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Evening star., 1945-11-23
A-Bomb in Ocean
Could Roze D. Co.,
Scientist Says
By theAssociated Press.


LOS ANGELES, Nov. 23.-Wash-
ington could be destroyed by tidal
wave caused by the detonation of
an atomic bomb in the Atlantic
Ocean, according to DR.. Leslie w.
Ball, Los Angeles physicist, who
worked on the atomic bomb project
In Hanford, Wash.
Addressing the United Nations
Committee of Southern California,
DR.. Ball said that while the United
States has enough atomic bombs for
the wholesale destruction of cities
throughout the world, atomic war
fare, nevertheless, has greatly weak
ened this country as world power.
Even a relatively small nation,
such as Portugal, could devastate
this area before we had time to
muster more powerful forces.
Wealth or the lack of it no longer
Is a factor in manufacturing bombs,
for while we may have to use dol
lars other nations can use slave
labor"
Evening star., 1945-11-23
One Held in Seventh Raid
On ) Street Cigar Store

The seventh raid by members of
the police and gambling squad in
the last three months on the Hit
Shop, cigar store in the 700 block
of S street NV, resulted yesterday
In the arrest of Clarence Mayheld
26, colored, 600 block of Callan
street NE.
That name is too suggestive, +"
Detective Sergt. Howard Ogle said.
We've raided it seven times and
arrested different man each time" 4"
Mayield was charged with possess
ing numbers slips.
In another raid yesterday William
Arnold Plummer, %, colored, of the
100 block of S street NV, was
charged with operating a lottery
in a confectionery store in the 1700
block of Second street NV. and
possession of numbers slips.
Evening star., 1945-11-23
$500 New Jeeps Made
Available 10 Veterans

The Office of Surplus Property
has ordered $500 new jeeps set aside
for distribution by the Smaller War
Plants Corp. to eligible veterans.
The vehicles are among the 910O
new and used vehicles which were
placed on Nationwide sale to prior
ity claimants recently by the RFC.
Orders of these claimants, includ-
Ing the Smaller War Plant Corp.
still are being processed by surplus
property officials, it was announced,
but distribution has not yet started.
According to SWPC, the jeeps will
be distributed to veterans through
the II RFC regional consumer goods
outlets.
Evening star., 1945-11-23
Gen. R. 6. Crawford
Assigned to Washington

Brig. Gen. r. C. Crawford, engi-
neer of the Missouri River division at
Omaha. Nebr, has been ordered to
Washington on December to serve
as assistant to 1t. Gen. R. A.
Wheeler. chief of Army engineers.
He will be succeeded at Omaha
by Maj. Gen. Lewis A. Pick, who
commanded the advance section of
Army Service Forces in the India
Burma theater from October, 1943,
to last September.
Gen. Crawford native of Bridge
water, Pa, wase graduated from
West Point in 1912. He commanded
a battalion and later. regiment
of engineers at Fort Belvoir, Va,
In 1938-39.
Evening star., 1945-11-23

Our war wounded know the Gov
ernment will do everything possible
to care for their needs. Purchases
of Victory Loan Bonds will help full
fill that trust.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-07
Dark Future Ahead Says Won krosiqk

London, May 7-(UP)-The text of a speech by German Foreign Minister Cou2t Ludwig Schwerin von Krosigk as broadcast by the Flensburg radio and recorded by the BEG:
 German Men and Women: The high command of the armed forces on orders of Grand Admiral Doenitz has today declared the uncondi- tional surrender of all German fighting troops.
 As lead,g minister of the Reich government which the admiral ot the fleet has appointed for dealing with war tasks, I turn at this tragic moment of our history to the German nation.
 After heroic fight of almost six years of incompatible hardness, Germany has succumbed to the overwhelming power of her enemies.
 Disintegration Avoided
 To continue the war would only mean senseless bloodshed and fu- tile disintegration. The government which has feel ing of responsibility for the future of its nation was compelled to act on the collapse of all physical and material forces, and to demand Of the enemy the cessation of hostlli- ties.
 It was the noblest task of the Ad- miral of the fleet and of the govern
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-07
Maxi U-Boot Fleet Quits 
By W. R. HIGGINBOTHAM

