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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-05
NOTICE

Public Hearing on Special Peti- tion to the Board of Aldermen to allow a convalescent hospital to be located in the property located at II Plaza Avenue, Zone Residence B" in accordance with the pro- visions of the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Waterbury (Section III Paragraph ', as amended.
 In accordance with Section 426 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Connecticut of 1880 and Section III, Paragraph z of Building Zone Ordinance of the City of Waterbury as amended, notice is hereby given that a Committee of five of the Board of Aldermen will hold pub- lie hearing on Friday evening. April 20th, 1945 at 7:30 o'clock in the Aldermanic Chamber, City Hall Building on the special petition to the Board of Aldermen to allow a convalescent hospital to be located on the property located at T Plaza Avenue, bounded and described as follows:-
 FIRST PIECE
 Northerly 255.44 feet on lands now or formerly of Palomba Company Inc, now or formerly of Agnes F. Connor and on the Second Piece below described, each in part:
 EaSterly 135 feet on land now or formerly of Helen c. Healey, ct al; again.
 Northerly S2 feet, more or less, on lands now or formerly of said Helen c. Healey ct al, and now or formerly of Leo c. Devlin, each in part; again
 EaSterly 115.88 feet on land now or formerly of John E. Quinn; again
 Northerly 125 feet on land now or formerly of said John E. Quinn; again
 Easterly 126.27 feet on Chestnut Avenue;
 southerly 166.25 feet on land now or formerly of Mitchell G. Meyers; again
 Easterly 10o.02 feet on land now or formerly of said Mitchell G. Meyers; again
 Southerly 167.39 feet on Ludlow Street and possibly Wyman Street or Lincoln Street;
 Westerly 348.45 feet, more or less, on land now or formerly of The Colonial Trust Company, Trustee; again
 southerly 12.24 feet on land now or formerly of said The Colonial Trust Company, Trustee; and again
 Westerly l50 feet on land now or formerly of George H. Gloves. SECOND PIECE:
 Beginning at tine northeasterly corner of the First Piece above de- scribed which point is the south- easterly corner of the within de- scribed parcel; thence running northerly in a direct extension of the easterly line of the First Piece above described, 1.28 feet to Plaza Avenue: thence running northwest in the westerly line of Plaza Avenue, 36.80 feet: thence running southerly in a curved line having 6 radius of 30.3 (said radius at the com nlencement of said curve being tan- gent to tine line of Plaza Avenue), :, 24.73 feet to the northerly line of the First Piece above described; thence easterly in said northerly line s7.06 feet to the point or place of beginning.
 Together with . right of passway over a strip of land lying imanedi. ately westerly of the above describ- ed premises, bounded:
 Northeasterly S4.e feet on Plaza
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LEGAL NOTICES

Avenue;
 Easterly 24.73 feet on the above Second Piece;
 Southerly 2003 feet on the First Piece above described; and
 Westerly 66.83 feet on land for. merly of George H. Gloves.
 All persons owning properties in the vicinity of the above address or those immediately adjacent in the rear thereof, or those directly op- posite thereto, are hereby notified to appear and be heard in reference to the proposed amendment at the time and place above specified.
 The hearing will be held before the following Committee: Alder men Tehan, Ashley, Rafferty, Har- pin and Bensen. By order of the Board of Aldermen at a meeting held April 21d, 1945.
 Attet:-
 JOSEPH M. SHEA, 4/5/2t City Clerk
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though censored dispatches from the First and Ninth Army fronts indicated they were moving up for an equally decisive thrust across the middle WeSer River.
 2-Mile Advance
 The third army made advances of as much as 22 miles in the past 24 hours, flaming out east and southeast through rolling terrain on the eastern fringe of the Thu ringian Forests.
 Fighting throughout the area had settled down into a series of small-scale battles for isolated vil- lages by-passed by Patton's ram- paging Fourth, Sixth and 11th ar- mored divisions.
 The Fourth Division was moving against Erfurt, 130 miles southwest of Berlin, after capturing the air- craft manufacturing center of Go- tha, 13 miles to the west, Fourth armored columns also were riding eastward on the Frankfurt-Leip- zig-D Dresden superhighway running just south of the Gotha- -Erfurt line, and other units of the division took Ohrdruf, seven miles south of Gotha.
