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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-05-01
Patton Heads
Toward Linz
By BOYD ID. LEWIS

Paris, May 1.-(UP)-American
and French armies drove deep into
the Bavarian redoubt from three
sides today in general offensive
to split up the NaA Alpine pocket
and cut off its defenders from their
last arsenal in Czechoslovakia.
The triple strike into the south
ern Bastion came as british Second
Army forces in the north broke out
of their Elbe river bridgehead, out
fanked the great port of Hamburg
and raced northward for the Baltic
Sea in a blazing bid to isolate Den
mark from Hitler's dying Reich.
Gen. George S. Patton sent his
American Third Army storming
throug hthe northeastern corner of
the Bavarian redoubt toward Linz
and a possible junction with the
Red Army on the Danube.
At the same time, Patton's men
rammed directly southwark across
the Isar river into the last 60-odd
mile stretch before Berchtesgaden,
core Of the Bavarian pocket.
The Third Army drive for Linz
carried across the Austrian frontier
at a new point near Ober Kappel,
IA miles east of the border fortress
of Passau, q miles northwest Of
Linz and SO miles from the last
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Perjury Charge Faces
Man Nolu Honevnoonir,g

ground Of desertion. Last April II
he filed an intention with the local
bureau of vital statistics to marry
Marie Mott of 68 Vine street, and
the ceremony was performed Thurs
day night at his home.
At the divorce hearing Blocker
testified his first marriage took place
Sept 81, 1910 at Johnston, S. c..
and he alleged his wife deserted
hime the following Oct. 10.
Records obtained by investigators
show the marriage was performed
Sept. Is, 1871, it has been reported.
Desertion for three years is re-
quired before it can become a
ground for divorce. The question Of
legal residence in the state also Is
expected to arise in the case.
Blocker was q minor at the time
the divorce was obtained and he
filed his complaint through Mack
Butler Of Waterbury.
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Still honeymooning with his Sec
ond bride, Avery Blocker. Jr, 81, OF
81 Pearl street faces arraignment
in superior court on a perjury
charge based on testimony given
year ago when he obtained a divorce
from his former wife.
Arrested yesterday on a bench
warrant issued last Friday by Su-
perior Court Judge John A. Cornell
on the request of States Attorney
William B. Fitzgerald, Blocker has
been freed under $4,000 bond pend
ing arraignment at the June GRIM
inal term of the court.
The court information accuses
Blocker of giving false testimony
under oath regarding the date of his
previous marriage and other mate
rial on it.
Blocker obtained q divorce May
4, 1914 from Anna Mae Walker
Blocker Of Jamaica, N. Y. on the
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ItoIy's Maxi r
Ranks Broken
BY HERBERT KING

Rome. May 1.-(UP)-GeneraI
Mark w. Clark's Allied armies IN
northern Italy today conti2 led 70
slash through broken enemy Tanks
toward functions with French.
American and Jugoslav forces 10
the vest, north, and east.
Fifteenth Army Group Forces
were within 1879 miles Of the Sew
enth American Army on the NORTH.
221a miles from the French on the
west, and less than So from the
Jugoslavs.
Troops Of the 18th Army group
continue to slash demoralized en-
envy forces throughout north Italy"
said today's communique reporting
new gains to the north and east.
Fifth Captures Riva
Fifth Army troops, who were
meeting the only stiff resistance
north Of Lake Garda, captured
Riva, Tarbole, and Mayo. Riva Is
ITO miles from the Erenner Pass.
which the Germans are trying des-
perately to keep open to let their
remnants escape into the Bavartan
ReDoubt. Seventh Army forces
in Austria were within II miles OF
Innsbruck, the northern gateway,
and 20 miles from the pass itself.
On the west, French forces slash
ing across the Italian frontier wars
reported only 221s miles from Turin.
taken by 5th Army troops yesser-
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Sugar Ration
Being Sliced

Washington, May }. - CUP -
Sugar available to ration book hold
ers and home Gamers will be about
third less than the amount
allotted last year, it was announced
today by three government agencies.
The new sugar ration is fixed at
Is pounds annually for each indi-
vidual compared to "a pounds last
year. In addition, Sugar Stamp
IS which becomes valid today must
last for four months. 1t is good for
five pounds of sugar.
Home Gamers will receive alto
gether only 10 per cent as much
sugar this season as they received
last year. Local ration boards will
limit the amount OF sugar for such
purposes to Is pounds for each ~
dividual compared to 20 pounds last
year. The maximum amount avail
able to any family will be l2O
pounds.
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Nurse Draft
Plans Dying