London, May -Fuehrer Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz today ordered Germany's U-boat fleet most potent weapon left the shat tered Reich. to cease hostilities and return to port.
 The order. revealed by the Ger man-controlled Flensburg radio, said continuation of submarine war fare vas impossible from the bases that remained in German hands in Norway and France.
 Some 300 or more U-boats prob ably were immobilized by the order, most of them in Norway and the remainder in isolated French ports.
 Upwards of 600 other carrying crews totaling 10000 men have been sunk by the Allies during the war.
 Doenitz's action ended nearly six years of what probably was the most destructive sea offensive ever waged.
 Exact Allied tonnage sunk by U- boats has not been revealed, but it probably was in eight figures. Vic- tims ranged from tramp freighters to the British battleship Royal Oak.
 Many ships were sent to the bot tom within sight of the east coast of the United States, but an inten- sifled air and sea patrol finally drove the raiders back to mid-At- lantic.
 The offensive reached it's first peak just before the Allied invasion of North Africa and it's second in the months preceding the Allied landing in Normandy.
 A brief resurgence followed last winter with the introduction of a floating lung" that enabled the U-boats to recharge their batteries beneath the surface.
 Radio Flensburg said Doenitz's or der was dated last Friday. Doenitz, first as a submarine commander and later as commander in chief of the German navy, was the master mind behind the U-boat campaign. He sent his crews out with orders to Kill! Kill! Kill"
 In an order of the day to U-boat crews, radio Flensburg said, Doe nitz told his men that they had fought like lions"
 Crushing superiority has com- pressed us into very narrow area 7 he said. Continuation of the strug- ale is impossible from the bases that remain.
 "U-boat men, unbroken in your warlike courage, you are laying down your arms after a heroic fight that knows no equal. In reverent memory, we think of our comrades who have sealed their loyalty to the fuehrer and the fatherland with their death.
 "ComSades, maintain in the fu- ture your U-boat spirit with which you have fought at sea bravely and unf1inchingly during long years for the welfare of our fatherland. Long live Germany"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-07
John Winont Goinq Home

Paris. May 7-CUP)-Some of Germany's most prized prisoners were on their way home today.
 First It. John G. Winant, Jr, son of the American ambassador to Britain, was among a batch of name prisoners who reached the 103rd division command post Sat- urday after an 85-mile drive in Ger man cars under Swiss protection. Winant, flying fortress pilot. was shot down over Germany Oct. 10, 1943.
 Others in the party were Gen. Tadousz Komorowski, better known as Gen. Bor, who led the Warsaw uprising; Capt. John Elphinstone nephew of Queen Elizabeth of Eng land; 1st It. Viscount Lascelles, nephew of King George VI; 1st It.. Michael Alexander, a relative of Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexand- CT; and 1St It. Felix Dehamel, rel ative of Prime Minister Churchill
 Another party, including former French Premiers Edourd Daladier and Paul Reynaud, was liberated after brief, but bitter, battle for the castle where they were held. With them were Gen. Maurice Gamelin, tennis star Jean Borotra, and Gen. Maxine Weygand, former French commander in North Africa.
 Supreme headquarters here an- nounced that former Austrian chan cellor Kurt Schuschnigg and former French Premier Leon Blum also were imprisoned in the castle, but were hurried away a few hours be- fore it was liberated. Their where abouts still were unknown.
 The British radio reported that King Leopold of Belgium and his family had been reunited in Switz- erland and were preparing to re- turn to Belgium.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-07
Zukauskas To Claim Illegal
 Detention By Local Police
(Signal Corps Radotelephoto from NEA TelephotoD