 The 11th armored division was on and perhaps across the Werra River in the Ahlstadt area, 27 miles south of Gotha and little more than 60 miles from the north western corner of Czechoslovakia.
 On the Fourth's north flank, two columns of the Sixth armored rac- ed ahead 22 miles to enter Muehl- hauSen, 136 miles southwest of Berlin. The Germans offered only feeble opposition in Muehlhausen, and the town was believed to be firmly in American hands today.
 The Sixth Division was crowding close on the heels of a Nazi troop column retreating eastward with 5000 Allied prisoners of war, and there was possibility the Tanks overlook the column in Muehlhau- sen.
 There also was possibility that a number off high-ranking NaI leaders or members of the German high command were trapped or in imminent danger of capture by the rolling Fourth Division.
 United Press War Correspondent Robert Richards reported that au- thorities in Gotha were preparing a headquarters there for a number of German "big- wigs" enroute from Berlin when American tanks broke into the town.
 Unknown Nazi dignitaries might already be trapped in the by-pas- sed City of Eisenach. 16 miles west of Gotha. A small band of SS troops was still fightin ginside Ei- senach early today with fanatic ism that suggested prize more valuable than the city was at stake.
 Richards said the German com- munications and supply system throughout the Third Army front appeared to have broken down completely as result of Patton's slashing tank thrusts.
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OkinoWo Isle
 Yonks Slowed
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The hills command much of southern Okinawa. Troops pushing through a misty rain toward one 600-foot height guarding the ap- breaches to Shuri ran into heavy artillery, machine gun and mortar fire.
 Heavy Jap Artillery
 For the first time since the inva- sion Sunday, heavy Japanese artil- lery and mortar fire was screaming into the American front lines. The enemy appeared determined to hold Machinato and Yonabaru airfields, both within mile and half to two miles of the advancing Americans.
 The veteran 32nd regiment of the Seventh division on the eastern end of the line above Naha smashed the first organized resistance of the campaign yesterday with the cap- ture of a ridge above Ishado on Nakagusuku Bay naval anchorage.
 The ridge was described as a strong outpost defended by mortars, machine-guns and some artillery.
 The 184th regiment, meantime. was attacking Japanese pocket es- timated at company strength-pos- sibly 200 men-on the west coast. Flame throwing tanks were spear heading the attack.
 The Army advances on the south- ern front, coupled with marine push to the north deep into the narrow isthmus between southern and central Okinawa, gave the Americans control of 30 square miles -one sixth-of the island only 33o miles southwest of Japan.
 The campaign already was 12 days ahead of schedule, with the inva- sion forces controlling IT miles ot the west coast and 12 miles of the east coast, including half the shore line of the vital Nakagusuku Bay naval anchorage.
 The 24th army corps line in the south, as of yesterday, ran from Uchi Tomari on the west coast, four and a half miles north of Naha and one and three quarters miles north of Machinato airfield; rough Kamiyama, in the center, to point just north of Nakagusuku village and two miles north of Yonabarr airfield on the east coast.
 An interpreter told United Press War Correspondent E. G. Valens on Okinawa that Japanese civilians thought the garrison planned to form a strong line across the nar- row isthmus north of Naha and Yonabaru.
 Troops were withdrawn from the northern coast of Nakagusuku Bay several weeks ago because it was an. ticipated the Americans would land there, civilians said. The civilian population of Naha was evacuated a month ago following heavy air raids, they reported, and the mil itary command moved inland.
 Swarms of carrier planes and the big guns of warships were support
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M'Arfhur On M0sbote Isle
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 The aerial assaults were indica. tive of the strength of the blockade which MacArthur said was com pIeted with the seizure of Tawi Tawi, at the southern end of the Sulu archipelago and only % miles from Borneo.
 The long chain of blockading air- fields extends more than 1000 miles from the northern to the southern tip of the Philippines and stretches 2,000 miles eastward through New Guinea.
 It brought the Asiatic coast within short range of bombers from the Philippines, MacArthur said, and left the South China Sea open for easy coverage by planes and sub- marines.
 This cuts of enemy sea traffic to the conquered possessions to the south and sewers the so-called em- pire life line to the east Indis," MacArthur added.
