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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-11

learned that Tojo had made elab- crate preparations for his death The Japanese code virtually de- manded that he kill himself when Emperor Hirohito issued his res script ending the war.
 Capt. James Johnson, D. 6. Army doctor who stitched up Tojo's sab- ing wound and said he had a chance to live, said he believed it was .32- caliber bullet that ripped through his body while American troops waited to arrest him.
 Ceremonial Room
 Tojo shot himself in a room be- decked with swords, Q crystal cig~ aret holder, various gee-gaws of his harsh military career, and . bound copy of the Emperor's rescript pro~ claiming Japan's defeat.
 On the first leg of his trip to tlas Yokohama hospital Tojo was taken to the first medical squadron's first aid station near the Meiji shrine.
 As the ambulance pulled into the station, corpsnen were preparing plasma for his second injection 10 buck up the dwindling strength drained from his body by the gzlsh of blood both front and back.
 Stretcher bearers who had taken him from the house where he was living in retirement as q country squire carried him into c tent lighted only by sexrchlights.
 Curious CTS
 Stretcher bearers who had taken h.r1 from the house where he was living in retirement as Q country squire carried him into Q tent lieht- ed onl- by searchlights.
 The stretcher was placed on a table under an operating lamp. The lamp would not work. T/4 Richard Widdington of Mount Aida, Ark, began administering the plesma by flashlight. He wal assisted by Staff Sgt. Donald Hawk of Dover, Md., and T/S Ernest Roblesky of Vest field. Mass.
 His pulse at S:l0 p. m. was los. At S:l5 p. m., with the plasnia still en- tering his viens from bottle suss pended overhead, Tojo was reload% ed into the ambulance.
 A group of photographers and reH porters arrived. Fo. seven minutes the ambulance doors were held open while flash bulbs popped. Then kha doors were closed and . few nAIsa~ utes later the ambulance backed 
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CourtAction Consid dered By EmpIoyes
 Veteron Bremen,
 Policemen Reported
 Active

Veteran members of the Water. bury Fire and Police departments, who have completed 25 and more years of service and who are de. sirious of being placed on the re- tired list, may resort to court ac- ton shortly in seeking to have their respective commissioners give consideration to their petitions.
 NearlyAa score of members in both departments are now more than eager to write "ninis" to their careers as flre-fighters and police men. Some are definitely qualified. There is doubt about others. On previous occasions when applica- tions were filed they were tabled with the comment that the short- age of candidates for the positions made 1t impossible for the boards to take action without placing the city in jeopardy by the lack of trained flremen and policemen.
 War Over
 The "old timers" who want to call 1t quits now claim that the manpower shortage is over and that returning servicemen are eager to exchange Army khaki or Navy blue for the uniforms of firemen and policemen.
 The claim is advanced by the petitioners that fin all good faith" they have fulfilled their contract of 25 years of loyal service to the City of Waterbury and they are now eager to be relieved of their duties. Many familiar names are on the lists of both departments.
 From what was gleaned today from interested parties new appli- cations for retirement will be filed. If either board is adamant on the request the petitioner may take an appeal to the Superior Court and seek 6 ruling. If one fireman or policeman gets a favorable decision 1t is believed that legal precedent will be established and others similarly qualified will be given consideration.
 Continue Service
 Unless a number of the petitioners are retired before January 1, i946
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-11
ABC Workers AWoitP Farley Decision 3
 CIO Leaders
 Appeal to VILE
 On Bonus

Notification was awaited here this afternoon from Washington on the National War Labor Boards decision on the American Brass Co.-CI.O. compensatory bonus dis- pute. John Mankowski, board mern- Der of the Mine Mill and Shelter Workers union, remained in Wash ington today and was scheduled to call the union office as soon as the government unit announced it's dee cision.
 The dispute went to the WIiB aft- CT labor and management groups failed to arrive at 6 settlement fol- lowing a series of conferences.
 Meeting
 Anticipating 6 decision some. time this afternoon, the C.I.O. called a meeting of American Brass Go. employees for 8 o'clock tonight at 95 Bank street. A report will be given at that time on any word the union has received on the Washington hearing, John Driscoll, state C.I.O. secretary said.
 Shortly before noon the WLB was reported still in session and con- sidering the Waterbury area case.
 About 1900 employees of American Brass plants in Waterbury, An. sonia and Torrington remain on strike as a result of the dispute.
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(By United Pessl