Washington, May 1.-(UP)-It Is
unlikely now that any American
nurse ever will be drafted in this
war.
Maj. Gen. Norman T. Kirk, Sur
geon General, told the United Press
today he still believes passage Of
the nurse-draft bill absolutely ne
ceSsary."
But the measure requested by
President Roosevelt in his message
to Congress Jan. 6, passed by the
House March 7 and approved by
the Senate Military Affairs Commit
tee March %. is being allowed to
die on the Senate calendar.
Death began yesterday when:
Rep. Frances P. Bolton, R,
O.-the woman to whom Congress
always listens on the topic of nurS-
es-told Senators a draft would
be unwise."
2.--Sen. Edwin c. Johnson, D.,
Colo, warned acting majority lead
er Lister Hill, D., Ala, that he
would make red hot speech"
against the me assure if Hill brought
it up.
johnson added grirnly that he
would "be forced to say a lot of
things he didn't want lettings
that should not be said at this time"
3,-Sen. Robert A. Taft. r., O.,
head Of the Republican steering
committee, advised Hill he would
have trouble" on the other side of
the Senate as well.
Hill decided against calling the
measure up.
Today there seemed to be only
one condition under which admin
stration forces would buck Johnson.
That is if majority leader Alben w.
Barley, D., KY, and Chairman Ell
bert Thomas, D., Utah, of the Mil
itary Affairs committee should re-
turn from Europe with a picture of
dire need in army hospitals there.
Thomas was described by his COL
leagues as bitterly opposed to a
nurses draft, Barley was none too
hot on it."
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Williamsburg, Mass, May l.
(UP)-Two Army flyers were killed
and seven others were injured to-
day when Liberator bomber
ploughed through third of mile
Of woodlands and crashed on Briar
Hill.
There was no fire nor explosion.
but the planes wreckage was scat
tered over a wide area in the
Berkshire foothills.
The accident occurred during a
heavy rain and amid low-hanging
clouds that enveloped the hill
tops.
One of those hurt, believed to be
the co-pilot, managed to crawl from
the shattered plane and walk half
mile to the farmhouse Of Charles
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7luo Army Filters Killed
In Massachusetts Crash

Merritt, who notified Army auth
critics at Westover field. The air
men were on training flight from
that field when the accident &C.
cured.
The. plane was at such a low
altitude when trouble developed
that none of the flyers apparently
had chance to bail out.
Scene of the crash was about five
miles north of this village.
A rescue party which CANT from
Westover field took the injured to a
Northampton hospital for treatment.
1t was said that ordinarily the. c
would have been 10 men aboard the
bomber butt hat one crew member
had stayed behind because of ILL
ness.
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Yunk Tanks
Near Shuri
RY FRANK TREMAINE

Guam, May l. - UP - American
troops swept within two miles of
Naha capital of Okinawa, today and
brought its northeastern outpost OF
Shuri under direct tank fire.
The two-pronged drive, supported
by an ucceasing air-land-sea bonn
bardment, was paced by the 9th
Army Division which overran Mach
inato Airfield and pushed into the
strong japanese defenses on the
northern outskirts of Naha.
A front dispatch disclosed that
Sherman tanks of the seth division.
pushing down the center OF the is
land Smelling Shuri, second city OF
Okinawa, three miles northeast OF
Naha.
The tanks, from a platoon COM
manded by 1t. Robert B. Lyons,
Ordway, Colo, were firing shells
into Shuri from hill one mile
north of the city, the dispatch said.
Elements of the Seventh Division
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Twin rogedy
Ends Series
OF QuorreIs

