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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-14
Chinese Bottling
 Clear Foochow
By WALTER BUNDLE

Chungking, May 14-(UP)-Chi- nese troops battled today to clear Foochow, Chinese east coast port which the Japanese fear may be- come an American invasion gate way to China. Foochow airport south of the city already was in Chinese hands.
 Chinese troops also were attacking in the coastal area some 300 miles north of Foochow Sinchang, 65 miles southeast of Hangchow, fell to the Chinese in eastern Cheklang, Thursday. The Chinese opened their assault on Foochow Thursday and by the next morning had shattered Japan ese positions northwest of the city. They crashed into the city proper Friday night.
 The Japanese, believing American landings on the China coast imml- nent, captured Foochow last Oct. 4 after putting ashore troops north and south of the city. It was the last of China's great ports to fall into Japanese hands.
 Chinese forces previously had thWarted several Japanese attempts to seize Foochow, which lies oppo- site the northern tip of Formosa and southwest of embattled Okl' | naWa.
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Austria Ends
 German Lows
BY W. R. HIGGINBOTHAM

London, May 14. - (UP) - The Soviet-supported government of Austria today proclaimed the coun- trys independence and restroed Re- publican laws in an apparent bid for Anglo-American recognition. The proclamation, broadcast by radio sender Austria, in effect dis solved the Anschuss with Germany and presumably reinstated Aus trians' constitution of 1920. All Nazi laws are abolished and broadcast said.
 The move further snarled Eu- ropean affairs for the western A- lies. Both the United States anS Britain have yet to recognize the Austrian government set up by Pre- mier Dr. Karl Renner with Soviet support.
 The United States and Britain also were tangling with Marshal Tito's Yugoslav government over control of the Italian port of Tri- este and with Russia over the ar- rest of Is Polish underground lead- CTS.
 The Austrian broadcast announc- ing the country's independence" recalled that the United States and Britain. along with Russia, had made Austrian independence one Of their war aims.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-14
Wrong Sized MoneyLed
 To Nazi Spy's Arrest

detective trailed "Branton" to the rail depot and boarded a train With him.
 On the train. "Branton' produced a draft registration card and mo- tor vehicle license, both signed William Branton' The German said he was radio salesman ln Toronto.
 Duchesneau searched the sus- pect's luggage. It contained a send ing-receiving radio, a loaded Mauser revolver, chocolate. pills and cloth- ing. The German asked to be taken as a prisoner of war He said he knew too much"
 Under questioning by Leon Lam- bert. Chief of Quebec Provircia Police, the suspect said he wal Marine Lieutenant Werner Janow' ski. Of Aachen, Germany, aAd hat lived and married in Toronto in tn, period from 1881 to 1884.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-14
Attack On Japs' Third Largest City Heavier Than Most Nazi Raids
BY FRANK TREMAINE

Guam, May 14.-UP) -- The biggest B-29 armada of the war -- more than 500 Superfortresses - showered $500 tons of fire-bombs on nine square miles of Nagoya Today in an attack even heavier than most of the air raids on Germany.
 The Superforts were be- lieved to have burned out more than twice the area destroyed in two fire-raids made at night last March. In a daylight attack, the planes deluged d Nagoya, Japan's main aircraft manu- featuring center and third largest city, with more than 5OO,750 Iire-bombS.
 Yank Losses Light Early reports indicated American losses were light. Returning flyers said flames and smoke probably made it impossible for the Japanese ground batteries to go into action.
 Col. Carl Storrie, Denton, Tex.s said the attackers did damn good job"
 "A couple more like that and we can scratch that town of the list, he said.
 I'm sure the clusters of fire bombs more than covered the nine square mile target area"
 It. Glen F. Jensen, Manning, la, another pilot, said that he could see columns of flame and smoke all over the target. He said the imperial castle of Nagoya is located almost in the center of an area where ne saw a great column of flame.
 The raiders dropped their bombs at the rate of 40 tons minute for nearly 90 minutes.
 Returning crew members reported 17,O0O-foot smoke column cov- cred the area and that the glow from flames cracking through the heart of the city--EaS visible 66 miles at sea. They said there was no fighter opposition and only meager anti-aircraft fire.
 A Japanese communique admitted fires still were burning five hours after the start of the raid, but ln- sisted that most had been quelled. l. It said 400 B-29s participated. of which eight had been shot down and nine damaged.
 The attack exceeded in weight most raids made by the American Eighth Air Force and RAF against Germany. It underlined official warnings that Japan faced even greater destruction than the shat tered Reich unless she surrendered.
 Plane Bases Hit
 Radio Tokyo said another huge American air armada of nearly 1000 carrier planes was raiding southern Japan for the second straight day apparently concentrating on bases from which Japanese suicide planes : have been attacking American ship ping of Okinawa.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-14
Himmler Indicted On Murder Counts
BY EDWARD J. ROBERTS