Back-to-work movements among automobile and shipbunding pro- duction workers and white collar employees of the Westinghouse Elec- tric Company today reduced to less than 100000 the number of work CTS idle in labor-rnanagement dis. putes.
 OfIicials of the Westinghouse Fed eration of Independent Salaried Unions late yesterday ordered l2.- 900 Westinghouse employees to re- turn to their jobs after . short lived walkout. The action was taken in response to War Labor Board assurances that it would expedite Q decision in the case.
 Incentive Bonuses
 The seven-hour work Stoppage was called to support the unions demand that salaried workers be given incentive bonuses similar 70 those received by tOurly-paid work CTS. The dispute has been hanging Are for more than two years
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TOJO SHOOTS SELF; BELIEVED DYING
Eye Witness Relates Dramatic Account OF Tojo s Attempt

He spoke weakly in Japanese. It was translated for me, word by word, by T. Takamateu of the Tokyo Mainichi staff.
 T wanted to die by the sword, bu. the pistol had to do," he re- peated. T assume the responsibility for the war. now realize the war was bad for the people. I am now happy to die. Banzai!" Then Tojo lapsed into unconscious ness again. His bald head was beaded with sweat.
 Takamatsu and I had arrived at Tojo's home in the Setagaya district of the extreme western part of Greater Tokyo at 4:l0 p. m. Guards advised us Tojo was not at home.
 Arrest Orders
 While we waited, Maj. Paul Kraus of Gen Douglas MacArthur's coun- ter-intelligence corps arrived with orders for Tojo's arrest.
 At 4:l5 D. m. Tojo arrived. He entered hastily, then opened side window to his study and peered out, Q smile on his face. He asked what was wanted. His gold teeth showed as he spoke.
 Lean and brown. he appeared in perfect physical condition.
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Fl onor Democratic City Slate
 Booster Club Will
 Hold Testimonial
 Campaign Dinner

The Democratic Women's Booster Club are opening the Fall Campaign with e Dinner at the Hotel Elton on October 4th honoring John s. Monagan, Mayor, and the entire Democratic ticket, 1t was an- nounced today.
 Chairman for the dinner is Mrs. Thomas Gordon and vice-chairmar. Mrs. Richard Lawlor.
 For the past eight years the Dem- ocratic Women's Booster Club have marked the opening of the cam paign with 6 dinner honoring the nominees on the ticket.
 One of the most ambitious and ardent of the Party's supporters the local organization is recognized as one of the outstanding groups of its type in Connecticut. Miss Mary Hennessey, president. is one of the states most active Democratic worl1- on.
 Ticket Committee Chairman is
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ation in 1887, said when he was dis- charged he found that the job he wanted in radio and television called for man with a high school diploma.
 On To High School
 T can't get anywhere in radar or radio until l complete high school, " Hornberger said. T went to the Veterans Administration and they said I was within my rights.
 Some people feel that 1t is wrong for me, being e big fellow, to be iil with all those little children. But don't" Hornberger said.
 The blonde, stocky former CT said ne had a pretty good day" at the opening of school yesterday. He said he attended strictly to school work, except at Iinchtime when the otrcr pupils crowded around him to near about the war.
 ]. 3, shambaugh, supervising principal, said f5ornberger was
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Two-W0y Stretch Two-Woy Problem !!

New York, Sept. 11-(UP) --The Corset and Brassiere As- sOciatiOn of America warned the American woman today that she would have mo such early relief" from her girdle problems as the War PrOduc. ton Board has promised.
 The association made a flat denial" of 4 WPB promise that there would be twO.way- stretches for all women by November.
 There Is plenty of material. the Association acknowledged. But, they said, price Fegula. tiOns are completely confused.
 "It may be four months, or six months, or eight mopths," the association said gIumly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-11
Cooler Weather r Predicted

