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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-11
Congressmen Raise Pays; Their Own
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN

Washington, May II - {U.PD - If you want small loan, the feller to touch is a congressman. They have just raised their own wages, after six hours of soul searching and presumably are feeling prosper ouS.
 What they did was ignore the rubber dollar which Representative Robert F. Rich of Pennsylvania held high in the air and vote themselves each an annual $2,50O expense &C., count. While they were about it, they made it retroactive to last January l.
 Representative Rich hardly had stuffed his rubber dollar in his pocket before the lawmakers adopt ed the bill which will add S1 ,642, 800 to their collective yearly incomes. Net, they hope. They figure it will be tax exempt.
 The argument was lulu and mostly red-faced. Representative Walter c. Ploeser of Missouri said anybody who didn't vote for the raise was Scairdy-cat. He said he wasn't very smart (his exact worlds but that if it hadn't been for his little insurance business in St. Louis, he never could have afforded the luxury of being a congressman.
 He listed the costs of keeping up two homes, picking up the lunch check for constituents and travelling back home regularly to make speeches. He said his standard of living had suffered seriously when he became congressman and add ed: T deplore the attitude that con- gress should be niggardly with its own services"
 Yes, sir" cried Representative Emmanuel Celler of New York Are we mice, or are we men?'
 It has gotten so that only the wealthy can afford to be members of congress- Ploeser said, as if he hadn't been interrupted. This is a club for the rich.'
 Are you," demanded Representa- tive Rich, talking about me?'
 PloeSer said of course he wasn't. There was more of this, much
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-11
Million Xanks To Remain M EuropeAs OccupationAm1,

How soon troops will leave for the United States depends on the num- Der of ships available and the num- Der of combat troops needed inn mediately in the Pacific and China Burma-India theaters, Ross said.
 Battle casualties will be returned to the United States as rapidly as they are able to travel, however, he added.
 The office of the chief army sur- geon in Paris said battle casualties expected to require more than two months disqualification will be sent to the United States within the next 60 days.
 American army medical installa- tions on the continent treated 340,- 900 battle casualties up to April 13, of which 12,000 died of their wounds.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-11
Liberotors Hit
 Port or Canton
BY UNITED PRESS

The Japanese Domei News Agency said today that about 60 Philippines based American Liberator bombers attacked the south China Port of Canton yesterday.
 The Domei report, recorded by EGG monitors in New York, assert ed the raiders were part of an American air force recently trans ferred from bases in China to the Philippines.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-11
SUPERF0RTS LOMBARD H0NSHU, KYUSHU
PREMIER VERY
 OUTSPOKEN|N IN
 TRUMAN REPLY
BY PHIL AULT

London, May 11.-(UP)- British newspapers loosed g furry of speculation today over the possibility of a Tru- man-Stalin- Churchill meet ing in London but official sources discounted the re- ports.
 The Evening News said President Truman was ready to visit London and that Prime Minister Churchill be- lieves "an early meeting ot the Big Three is urgently re- quired."
 The News diplomatic correspon- dent said Whitehall believed the re- ported meeting should be held in London and the view was shared in official Washington" but Soviet agreement had not been obtained.
 A military source said discussions Of the demarcation of occupation zones in Germany now were going on on high levels.' The Daily Sketch published a map outlining what it called the suggested zones of occupation. But a diplomatic source said the map was highly unreliable" and added that mo map could be reliable at this time"
 The Daily Sketch's map showed the Fra'ch zone of occupation as including the entire Rhine valley but not the city of Stuttgart. The Russian zone extended the Polish border to the Elbe and south to Czechoslovakia. Central and north ern Germany were shown as in the British zone, and the mountainous south as the American sphere.
 The News Chronicle said Marshal Stalin had informed MT. Truman and Churchill that he believes t futile for the Allies to discuss 1ae Polish problem further on the present basis.
 The dispatch said Stalin's very outSpoken" message was sent in lCpky lO llOlco lIOlIl MI lulloli anu Churchill relating to the Soviet ar rest of 16 leaders of the Polish ua- derground loyal to the exile gov- ernment in London.
 Radio Paris, meantime, said the big three would meet soon in Lon- don for discussion of the economic restoration of Europe and occupa- tion of Germany-and presumably the Polish question. The report was not confirmed in any official Allied quarter.
 The London Daily Mail said that Churchill was urging an early meet ing of the three leaders as the best method of dealing with the Polish situation, but added there was no indication Stalin was willing to re-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-11
BODY FOUND IN HOTEL

