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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-27

It was not learned today whether MT. Brophy would enter the city's employe in the latter capacity but 1t is presumed this Is likely.
 Assistant Purchasing Director
 As reported previously, considera- tion has been given to the transfer of John J. Kilduff, former chair man of the board of Tax Commis- sioners to the post of assistant pur- chasing director. However, similar consideration has been given to others for the same post. Being retained as clerks in the office are other former board members made up of John Jenusaitis, Robert Stone and Joseph McGinnis.
 MT. Brophy is graduate of New Britain State Normal School, St. Mary's College, Baltimore, St. Thomas Seminary, Hartford, Crosby High School and St. Mary's gram mar school. It has been reported he will assume his new post next week.
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Jap Occupation Behavior WiU Affect GDischaryes

arms should be out of uniform in year if all goes well in the Pacific. The army plans to discharge 5.000.- 900 during the first year after Jap- ans defeat, and the navy estimates 1t can release 1.500,0 900 to 2.500, 900 men in the first IS months. The army's discharges will include i.400,- 900 air force personnel.
 The marine corps follows the army's point system and the coast guard the navys so reduction in those services should Dc proportion ate though no official estimates have been made.
 g Divisions Gone 10 Pacific
 Thus far only three army divisions have started redepiuying from camps in this country to the Pacific-the eeth, o6th and o7th out of i6 divl- sions definitely carmarked for che Pacific before Japan collapsed. fk i1 nov estimated not moro than Q uuazior or e third of fhe 70 di1Izlonl
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BY REUEL s. MOORE

United EreG6 Staxt correspondent
 Washington. Aug. 27 = (uP) - Events of this week in Japan were expected to shed more light on the rate of discharge in the various armed services and further rede- ployment of armed forces to the Pa- Cific.
 If no resistance is encountered as occupation forces move into Japan, fewer persons will have to be sent to the Pacific and more can be brought home. The lighter the re- sultant burden on shipping in the Pacific the faster men can Do brought home from Europe as well.
 12 Million seFvicemen
 To-day there arc roughly i2.000, 900 Americans under arms, 5000 600 in the army. 3.3o0.00o in the navy, loo.. 000 in the marine corps and i29.000 in the coast guard. About 2.s00.ooo oi tho army peEsonnsi arc in ihe ar forces.
 More than hals q s'l men under
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-27
Elliott Probe Set

Washington, Aug. 27-(UP)-The full story of Elliott Roosevelt's financial transactions was expected to be laid before the House ways and means committee today.
 Secretary of the Treasury Fred M. Vinson has informed committee chairman Robert L. Doughton, D.. N. C., that the investigation which the treasury undertook six weeks ago at the committees request has been completed.
 Wide Investigation
 Treasury investigators have ranged as far as Texas, New York and Chicago in their search. for the inside story of loans given the late presidents son when he was Texas radio-chain operator in 1889.
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Singapore cupotion
 / Recalled
BY McoUOWN WRIGHT

United Press Stan Correspondent
 Rangoon, Aug. 27-(UP)-Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten's southeast command and Japanese officers were expected to sign 8 local agreement" tonight that presumably will end all hostilities in the area and clear the way for British occu- patton of Singapore.
 (At Melbourne, Maj. Gen. Des- mond Harrison, head of the British army mission from the southeast Asia command, announced that ad- vanced Allied units were expected to enter Singapore on Sept. D.
 Agreement
 The official document contains no surrender terms, but was described merely as an agreement lon behalf of the two theater commanders" It was believed to be a written guarantee for peace until the four day conference, which was said to be proceeding smoothly, can be com pleted.
 (That such an agreement was needed was evidenced by radio Singapores report that defiant Jap- anese, refusing to bow to their emperor's imperial rescript, were loting and running wild in the for mer great British naval basel
 The negotiations opened yesterday when Japanese envoys, led by sour faced It. Gen. Numata, arrived in Rangoon and two hours later start ed discussions which will lead to the surrender of an estimated 800,0OO Japanese.
 At the same time in the Sittang River bend area of southeast Burma yesterday Jpanese military leaders met with British representatives and agreed to complete withdrawal of their troops from the Myitko and Shwegyin sectors by 9:30 A. M. Wednesday.
 Japs Open Fire
 Later in the Shwegyin area Jap- anese troops, angered by 8 refusal
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Atomic Bomb Ruined 
BY JAMES McGLINCY