 He explained that the blockade line was successive series of belts extending for thousands of miles which Japan finds 1t impossible to pierce"
 Already our blockade has sunk many hundreds of thousands of tons of enemy shipping" he said, land with the acquisition of the Tawi Tawi base is now in complete oper. ation.
 For many weeks 1t has been dif- ficult for Japan to ship oil, rubber or other essential military commo- dities from the southwest Pacific to the homeland or military supplies from Japan to garrisons in those waters and as the air pressure of our blockade reaches its peak such trafiic will become practically im- possible.
 "The entire Dutch East Indies are now isolated not only for exploita- tion but from the enemy reinforce ment and supply"
 MacArthur also disclosed that American troops were moving rap- idly across the Southern Lupzon to- ward a junction with the 158th regi- mental combat team pushing up the Legaspi Peninsula. South of Laguna Bay the Americans drove more than 10 miles in one day to break into Tayabas province from BatangaS.
 In the advance from Rosario, the Tanks captured the town of Pury, and reached Taong, two miles to the north and seven miles south of San Pablo.
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New German Drive Seen
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Frontier reports said Hitler him. seld already had retired from his headquarters outside Berlin to Berchtesgaden. The huge victory maps which formerly lined the walls of Hitler'S underground study have been torn down, these reports said A Zurich dispatch to the London Daily Mail said Hitler alternates between long spells of silence and violent, screaming attacks of rage, He sleeps rarely and his face is lined with worry. the dispatch said. It added that Hitler was believed scared of British parachutists.
 Another Daily Mail dispatch, this one from Stockholm said NaM Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels was injured when the automobile in which he was riding last Saturday near Berlin crashed into the rear of another in which assassins killed two Gestapo Guards and their chauffeur.
 The dispatch speculated that the asSassins had been gunning for oOCULClO, DuO 1ldlUCu VIlC W1OllS Cdl in error The German government was offered a $40, 900 reward for in- formation leading to the arrest of the culprits..
 Reliable sources last night iden- tified the Gauleiter Greiser who the Soviet War News said had been captured by the Red Army at Poz- nan, as actually Arthur Greiser, Nazi overlord of the Poznan dis trict and one of the most detested of the NaI war criminals.
 Greiser ranks next to Rudolf Hess, former Deputy Fuehrer of Germany and now in British hands, as the highest German war criminal yet captured.
 Former president of the Danzig senate, he played key role in de- livering the former free state into German hands in 1889 and was re- warded by being given the PoMan Post.
 Among the crimes for which he was wanted was the shooting of 100 Polish political prisoners in 1922 in retaliation for the killing of two Gestapo men by Polish sergeant.
 It was taken for granted that the Russians, or possibly the new Polish provisional government, would try to execute Greiser.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-05
NOTICE

Public Hearing on Proposed Amendment to the Building Zone Ordinance for property located on southweSterly corner of Hopkins Street and Pearl Street.
 In accordance with Section 425 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Connecticut of 1930, notice is hereby given that Committee of five of the Board of Aldermen will hold 8 public hearing on Friday Evening, April 20th, 1945 at 7:3o o'clock in the Aldermanic Chamber. City Hall Building on the proposed change in the Building Zone Ordi- nance from B" Residence to Busi- ness Zone T" for property located on southwesterly corner of Hopkins Street and Pearl Street, bounded and described as follows:-
 Northerly-11l feet on Hopkins
 Street;
 Easterly-50 feet on Pearl Street; Southerly-110 feet more or less
 on land now or formerly of
 the City of Waterbury; and Westerly-50 feet on land now or
 formerly of NocarNo Mari
 naro.
 All persons owning properties in the vicinity of the above address or those immediately adjacent in the rear thereof, or those directly op- posite thereto, are hereby notified to appear and be heard in reference to the proposed amendment at the time and place above specified.
 The hearing will be held before the following Committee: Aldermen Tehan, Ashley, Rafferty, Harpin and Bensen. By order of the Board of Aldermen, at meeting held April 2nd, 1945.
 AtteSt:-
 JOSEPH M. SHEA, 4/5/2t City Clerk.