At noon today the temperature was S6 degrees in the, shade &C., cording to The Democrats Bristol recorder. The air was a bit better today although the humidity re- mained high Gas if you didn't know itD.
 Boston. Sept. 11-(UP)-The ex. tended weather forecast for New England:
 The temperature during the next four days, Wednesday through Sat- urday, will average near normal. Cool weather on Wednesday will be followed by rising temperatures until cooler again about Saturday.
 Some normals for this period are Boston, New Haven. Conn, and Providence, R. l., 64; Nantucket, 63: Concord, N. H., and Portland, Me, 60; Passport, Me- and Green vile, Me, 66; Presque Isle, Me. b6: and Burlington, Vt, 6l.
 Rainfall amounts will total over two-thirds of an inch, occurring as showers il northern New England on Wednesday and over the entire area about Friday or Saturday.
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Army Officers Released

Washington, Sept. 1l-(Up)-The War Department revealed today that many general officers are leav- ing active duty or are being demot- ed to keep pace with the army's de- mobilization of enlisted men and lower grade officers.
 The announcement came as con. gressional criticism mounted against postwar promotion of aTmy officers. Charges were heard that demobili- ration was being delayed because of the large numbers of high-ranking officers.
 The War Department said that V Day-last May 8 - 70 general officers have left active duty or have been put under orders to leave. Another 100 general officers are in the process of being reduced in grade, the War Department said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-11
Give NoIIes InSouthbury Dispute
 Minor Fines Given
 In Common PIeos
 Court Todoy

Nolles were entered in Common Pleas Court by Judge Vine R. Par melee today on breach of peace charges against Southbury, Select- man J. Edward Coer and Joseph Cooper, also of Southbury, after Prosecuting Attorney William J. Lar kin declared "this case should never come into court. /
 Coer was fined $25 and Cooper was fined $l5 in Southhury town court last June as the result of an altercation which occurred at the selectmans home several weeks pre- viously.
 Prosecutor Larkin today referred to the two versions of the story as to what took place when Cooper went to Coer's home to request re- pairs to a road in Southbury. He in- dicated that he was inclined to ac- cept the story of Coer and Mrs. Coer who witnessed the fracas. The pros- ecutor stated, however. that no prosecution was desired.
 Stating that nolle should be era- tered in Coer's case, Attorney Lar. kin commented that Coer did not wish to push the case against Cooper and therefore a nolle also should be entered for Cooper.
 Tn the altercation, which started as Cooper began to leave the Coer residence, blows were reportedly exchanged, and Cooper claimed further that Coer had coaXed his dog to aid in the alleged attack.
 Coer had claimed the repairs re. quested by Cooper could not be made since the town had discontin- ued the road and had nothing fur ther to do with 1t, Attorney Larkin stated today.
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New London Vote Light

New London, Sept. 11-(UP)-In the states first city election this fall, New London voters have ap- proved overwhelmingly three pro- posed amendments to the state con- stitution.
 With only 449s of the 1000 quali- fled voters going to the polls, New London elected two Republicans and one Democrat as city councillors and three Democrats and one Re- publican as members of the board of education. r
 Vote
 The proposed constitutional amendments were approved as fol- lows:. Annual sessions of the gen. eral assembly, Sl1 to 353; increasing salaries of state legislators from $500 to $500, SOP to 269, and ir1aug- uration of the Acknowledgements elect if the governor-elect should die, o36 to 1S5.
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Seek To Bar Religion From Schools

Champaign. h., Sept. il. (UP)- When Mrs. Vashti McCollum takes the stand today in her suit to bar religion from public. schools, she will refuse to swear by the "Al- mighty God' to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth"
 Instead, she will take advantage of an Illinois statute providing that witnesses who object to taking such an oath may "solemnly, sincerely and truly declare and affirm"
 Atheist?
 Mrs. McCollum, who classified as an Atheist or Nationalist" was heading a fight to establish wheth. CT schools can release pupils for periods of religious instruction, either in or out of school buildings.
 The court battle, which some ob- servers say may assume the signiti- canoe and proportions of the his. toric scopes monkey" trial, arose from Mrs. McCollum's petition to ban religious teaching from Cham paign schools.
 bOtn SlueS nave pEOUlSeU O carry the case to the U s. Supreme court, if necessary, to obtain a final decision.
 Mrs. McCollum, 32, is the wife of a University of Illinois horticultur- ist. She charged that her l0-year- old son was ostracized because he did not participate in the weekly classes in religion.
 At yesterdays preliminary session, star witness for the defendant Champaign school board was tiny, gray haired former missionary, who argued religious doctrine with Mrs. McCollums attorney, Landon L. Chapman.
 Christianity
 Miss May Chapin, for the last three years supervisor of the religi- ous education program in Cham paign, resisted all questions design ed to prove that her classes had the effect of installing racial preju- dice in the pupils.
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Labor-Managen1ent Issues Abate As Workers Return

