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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-07
Tax Payment Report Given, City Collects
 $28.622 from
 Delinquent Payers
DeIinquent { Payers

The drive for delinquent old age assistance tax, which began last December, has yielded Q total of 42e,822, Budget Director Arnold Furlong reported to the Board of Finance yesterday afternoon. Delin- quent sewer and sidewalk assess ments has netted $22,S2o,04 from Jan, 1 to Aug. 3l, l94S.
 A transfer of $4,sS0 was granted the office of the tax collector to finance the cost of revising the old tax list. Another transfer of $500 will 90 for reimbursement for oth- CT transfers.
 Arnold Furlong said that the ex- penses necessary for the tax drives were more than made up in the increased revenues collected.
 Serge A. Belanger, city treasurer, reported that the city's net balance on hand as of Aug. 90 was $2.0oe,- Abp,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-07
Local Jeuvry Prepares For Solemn Services
Observance of Rosh Hoshonoh Starts At Shutdown Tonight; Special Services

Observance of Rosh Hoshanah, the Hebrew New Year, will start at sundown tonight, with various services arranged at local Syna- gogues. The two.day Jewish holi- day is next in importance to Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.
 Services will be held at Beth III Synagogue on Cooke street at 2 o'clock tonight and o'clock to. morrow morning. Services of the congregation will be held in the main auditorium tomorrow morn- Ing at the same time that spe- cial junior congregation service takes place in the vestry.
 Rabbi William P. Greenfield, who will officiate, will preach on the subject, Back to Normalcy, Shall We Return to Pre-War Status" at services tomorrow morning. Cantor Nahum Fleischman assisted by c large choir will chant the congrega- ton services, and the preliminary morning services will be chanted by Nichols 0rossman. Rabbi dreen- feld's topic on Sunday will Do "Re- ligion of Despair"
 Rabbi Sidney dlustrom of New York will conduct the junior Serv- ices at Beth Fl Synagogue. Rabbi dluStrom entered the Jewish Theo- logical seminary in l044 and has been active in youth work.
 At Beth Israel synagogue on Kingsbury street, services will be held at I o'clock tonight and 7:3o tomorrow morning and Sunday morning.
 A New Year message will Do de- llvered ct the Hebrew Institute on Kingsbury street tomorrow after
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-07

noon at o'clock by Rabbi Sey. mour Gerwitz, who also will preach ct Beth Israel Sunday morning.
 Young Israel services have been scheduled for 2 o'clock tonight at the Hebrew Institute and for Q, m. tomorrow and Sunday. Rabbi derwitz will preach tomorrow morn. ing. His nephew, Aaron derwits of New York city, 0 student ct Me. sivta Rabbi Chaim Berlin Rabinical Seminary ct Brooklyn, W. F., will conduct the Young Israel ohserv. ance. Moses Nussbaum of New York city will be cantor at Beth Israel.
 Rabbi David Polish will preach on the topic, "Reblrth of the World" ct services at Temple Israel tonight ct Q o'clock. Adult congregation services will take place ct 10 c. m. and childrens services at 2 p. m. Mrs. Harry KoSloff will direct the choir.
 Services have been set at the Sharis Israel Synagogue on Kings. bury street for ! o'clock tonight and 7:30 tomorrow morning and Sun- day morning. Rabbi 0erwits will preach tomorrow. Jacob Wlnkler will lead the services.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-07

This morning, after good nights sleep in America, I thought of the beds was exposed to In Germany. My spine was slowly being warped into Q perI1- anent V-for-Vlctory while our unit was abroad, That was be- cause each bed in Germany is equipped with a thick, triangular half-mattress that goes under the regular mattress and raises your head, and shoulders about two feet in the air. No matter how you turned, you ended up sleeping downhill. The only way you could keep in one place was by wearing chains over your pajamas.
 However, our unit got even one night when June Bruner and Ruth Denas, two of our troopers, helped keep the whole town ot Regensburg, Germany, awake. After our last show that night, we went to our billets at the Red Cross club and the two girls got mixed up in Q jam session that , had the building jumping until ? Q. m. What a racket Theyshad one fellow playing the trumpet who must have brought along three sets of lungs,
 The Red Gross club there was run by Kay Limoges, of Rockford, III. We held a big, formal cere- mony that night, with Ruth dunk ing the one hundredth thou sandth doughnut to be construct cd there
 During the festivities we ran into Red Howell, who used to be Q jockey before joining the Ninth Division, and who rode for Bing Crosby and Joe D. Brown. Red said he couldn't wait to get back on Crosby'S nagS. He needed the restI
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-07
CIuims For Benefits On File Here
Unemployment Figures in State Show Stecdy Rise