Francis F. ZukauskaS' appeal from the death sentence will be centered around a claim that he was illegally detained by the Waterbury police prior to and following his confes- sion to the staying of Mrs. Steph- anie Plungis, it was indicated today when the defense filed an assign ment of errors in superior court.
 Filing of the papers by Public Defender Edward T. Carmody and his special assistant, Attorney w. w. Gager, is one of the final steps in the appeal of the former super numerary of the State Supreme Court of Errors from the first de- gree murder conviction.
 Entrance of the name O. Attor- ney Gager on the papers gives in- dication that the lawyer has decided to continue legal services for the ac- cused despite the question of wheth- CT or not the stae will assume pay ment of compensation.
 Printing of a transcript of evidence is expected to be undertak- en shortly, and it is estimated the appeal will be ready for hearing in the high court in September or October. Zukauskas meanwhile is confined to the state prison at Whethersfield
 The defense claimed today that the trial court erred in concluding that Zukauskas was guilty of mur- der in the first degree beyond a req sonable doubt, and set forth specific statements which they claim the trial judges should have set down as facts in its finding.
 A large portion of the four-page assignment of errors is based on zukauskas' detention at the local police cell.
 Setting forth certain statements they claim the court should have but didn't incorporate in the find ing, the defense claims those state ments express rational and req sonable conclusions upon all the evidence"
 One of the claims was as follows: that the warrant was not read to the defendant and that thereafter and until presented before the city court on charge of murder on Nov. 15. 1944, the defendant was held under arrest" by the police of the City of Waterbury purporting to act under this warrant, defend ants exhibit one" The statement is in reference to the arrest of the accused on a warrant charging him
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-07
Oil Fields
 
BY H. D. QUIGG

Manila, May '. - (UP) - Austra- ian and Dutch troops battled to- ward the rich Poamesian oil fields on Tarakan Island off Borneo after the predominant hill in the center of Tarakan town.
 The oil fields, just east of the town. already were burning from Japar ese demolitions CT shells from Allied destroyers which were bom- barding the enemy positions with day and night barrages.
 Using tanks, flame-throwers and demolitions, the Australian and Netherlands Indies native troops stormed through an intricate sys- tenn of pillboxes and interlnking tunnels to take Tarakan Hill in the heart of the city
 Allied bombers and fighters con- tinued the naturalization attacks on Borneos airfields and shippi1g lanes in @yoport of the campaign on Tarakan. Five coastal freighters, a
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-07

Naugatuck, May 7-Voting here this morning got off to very slow start with only 864 votes being cast at all three wards up to 10 o'clock. Of this total APO were cast in the first ward, 168 in the second and $40 in the third. Of the APO total in the first ward, 140 were women and 280 men. In the second ward l69 were men and 84 women. In the third ward 113 were women and 227 men.
 The campaign has been an unus- ual one. Two weeks ago it brought little interest to the public. In the past 10 days, especially the last few days, statements from candi- dates have flown fast and furious, and interest in the election jumped considerably.
 The basic theme of Warden Leo J. Brophy'S Democratic administra- tion in its fight for reelection was its record and plans for the future.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-07
Conference Doors Open To France
RY R. H. SHACKFORD

San Francisco, May I-NOE)- The Big Four foreign ministers opened the doors of their highest secret councils to France today TOT the first time during he United Nations Conference.
 French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault was invited to his initial meeting with heads ot the Amerl- can, British, Russian and Chinese delegations for what was officially described as a discussion of the general work of the conference
 The Big Four, it was understood, will seek French approval of the 3O-odd Dumbarton Oaks amend uaents to which they themselves al- ready have agreed, and will dis cuss with Bidault the question of a new chapter on international trus- teeShips.
 The trusteeship question has al- ready been taken up by technical experts of the Big Five but Bi- dault has never before sat together with the heads of the Big Four dele- cations. Chinese Foreign MiniSttr T. V. Soong has left for a brief stay in Washington but will be per- sonally represented at the session.
 Conference officials meanwhile planned an early plenary session to seat the delegates from the Ukraine and White Russia who ar rived by plane yesterday. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dimitri C. Manu- iski. and White Russian Minister kuzna Kiselve were met at airport sy Soviet Foreign Minister Mc- otov with whom they immediately began conferences.
 After a day of rest. all delegates tot down to the unexciing and na d ssk of trying to analyze the hum teds of amendments submitted and begin drafting the final docu- gent for a world organizatio Six If the 12 technical committees were scheduled to meet in the only of icial session on the conference to- lay.
 But behind the scene, the unoffi- .ial meetings will continue. Most If them now will be designed to line ID the smaller countries behind the many amendments submitted by the Sig Four jointly and two important mes submitted by all of the big powers except Russia.
 Study of the 30-odd amendments Jointly sponsored by the big powers showed that they obviously were designed to meet issues raised in the flood of amendments submitted by the other nations. However, one major goal of the small nations did 20 ,,nheeded-their desire to limit the veto power of the big nations in the security council.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-07
LoGuordi Not To Seek Fourth Term