United Press Staff Correspondent Aboard Flying Fortress over Ma gasaki, Aug. N-(UP)-Nagasaki, victim of the atomic bomb, today lies barren, brown and lifeless. Flying at low altitude you can see where Nagasah was. But you can't
 see Nagasad. It isn't there any
 more. Tn its place is . wide, brown batch two or three miles wide and 1 filtered with debris.
 Nagasaki is hard to describe be- cause there Is so little left of 1t to tell about. The Sfarpest single im- preSsion is that of brownness- the result of the soaring atomic heat which withered every green plant
 for miles around and consumed ale
 most every scrap of wood. Barren Waste
 Approaching the city we flew over some gray-topped houses. Then suddenly We noticed there were no more houses-no buildings, no struc- lures of any kind left standing. Just
 barren, wreckage-littered ground. To the left rose some blackened smokestacks. The adjacent factory
 was a shattered pile of twisted girders. Cautiously, a small steel and
 concrete bridge about 100 yards from the factory was undamaged.
 Two or three people were walking
 across it, staring up in curiosity
 at our plane.
 Here and there amid the deso-
 lation a modern building still stood tits roof gone and the interior burned out.
 Nagasaki was the city where the |Mitsubishi steel works were located
 but today We found it difficult to tell which pile of wreckage repre- sented what was left of the once great steel plant.
 The effects of the bombs action are curious. In many places, it lev- elled everything to the ground but
 in others several blocks of houses stood apparently untouched.
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Legislative Controversy

Hartford. Conn, Aug. N-(UP)- The necessity of a special session of the general assembly to deal with problems of unemployment was a pertinent question today on Capitol Hill.
 Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin ad- vised that Connecticut wait until Congress had approved legislation in that direction, so that there would be no conflict of laws.
 Lieut.-Gov. Wilbert Snow advo- cated immediate action, declaring he had forecast such an emergency earlier this year and the time had come for the general assembly to take steps to "make work for these people"
 Opposes q State Rep. Charles McK. Parr, (R), Chester. said special session was unnecessary because ''both Gov.
 ffos,tin.sad ny, Teooa ol
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Flagship Missouri Leads 1O0-M eLong American Procession Into Jap Area
Standby While Jap Minesweepers Clear Entronce;
 MocArthur to Lead Troops in Thursdoy
By RALPH TEATSORTH

By RALPH TEATSORTH Limited Press Staf Correspondenti
 Manila, Aug. 27-WP) Admiral William F. (Bulll Halsey's mighty flagship Mis- souri, leading 100-mile long procession of Allied warships. anchored il- the shadow of Fujiyama today and waited impatinently for minesweep- CTS to slear & channel into Tokyo bay.
 A dispatch from the 53,- 000-ton Missouri said Jap anese could be seen through field-glasses jammed shoul- der to shoulder along the beaches two miles away as the big battleship dropped anchor ill Sagami bay at 1:30 p. m. (12::30 a. m. EWT).
 Sail in Soon
 Factories, barracks and other buildings cleary were visible be- hind the shining beaches, and not far away rose the quiescent Volcano Fujiyama, snowless and smoky blue.
 Sometime tonight or tomorroN~ depending on the progress of the mineSweeping - HalSey's WarShip1 will sail through the narrow Urasa Suido Straits into Tokyo Bay in fulfillment of bis l0ng-dreame4 goal.
 More than 400 Allied warszaIps and vessels were arrayed off Jauan under HalSeyss command, but haE many of them will enter SaRam5 and Tokyo Bay was prUblematicak
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Sorry Scene As Jops Meet Third Fleet
BY FRANK Fl. BAKTHOLON1E EI
 United Press Vice-Prcsident