Unemployment claims continued It's steady rise in Connecticut last week. John J. Egan, Commissioner of Labor, through the oflce of James J. Graham, acting director of the Employment Security Divi- sion, announced that 66,lO6 out-ot- work individuals had filed for conn pensatlon payments. This is an in- crease in the State of l6,l06 over the previous week.
 The average size benefit check was $l9.70 Q decrease of II per cent over last week and 9,667 claims were closed, indicating that work appar- ently had been found by that mum. Der, Since only 44o claims were cvlosed the preceding week it would seem to indicate, Mir. Graham said, that more of Connectlcut's indus tries are beginning to rehire on Q larger scale and that reconverslon to peace.time manufacture is rapld- ly being completed.
 Veterans claims totaled S,i43 showing no marked change in that picture as yet. A reak-down of the overall State total by important cities show Hartford still in the lead with li,422, Q gain of 42.4 per cent over last week.
 Ansonia had 04l, up 67.o per cent; Bridgeport, 7,o06. up 3l.2 per centl Bristol, l,6s6, up 67.0 per cent; Dan- ielson district 727, up 7e.e per cent; Danbury, i00S, up 9.7 per cent; Meriden, 3,OB0, up 1882 per cent; Nfiddletown and Essex. 2,7i2, up 44.l per cent: New Britain, 4,462, Up ar even 100 per cent; New Haven, 7,62l up 21.3 per cent; New London and Westerly, iy407, up l0iy6 per cent; Norwalk, o27, up 2S.S per cent; Nor. wich, e7s, up l0.4 per cent; stam. ford, 1898, up 100.7 per cent; Thompsonville district, 1871, uT 40.6 per cent; Torrington, s4i, uF T7 per cent; Waterbury, 6,367, ur A: per cent: and Wilimantic. 86e up 4l.4 per cent.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-07
Local Mon in
 Radio Feature

A Sunday broadcast featuring c 6 search for lost persons In Russia will present Alfred DreXler, no Fern street, this city, at 3:30 p. m. MT. Drexler will appear on the pro- gram with, Rep. Joseph E. Talbot of Naugatuck.
 The American Broadcasting Cori- pany presents the program which will include 6 discussion on this subject and the procedure concern- ing this problem.
 John B. Kennedy is commentator and master of ceremonies for the program officially known as "The Washington Story" It will be heard over the facilities of WATR.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-07
BY VERNON EDWARDS NEA Service COrres- Ndent

NEA service COrreS 'ucnt
 Bridgeport, Conn.,, Sept. 7.-The working men and women of Bridge port would laugh if you called them the problem children of American reconversion.
 And now that the war plants are closing down, they're too busy getting new jobs to talk about the new national problem of un- employment.
 But their story is important today. For these one-time war workers. many of whom came here from sleepy towns hum dreds of miles away, are typical helped win the crucial battle of production and now must be nobilized for Q high-geared peace- time economy.
 HARD TO TAKE
 Bob Williams, 40, the father of three kids helps tell that story. Bob came here three years ago from c New England town which wasn't caught up in the war boom. He got @ job making mili- tary precision instruments and, what with overtime, was good for about $65 a week.
 The Williams family, which had known hard times, was able to catch its breath at last. Though they were one of l7,000 migrant families packed into crowded room- ing houses, Bob'S wages covered all zooning living costs and left some- thing over for war bond each month.
 when the war ended, Bob was one of the 25000 Bridgeport war workers to lose their jobs. He went down to apply for unem- pioyment compensation and was offered Q new job-this time at c plant turning out civilian goods.
 There would be no overtime in this new job and ct the end of the week, Bob would have only about 936. The comedown was c little hard to take.
 But Bob Williams sat down and figured that $36 was about what he had been making before the war. He would take the job for while and hang on to his war bonds. In about six months he would bring his family and hts savings back to that New England town-where living Is easier.
 Bob Williams hopes that the liv- ing costs which rose so high dur. ing the war will level off now, The lush days are gone, but he figures to do all right.
 Then there's Sam Watson. Be- fore the war, he lived in Marina Village, one of Bridgeports slum clearance prospects,. To live there 1 an those days, c familys earnings could be higher than about S26 c week, and most of the time, this came from some form of relief. { NOT KICKING
 With the war, Watson got c job making vital electrical Instruments used on ships. Ills wife who never had worked, also got job, And Q daughter who had been Q waitress on and off was working steady
 Marina Village became c War Housing Project. Because he was an war work, Watson was allowed to stay on. That little row of houses, once filled with poverty, now echoed the boom. By l044. ct least 90 per cent of the families showed more than one member working, and in some cases, 1t was as high as four.
 watson and his wife lost their jobs on the same day. The daugh- ter by this time had worked Up to head waitress, and kept hers.
 Like Bob Williams, Watson was working within c few days for less money. His wife counted the war bonds and decided she would go back to the kitchen. The Wat
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-07
PROMOTES sECRETARY.w1FE