New York. May 7.-(UP)-Fio- rello H. LaGuardia, mayor of the nations largest city for 12 years, will not run for a fourth term th.s fall.
 LaGuardia announced yesterday in his weekly radio talk oyer the city owned station (WNYC) that T am not going to run for mayor thls year" and said he did not want to be nominated by the Republican party or the American Labor party party
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-07

Schwerin Von Krosigk's an- nouncement was carried over the German station at Flersburg on the German-Danish border. Though be- hind the Allied lines, Flensburg was declared an open city by tEe Ger mans earlier this week and appar- cntly has not been occupied by A. lied forces.
 German men and wOmen!' Sch- werin Ven Krosigk began his dram atic announcement. The high command of armed forces has today, at the order of Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, declared the unconditional surrender of all fighting German troops.
 The government, which has feel ing of responsibility for the future of its nation, was compelled to act on the collapse of all physical and material forces and to request of the enemy cessation of hostilities.
 A transcript of ScnWerin Won Krosigk's remarks was recorded by BEG and rushed to 10 Downing street. where the cabinet was in ses- sion under Prime Minister Church ill
 Once the joint Washington-Lon- Moscow announcement of V-E Day has been released, Churchill will broadcast the news from the cabinet room at 10 Downing street and afterwards may speak from the balcony of the ministry of Health building overlooking Whitehall.
 The greater proportion of Ger man forces already was in Alliec hands following piecemeal surren- ders along the western front. The German Armies in northern Italy surrendered last Wednesday, those in Denmark, Holland and north west Germany on Saturday and those in western Austria Sunday.
 Indicative of the announcements to come, Radio Paris said truce had been arranged at La Rochelle. German-occupied French port on the Bay of Biscay.
 BEG Flashes News
 The station followed the brici announcement with the playing of the Norwegian National Anthem, (Continued on Page 9
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-07
JoPs Starved Captured U 5 B-29 Crews
By McQUOWN WRIGHT

Calcutta, May 4.-(UP)-Ameri- can airmen, liberated from the Jap anese prison camp at Rangoon, revealed today how the Japanese beat and starved U. s. flyers, espe- cially B-29 crewmen, after the bombing raids on Japan.
 The airmen, from the first group of Americans freed in Burma, are recuperating in a hospital here. More than 400 Americans. most of them members of the air force, and approximately 600 other Allied pri- soners were liberated at Rangoon.
 Although most of them were fair ly healthy, despite their starvation diet and beatings, it was reported' that about 50 Americans, too sick to walk, were left at Rangoon.
 The prisoners were given their liberty by the Japanese comman- dant at the Rangoon city jail April 26, although they had virtually no supplies. During the 50 mile march to the 14th Army lines near Pegu, the prisoners went two days without food or water. The vanguard reached the Allied forces last Wednesday.
 It. Billy T. Davis, Los Angeles, one of the Americans recuperating here, said the American airrnen were put in a special treatment group" on charges of indiscriminate bomb ing of women and children.
 The men were lined up and the guards beat them with "clubs made like pick handles" Davis said. The Americans were treated worse than the other Allied prisoners, he added, and the beatings were more severe when the Japanese guards were drunk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-07
BY REuEL S. MOORE

Washington, May T-(UP)-Mili- tary observers believed today that most soldiers "lo went overseas before or during early 1943 stand a pretty good chance of being dis charged after VIE Day.
 The real situation won't be known until the army's point-sys- tenn is made public. Men will re- ceive points based on length and type of service, wounds and medals and dependency. Those with the most points will be the ones Se- lected for dismissal if they're not essential to the war with Japan.
 But h,~e are few clues with which soldiers and their families can begin sizing up the situation as
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-07
Planes Wreck 20 yop Ships
By FRANK TREMAINE