Recall of 22,000 Ford Motor Com pany employees frightened the labor picture in Detroit, but a new strike of 5000 production workers went irl- to effect at the Murray Corporation, makers of auto bodies. The walkout, by members of the c. I. o. United Auto workers Union, was attributed to elimination of overtime pay.
 Ford workers returned to the giant River Rouge and Highland Park plants yesterday after ccfn- pany ofIicials announced they had arranged for an alternative source of supply of auto wheels, normally received through the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel O., where Q strike of 4,6OO is in progress.
 A strike of 0,0OO workers conttn- ued at the Hudson Motor O.. and lesser strikes idled some 3.0OO other Detroit workers.
 ghlpyards
 At Orange, Texas, work wae re-
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Youth Lobor
 Lows Reinstoted

Hartford. Conn, Sept. 1i.-(UP) --Qov. Baldwin today revoked his emergency war order which sus- pended labor laws during the war period SO as to permit women and minors between the ages of l6 and IS to work more than nine hours a day and 4e hours e week.
 The governor said that now that the fighting war, and the production war had been won, he was restoring the labor statute ln the interests of extending employment in the re- conversion and postwar period"
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War Inciter Admits Guilt Before Act
 Entire Cabinet
 And Other Jops
 Rounded Up as
 W0r Criminals;
 Over 100, 900
 OceuDvinq Troops
Occupying Troops

Tokyo, Sept. 11-tUP) Former Premier Hideki TnjO, master mind of the Japanese attack on Pearl Hal Dor, shot himself below the heart to- day and late tonight his life flickered low as he was taken to a U S. Army hospital in Yokohama.
 Tojo, admitting responsi- bility for the Pacific war, tried to kill himself by firing a bullet clean through his body when the U. s. Army sent a detail to h.s villa in suburban Tokyo to arrest him as Japan's top war crirl- inal.
 American Needles Sustained by plasma injectionR and semi-conscious, the little brown man who plunged more than half the population of the world into war was loaded into an American ambulance and taken by way of first aid station near the Melji shrine to the 9Sth Evacuation hos- pital at Yokohama.
 The Japanese foreign office asked that Tojo not be removed from his residence because of the gravity Of his condition. But Q .. s. Army doctor gave him chance to slirvlves and the ambulance carted him away.
 Hours after the shooting at 4:1I p. m. (3:2l 6. m. EWT) 1t was
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Judge MeEvoy's Successor

Hartford, Conn, Sept. lI.-(UP)- Brig. Gen. Thomas D. Troiand, his uniform bearing the ribbons and decorations of two World Wars, was administered the oath by Gov. Baldwin today as e judge of the superior court.
 Gen. T'roland will assume his place on the bench during the September term of court. which opens next week, and succeeds the late Frank ?. McEvoy Waterbury.
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BY RUTH GMEINER United Press Staff CoRrespondentl

NOHteu kEeeo StaAk COhECopOnuentD
 Washington, Sept. 1l.-(UP)- Cheese rationing will end "almost immediately" Q government spokes- man said today. Lower grades of beef will become ration free before October 1. Pork chops and bour- bon whiskey are on the way back
 Food prospects frightened as the swift elimination of ration controls and forecasts of bumper crops gave Americans assurance that the days of wartime food shortages are quick ly drawing to 6 close.
 Supply Meets Demand
 The promise of c quick ending of cheese rationing came from Department of Agriculture spokeS- man. He said the Army no longer needs the amount of cheese 1t prevl- ously took and the department is planning to lift the 70 per cent government Setaside of cheddar cheese.
 A cheese industry spokesman said the industry Is expecting & very early end of rationing because the overall supply is now approaching demand.
 It was also learned from agricul- ture department sources that low. CT grades of beef will become ra- ton free before october 1. That is the date on which the United Press was told all meat rationing will end.
 These sources said the depart- ment was Watching carefully the marketing of cattle and that the end of meat rationing will depend largely on the number of cattle shipped to market in the next few weeks.
 The Department of Agriculture and the Ofiice ofy Price Adminis- tration have denied officially that there Is enough meat available now to lift rationing entirely ct this time.
 However, an oPA spokesman
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Barhieri, working amid intense heat. dense smoke and live steam from ruptured lines, repeatedly risk cd his own life to rescue his ship mates. Although he incurred an eye Injury which impaired his vision, he materially assisted the repair party In their damage control work.
 The citation accompanying the award was signed by Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, U. s. Navy, and reads as follows:
 "F'or distinguishing himself by
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By FRANK H. BARTHOLOMEW limited Press Staff Correspondentl