London, May 14.-(UP)-The United Nations war crimes commits sion has indicted Gestapo Chief Himmler on charges of mass murder in the notorious massacre of Ll- dice and the Jewish eXtermlnation program, it was learned today
 At least five Allied governments have lodged charges of war crim- inality against Himmler, the be- spectacled former school teacher who became Nazidom's chief hang man.
 The war crimes commission has indicted him, it was revealed, on at least seven counts. It ranked him No. 1 on the list of Nazis charged witht he obliteration of Lldlce ln an orgy of revenge for the aSs.na- ton of Reinhard Heydrich, and with wholesale atrocities in Nazl concentration camps.
 The disclosure of the indictments against Himmler came as he ap- parently played an elusive game of hide and seek with Allied authorities in northwestern Europe. Reports that he had fallen into Allied hands were denied. One said he had been seen at the headquarters of the German high command, under the wing of which he evidently was seeking sanctuary until the status of that body and Admiral Karl Doe- nitzs government is decided. The Russian government organ Izvestia demanded the immediate arrest, trial and execution Of Doe nitz. It reflected Soviet feeling of urgency that Doeniz, Relchmar- shal Hermann Goering, Col. Gen Nigoalus Won Falkenhorst ard othel accused war criminals be dealt Wltf as soon as possible.
 The same source which revealed that the war crimes commission nat indicted Hi1nmler said the Russian also had charged him with mas murder.
 Great Britain, Belgium, France Czechoslovakia and the NetherIand have submitted to the commission separate charges of war crlmlnal' itv against Hinmler. The multiple indictments against him specifically included mass murder and systema' tic terrorism-both listed as wal crimes by the Hague convention Hf was named both in his capacity o. Nazi interior minister and cnle. of the SS or Elite Guards.
 Himmler topped the list of !2l Nazis and SS officials indicted 1ol the wiping out of Lidice and the companion village of Lezaky i'll June 1942. Not a building was left stand ing in either village. All the male inhabitants of Lidice were shot anc the women and children were sen' off to slavery.
 The CzechoSlovak government was believed certain to demand tht
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-14
General Bradley Dances
 With Marlene Dietrich

kicked around by more Army boots than she'll ever care to remember.
 Nobody could dance with la Dietrich more than a couple of steps without having somebody cut in. There hasn't been so much rank pulling since the Tanks hit the beaches. A lieutenant didn't have a chance.
 General Bradley got dance with ti.e movie star, and he did better than most people because that's a lot of rank to buck. But finally a full colonel screwed up enough courage to tap Bradley on the shcul- der, and the general gracefully re- treated.
 That's about all the military secrets at the moment. But it's scre a pleasure to submit story like this after all these secretive months to Chief Censor Maj. Cor don Mortensen, (20 E. Norton street. St. Paul, Minn. He's always beer quite . guy on security matters
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-14
By ROBERT MEYER

