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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18
FUNERALS

Funeral services for Alexander Edwin Smith, 50 Pemberton street, will be held from the Alderson funeral home, 70 Central avenue, tomorrow at 2 p. m. with Rev. Francis O. Ayres, rector of St. Johns Episcopal church, officiating. Burial will be in Old Pine Grove cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home today from 3 to 5 and ' to g p. m.
 The funeral of William Gervickas, 65, of fl South Leonard street, who lost his life Sunday afternoon by as- cidental drowning while swimming in Lakewood Lake, off the Chest nut Hill road, will be held tomorrow at 9:45 a. m. from the Deliniks fu- neral home, IT Congress avenue, to St. Joseph's church at 10. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery.
 His body was recovered by police Monday afternoon. Friends may call at the funeral home today from 7 to 10 p. m.
 The funeral of Mrs. Alice P. Fan ming, widow of Michael Tanning of 109 Grandview avenue, was held to- day at 8:30 a. m. from the Bergin funeral home, 290 East Main street, to the Blessed Sacrament church, where Rev. Robert Chagnon was the celebrant of the solemn high Mass, assisted by Rev. Edward L. Morris son, deacon, and Rev. Lawrence Skelley, sub-deacon. Rev. Edmund O'Connell Of New Haven was seated in the sanctuary. Burial was in old St. Joseph's cemetery, Father Nor rison officiating at the committal services, assisted by Father O'Con- nell.
 The funeral of Edward B. Stan ton, 715 East Main street, took place today at 8:15 a. m. from the Null vllle funeral home. 270 West Main strete, to the Sacred Heart church at 800. A solemn high Mass of requiem was celebrated by Rev. Thomas Dwyer, Hartford, assisted by Rev. John Dial, deacon, and Rev. Henry Quinn, sub-deacon.
 A special musical program was of- fered by the Sacred Heart church quartet. Burial was in Calvary cemetery, Father Dwyer officiating. assisted by Father Dial. Bearers were Joseph Lawlor, Joseph McCar-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18
NET INCOME INCREASE

Boston, July S.-CUP)-The New England Telephone & Telegraph Co.,, today reported a net income of SIC, ,280 091 for the year ended June 3U. 1945 as compared with $9,465,- 905 for the previous 12 months.
 For the three months ended June 30 net income was $2,636, ,231 as com pared with $2,314,O29 for the 1944 second quarter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18
DEFECTIVE CHIMNEY
 FIRE RECORDED TODAY

Four companies of fremen res- bonded this morning to an alarm at 73 Lexington avenue, where a de- fective chimney sent smoke pouring into the kitchen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18
Full Weather Report

Boston, July (UP) - New England weather forecast;
 CONNECTICUT. NEW HAMP- Fl R E, MASSACHUSETTS and RHODE ISLAND = Showers and sehttered thunderstOrms with rainfall locally heavy tonight and Thufnday. Little change in tenn peratnxe. Heavy fog cOntinuine in coastal sections. Lowest for Worcester tonight about 62.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank our many friends, relatives and neighbors, especially Wtby. Fire Dept. En-. zine No. 4; Wtby. Buckle Co.,; Elks' Lodge; Wtby. Street and Sewer Dept; and the Ear Renders, for floral offerings and the expressions of sympathy and kindness shown us during our recent bereavement, the death of our beloved brother and uncle, Thomas M. Kelly.
 (Signed)
 KELLY FAMILY.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18
DIED

DILGER-In New Haven, July 18th, 1945, Lloyd Whitehead Dilger, of 260 North Main St. Funeral Friday at 200 p. m. from Alderson Funeral Home, 70 Cen tral Ave. Burial in South End cemetery, Southington.
 1a1s Mrs Mer,s corSst+ E:tch of 257 North Main St. Funeral Friday at 11:00 a. m., from Mulville Funeral Home, 270 West Main St., Burial in old St. Joseph's cemetery.
Evening star., 1945-05-31
Blueprint

When man appears as brief initiate -
Upon the stage OF color light and
sound,
The pattern OF his secret self must sodit
As silent prompter from the depths
profound. )
He sees his shadow on the nursery wdlt
And screams until the redssuring light
Floods eDery inky corner and the pail :
That shrouds his heart groDs ,oarns
and safely bright.
But shadows stretch and years 90 slip
ping by
In photographic sequence. Youth and
age - s
Soon kno,o Themselves as pictures on th1
eye =
As memory claims its precious hertz
age. !
At last the film, detying moth and rust.
Rests in q cool dark place and gathers
dust.
RUBY ALTTzER ROBERTS. !
Evening star., 1945-05-31
Wreckuqe of Tokyo