Evansville, Ind. (UP)-Oity Judge James CrenShAw looked all over for Q new probation ofilcer for his court. He couldn't find one he felt was qualified. Then he thought of his private secretary who had been . faithful employe for 10 years, Cren. shaw elevated her to the probation poSt-hiS wife, Mrs. dith Crenshaw.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-07

sons, who remember gloomier days, aren't kicking.
 There's one other reason why Sam Watson doesn't mind the end of the war boom. His son was in San Francisco, waiting to ship out to the Pacific. when peace came.
 Most of the Sam WatsonS of Bridgeport and American know today that that joyous return Of their soldier sons must bring with 1t c new employment problem. They expected 1t all along.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-07
ACTRESS cKAPERoNEs GROUP

Agnes Moorehead, Metro Gold. wyn-Mayer feature player, chaper. oned servicemen and their Blind Dates" at c dinner dance at the Cocoanut Grove lest week after the Blind Date" radio show. Arlene Francis, show organizer. and Agnes, friends of long-Standlng, met when each Was launching c radio career In New York.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-07

If they're union men, and most are in Bridgeport, they talk about such things as the full employ ment bill, extra unemployment compensation, national miai- mum wage of 66 cents an hour and paid transportation to new jobs.
 They saw their union chiefs work well with industry in Bridgeport during the war. And today they have Q quiet confidenc ethat things will work out.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-07

Custom rules that 6 Korean, pass Ing his wife on the street, must ig. nore her aS though she were . stranger.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-07
Bridgeport War Workers Face Future With Quiet Confidence
Mony Find New Jobs as Plants ReeonVeYt

This is the last of three are tlcles on the reconversiOn prob- lems of typical American in- dustrial city.
Evening star., 1945-01-14

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Evening star., 1945-01-14

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toshlons, this ottroctlvc suit
with q tubular narrow SKIRT
IS mode Of Jersey with bright
trimmings, A kidsk'n fur
muff substitutes for q bog.
The bumper IS mode OF
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lines and q scorf that wrops
itself in the suit to mokc
q sort OF collar.
Wlur World Photo.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-04
Japs Lash Out At Okinawa
Sinking One Yank Vessel;
Macarthur Reports Toll
S0RR0WINC SWANS|
DODGE SWAN SONG.
Cleveland Bird Buries Her
Dead Offspring Minus
Mythical Aria

CLEVELAND, Aug. 3. - Up -
There were no swan songs for Eva
and Anthony's three cygnets.
In. g silent. sorrowful ceremony
last night, three still-born swans
were carried by their mother to
watery graves without the last song
which mythically proceeds death
Of the birds.
Since Eva's nesting period began
over six weeks ago, thousands OF
Clevelanders visiting the Museum
of Arts gardens hopefully awaited
Matching of her four eggs. When
one unfertile egg broke last week
and the remaining failed to ha' l
at the end of the normal 42-day
incubation period, Museum atten-
dants gave up hope.
Last night Eva, too, tired OF her
vigil. Slowly and deliberately she
broke the grey-green and brown
speckled eggs, revealing three life
less bodies.
Then, as Anthony Swan watched
motionlessly from the edge OF the
lake. Eva silently took one OF the
bodies in" her beak and swan to
the center of the lake where she
Owed to bury the swan. In a mo.
ment she surfaced and returned
IN tho nest To conduct a Simlla1
ritual for the other two birds.
When her solemn work was com
pleted, Eva called to Anthony Wne
swan quickly to her. Together tne
swans returned to utter nourntu
cries over the empty nest.
Witnesses to the unique service
were Joseph Krynak, assistant sup
erintendent of the museum, and MI
wife who were walking in thu
gardens when the rites began.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-04
PRAISE
U. S. COAST GUARD