Bad Wildungern, Germany, May 14.-UP) Hang 1t all. I'm going to spill the whole works-not only where Gen. Omar N. Bradley's head quarters is, but who his dancing partner last night was.
 Bradley's 18th Army group head quarters is right here in Bad Will dungern, a resort town near Kas- sel.
 Whew! Now that I've said that much. I may as well go ahead and get the whole thing of my chest.
 Bradley and his staff have been here since April 29. Whats more they were at Wiesbaden before that And in the city of Luxembourg and Namur, Belgium, before that.
 As for the dancing partner Well, the general threw sort oi farewell party last night, and the heroine of the evening was Marlent Dietrich whose sweet shins vert
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-14
Churchill
 Rops Fire
Ry PHIL AULT

London, May IA. UP)-Tired but defiant, Prime Minister Churchill indicated in his victory speech last night that he intends to lead Bri- tain "till the whole task is done and the whole world is safe and clean"
 Churchill warned the people of Britain that they still face hght to beat Japan and to preserve democracy in Europe.
 In what observers interpreted as a warning that Britain would not tolerate strong arm politics, Church ill said there would be little use in punishing Hitlerites if totali- tartan or police governments were to take the place of the German invaders
 Churchill also took the oppor- t1nitv to let loose five years pent- up anger on Fires Prime Minister Famon De Valera, scoring him for the shame" he had brought Ire land by his neutrality policy Churchill described De Valera $ policy as so much at variance With the temper and instinct of thou- sands of Southern 1rishmen who hastened to the battlefront to prove their ancient valor.'
 Indicating his desire to stick to his post, Churchill said:
 T wish I could tell you tonight that all our tolls and troubles were over. Then indeed I could end my five years service happily, and, il YOU thought you had had enough of me and that I ought to be put out to grass, assure you l would take it win the best of brace.
 But, on the contrary, l must
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-14

Quebec City, May IA - U.Po = With the easing of censorship it was revealed today that German spy who landed at New Carlisle, Que, from a submarine in 1922 was caught because he carried the wrong sized money.
 Two large, one-dollar bills. dated 1917 and long since replaced by the Canadian government with smaller bills, trapped him.
 Earle Annett, an innkeeper. was reused at 6:30 a. m.. November g., l942, by a man in civilian clothes who registered as William Branton, 232 Danforth avenue. Toronto. Later when the guest checked out, he of- fered the two old one-dollar bills.
 Annett telephoned Detective AL phonse Duchesneau, vf the Provin- cial Police. Duchesneau searched the suspects room and found a box of matches made in Belgium" The
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-14
IA More Nazi
 Subs Give Up
By ROBERT MUSEL

London, May IA - (U.PD - Red Armies and Yugoslav Patriots were believed today to have crushed the last die-hard German resistance in southeast Europe, finally stilling the guns of war on the continent nearly a week after the Reich's surrender
 (BBC said detachment of Brit ish troops has taken possession of the fortified German island of Hell goland in the North Sea-
 At Sea, IA German submarines and two motor torpedo boats had put into British ports and surrend- cred.
 Eight more U-boats were expect ed at the American naval base at Londonderry in northern Ireland today.
 A Soviet communique reported that Red Armies had taken 1000, 900 prisoners inthe first five days after Germany's unconditional sur- render became effective last Tues day midnight.
 Of these, nearly 80,00O German troops were captured in Czechoslo- vakia and Austria, where die-hard Nazis fought on despite their high commands orders to surrender.
 The communique mentioned nc further fighting in these areas, how ever, and it was likely that only roundup of scattered enemy rem nants remained in southeast Flu rope.
 | Marshal Tito anonunced that hi
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-14
Allies Toke
 Big Airport On Mindonoo
BY DON CASWELL