Sundays double tragedy in Wa
terville was the elimination of many
bitter quarrels between Mrs. Flora
B. Hubbell, A Middlesex street, and
her divorced husbands brother, Da-
vid Hubbell, ST, who lived with her,
police said today, although they
could establish no precise motive
for the crime.
Mrs. Hubbell, who had been de-
Spondent and in III health since a
gall bladder operation a month ago,
apparently shot and killed David
Hubbell as he lay sleeping in bed
room of her home Sunday night,
and then took her own life, Coroner
Stephen A. HomicK reported.
David Hubbell was apparently "
ing on his right side on the edge of
double bed, clad in his undercloth
ing, when Mrs. Hubbell entered the
room at about $50 p. m. Sunday,
Chief Inspector Joseph R. Bender
said. She was carrying single-bar-
rel .410 gauge shotgun which she
had used for hunting pheasants.
She walked over to the bed
pointed the gun few inches from
the sleeping mans right side, and
fired. The impact knocked him from
the bed and he lay crumpled on the
floor in pool of blood between the
foot of vanity table and a rocker
piled high with magazines.
Then Mrs. Hubbell went into the
kitchen, took the spent shell out of
the gun and inserted another. She
reentered the bedroom, sat down on
the edge of the bed, placed the
gun btween her knees, the muzzle in
her mouth, and fired. Her body,
clothed in a striped kimono, fell
backwards across the bed, her feet
touching the floor, the gun still be-
tween her legs.
The bodies were discovered by
Mrs. Birdsey Gilbert Of Mortified,
Mrs. Hubbells sister-in-law, and
Harold Hubbell, So, 10 WEIGH street,
Mrs. Hubbell's divorced husband,
yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Gilbert told investigators
that as she was leaving the Hubbell
home after a visit Sunday, Mrs.
Hubbell told her to come back the
next day, and look after my chill
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WLB Urges
Cool Miners
End Wo1kout
By CHARLES H. HERROLD

Washington, May 1-CUP)-PreS-
ident John L. Lewis of the United
Mine Workers appears before the
War Labor Board today to face a
demand that he order an immediate
end to the Walkout of hard coal
miners which began last midnight.
The government is expected to act
quickly to seize the anthracite
mines if Lewis refuses to call his
miners back.
Peter Flyzik, international repre-
sentative of UNIV District Seven,
announced at Coaldale, Pa, that he
had received orders from union OIL
Gals to cease all anthracite mine
work at midnight. The general
opinion throughout the coal fields
was reported to be that there would
be no work today and the 1900
hard coal miners would live up to
their strike ballot of last Thursday
when they voted 6 to l to support
Lewis.
The WLB has summoned Lewis
and the anthracite coal producers to
a hearing at 2:30 p. m. EWT to
show cause why the old contract
between miners and producers
should not be extended 80 days. Ihe
board ordered extension OF the old
agreement last night few hours
before its expiration. 1t was TOO
late to prevent work interruption.
Lewis dispute with the hard coal
producers over new contract got
out of control with surprising ra-
pidity last night. Secretary OF Labor
Frances Perkins delayed certifying
the case to the WLB on the basis
of information that the parties
were close to an agreement.
The Labor Department was OPP
timistic in belief that if new con-
tract was not signed as result OF
Miss Perkins intervention in the
negotiations then Lewis would agree
to an extension of the old contract.
The operators had already agreed
to such action. The soft coal nego-
tiations had been successfully con-
cluded without widespread work
Stoppage.
But the departments mediation
broke down and short time later
the UNIV scale committee turned
down the request to extend the con-
tract.
Lewis said the committee would
request the miners to work when
the operators agree to the secre-
tary of Labor's proposals"
The case was sent to the WLB
at 8 p. m. WLB emphasized the
hour in its telegram to Lewis asking
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Iqnominious
Burial Given
Ex-Dictotor
BY JAMES ROPER

Milan, May l. (UP)-Benito Mus
solini and his mistress, Clara
Petacci, were buried secretly in un-
marked graves in the Potters' field
of the Maggiore cemetery late yes
terday, it was revealed today.
Former Fascist Party Secretary
Achille Starace. who was executed
yesterday, was inferred a short dis
lance away in the same plot of
ground.
The only witnesses to the ignom-
inious burials were IS members OF
the cemetery staff who were sworn
to secrecy to prevent mobs from
learning the graves location and
possibly exhuming the remains OF
the former dictator.
The three bodies were in rough.
implanted pine collins, the tops OF
which were screwed on.
A military chaplain offered a
brief Catholic benediction for all
three as they were lowered into the
ground.
An Italian Red Cross truck had
transported the three bodies from
the morgue to the burial site under
some fir trees.
Vittorio Vertova, cemetery direc-
tor who supervised the burials, said
the brain had been removed from
Mussolini's body and criminologists
were examining it.
Undertakes did their best to re-
pair the damage done MussollnIs
corpse, which had been stoned,
kicked, spat upon, and shot at by
the Milan mob in two days OF I'M
paralleled crowd hysteria.
They built up his face so that 1t
had regained some of its oldtime
arrogance. His mouth was stuffed
to hide the loss of his teeth, which
had been kicked out by the MOB.
A routine autopsy was performed
yesterday because no doctor had at
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-05-01
Reds Parade
For May Day
BY HENRY SHAPIRO