The magnitude of what has hap
pened to the heart of Tokyo can be
better understood if we try to Wis
ualize virtually the whole of Wash
ington burned out of existence-a
dead city of blackened ruins.
According to General Lemay, chief
Of the 21st Bomber Command in
the Marianas, more than 81 square
miles of the japanese capital - a
figure representing 46 per cent of
the built-up area - have been laid
waste by six separate Super Fortress
attacks since last February Is.
Fifty-one square miles are roughly
equivalent to five-sixths of the area
of this capital city of America. But
comparisons are not feasible beyond
that, for Tokyo-the worlds third
largest metropolis-is a place whose
unique combustibility and conges-
ton can be found in no other mod
ern urban centers except those 10
Gated elsewhere in Japan, such as
Nagoya, Osaka and Yokohama.
In this nerve center, prior to the
unprecedented havoc wrought by
millions of our fire bombs, there
lived an estimated 100000 of
Tokyo's total population of 100000.
In it, too, were located such all
important targets as three aircraft
plants, three oil plants, fourteen rail
and shipping installations, a num-
Der of arsenals, twoscore or more
of plants turning out vital electrical
products and heavy war equipment,
and great network of small home
factories engaged in essential piece
work.
Photographic evidence. as we'll as
the enemy's own admissions, leave
no room for doubt that the destruc-
ton in this area is the most griev-
Gus thing of its kind yet seen in the
war. What was once beehive of in
dustry is now little more than a
desert Of ashes and desolation. Here
and there within it there may be
an island where the devastation has
not been total. and perhaps some
of the plants may be restored to
operation, but taken as whole it
seems clear that it will be a long
time, if ever, before the heart of
Tokyo comes to life again.
The direct effect of all this on the
Japanese war machine is bound to
be serious. The home islands are
too small and crowded for effective
dispersal of arms plants, and as the
latest B-29 assault on Yokohama
makes clear, every city in Japan
faces the same fate as Tokyo, with
the weight and frequency of our
blows mounting steadily. The in
dustrial and natural resources of
Northern China, Korea and Man
ehuria remain as an important
Evening star., 1945-05-31
This Changing World
By Constantine Brown

The outcome Of Harry Hopkins con-
ferences with Premier Stain in Moscow
Is providing q lively bit of speculation
In Washington diplomatic circles
Although the question Is a delicate
one, Mr.. Hopkins knows exactly what
was said at Teheran and Yalta concern
ing Poland, and 1t is in this topic that
diplomatic circles here are showing the
most interest
Within the last three weeks we have
read dispatches which presented two
entirely different sides to one angle Of
the Polish question. First, Premier
Stain was quoted from Moscow as say
ing the Is Polish leaders, now missing,
arrested by the Russians, never were
invited to the Soviet capital in the first
place. Subsequently, the Polish London
government said 1t could produce a copy
of a letter inviting" the Poles to Mos
COW for conference.
~
Last week a writer in IZvestia, Mos
cow official newspaper, charged that
Polish bands once commanded by Gen.
Leopold Okulicki carried sout individual
Slayings, and Russian and Polish units
INDUCED in pogroms in liberated Po-
land. The general is one of the 16 under
arrest.
He is a professional soldier, was ar
rested by the Russians in Lwow in 1899
and was deported to Russia. Liberated
in 194l, he became chief of staff of the
Polish Army in Russia under Gen. An
ders, and, with all the Polish armed
forces in Russia, left Soviet territory in
1912 Early in 1914 he was sent to Po-
land, where he joined the staff OF the
Polish home, or underground army. He
fought in the Warsaw uprising, and
after Gen. Bor's capture by the Ger
mans, succeeded him as commander in
chief OF the army. BY orders received
from the London Polish government he
dissolved the army last January 10.
One of the Is men in Soviet hands is
said to be Wincenty Witos, three times
Premier of Poland and one of the fo,in-
ders OF the Peasant party. He was head
OF the party for IS years.
The others, with as much biographi-
cal material as is obtainable, follow:
Jan Jankowski-Vice premier of the
Polish government. Lifelong member
OF the Christian Democratic Labor par
ty. After Pilsudkis coup d'etat in 1926
he withdrew from political life, devot-
ing his energies to the organization OF
labor. Under the German occupation
he was put in charge of the social well
fare section of the Polish Underground
Administration. After arrest by the
Germans of the then delegate of the
Polish government, he stepped into his
place and was formally appointed his
successor. He carried on until arrested
recently by the Russians. For conspic-
uous gallantry during the Warsaw ris-'
ing he was awarded the highest Polish
military decoration. Virtuti Militari
Evening star., 1945-05-31

