil Plant

Washington, June G. CUP) - President Truman authorized Petro- leum Administrator Harold L. Ickes today to seize and operate the h. gleside, Tex, plants of the Humble Oil & Refining Go.
 MT. Truman directed the seizure in an executive order which said a current labor disturbance at the plants threatened their operation which he deemed necessary to the war effort.
 The dispute between the Oil Workers International Union (CIO) dates back to May 29, 1943. The unions demand for maintenance of membership is the primary issue.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-06
YoIto Change A Possibility
; BY R. H. SHACKFORD

San Francisco, June 6.-UP) - The United States is exploring the extreme possibility of revising the Yalta voting formula as a way of settling the United Nations Confer ence crisis over the Big Five veto, it was learned today.
 Revision of the formula, accord ing to highly authoritative sources, is just one of several possibilities being studied. But it is indicative of the extent of the search for a solution which would preserve Big Five unanimity.
 The major concern is to find a way out that will not leave deep scars. It is agreed that show down vote on the issue now would end in Russian defeat but the cost would be a body blow to Big Five solidarity.
 There has been no official discus sion of the veto crisis here for more
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-06
Ok|NAwA BATTLE IN MOP-UP STAGE HitIers Charred Body Found Say Reds
SINGLE WORD DELAYS STEXT
 FOR 6 HOURS
BY JOSEPH w. GREGG, JR. (FOr the Combined American Press)

BY JOSEPH w. GKlGG, Jh. (For the Combined American Press)
 Berlin, June 5. - (UP) - Russia's last-minute insist ence on the deletion of a single word which she feared would comprise her neutral ity with Japan delayed sig nature of the Big Four pact on Germany for nearly six hours today.
 Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov, the Soviet delegate, also blocked immediate establishment of the Allied Control Council in Berlin and discussion of coordin- ated policies for the four occupation forces.
 zhukov said he had not been en- powered by his government to carry on further discussions until Ameri- can troops had withdrawn from the zone of Germany assigned to the Red Army.
 The Russians had prepared one of their now-famous banquets in celebration of the signing of the pact. However, both Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, the Amer ican and British delegates, said they had to return to their head quarters tonight.
 The meeting broke up shortly be- fore p. m. and the leading Amer ican and British delegates drove back to Tempelhof airdrome for their return flight.
 Frustrating End
 Drew Middleton of the New York Times, in another dispatch for the combined press, said the day which began with such high promise ended in frustration.D
 The dispute which delayed the signing of the Big Four pact from noon to 5:45 p. m. centered around the word Nationals" in Article 1o:
 "The forces, nationals, ships, air. craft, military equipment and other property in Germany or in Ger man control or service or at Ger man disposal, or any other country at war with any of the Allies will be subject to the provisions of this declaration and of any proclama- tions, orders, ordinances or instruc- tions issued hereunder"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-06
Brazil Declares On Japanese

Rio de Janeiro, June 6-(UP)- Brazil declared war on Japan to- day.
 The action will enable the Unit ed States to utilize bases in Brazil for the Pacific war.
 It was not believed that the Brazilian expeditionary force in Italy will be redeployed to the Far East but Brazil was expected to aid the United States in supplying its forces.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-06
HONOR WHITEHEAD

Cambridge, Mass, June 6-UP)
 Alfred North Whitehead. profess sor Emeritus of Philosophy at Har- yard College, will be enrolled late today in the British Order of Merit whose living members now total 24.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-06
Murdered Mans Widow
 Airs Coscia Shooting
(NEA Telephoto)

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-06

Harold Kirkpatrick, now an officer candidate at the Camp Lee, Va, Quartermasters' School, is revealed as the olny witness to the assas- sination of Reinhard Heydrich in 1942. Nazi Gestapo chief was next in power to Heinrich Himmler. A student at Prague university from Pomona, Calif., Kirkpatrick was standing at a street corner when black car carrying Heydrich rounded 8 corner. When gunmen sprang into action, Kirkpatrick fled. He kept silent, though he faced death penalty if captured,
 until he was repatritaed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-06

Summer school opens July 2. Reg. ister now. Phone 4-8772. Post Junior College of Commerce.
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Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1945-03-03
KODIAK kifhkos

about 10 feet Of it, deputy U Q
Marshall Paul Herring was call
ed in to assist base officials !,
the investigation Accompanying
him were c. G. Naughton, co.,
oner, and DR.. A. Holmes John
son.
Miss Iske was a frequent vis;.
tor in town and was usually a.
companied by her large red ana
tan shepherd dog. The dog fgur.
ed in the search when it was re.
ported seen about the base but
it had not been located YESTERDAY
morning
When the body was found i
was reported that the sole On
one shoe was Topping lose. Those
who examined the scene of The
discovery also reported it an.
peared that a person falling from
the cliff could not have landed
exactly at the spot where the
body was found.
Miss lske came to Kodiak a
year ago.
On June 9, 1914, she recorded
a location notice at the U. s.
Commissioners Office here for q
homestead near Marrow Cape
near Kodiak.
The deceased is survived BY
her parents, in Ohio.
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1945-03-03
Sees Ath Invasion

George r. Blinn, LIST Glass Pet
ty Officer. USN, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. George BIinn, Of this city,
is now in the Philippines, accord
ing to word just received by his
parents.
A former instructor in fire.
fighting, he is now stationed a.
board q fire-rescue ship which
took part in the Philippine inva-
sion.
The latter invasion gave him
his fourth invasion button His
first was Hollandia on New
Guinea. and censorship still pre-
vents dlvulging the other two.