Manila, May 14-(UP)-TWo hard pushing columns drove within 40 miles of each other today in smash to split Mindanao lengthWise fol- lowing the fall of the Islands big gest airdrome.
 While the Americans pushed ahead in the Philippines, 1900 miles to the southwest in New Guinea, the Sixth Australian Division cleared Wewak village and peninsula after a bitter fight.
 And adding to mounting blows throughout the Southwest Pacific theater, heavy bombers dumped 26O tons of bombs on the Toshien fac tories, one of Japan's largest mil itary stores on Formosa. The planes, which battled heavy flax, left the target area "a mass of flames ac- cording to a communique.
 In the Mindanao fighting. Major Gen. Rapp Brush's 40th Division quickly overran Delmonte airdrome with its three strips after a speedy Emile advance from it's Macalajal bay beachhead The 40th routed ar enemy force east of the airfield ant drove on two miles more along the Sayre highway.
 Sweeping up from the south, Bis division elements made steady pro- gress against moderate resistance from it's last reported position a Matmag, 40 airline miles from tht 40th Division spearheads.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-14
Bockstoge DeoIs Hit
BY R. H. SHACKFORD

San Francisco, May 14-(UP)- The dispute over regional defense systems blew wide open today with charges that Latin American coun- tries, deliberately or not, were threatening to destroy the world organization at it's birth"
 The blast came from Australian Foreign Minister Herbert " Evatt in a statement denouncing the La- tin American campaign to give the Pan-American security system au- tonomy from the world organiza- ton being set up by the United Nations conference.
 He also voiced openly his suspi- cion that trades and deals were be- ing made backstage and warned that such devices could only 'sub- vert the proposed peace league.
 Evatt said that Australia was in favor of regio~al defense systems but believed firmly that they should operate directly under the security council of the world organization not independently as the Latin Am ericans demand.
 Pan Americanism is valuable, he declared, but unless the au'
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-14
Sinotro Termed
 Worst Discovery

Cambridge, Mass, May 14-CUP) The Harvard Lampoon, under graduate monthly magazine, today listed the 10 Worst Movies of the past year as:
 Kismet, A Song to Remember, Frenchman's Creek, Tonight and Every Night, MT. Skeffington, Holly wood Canteen, Follow the Boys, Till We Meet Again. Thousands Cheer and Winged Victory.
 Among other "Worsts,' the Lam- poon listed:
 Worst Discoveries-Maria Mon- tez. Frank Sinatra and/o Van Johnson.
 Worst Scene-The catsup on the keys in A Song to Remember.
 Most in Need of Retirement Paul Muni.
 Most Frightening-The Andrews Sisters in anything but a total blackout.
 Worst Title-Sunday Dinner fol a Soldier.
 Fastest on Downward Path-Don Ameche (had he not always peer at the bottom)"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-14
Jops Stall
 U. s. Drive
By EDWARD THOMAS

Aboard Admiral Turner's Flag ship off OkinaWa, May IA - (U.Po -Japanese mortar, sniper and ar tillery fire stalled the American ao- vance in heavy fighting on southern Okinawa today.
 Marine battling in the northern approaches of Mana, the capital city, and soldiers punching at the de- lenses of Shuri were brought vlrtu- ally to a standstill by strong enemy resistance.
 The Japanese resisted two Marine ard two Army divisions attacking along the fve-mile Naha-Shuri-Yo- nabaru defense line.
 The Sixth Marine Division dug 1T on the northern rim of Mana, a rubbed community with pre-ln- vasion population of 65,000.
 Ahead of the Leathernecks lay wide mud flats of the Asato river valley. A crossing would take tht Marines virtually under the muzzle! of Japanese guns.
 The Sixth repulsed an attempted counter landing by Japanese nortf of the Estuary. Marines destroyed six to ten enemy boats on a reef killing approximately 40 Japanese.
 In the center of the American lin the 77th Army Division reported slight local gains up to POO yards il stiff combat which failed 10 den the main defenses of the town o Shuri.
 Shuri. lying midway between tn coastal towns of Naha and Lona baru, is the central anchor of tn Japanese defense system protectln an estimated 10000 enemy troops.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-14