gone right ahead with it's plans for
peacetime defense training. At the
same time it has joined with the United
States and the rest to form a peace
organization
Every one hopes the new organization
will work 100 per cent. No one knows
whether it will or not. In any event it
still remains for the great powers to
be tn position to enforce peace by
arms If necessary, and to do so they
must have military strength. This coun-
try has huge armed forces today. But
even now partial demobilization has be-
gun since the war in Europe ended.
The sooner military training plan
for the years ahead is developed the
better. President Roosevelt had come
around TO the support OF sucn a plan.
President Truman can give 1t ao0eo
impetus, if he WILL with a special mes
sage to Congress
4
Russian 1t. Gen. N. N Pronin, chief
OF the training administration of the
Commlssarlat tor Defense, announcing
the call for Russian youth said: Gen
eral military training in the present
period should be conducted on an even
higher level than in the days of war.
The peaceful period into which our
country has entered should not lessen
our attention to the problems of de-
fense.' He stressed, too, the value to
the youth of the nation of military
training. for physical hardening, for
the incubation of decisiveness, endur-
ance, stubbornness and initiative.
The charter of the proposed world
organization for peace refers to pos
sible future regulation Of ornaments
and disarmament. The Military Staff
Committee, which it proposes to set up
to aid the Security Council, is to look
into such matters in the future, but its
main job is to assist the council on all
questions relating to military require
ments for the maintenance of peace.
Obviously any question OF nmltatlon or
armaments or OF disarmament lies IN
the dim future. It's up to Americans
to prepare for national defense in the
world as it is today.
Evening star., 1945-05-31
JobIess Aid Plan

President Truman has taken a
constructive approach to one of the
important phases of the reconver-
sion period in asking Congress to
frame an emergency unemployment
compensation program for the aid
of workers displaced temporarily as
the r-production machinery is
shifted to peaeetime uses.
About 100000 individuals in
nonagricultural pursuits - including
a large bloc of Government en-
ployes-will have no protection
whatever in the absence of congress
sional action, and, in the Presidents
words, other millions will have only
the clearly inadequate" relief pro-
vided by the jobless-aid provisions
of the Social Security Act.
To remedy this, he proposes a
stop-gap Federal plan for those oc-
cupational groups not now covered,
and uniform system of payments,
which would guarantee persons with
dependents minimum of $25 week.
ly for 26 weeks. This is substan-
TALLY the program supported by the
Roosevelt administration and re.
jected by Congress when the Recon-
version Act was passed in the fall.
1t is clearly illogical and unfair
that group like the Government
employees. whether in the skilled
trades or other occupations, should
not receive the same measure of
consideration as that which will be
given to employees in private indus
try when the lessening needs of war
bring reduction in force.
The President also pointed out
that the SIS to $18 weekly allow
ances provided by the majority of
State compensation plans cannot
help but result in ruthless cuts in
living standards" In this view. the
unemployment compensation system
as now constituted is a peacetime
device. What is needed is a pro-
gram that will measure up to war
conditions.
This is in line with the argument
that workers in war jobs which must
be kept filled until the japanese are
defeated will be strongly inclined to
seek permanent employment else
where, without waiting for the war
to end, unless they have some guar
antee against excessive hardship in
the. transition period.
These were some of the factors
which Mr.. Truman had in mind
Evening star., 1945-05-31
Frunce.in the Levunt