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. = UD -
High military leaders tonight paid
tribute to the Coast Guard on the
eve of its 155th anniversary. citing
it's important and gallant role in
winning victory in Europe and Its
untiring service in the Pacific war.
Organized baseball, meanwhile.
honored the Coast Guard with .
scroll presented to Acting Com
mandant Rear Admiral L. T.
Chalker in a ceremony at the dou-
ble-header here between the Wash
ington Senators and the Boston
Red Sox.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower said
the Coast Guard Helped us finish
the European phase Of a global
war;" going with the Armies to the
beachheads. 1T still is with US,
safeguarding tn harbors and
ships as we embark again for
home for new theaters of action"
he said.
Gen. Douglas Macarthur. In a
statement from the Pacific, said:
Coast Guardsmen, proving their
seamanship and valor in diversifi-
ed tasks, are contributing a proud
record in this war, a fitting addi-
ton to a. tradition Of service"
Admiral Ernest ]. King, Com.
mander-in-Chief of the Fleet, said
the Coast Guard has carried out
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-04
TROPICAL STORM
GROWING IN FORCE,
SPEED, REPORT SAYS

MIAMI, Fla, Aug. s. W.D A
tropical storm in the Caribbean 10
growing in force and speed, it was
reported late today in a weather
Bureau advisory issued at San
Juan, Puerto Rico.
The storm had shifted its Nortn
westerly direction to Westward
during the day.
Text of the latest advisory:
1.-THE tropical storm is now o.
moderate and increasing intensity
with winds Of so m. p. h. over
small area near the center. 1t Il
|centered at 16 degrees As minutes
North and 81 degrees As minute
West, or about 80 miles South o
Cabo Rio, Puerto REQ, and is NOV
ing westward about 16 m. p. h.
will pass 120 miles South Of Ciuda
Trujillo about midnight. Remov
small craft warnings from Virgl
Island Eastward and maintai
them South Of Puerto Rico, Domir
| lean Republic and Haiti"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-04
PRESIDENT MAKES
NO SECRET TRADE

ABOARD USS AUGUSTA WITH
PRESIDENT THURMAN, Aug. g.
R - President Truman told re-
porters aboard this warship today
he made "no secret agreements
of any kind" in his conference with
Generalissimo Stain and Prime
Minister Attlee at Potsdam.
Mr.. Truman is working on ma
tionwide radio report he will
make to the people of the United
States shortly after his return to
Washington next week.
With James F. Byrnes, his Sec
rotary of State, the President was
represented as having gone into
the Conference armed with a Sc
ries of proposals prepared for sub
mission to the British and Russian:
in advance of the parley.
The establishment of a Council
of Foreign Ministers to deal with
various phases of future collabora
ton to smooth the path to peace
has long been an American objec
tive. The ability to deal quickly
with arising problems, it is believ
ed, may obviate the necessity fol
future Big Three meetings..
Judge Samuel l. Rosenman
special counsel to the President
is among those on board the Au
guSta.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-04
ANCL0.AMERICAN
ACCORD REACHED
Truman, Attlee Iron Out
Command Shifts For
Pacific War

ABOARD USS AUGUSTA With
PRESIDENT TRUMAN, Aug. b
Mp-President Truman and Brit
ish Prime Minister Clement Attlee
discussed at Potsdam shifts in Al
lied commands in the Southwest
Pacific and Southeast Asia, JOINT
U S.-British announcement dis
closed today.
Mr.. Truman issued t h an
nouncement en- route home from
the Big Three conference. Russia
did not participate in the release
because she is not at war with ia
pan.
During the Berlin conference, .
the statement said, the Amer.
can and British chiefs of staff held
daily meetings to perfect details
o: the coordination of British
American forces in accomplish
ing a total defeat of the Japanese.
occupied territory.
Inc DIlLlSll WILL VI ing W CSoA
against Japan all of their naval
land and air forces which can be
advantageously used.''
Then the brief document took ur
the discussion OF reallocation Of
Pacific areas and commands anc
added that reconsideration was Civ.
en- to the employment in the wal
against Japan of forces of the 9th.
er Allied nations that are at wal
with Japan"
The proposals of the combined
chiefs of staff were approved by
the President and the Prime Min
iSter'' the statement concluded
1t was released simultaneously
aboard ship, in Washington and ir
London. ..-.
(The announcement recalled tina
one Of the Potsdam military con
1erees was Lord Louis Mountbatt
en-, supreme commander of thu
Southeast Asia Command. At tn.
Time it was speculated that tn
united States and Britain might b,
planning single command owe
all of the Pacific, modelled afte
zen. Dwight D. Eisenhower su
preme command in Europe.)
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-04
FRANCO SUMMONS
MINISTER HOME
Spanish Dictator Calls
Urgent Confer ence
On Big 3 Note