(OnlCeu FreSS StaH OOEreSpOHuehtI
 Tokyo, Sept. Il - (UP) T wanted to die by the sword, but the pistol had to do. I assume the res- possibility for the war Ban- gail"
 Those probably were the last words of Gen. Hideki Tojo, the lit- tie Japanese premier who catapult- ed the United States into the war with his sneak attack on Pearl Har- bor.
 He gasped them out during a no- mentary return to consciousness as I knelt at his side this afternoon.
 Severe Wound
 Only 23 minutes earlier, he had torn gaping wound in the left side of his stomach with a revolver bul- let in a suicide attempt as Amer ican Military Police arrived at his suburban home to arrest him as a war ciminal.
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Aword Medal Given Local Mon
). R. Borbieri, POI Southmoyd Rd., In GoIIont Deed
Special to the Democrat

Joseph Richard Barbieri, Chief Carpenters Mate, USNR. husband of Mrs. Rose Ann Barbieri of POI Southmayd Road, this city has been awarded the highly esteemed Navy and Marine Corps Medal.
 The award was, granted to Mate Barbieri for heroism while assisting in the rescue of men trapped below decks after an enemy bomb hit caused extensive fires and blast to his ship last March 19.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-11

Tokyo, Sept. n -(UP1-A general arrest order went out today for the entire T0jO cabs inet that led Japan into war and 2S other Japanese var criminals, including the in- famous Lt. . Gen. MasahnxzE Homma, perpetrAtor og the Ha- taan death march.
 HOmxns took Gen. Jon&th M. Wainwright's surrendeF aa COrregid0r and was directly rs- sp0nsible for the march from Bataan to Fort O,DOnnell.
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By EDWARD V. ROBERTS Limited Press Staff CorrespOndentD

By EDWARD V. ROBERTS United Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 London, Sept. 11-UP)- Foreign ministers of the AL lied Big Five gathered today to shape the course of the postwar worldy giving the top spot in the historic con- ference to the drafting of an Italian peace treaty.
 Italy's Status
 U. s. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, at a press conference be- fore the opening session of the council of foreign ministers, con- firmed that the Italian peace treaty holds the No. 1 priority on the pro- gram.
 The foreign ministers of Amer lea, Britain Russian France and China were meeting ct Lancaster house. An official British spokes- man said the first formal business
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WILD FIRE RACES

Houston, Tex, Sept. li.-(UP)- One of the largest oil fires in the history of the city ragged uncon- trolled todoy at the Eastern States Refinery near the outskirts.
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HOTEL DEATH

New York, Sept. 11-(UP)-Delia Morriarity, 5S, of 23 North Eas', Holyoke, Mass, died today at the Times Square hotel of natural causes, police reported.
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Editors Note: Frank n. Bar. tholomew, United Press vice. president for the Pacific, was at former Premier Hideki TOjo's side immediately after he shot himself today. Here is BarthOlOmew's eye witness story of what may have been TOj0's last hours.)
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Cheese, Meot Rotions End
 Soon .s ,
BULLETIN

BULLETIN
 Washington, Sept. ll-(UP)- Cheese ratlOnlng will end at mid. night tonight, the oflcc of Price Administration announced today.
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Italian Peace Treaty First Interest Of Big-5 Council
London Conference Opened Today in First Attempt to
 Shope World Peace
BULLETIN

London, Sept. II. - (UP)-The first meeting of the Council of Tor. eign Ministers opened at Lancaster House ct 3:30 p. m. today, with British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin presiding.
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