The current t1are-up in Syria and
the Lebanon is no isolated incident.
It should be considered against a
complex politico-diplomatic back
ground extending back to the First
World War and even beyond. The
basic factor in the whole matter is
French policy in the Near East,
which may now be facing SUI
preme test.
French interests and ambitions in
the Eastern Mediterranean. the re-
gion whish Frenchmen term ''The
Levant," go back for centuries. The
most ambitious bid for French as
cendancy there was Napoleon's in
vasion of Egypt. Though frustrated
by Britain at that time, French in
fuence was strong in the Levant
throughout the nineteenth century.
France acquiesced in British Near
Eastern primacy by the general set
tlement of colonial spheres in 1904,
under which France admitted Brit
aims preponderant position in Egypt
in return for a similar admission by
Britain of Frances preponderance
in Morocco.
Nevertheless, France clung to its
cultural footholds in the Levant,
especially among the Christians of
Lebanon. and the breakup of the
Ottoman Empire during World War
One gave chance to share in Turk
ish bankruptcy. There ensued a
strenuous diplomatic contest with
Britain, wherein the British got the
proverbial lions share, France hav-
ing to content itself with the Leb-
anon, Syria and cut in the output
of the Mosul oil fields. The two pow
ers thereupon settled down to ex-
plot their respective gains.
The chief obstacle was the rising
tide of Arabic nationalism through
out the Near East. From the very
start, France used traditional
strong arm" methods. Nationalistic
agitation in Syria was ruthlessly
suppressed, supplemented by Mach
iavellian tactics to foster dissen-
sion between the various native
religious elements. Little was done
to develop the French Mandates
economically, and French policy and
administration were sharply crit
icized by the League of Nations. BY
contrast. British policy was much
more clever. Egypt and Iraq were
permitted to attain a sovereign
status, special British interests being
negotiated with ruling classes bene-
fitting by British protection and
hence friendly to Britain. So Britain
maintained its position in the Near
East during the ordeal of World War
Two, whereas the collapse of France
at home unloosed nationalist
movement in Syria and Lebanon
demanding complete independence.
France is now trying to salvage its
special interests by a mixture of
force and legalistic technicalities.
Such tactics threaten to provoke an
explosion which would injure not
merely France but Britain and
America. The bankruptcy of French
policy in the Levant seems clearly
indicated. 1t should be promptly
liquidated with the least damage to
all concerned.
Evening star., 1945-05-31
Friendly Suggestion

Representative Coffee of Washing
ton made an excellent speech to the
House on Tuesday in connection
with passage of the District ap-
preparation bill, of which he was
In charge. In the course of his ex-
planation of the bill, he offered some
helpful and friendly advice to local
taxpayers.
Deploring the condition under
which residents of the Capital are
denied any participation in their
Government and are left dependent
on others for the wise expenditure
of their money. he suggested that
they should, at the same time, take
greater advantage of the opportu-
nifty now available to them in max
ing themselves heard in the annual
preparation of budget estimates.
That opportunity is provided in
the Commissioners hearings, each
fall, on the departmental estimates.
Previously, as Mr.. Coffee said. the
Budget Bureaus control of local
estimates may have reduced these
hearings to a mere formality But
that has been changed The Com
missioners have been given greater
authority and the Budget Bureau
merely exercises a general super
vision which relates to totals rather
than items.
The proper time for citizens to
express themselves on some of the
issues presented in the budget
correction of deplorable conditions
in public welfare facilities, for
EXAMPLES at these hearings. The
tendency has been for the citizens
to concentrate their efforts on the
appropriations committees, after,
rather than before, the estimates
have taken final shape 1t is often
too late for any effective presenta-,
tion then. And, as Mr.. Coffee said,
every suggestion is for an increase
in expenditures, without a single
suggestion for savings which will
Offset new outlays
While we are approaching the end
of the war with local Indebtedness
practically wiped out and with some
s10,000,000 earmarked for postwar
capital expenditures, maintenance
costs are in for a rise and unless
there is care in the continued as
sumption of new obligations the
hunt will begin for new forms of
local taxation at time when higher
local taxes will be more burdensome
than ever.
Evening star., 1945-05-31

enemy asset, Of course, but even this
will in time be whitfield down.
The japanese people themselves,
many of whom must be dying in the
flames and millions of whom must
now be homeless, cannot fail to see
in the wreckage of Tokyo, and of
other cities being scared by our
B-29s, the clear shape of an all
engulflng disaster. To more than a
few of them. despite their emperor
worship, the idea of unconditional
surrender - surrender before total
destruction-must be becoming in
creaSingly attractive.
Evening star., 1945-05-31
Our Crowded Rolls
By David Laurence
rom the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
With three-quarters of the freight
cars, two-thirds of the locomotives and
three-quarters of the passenger cars,
that they had available in 19l7-1s,
American railroads have been CARRYING
two and half times the amount of
freight and four times the number of
passengers that they did then. Their
job has not been made easier by the.
German collapse. Over American rails
will be routed much of the foodstuffs
and other supplies which will be needed
in Europe, many Of the men and much
OF the equipment which will be trans
ferred from the European to the Pa
cific theater. The Once of Defense.
transportation, properly calling atten-
ton to the railroads fine record for q,
ficiency, as properly calls public attenl
ton to the necessity for refraining from
unnecessary travel. "Is this trip necesI
sary?" remains a question that every
prospective traveller should ask him
self.
Evening star., 1945-05-31