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 United Press Vice. President
 Aboard the Battleship Iowa in Sagami Bay. Aug. 27--(UP)-Every gun on the Iowa was pointed at Ia dingey little Japanese destroyer lowering off our starboard.
 It was the Hat Uzakura, which brought 21 Japanese emissaries to a conference aboard Admr. William F. Halsey's flagship. Men stood at battle stations throughout the con- ference. They were ready to blew the Hat Uzakura from the water at the first sign of treachery. We approached the shores of Ja3- an this morning. The mighty Third Fleet, 400 ships strong, strung out for one hundred miles. This show |of sea power was met by . sorry remnant of Japan's navy-0ne Iif~ tie destroyer.
 Alerted
 We had been watching the coast line for an hour, every man aboard was alert with the excitement of approaching the heart of the beat~ (Continued on Page Q
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''Okies" Return To Farms With Bulging Pockets

swarming back to Oklahoma and Arkansas pockets bulging with greenbacks. "
 They are part of the army of war workers who have lost their jobs by government cutbacks. But they're not worried. Eighty per cent of them have salted away enough cash to pay off the mortgages on their land in the dust bowl. or buy a farm. or put in new equipment.
 And they're not going home in the same rattletrap flivvers that brought them west. Most are sail. ing home in style-in shiny, stream
 Travel Tight
 But they still have tho family be- lonslnes piled on the top, or strapped on the running board, or iounoing behind in . trailer.
 It's no unusual GIght Co see c fancy car with two or three mat tF1Esea on top~~fhe aINn or q wealthy c'EIe. usnalIy the kite1sn
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Such Exosgerotion Is HufniIiotinq!!

Southbridge, Mass, Aug. 27- (UP)-Pfc. Chester J. (The Stomach) Salvatori says the Army has humiliated him by publicixing his knife-and-fOrk feats.
 "How about these 26 pork chops you ate at one sitting, and the 60 eggs?" He, was asked yesterday while home on fur- lough.
 Took," he said, ''my normal appetite is only that of 10 men mot O." SaIvat0ri, now at Fort Devens, is scheduled to be discharged soon.
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Record Group of II runsports

Boston, Aug. N-(UP)--A record number of six transports carrying in excess of 1000 homecoming GIis from the European theater arrive here today.
 The record was set when it was announced that the SS Eugene H1lc carrying AS Negro troops include inf five New Englanders would dock. Previously only five transports uers expetcted.
 Not a Personnel Record
 A spokesman at the army bzss said that while today would mars g record arrival of transports it would not be a record for personnel abozxd since the port of authorization hz1 handled more than 10,00o soldiers i1
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Civil War Threot Based
 Chino's s Conmu- nists Approve
 Sino-R -Russiont
 Treaty Signing
@sSssssnS
BY GEORGE WANG

United Press Staff Correspondent Chungking, Aug. 27-(UP)-Threat of civil war in China apparently eased today as the Chinese Com munist newspaper New China Daily expressed full support of the Sino- Russian treaty.
 we need a United Democratic China through hard-working peo- pie and a dignified government" the newspaper said.
 Release of the text of the Chi- nese-Russian treaty last night re- vealed that Russia has pledged her entire material and moral support to the Chungking government. thus depriving the hostile Communist re-
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DeGouIIe Honored

New York. Aug. 27-UP)-Gen. Charles De Gaulle, president of the Provisional French government, will be made an honorary citizen of New York today at formal welcom- ing ceremonies at City Hall.
 The official welcome for De Gaul- le, who arrived late yesterday after paying tributee to the late Presi- dent Roosevelt ct Hyde Park. will follow 6 visit to lakewood Airport. On his way back from the huge airfield, still under construction, De Gaulle will drive through Brooklyn to the Battery.
 Speak at Ceremonies
 Both Dc 0aulle and Mayor Flor clio II. La duardla will speak at the City Hall ceremonies. A recep- ton and the city's official luncheon will be held later at the Waldorf Astoria. Then Do daulle will leave for visits to Chicago and Ottawa.
 Dc oaulle flew to West Point yesterday from Washington where he had conferred with President Truman. Then he motored to the Roosevelt estate ct Hyde Park,
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Yomoshito To Surrender roops General Who Said
 He Would Sign
 Terms in America
 Quits

With the 32nd Division, Northern Luzon, Aug. 27-(UP)-Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamasnita, commander of Japanese forces in the Philip pines, opened formal negotiations today for sllrrendering his forces in northern Luzon.
 In a letter to Maj. Gen. William H. Gill, commander of the 32nd Division, Yamashita, who once boasted he would dictate peace terms to Gen. Douglas MacArthur said he had received an order from Tokyo to cease hostilities and would be ready to negotiate as soon as authorized.
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Editors Note: One of the sad- dest stories of the threadbare sos was the struggling exodus and the ssokics" and saEiEies'' from their farmIands, devastated by drought and wind. They came t0 Callfor- mia in anything that would run on . highway. With the factories now closed by reeenveFsl0n they arc going home. So the United Press sent It's Hollywood core. spondent to . border inspection station on highway c at oal- sf0rnia- Arizona line. t.
 xn this, the first of Q series, Che correspondent reports that these mlgrAnts sound what they came fer, and they're going home te enjoy 60
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H0Isey Gets Jap Novy--One Ship!