Chicago, May H. (UP) The body of man who apparently was beaten to death was found stuffed into a closet at the Stevens Hotel today.
 The victim was not identified immediately. Police believed he was either Robert LevitaS or Harold Gordon, who had registered at the Lakefront Hotel May 6. The hotel register gave their address as 10 w. filth St., New York.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-11
Radios Being Made From Rozor Blades

Washington, May 11-UP)- If you don't know what to do with your old razor blades just ask a seabee.
 Ships cook sc Edward E. Bourgault, 17 Westbourne road Newton Center, Mass, has found the answer. He builds radios with them.
 Bourgault explains that a foxhole companion" can be made in an evening with a safety pin, double edged razor blade and a loop of wire.
 Not only has he tuned in standard wave length stations with his invention but he also has received pilot talk from nearby airfields.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-11
Chinese Kill 3O,0OO Joponese in 10 doys

Chungking, May II. (UP)- Chinese troops killed approximate ly 30,000 Japanese during the past 10 days in cracking the enemy lines in Human and Honan provinces, it was disclosed today.
 The heaviest Japanese losses oc- cured in Western Human province, where the Chinese eliminatd the that to the American air base at Chihkiang and hammered the enemy forces back another nine miles yes- terday.
 A Chinese communique said the Japanese were retreating along the Human front before the Chinese ter-offensive launched two days ago when the Japanese had reached a point 250 miles southeast of Chungking.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-11
BY BRUCE Wi. MUNN

Paris, May II = (UP) -Approxi- mately 100000 American troops will remain in Europe as an army of occupation, official sources at supreme headquarters indicated to- day.
 (American troops are expected to be assigned the occupation of south ern Germany and possibly part of Austria.)
 The remaining 5000, 900 Americans will be shipped as soon as possible to the United States or direct to the eastern theaters, Maj. Gen. Frank s. Ross, chief of the com- munications zone, said
 Three undiGclosed continental ports will handle the re-deployment, two for men and the tLird for sup plies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-11
Bogort-BocoII Wedding May 22

Hollywood, May 11-(UP)-Hum- phrey Bogart and sulphurous Laur- en Bacall confirmed today that they will be married May g on author Louis Bromfield's farm in Ohio.
 The ceremony, to be witnessed only by the Bromfields and Miss Bacalps mother, Mrs. Natalie Bacall, eliminates highly publicized romance or Bogart, A, n d Baby, his 20-year-old leading lady in two recent pictures.
 It will be his fourth marriage, her first.
 Wedding plans were touched off by divorce granted yesterday in Las Vegas, Nev., to the former Mayo Methot, whom Bogart nicknamed "Sluggy" because of the public and private fights that punctuated their SiX-year marriage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-11

a Japanese naval repair station, may be permanently useless, to the enemy for major ship repairs.
 They revealed that the tight American blockade on the China Sea shipping lanes had made Saigon bottleneck at the southern ter minus of the Japanese railway SUD- ply route overland through Indo- China and China.
 The spokesman said Saigons storage facilities had become badly ccrgested in recent months, indicat- ing that huge supplies of enemy war material might also have been destroyed in the smashing air strike
 The attacks were made against heavy anti-aircraft and fighter op- position, but American losses were described officially as insignificant
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-11
5 More Maxi U-Boots Quit
 In Atlantic
BY ROBERT MUSEL

London, May 11-UP) - Five more German U-boats from ma rauding wolf packs in the Atlantic surrendered at sea to British war ships and headed for Northern Ire land ports today.
 A Londonderry dispatch said German submarines had surfaced to surrender all the way from the Azores area to point off the Can- ad1an coast.
 On land, the last diehard Nazi troops still fighting in Europe reel ed back through Western Czecho- slovakia under assault by three vengeful Red Armies. GA BEG broadcast said Allied Mediterranean forces have received the surrender of all German garri- sons in the Aegean Islands and that enemy forces in at least one section of Crete have capitulated.)
 The latest submarines to surren- der brought to at least II the num- Der to capitulate in the last "A hours. Four were en route to the American naval base in Londonder- ry and the fifth headed for Belfast. All flew the prescribed black flag of surrender.
 Part of Germany's fleet of E. boats-motor torpedo boats - was expected to sail into Felixstowe to- day and surrender to the British Navy.
 The Russian-hemmed Germans still resisting in Czechoslovakia into a 3,OO0-square-mile pocket in at- tackS northeast, east and southeast of Prague. American Third Army forces held the western end of the sack.
 Fighting ragged on more than 60 hours after the German high com- mand ordered all German troops to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-11
Japs' Saigon Nauy Base
 m Zndo-China Wrecked