MADRID, Aug. 3.-Un)-Fo foreign
Minister Alberto Martin Artado
was summoned from vacation
today for an urgent conference
with Generalissimo Francisco
Franco as Spain, excluded from
membership in the United Nations
World Organization, awaited a
Big Three economic and pilitical
squeeze"
Artajo was en- route to San Sc
bastian to join the diplomatic corps
vacationing there when he receiv.
ed an urgent summons to return
Immediately.
Spain was informed by radio,
word of mouth and the press, CT
the Big Three declaration that the
Franco government, having been
founded with the support of the
Axis powers does not. possess
the qualifications necessary for
membership in the United Nations
Organization.
Newspapers today splashed the
Potsdam announcement on the
front pages and carried a summary
of the communique, including the
reference to Spain. However, the
headlines emphasized such points
as the destruction of the German
High Command and military po-
tential, the promise of freedom CT
press, speech and religion, and the
formation of a Council of Foreign
Ministers.
Officials had expected denun-
citation. Their immediate reaction
was one of extreme seriousness, but
there was no panic.
From the highest quarters to the
man in the street. Spain was won
dering if the Potsdam denunciatior
would be followed by deeds. Some
economic pressure may start short
ly with less coal from England, less
gasoline and cotton from the United
States and less wheat from ArI|1
tina. Should this occur, some Span
iards expected severance of diplo
matte relations to follow.
Government circles expected
denunciation when the British La
Dor party victory retired N--stor
Churchill from the Big Three. The.
believed that had Churchill remain
ed in power, such strongl.
worded condemnation would have
been impossible.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-04
Powers Virtually Agree
On War Crimes Trials

mand that the U. S. would insist
upon more action and fewer ar
guments or would 60 ahead with
its own trial of war criminals. He
held the trump hand, for most
of the major Nazis are in custody
of American forces.
Two steps remain before plans
are announced for the trial-prob-
ably at Nuernberg-when arcn
criminals such as Hermann Goer-
ing, Joachim Won Ribbentrop and
Rudolf Hess will be herded into a
comman dock for arrangement be.
fore an International military tri-
bunal.
The first centers around the
translation of legal phrases into
four languages-purely a technical
procedure.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-04
Enemy Loses
Shining, Key
Supply Base
LINGLING IN DANGER
Chinese Forces Pressing
Toward Famed Flying
Tiger Field
United Press War Correspondent
BY GEORGE WANG {

United Press War Correspondent
BY GEORGE WANG
-CHUNGKING, Aug. 3. - W.H -
Chinese troops in Western Human
Province today seized the key sup
ply base of Shining and hurled two
powerful spearheads toward the
famed Flying Tigers airfieId. 1T
Lingling.
About 300 miles to the East, Chi
nese troops in Kiangsi Province in
flicted 1900 casualties in vicious
five-day battle near Khan.
Crushing resistance, Generalissi-
mo Chang Kai-Shek's Human Pro-
vince forces scored six-mile gain
and captured Shining. It has been
the main japanese supply base in
Western Human. Chinese troops
then pushed Southeast toward Tun-
gan, vital Kweilin-Hengyang
city only % miles from the old
Flying Tigers base. Tungan is 30
miles from Shining.
Today's communique said anoth-
er Chinese column advanced to
points II miles west of Chunanh-
sien, on the Kweilin-Hengyang lire
40 miles Southwest of Lingling
The capture of Tungan and
Chuanhsien would trap untold
thousands of remnant enemy
groups to the South and pave the
way for a double about assault
against Lingling.
The capture of Lingling would
make it the 10th U. S. Air base
liberated by Chinese troops in re-
cent montsh. From the Lingling
base, the famed Flying Tigers ear
ly in the war played havoc with
enemy strongpoints and aircraft.
On the Eastern flank of Japan S
corridor, Chinese troops in Kiangsi
Province continued relentless at
tacks against enemy columns bait
ling toward Nanchang.
The enemy force, originally es-
timated at 10000 soldiers and civil
lians, early last month fled from
Kanhsien, an American air base
city, some $50 miles south of the
present battle sector. One enemy
column attempted to enter Khan
but was driven out in a five-day
battle that ended July 30.
Three hundred enemy junks ard
RATS were destroyed on the Kan
river in the Khan area during that
period.