Guam, May - U.P0 - The wreckage of more than 20 enemy merchant ships remained today as evidence of a daring strike by U. s. Navy land-based planes on per haps Japan's most guarded sea lanes.
 The ships, ranging from large oilers to small cargo vessels, were biased by the navy bombers in low level sweeps over TSushima and Korea Straits, between Korea and Kyushu, and in the Yellow Sea oil western Korea.
 . A force of nearly 50 Superfort- resses struck near the same area to- day in a new attack on the Jap anese suicide plane bases on Kyu- shu. The targets were the airfields at Kanoya, Ibusxi, Oita and Usa. Early reports said good results were obtained in the raids.
 In the shipping attacks in the enemy home waters during the weekend the Navy Bombers defi- nitely sank four vessels including 2 large oilers, and heavily damaged at least 16 other cargo craft. A num- Der of the latter ships were left burning and sinking.
 Admiral Chester w. Nimitz an- nounced that heavy units of the U. s. Pacific Fleet, in conjunction with carrier planes and land-based air. craft, continued the bombardment of OkinaWa, although his communi- que gave no further report of the 10th Army drive in Naha. capital of the island.
 A front dispatch disclosed, how ever, that 5000 Japanese were killed Thursday night and Friday morn- ing when they came out of hidden caves and pillboxes in the first large counter-attack since American troops landed on Okinawa.
 The Japanese backed the attack with fierce artillery barrage, in which they hurled approximately 1600Q shells into the American lines in two days. But the assault was completely repulseo by masssd army marine and naval guns. mounting probably the heaviest array of fire power ever assembled in the Pacific.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-07
TRUMAN STILL SILENT ON SURRENDER;
 TOMORROW TO BE VIE DAY IN EUROPE
CITY ORDERLY
 AWAITSFLASH
 ON SURRENDER

Waterbury awaited, in orderly fashion, today, the official announcement of the final surrender of Nazi Ger many as endless reports, near-reports and rumors streamed into the city this morning and early t hi s afternoon foretelling the inn minence of the long-awaited VE-Day.
 Local industries and busi- ness establishments main- tained an even keel of activi- ties despite the excitement of the news, and plans were be- ing adhered to for the main tenance of all production even after the official sur render news came through.
 In all local factories today somewhat sober sense of accom- plishment was noted among the war workers. The general attituoe was one of the occasion calling for grateful thanks rather tran inhibited jubilation The city's ln- dussries have comprised a major part of the production backbone of the general war structure. Millions of precisioned parts of war material and needs have been turned out since Pearl Harbor.
 Preparations for the official an- nouncement were made by city offl- ciak as Mayor John s. Monagan checked with all city authorities as to plans. All policemen. not on regular duty, reported to the local station in preparedness for any cele- bration. The men would not be sent out into the streets however unless the gathering of an abnor- mally large crowd necessitated such a move. Local flremen were being assigned to watch fire-call boxes. The Southern New England Tele- phone Co today requested that no abnormal use of phones be indulged pl.
 Waterbury does not anticipate too feverish an excitement by the resi- dents. The end of Germany is but one-haf of the complete finish oi this global war. It is expected that home gatherings will comprise the major share of the celebrating, as all liquor stores and liquor estao- rshments are closed for the day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-07

far as length of service goes.
 There were about 100000 sol- diers in the army just before Pearl Harbor. At the start of 1943 about the same number had gone over seas.
 Since the army expects there will be more than 1,300,OO0 soldiers dis charged in a years time under the point system, it seems reasonable to believe that most soldiers with overseas experience who were in the army before Pearl Harbor, and those who went overseas by the first of 1943, will be eligible.
 But it must be remembered of the latter groups some have been casualties and others discharged for disability and othr reasons.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-07
.augatuck Elections
 Open With Light Vote

Gardner Wood, local teacher and Republican nominee for warden, labeled the administration as do nothing" group and had pledged a "do-sometlling administration if elected.
 The campaign took some weird tangents. Democrats assailed as fantastic proposal by P August Johnson, Republican nominee for tax collector. that escalators be in- stalled alongside stairways leading up to the high school and Fairview avenue.
 The Republican party workers have been very busy weeks lining up
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-07
Associated Press European Filing Facilities Suspended

Paris, May 7-UP)-Allied Supreme Headquarters an- nounced today that the filing facilities of the Associated Press had been suspended throughout the entire European theater of operations.
 Earlier an announcement was made that the AP's filing priv ileges at SHAEF had been sus- pended.
 GAP headquarters in New York said they had no i'm medite statement to make.)