Manila, May II - (UP) - Philip pines-based American heavy bomb- CTS have wrecked the great Japanese naval station at Saigon, French Indo-China, possibly for the dura- tion of the Pacific war, head quarters of the U. s. Fifth Air Force announced today.
 In seven concentrated air strikes between April 22 and May 4, fighter escorted bombers of the Fifth Air Force gutted the huge oil depots and submarine and ship repair yards at Saigon and destroyed or damaged 95 enemy merchant vessels and two naval craft.
 Headquarters spokesmen said the destruction was so complete that Saigon second only to Singapore as
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-11
Morthos Vineyard Shaken By Tremor

New Bedford, Mass, May 11-(UP) Depth charges being set off near Vineyard Haven were blamed today for a series of tremors that shook sections of New Bedford and Mar thas Vineyard.
 Residents said that a boat used for experimental work by the War Department was setting off the depth charges late yesterday far from all water traffic. Police report ed no property damage in the area from the shocks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-11
Japanese Home Islands Rocked Again--Ma 1000 Yards From Naha
BY FRANK TREMAINE

  
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-11

Boston, May 11.-(UP)-The Ma tional League baseball game sched- uled here between Boston and Pitts burgh was postponed today because of cold weather and wet grounds. The Braves will play single game here tomorrow with the Chicago Cubs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-11

Shorthand Typing Machines, Ac- counting - Summer School, July 2. Post Jr. Callage of Commerce.
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Evening star., 1945-10-25

The japanese made all the Philip
pine money they needed on captured
printing presses. Those who dealt
with the Japanese were able to OBJ
tain plenty of 1t. They used 1t to
buy land.
Mrs. Angel Suntay, Virginia born
wife of a wealthy Filipino fisheries
man, who is visiting her brother, c.
M. Rollins, 2501 Thirty-second
street Sc, a Treasury procurement
employe, mentioned this in telling of
her experiences.
From time to time during the oc-
cupation, the Sundays. who are large
landowners, sold small portions of
their holdings and accepted the
printing press money-which bought
needed food. Many owning less land
lost all of 1t in this way. So far
these sales have been held valid,
she said.
The collaborationists," she said,
"are the new rich of the Philippine
Islands today"
Called One of Problems.
Gen. Carlos Romulo, resident
commissioner of the Philippines,
when asked about it said that vail
dation of land transfers during the
occupation is not final. 1t is one of
the problems, he said, which caused
Philippine President Sergio Osmena
to make his recent visit to Wash
ington. Gen. Ronulo said there
would be an announcement on it in
several days.
Collaborationist ownership of land
was mentioned only incidentally by
Mrs. Suntay in telling her own
story. 1t was a romance of Wash
ington war days of 1918 that took
her to the Philippines. She was
then Edna Rollins, a Government
girl, working for the Treasury. She
married Filipino student at
Georgetown University and returned
with him to Manila.
She is here to enter her second
son, Robert, in Georgetown, and her
second daughter, Lucille, in a con-
vent school. She also brought with
her, for medical attention, her little
3-year-old daughter Aurora, born
during the occupation. Her hus-
band and a married son and .daugh-
ter remained in Manila.
Found Safety in Hills.
The Sundays paid $4,000 pesos for
transportation to Manila last Janu-
ary from their comparative safety
in the mountains above Baguio.
They though the Japs, defeated by
the American forces landing in
Lingayen Gulf, would retreat to the
mountains, and there was a rumor
that the Japs would make Manila
an open city, as Gen. Macarthur
had done In December, 1941. The
Sundays arrived just before the
Japs began to massacre the Filipinos.
Mrs. Suntay saw Robert separated
from the women with other Filipino
men by Japs soldiers who executed
them. Robert, who is %, rolled UP
his trousers to look like boy. picked
up family nurse who had been
wounded, and walked past a Japa-
nese sentry who let him 60 by.
The first two years of occupation
were not so bad, she said. While
Americans in Manila were sent to
Santo Tomas, the Sundays were al
lowed to continue living in their Vir-
ginia-type Colonial home. The Japs
were trying to win the Filipinos to
them. Finally the continuance of
guerilla warfare caused the Japs to
use oppressive tactics. The Sundays
left for their hills after the ho,1se
Evening star., 1945-10-25
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and three of their automobiles had
been confiscated. Robert had driven
their best automobile, Lincoln, to
a cave and hidden it. They still have
that one.
Mrs. Suntay plans to return to
Manila this winter.
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Mrs Angel Suntay former Washington Government girl
and her children all escaped the pnos
when two American columns entering Manila the
family Cleft to right Robert Aurora suntay
Lucille Suntay. Star Staff Photo
Evening star., 1945-10-25