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 for a total of $8.607 APT. Explana- ton for this is. given as follows: under provisions of the agreement relating to note payable July. 1850 certain restrictions exist in respect of payment Of dividends and aqui- sitions of the companys own stock in excess of consolidated net income since January, 1940. plus the sum of $2,500,000; the amount of sur- plus is $7.084,275 in excess of the amount thus restricted.
 Net income for 1944 after renego- tiation and after amount for in- crease in inventory reserve is shown as $4,166,191 while that for 1943 and 1942 respectively is shown as $4,218,- O21 and $3.166, 987. During the last fiscal year total of $2,093, ,676 in cash dividends was paid out in quarterly instalments of $50 per share each installment int he fol- lowing amount, $523,4
 The annual report, according to MT. Sperry, is in preliminary form due to the uncertainties of renego- tiation and restates the l043 figures to give effect to the renegotiation for the year. Tn his letter to the stockholders the president of the concern states:
 "A renegotion settlement for the
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ters under discussion, t,'cc..e broad casts said, were plans for rice pro- duction in the 1945 fiscal year
 The dramatic announcement of the cabinets resignation followed soon after, however.
 The Koiso cabinet came under particularly heavy fire of elder Jap anese political leaders, including a number of former premiers and members of both houses of the Jap anese diet, following the start of B-29 raids on Japan.
 These leaders pressed for a more vigorous prosecution of the war, in- cluding total mobilization of Japan,s manpower and resources, and openly criticized what 1t called the laxity of the Koiso cabinet.
 Okinawa Final Straw
 The government took a number of steps toward meeting the de- mands and appeared to have satis- fled it's critics up to the time of the invasion of Okinawa.
 A new totalitarian political party. the political association of great Japan, was formed with Koiso'S blessings.
 By the more rabid of his former critics last month and it was pos- sible that any new government would be drawn from it's ranks.
 Among the members of the Koiso government, sworn in July p, 1914, only five days after Tojo's resigna- tion, were Mamoru Shigemitsu, for eign minister and greater East Asia minister; Field Marshal Gen. Sugi- yama, war minister; Admiral Mitsu- mas Yonai, Navy Minister; Shigeo Odachi, home minister, and Juichi Tsushima, finance minister.
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abatement. A demurrer made by the plaintiffs to the plea was sus- tained, however, by Judge Carl Fos- ter, now state referee. The high court ruled the demurrer should have been overruled and the abate- ment plea should have been sus- tained.
 A judgment in their favor was requested by the defendants last Friday, but Judge Frank P. McEvoy denied the request on the ground the plaintiffs should have an oppor- tunity to try to correct the defect found by the high court in their complaint.
 The civil action was started near ly five years ago when the city board permitted an addition to the East Main street building, which houses the First National store. The addition was sought so the store could be enlarged into super market. The addition crossed the business zone line and extended into the Wales street residential section. The plaintiffs, owners of property on Wales street, objected and claimed the addition was con- trary to the zoning ordinance.
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Clean Cut Surrender
 By Nazis Not Likely
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no longer be chased as soldiers of recognized government but would occupy the status of brigands or pirates"
 Since, if captured under these conditions, they would not be en- titled to protection afforded by the laws of war" he said, it is my conviction that, except for extreme fanatics, they would largely sur- render.
 But so long as any of the Hit Ter gang retains semblance of po- litical power, believe the effort will be to continue resistance not only throughout Germany but in all of the outlying areas including the western port areas of France, Denmark and Norway.
 ITO counteract this eventuality our local propaganda stations are constantly pointing out to the Ger mans that they should now be planting crops for next winters
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-05
NOTICE

Public Hearing on Proposed Amendment to the Building Zone Ordinance for property located at IA and 16 Waterville Street.