With thN Third Fleet. ea- gami, Bay, Aug. 25-(Ur)- The Japanese sent their sure render cnvoys out to Admr. William r. IIalsey's l0o-shlp Third Fleet in . dingy, two- stack destroyer today. Ne other Japanese warships were in sishl.
 As the enemy destroyer sailed less than Bee yards off the n1issouFI's beam. e staff nlem- Der kg4&e6 lEelaeyi
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Evening star., 1945-11-22

sion of the grievance procedures for
the settlement of disputes over the
Interpretation and application of
the terms of the contracts.
'3. Provisions for the structure
and machinery of voluntary arbitra-
ton according to specified criteria
and within specified areas of con-
f1ict.
a. The strengthening of the true
values of the conciliation service by
a more adequate budget for higher
salaries and larger staff selected
by the director on the basis Of char
acter, ability. personality, expert
ence, training and with the advice
of committee representing labor
and management.
IS. Public provision for the proce-
dures of fact-finding regarding the
issues in dispute whether by COM
petent public or tripartite experts,
before any strike or lockout is Ie-
sorted to, for the final determina-
ton of the dispute"
Delegates and conference officials
alike were pessimistic over prospects
for the creation of voluntary arbi-
tration machinery, as recommended
in the report, since the problem has
not yet been tackled seriously even
though the conference is slated for
adjournment at the end of next
week.
They felt, however, that this prob
lem might be turned over to the
proposed semipermanent board on
industrial problems to which the
Executive Committee gave tentative
approval yesterday.
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Presented DSM by Navy,

1t was typical of Gen. Sandy"
Patch that he won the Navy's Dis
tinguished Service Medal for his
conquest of Guadalcanal when in
tegration Of the Army and Navy,
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tician, was too i'll to report at the
prison. The 76-year-old former
president of the Seiyukai party re-
Gently had said he hoped to become
one of Japan's reconstruction
premiers.
Previously reported ill and unable
to give himself up was Yosuke Mat
suoka, former Foreign Minister in
strumental in negotiating the tri-
partite pact which bound together
Germany, Italy and Japan.
Kuhara recently asserted he had
advanced China's famed Sun Yat-
sen over a million yen during that
country's revolution. He showed
correspondents a scrapbook of re-
ceipts signed by Sun in both Eng
lish and Chinese characters.
The headquarters indictment
charged Kuhara with advocating q
strong policy toward China and
backing Japanese nationalist lead
ers, including Araki. However
AraH yesterday denied any con-
nection with the Tokyo Industrial
ist. saying, II haven't even writer
him a letter"
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-AP Wirephoto,

-AP WtrephotO.
and cooperation among its person.
mel. was not yet full -f1edged.
1t was typical, too, that members
Of his staff in France seldom saw
him wearing his numerous ribbons
and that he never stopped a soldier
at the front to compel him to but
ton pockets, for his own seldom
were.
Gen. Patch took command of the
7th Army just after Gen. George S.
Patton, jr., was relieved from it, At
that time there was uncertainty that
the landings in Southern France,
then in he planning stage, would be
successful. The British were op-
posed to the diversion of American
troops from Italy and the French
wanted command of any forces
landing on the Riviera.
Gen. Patch held all forces to-
gether during the tug-of-war for
eight months of planning, during
which the operation was on the
verge of being called off several
times. When his three American
divisions hit the beach on August Is,
1914, so perfect had the planning
been that only about 300 casualties
were suffered during the first 50
Evening star., 1945-11-22
Hike and Camera Trip
To End Parks Season

A nature hike and an all-day
camera trip Sunday are the final
two events planned by the National
Capital Parks for the 1945 outdoor
program.
Ranger Naturalist Mildred j. Eric
son will lead the hike along the
c. & o. Canal towpath beginning at
Stop 80 on the Cabin John carline
Macarthur boulevard and Cornell
street, Glen Echo, Md, at pm.
The camera trip will go to Annap-
oils, Md, and autoists will meet on
K street just west of Fifteenth street
NV. at $50 am. Those travelling
by bus may meet the group at the
bus station in Annapolis at 1890
am.
Evening star., 1945-11-22
Worker Burned to Death
In Hospital Air Shaft