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GRIFFITH WAKEFIELD
ROBERT W. WILSON
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-15
YANKS TWO MILES
OFF CACAYAN GAP

MANILA, Friday June 15-R-
U. S. Troops scored thr~e-mile
advance Wednesday through north
ern Luzon's mountains, Gen. Doug
las Macarthur announced today,
placing them two miles from the
entrance to Cagayan Valley, where
the biggest enemy force still at
large in the islands is believed 10
be deployed.
AS the Americans toiled along
the mountain trail. medium bomb
ers and fighters in 500 sorties Tues
day blasted and strafed the Japa-
nese supply lines through the val
ley, further reducing the enemy
bottled up there.
They were past the bottleneck Of
Orioung Pass where the terrain be-
gins to flatten out toward the Ca
gayan plain.
More than 40 miles to the south.
west, the 33rd Infantry Division
was only. six miles from the j-olat
ed enemy supply base of Bokod aft
err overrunning the towns of Tabi-
and Ambuklao. Bokod is 16 miles
northeast Of the summer capita
of Baguio.
Supplementing wide = spread iii
strikes at enemy supply lines
throughout the area, shore :aide1':
landed at night on Sangihe island
south of Mindanao, blew up 81.
large warehouses. Destroyed {
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-15
CHINESE TROOPS
NEARING LIUCH0W

CHUNGKING, June 14-P)-Chi-
nese troops attacking on broad
front in South China have reach
ed the suburbs of Liuchow and
Ishan, key strongholds in the
shrinking Japanese transcontinen-
tai corridor to Southeast Asia, the
high command announced today.
Enemy garrisons were being
pounded in the northern suburbs
of Liuchow, site of former Am
erican air base in Kwangsi pro-
vince and also at Ishan, 43 miles
to the west ON the Wweiyang
(Kweichow)- Kwangsi railway.
The Chinese were forced out OF
1shan last Monday following Sc
we're Japanese counterattack, be
ieved launched by rearguards pro-
tecting the enemy's withdrawal
from the corridor which once con-
nected japanese forces in China
with 10000 enemy troops in Indo'
China, Thailand, Malaga and Bur-
ma.
American airmen aided the
Chinese by strafing enemy lines
from Liuchow northeastward tc
Hengyang. They destroyed or dam
aged q Japanese aircraft in the
area, and also ranged over north.
ern Honan province, shooting ur
rail installations. No opposition
was encountered.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-15

number of waterdraft and w.,
drew without loss, MacA,,h,,''
communique said.
Mopping-up operations procs.,., ,
on Mindanao itself. Minor w
were scored northwest Of DAYS.
port. w
Associated Press Corresnora.
Richard Bergholz, with the gs,H 1r 81,
vision near Davao, said the hsr W.
groves and tangled underbynsb y. =,
that part OF Southeastern Mind,S%
40 often concealed japanese ,ra
bush parties. Wills
He cited an instance in nl.,
a patrol, led by Cpl. Clifford " siSa
mons of Clementown, N. J.. ", van.
caught at a Davao river cross;u.
Four of the patrol. pinned doT j.
on the japanese side of the r;,o ivy
escaped by swimming while tb. .;,
comrades kept up rapid fire nt..
to make the japanese think tb,.
were strong force.
"Then we got the hell ont =,
there in a hurry" Simmons a.
clared.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-15
Obituaries
MRS. ZULA A. BRITT

LUMBERTON, June IA - Mrs.
Zula Atkinson Britt, 81, wife OF
Willis C. Britt, former Robson
jailer and deputy sheriff Of the
Long Branch community, died at
pm. yesterday at local hospi-
tai.
She is survived by her husband;
two daughters, Mrs. j.. T. Barlow,
of Jamaica, Long Island, N. Y, and
Miss Dorothy Britt, of Whining
ton: son, Lawrence P. Britt, OF
High Point; four brothers, John
and George Atkinson of Proctor
vile, Percy Atkinson, Of Colurd-
bia, S. c., and Dad Atkinson, OF
A son, Pfc. Willis Carl Britt,
Chadbourn; and two grandchildren.
was killed in action with the u.
S. Army in Laaber, Germany, April
a.
Funeral services will be held
at 4:3O pm. tomorrow from the
Long Branch Baptist church with
the Rev. I. P. Hedgpeth, pastor,
officiating. Burial will be in Britt
cemetery.