Stanislaw Jasiukowicz-Doctor of eco
nonic science, member of the National
party, In Parliament 1920-1922. He is
still leading member Of the National
party.
Antoni Pajdak-Socialist, former dep
uty lord mayor of Krakow.
Adam Bien-Member Of the Peasant
party; before the war was Judge in
Warsaw.
kozimlerZ PuZak-Chairman of the
Polish Council of National Unity, fought
in the ranks of Socialist fighting squads
against Tsarist Russia in 1905, was ar
rested by the Tsarist police in 1910 and
sentenced to death. The sentence was,
however, commuted to eight years of
penal servitude near Leningrad. Freed
by the outbreak of the revolution in
1917, he returned to Poland and sat as
Socialist in the Polish Parliament be-
tween 1919 and 1885. In 1921 he was
elected secretary general of the Execu-
tive Committee of the Polish Socialist
party, which post he held until the
outbreak of the war. Under the Ger
man occupation he was one of the
founders of the Polish underground
movement, was elected chairman of the
Council of National Unity, and held
this post until his arrest by Russia.
kazimierz-Baginski - Peasant party.
Before and during the first World War
he took active part in organizing the
Polish armed forces. Between 1919 and
1890 he occupied several times seat in
the Parliament as member of the radi-
cal left wing Of the Peasant party. With
other prominent left wing members he
was imprisoned in the Fortress of
Brzesc- In 1882 he was
elected secretary general of the Peasant
party.
Stanislaw Mierzwa-Peasant party,
lawyer from Krakow and leader of the
radical Peasant Youth Association.
Tadeusz Kobylanski-National party.
Former member of the Polish Senate
and worldwide known Warsaw journal
ist and publisher.
Zbigniew Stypulkowski-National par
ty. Barrister, member of the Polish
Parliament and worldwide known
leader of university undergraduates.
Jozef Chacinski - Christian Demo-
cratic Labor party. Lawyer and secre-
tary general of the Christian trade un-
ions. Since 1919, elected chairman of
the Christian Democratic Labor party
Former member Of the Polish Parlia-
ment.
Franciszek Urbanski-Christian Dem
ocratic Labor party. Since 1921, elected
secretary general of the Christian Farm
Laborers' Union. Former member of
Parliament.
A. Czernik- party. Poll
tician from Krakow.
holowski-Democratic party. For
mer member of Parliament.
Jozef Stemler-Interpreter.
Evening star., 1945-05-31
War Crime-Punishment
By Maj. George Fieldins Eliot

In the matter of the trial and pun
lshment Of war criminals, it seems to
this writer there are two pitfalls to
be avoided. On the one nanu, we must
not allow the matter to drag on INTO a
moraSS OF legal halr-spnttlng, with the
result that there may be long delays and
the escape OF many guilty persons. On
the other hand we must not be rushed
into hasty and ill-considered acts, which
will justify subsequent claims on our
sympathy and on our consciences.
The Russians are UNDERSTANDABLE i'm
patient that the Western powers should
get on with the job. This Russian i'm
patience springs in part from Russian
anxiety over the possibility-somewha
exaggerated in their minds by their
general suspicion of Western capitalism
that there still exist In the United
States and Great Britain powerful in
fluences which would like to see Ger
many at least partially restored to
strength as an Offset to Russian ex-
pansion toward the west.
It is important that such suspicious
should be allayed. This factor must be
proper limitations imposed by our ideas
VI JuotlCC, tAlC pO1l1SluucllL VI GllOSS Wal
criminals who now lie under our hands.
4 X
There are various classes Of these
criminals, perhaps requiring different
procedures to deal with them. It is, I
think, most important of all to take
care of such prominent rascals as Goer-
ing, Doenitz, Rosenberg and a few
others Of almost equal notoriety APP
parently an inter-Allied tribunal is to
be set up to try them. There was some.
thing to be said, perhaps, for the British
notion that they should be put out of
the way by executive agreement among
the victor powers, as notorious law
breakers whose crimes were so well
known to the world at large that no
proof Of them was necessary.
But II the inter-Allied tribunal can
be quickly established, and will get on
with Its task without leealistic quib-
bling, it Is probably better that there
should be trial, . presentation Of evil
dence, and . legal sentence, swiftly
executed. It will not thereafter be