Moscow, May l - GU PD - The
Red Army celebrated May Day to-
day with the most impressive dis
play of Soviet power in history,
marching 100000 strong before an
imposing array of dignitaries in
Guiding japanese Ambassador Mao
taxa Saito, who stood grim and
alone in a corner of the diplomatic
box.
Moscows first May Day military
parade of the war brought again to
the capital the pomp and panoply
of the holiday i'll peace time. The
celebration was tensed to the verge
of eXultation by word from Berlin
that the Red banner fluttered over
the Reichstag and final victory was
at hand.
Marshal Stain reviewed the par
AIDE. He stood practically motionless
for two hours, his fingers touching
the visor Of his cap, as Red Army
men and steel streamed across Red
Square and hundreds of planes
zoomed overhead in perfect forma-
ton.
Stain appeared in the Square at
$50. He ran briskly up the steps
of Lenin's Mausoleum, followed by
ranking government and military
officials. He wore a marshals uni
form.
Exactly at 10 o'clock. General
Alexei Antonov. Army chief of staff,
mounted copper-colored horse
and galloped across Red Square to
the Mausoleum. There he mounted
the second tier, on which stood
Stain and other high ranking off,
Gals, and addressed the massed So
Wet troops.
He reviewed the victorious course
of the war as the Red Army's
liberation of Europe and the saliva
ton of civilization"
The German Army has been vir-
tually completely destroyed, he said,
and Germany isolated from all but
one ally-Japan. The Japanese am
bassador listened to the remark
without showing trace of emotion.
Stains order of the day, issued
caller, had stressed the same points
as Antonov.
When the chief of staff finished,
a gigantic roar of hurrahs went up
from the 100000 men massed be-
fore him. 1t was so loud it drowned
out the Kremlin chimes and the
salvos OF the Kremlin's guns.
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BERLIN CAPTURE DUE TONIGHT
ALLIES Invade
b0RNEO jAPS'
RICHEST ISLE

Manila, May L. CUP -
An Allied invasion of Borneo,
Japan's biggest and richest
island conquest in the Pa
cltlc, was announced by Aus
tralian government officials
IN Canberra today.
A Canberra dispatch re-
layed to the United Press in
Manila said Australian
Treasurer ]. B. Chifley an
nounced the invasion of Bor-
neo to the commonwealth
legislature today.
Chifley said Australian
troops participated in the
landing, indicating that
American invasion forces
also were involved.
There was no immediate con-
frmation at General Douglas Mac
Arthurs Headquarters, but an
earlier Tokyo broadcast said Allied
troops were pouring ashore on the
east coast of the immensely rich Oil
and rubber producing island in the
Dutch East Indies.
The Japanese broadcast said the
troops went ashore last night I'M
der cover of naval bombardment
in the Tarakan area, ITS miles
southwest of American bases at
the southern end of the Sulu Ar
chipelago.
The Tarakan area is one of the
largest Oil centers in the East In
dies. Tarakan itself, however, is a
comparatively small island in the
Celebes sea Several miles off the
east coast of Jorneo.
Tokyo said the invasion forces
landed late at night and We're en-
gagged in fierce combat" by the
Japanese garrison Although the
reported invasion site was not Civ
en-, it presumably was ir the wide
Delta area on the eastern shore
opposite Tarakan.
A previous landing attempt was
made at noon yesterday, the broad
cast said, but was repulsed.
BOrneo Bombed
Borneo, the worlds third largest
island covering $4,000 square miles
and particularly Tarakan have
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BY ROBERT MUSEL