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. %. -
Trapped by flaming dust while
cleaning 4-foot square air shaft
at Hahnemann Hospital, a 30-year-
old workman burned to death today
before his body plunged 10 floors
to the basement, the coroner's Of
flee reported.
Detective Edward Meyers said the
worker, George Hoffman, had low
cred himself into the shaft on a
boatswain's chair, aided by Thomas
Wilson, helper at the 10th floor
exit. How the fire started was not
known, Detective Meyers said. Hoff
mans body fell to the basement
when the rope holding the chair
burned through.
Firemen eXtinguished the flames
without alarming patients in the
hospital.
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Gen. Patch, 9TH Army Leader,
Dies of Pneumonia in Texas
Served on GuuduIcunu|
Before Triumphs in
France and Germany

By the Associated Press.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Nov. 22.-
1t. Gen. Alexander McCarrell Patch,
jr., IS, veteran Of two wars who
led the victorious drive Of the 7th
Army across France and Germany,
lost his battle for life last night.
The slightly built 6-footer, Sandy
Patch" to his friends and his men,
who triumphed in the Pacific thea
ter as we'll as on the European con-
tinent, died of pneumonia in Brooke
General Hospital here. He had en-
tered the hospital November IA.
Commander of the 4th Army at
Fort Sam Houston since last July,
Gen. Patch would have observed
his 56th birthday anniversary to-
morrow.
At his bedside, where an oxygen
tent had been used to combat what
hospital authorities called a special
type of pneumonia, were his wife,
Mr.. Julia Lillell Patch; his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Charles M. Drummond;
his widowed daughter law, Mrs.
Alexander M. Patch, Sd, and his
brother, Maj. Gen. Joseph Patch.
The generals son, a captain, men,
Der of the 10th Division in France,
was killed October %, 1914, while
assaulting enemy positions.
Pierced Vosges Frontier.
The colorful career of Sandy"
Patch found a climax in the Euro
pean war. Placed in command of
the 7th Army March !, 1914, he
trained the army for amphibious
operations and led it when it hit
the beaches of Southern France
August IS, 1914. In three months
the 7th drove the Germans back
nearly 500 miles. The smashing
drive made Gen. Patch the first
Army commander to pierce success
fully the natural frontier formed by
the Vosges Mountains.
Gen. Patch handled the final
mopping up of the Japanese on
Guadalcanal, moving in with Army
troops late in 1912 to relieve the
Marines Previously he had COM
manded United States troops in New
Caledonia. For his work at Guadal-
canal he was awarded the Navy's
Distinguished Service Medal.
He returned to the United States
in March to head the 4th Army
Corps with headquarters at Fort
Lewis, Wash.
Gen. Patch was an Army man
from an Army family. Son Of an
officer, he was born November 23
1889, at Fort Hauchuca, Ariz, and
was appointed to the Military Acad-
emy from Pennsylvania in 1909. In
the World War he participated in
the Aisne- -Argonne offensives.
Gen. Patch held the Army Dis
tinguished Service Medal with two
oak leaf clusters, the Croix de Guerre
with palm, the French Legion of
Honor, Order of Commander and
the Ecuadorean Abdon Calderon
Star, first class.
Funeral services will be held at
West Point, N. Y, probably Satur-
day, and burial will be in the
National Cemetery there.
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hours Of fighting. The Germans
were completely surprised and
routed. Taking chance, he pushed
his single corps through the breach
up from the beaches.
1t had originally been contem-
plated that the 7th Army would
merely serve to hold down German
forces in Southern France to divert
them from the Normandy front.
Gen. Patch was known as the
"quietest tough hombre" in the
Army, yet a few staff members saw
tears stream down his immobile face
once. That was when his only son,
Sandy, jr.," West Point gradu-
ate and a captain commanding an
infantry company in the 10th divi-
sion, was killed in. the Vosges cam
paign.
His son was buried in sheltered
valley among the other GIs. There
was no special ceremony. Gen.
Patch saluted the grave and walked
back to prepare the breakthrough
which took the 7th Army to Stras-
bourg and the banks of the Rhine
in a lightning thrust.