 In accordance with Section 425 of the Revised Statutes of the StatN of Connecticut of 1880, notice is hereby given that a Committee of five of the Board of Aldermen will hold public hearing on Friday evening, April 20th, 1945 at 7:3a o'clock, in the Aldermanic Chamber. City Hall Building on the proposed change in the Building Zone Ordi- nance from B" Residence, to "C" Residence Zone, for property located at No. IA and No. l6 Waterville Street and bounded and described as follows:-
 Commencing at point in the easterly line of Waterville Street, the same being the southwesterly corner of land now or formerly of Roger and Angelina Connor; thence easterly along the southerly line of land now or formerly of said Con- nors, ninety (90) feet; thence north- erly along the eaSterly line of land now or formerly of said ConnorS, thirty-four (34) feet; thence east erly along line of land now or for merly of Harrison Bonnet and land now or formerly of Joanna Mo- Carthy. fifty (50) feet, more or less; thence southerly along the westerly line of land now or former ly of Luzerne M. Camp, sixty (60) feet to said Camps southwest cor- ner; thence westerly in a direct continuation of said Camps south- erly line to point one hundred and twenty five (125) feet westerly from the westerly line of Chestnut Avenue; thence southerly in line parallel to Chestnut Avenue and one hundred and twenty-five (125) feet therefrom to a point which would be intersected by a line run ming easterly from Waterville Street parallel to and forty -four (44) feet southerly from the southerly line of land now or formerly of Roger and Angelina Connor; thence west erly one hundred and twenty-one CPD feet, more or less, to Water vile Street; thence northerly in the easterly line of Waterville Street; forty -four (44) feet to the place of beginning
 All persons owning properties in the vicinity of the above address or those immediately adjacent in the rear thereof, or those directly opposite thereto, are hereby noti- tied to appear and be heard in refer
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year 1943 was concluded in March 1945, at a net book cost to the Com pany of $4,103,102 of which $2,- 946, ,451 is payable in cash and the remainder, $1,156,561, is represented by reduction in postwar refund of excess profits taxes and state tax adjustment. This net book cost of $4, ,103, ,102 has been charged to the Reserve; we continue to hold in re- serve $845, ,227 (the amount we ex- pect to receive in interest bearing Excess Profits Tax Refund Bonds of the United States to be paid the third year after the war as a postwar refund of 1943 adjusted excess profits taxes) and the ball. ance of the Reserve, $1, ,227, ,288, has been added to the amount previous ly carried to surplus"
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food instead of fighting. In addi- tion, I am hopeful of launching operations at the proper time that should partially prevent a gueril- la control of any large area, such as the Southern Mountain bas- tion.'
 Eisenhower conceded that it was always possible" that there might be "a sudden upsurge of popular resentment against the war" which would lead to easier pacification of Germany.
 My opinion" he added, "is bas- ed upon the supposition that our experience to date provides our best basis for future prediction. At best we should be prepared for the eventuality described"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-05
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that a pub. lie hearing will be held before Committee of Five of the Board u Aldermen of the City of Waterbur, on Friday evening, April 20th, l945 at 7:30 o'clock, in the Aldermani. Chamber, City Hall Building, Grant Street, in regard to the amendini of the Building Zone Ordinance 1 the City of Waterbury, Section IT the paragraph entitled, BUILDING LINES, NUMBERING BUILDINGS ETC., to read as follows, to witt.
 Building Lines: Whenever new streets are laid out or the line, of existing streets are changed, building lines for said streets shali be established or designated by the Board of Aldermen, and until such line is so established it shall not be lawful Tor any person to erect or to place, cause to be erected or to be placed, any building or structure OF such street, and after the establish ment of such line it shall be unlaw. full for any person to erect or to place, cause to be erected or to be placed, any building or structure nearer such street than the line Sd established. No open veranda. porch, balcony, cornics or other similar projection, shall be erected or placed nearer such street than eight (8) feet beyond the buildins line; nor beyond the lines of such street. nor shall any closed verands project beyond the building line ot, said street. No steps, belt courses. window sills, columns, cornices or any projection except an eight (8) inch metal drip edge shall extend beyond the street lines of any street, between the level of the sidewalk grade and line ten (10) feet above such grade, nor shall any protection at any elevation extend beyond the street lines of any street. Any per- son offending against the, provisions of this section shall be fined not less than Twenty-Five ($25.0o) Dol lars nor more than One Hundred ($10000) Dollars for every such of-. fense; and a like penalty for every week that such building or other structure, bay window, fire escape or other projection shall remain in violation of any of the provisions of this section.
 The hearing will be held before the following Committee: Alder men Tehan. Ashley. Rafferty, Har-' pin, and Bensen.
 All persons interested in the Ordi- nance are hereby notified to ap- pear and be heard regarding the same.
 Attest:-,
 JOSEPH M. SHEA, < Ao/1C City Clerk.