London, May l. = (UP) =
A Moscow broadcast said to-
day that the Russians expect
ed the Red Army to an
nounce tonight the capture
of Berlin, where the hammer
and sickle already flew trl-
umphant over the Reichstag
and a dozen other admins
trative buildings.
Russian and German re-
ports alike indicated an I'M
minent decision amidst the
blood-soaked rubble of Ber-
lin, where the Red Army was
hewing out its greatest SYM
bolic victory of the war.
The German high command
Joined the chorus of NaA claims
that Adolf Hitler was in Berlin. Its
communique said that In the heart
of Berlin the gallant garrison, gath
cred closely around the Fuehrer, is
defending itself against superior
Soviet forces" If Hitler Is there.
he appeared doomed to certain
death or capture by the Russians.
All Moscow broadcasts and dis
patches reflected confident expecta-
tons that Marshal Stain would cap
Moscows first glittering May Day
celebration Of the war with an an
hol fa1
Robert Magidoff, broadcasting
over the Moscow radio for NBC.
said the Russian people expected
| the announcement OF Berlin's fall
! tonight.
Resistance Falters
Reports tagging well behind the
course of the struggle in the heart
OF Berlin said the Russians had
battled onto Inter Den Linden
against faltering resistance. The
Russian flag had been hoisted over
the Reichstag, the main postoffice
and the interior ministry.
The battle ragged within stones
throw of Adolf Hitler's one-time or
nate Reichschancellery, and in the
Tiergarten, where the Nazis were
reported to have established q fort
for a last-ditch stand.
Victory already was in the air
over the Red square In Moscow.
where 100000 Red army men par
AIDED before Marshal Stain and
Russia's top military and political
leaders.
Moscow dispatches said Soviet
assault units broke through In Ber-
lin to the vicinity Of the Branden-
burg gate, and that storm units
were converging on the Wilhelm
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arley, Stymied By Speeches,
Set ToGet Down To Business
BY LYLE G.. WILSON

San Francisco, May 1-(UP)-
The United Nations conference was
prepared to get down to serious
business today, with its first big
public fight under its belt and an
invitation en- route to Argentina
despite vigorous Russian objec-
tons.
Oratory still was the order of the
day, holding up most plenary ses-
sion business. But the question OF
commission and committee assign
ments has been ironed out by the
Big -Four, and their recommended
tons are to go before executive
and steering committee meetings
and perhaps a plenary session to-
day.
Actual work on world organ
ization charter will start after
these working units-commis3ionS
and committees-are set up. Mean
while, plenary sessions will be de-
voted largely to giving delegation
chieftains an opportunity to put in
the record, in opening speeches,
the views of their countries. 1t
was understood about Is speeches
are on schedule.
MolOtov Defeated
The doors Of this conference final
ly have been opened to Argentina
but only after a bitter public battle.
Soviet Foreign CommLssar V. M.
Molotov pleaded with committees,
with the press and finally the full
conference itself to delay an invita-
ton to the Buenos Aires govern
ment
He made no progress. In the end
he was voted down 81 to 4. Only
Czechoslovakia, Yukoslavia and
Greece supported the Russian.
Molotov was begging for time in
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any tale conceived by Horatio
Alger, master of portraying from
rags to riches In poignant tic-
ton, and Harry Grayson paints
it wildly in three dramatic, il
Illustrated chapters. He tells OF
Chambers background in sports,
that he is still an athlete at
heart.
How Happy Chandler sang and
back-slapped his way to the gov
ernorship Of his native state,
thence on to q seat in the q. 8.
Senate is graphically told by
Harry Grsyson in his dynamic
style.
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NEA Sports
Editor, in his
n e W DRAM
attic series be-
ginn i n g on
he Sports
Page today.
The story
of Al b e + t
B e II ] a m ! n
cha n d | er,
new Commits
S on e r OF
Baseball Is
more thrill
ing and ex-
citing than
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Introducing Baseball's
New Mr.. Big;
He's a Happy Choice

HAPPY CHANDLER began
life with two strikes on him, par
laved a SIS bill, red sweater and
a smile into national political
prominence, says Harry Grayson,
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The Weather

Showers Tonight
Full Weather Report Page 2.
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The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-11-07

Chicago and Northwest conference,
in which there are such large cities
as Detroit, Chicago, Indianapolis,
st. Paul, Minneapolis and Milwau-
kee. According to latest church
statistics, compiled at the recent
conference, Bishop Gregg's district
has 274 churches with a member
ship of 55,4O9.
Bishop Gregg's new book, "Of
Arms and of Men," has just been
published to tell the story of his
$1,000 mile tour of the war zones
in 1943 and 1914.