Patrolman Raymond Grady, member of the local detective bu- reau, has resigned from the force, it was learned today, after ap- proximately 10 years service. He is said to plan entering the res taurant business.
 His father, Thomas Grady, has served as patrolman with the To- cal force for the past g years having first been assigned May 6, 1908.
 The son is said to have ranked second in the recent aptitude test given local department members under the auspices of Yale Uni- versity. Former Patrolman James Little. who resigned last year, ranked first. Grady is former president of the Washington Hill Community club.
 The resignation is the third i'll recent weeks in the police depart ment. Conrad Baril and Anthony Nardona, former members, re- signed recently to enter the auto motive and retail grocery busi- nesses, respectively.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-14
! Aldermen To
 Ask Zone Be Unchanged

The zoning committee of the board of aldermen, from all lndlca- tions determined today, will likely recommend that the zoning area ill Waterville. involved in a dispute between local industrialists and residents of the Homer St. area be mained as a combined lndustrlai and business zone. The board meets tonight at o'clock in the city $ aldermanic chambers.
 Over a hundred residents of the area have protested the construc- tion of two factories on the site of the former Carney Coal Co.,, and have appealed to the board for a change of zone from industrial to residential B. The companies plan ming construction are the Precision Screw Machine Co.,, and the Poly metric Mfg. Go.
 The latter concern has been issued a building permit in estl- mated amount of S15,000, by the city's building inspector.
 The zoning committee conducted a public hearing last week at when representatives of the residents and the industrialist appeared. The latter pointed out that the area has been zoned industrially for the past Is years the principal factor induc- ing the local concerns to purchase the land and make arrangements for the construction. The residents protested the move on the basis sucf constructions will depreciate theil property. Representing the latter wa' Attorney William K. LaWlor WhlIe Attorney Michael Ciano appeared for the industrialists.
 Residents have indicated they vii bring further action should tht aldermanic board recommend tha the zone being continued as ar industrial ore. Appeals to the court! may be made 1t was said by ont spokesman for the group.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-14
U Mine Sweeper Lost In Okinowo

Washington, May 14-(UP)-The Navy today announced the loss of a motor mine sweeper in the Okin- ava area as the result of enemy action.
 The minesweeper was the YMS- 103, the 3O7th naval vessel to be lost in this war. The Navy said the ship suffered moderate casualties"
 Skipper of the vessel, It. Leslie M. Thornton, Jr., Kansas City, Mo-, is survivor. The vessel carried a normal complement of about 30 men.
 Next of kin of casualties have been informed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-14
Lend d-L.eose To Britain
 Moy Be Cut
BY ROBERT J. MANNING

Washington, May IA - (UP) - More big lend-lease cuts, including a slash of nearly 50 per cent in U. s. war aid to Britain, were in prospect today following curtail- ment of the bulk of this country's $500, 100000 month shipments to Russia.
 Some top U. s. officials were said on good authority to believe the drastic cut in lend-lease to the Soviet Union might figure in relax ing the stalemate on the Polish situation.
 Though the Russian curtailment assertedly was based solely on the fact that Russia is no longer a fighting ally. it was said to demon Strate a willingness on this coun- trys part to be tough. On the diplomatic front, this, it was felt, might further convince Premier Stalin that the U. s. will not yield to Russian wishes in regard to Po- land.
 Russia is anxious to win recogni- tion for the Soviet-sponsored Po- fish government now installed in Warsaw, while Britain and the U. s. are insisting that the govern ment must first be reorganized ln line with the Yalta agreement. It was pointed out that while lend-lease is strictly a war opera tion, Russia is anxious to receive postwar credits from this country to enable her to buy American ma chinery with which to rebuild Rus sian industry. This country's readl- ness to cut lend-lease shipments promptly and without hesitation was seen as a hint to Russia to meet other Allied nations halfway or face difficulty with the postwar financing problem.
 President Truman is expected 10 make an announcement on Russian lend~lease shortly.
 Disclosure of the sharp cut III lend-lease to Russia was made Saturday by Foreign Economic Ad-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-14

The President and committee were in agreement in their recommendd tons to eliminate the $44.460, ,4U0 defense training program under ,he Federal Security Agency.
 Or WING. however, the committee proposed to slash $31 100000 frmo the budget estimate of S93,oO0,o10 bringing the committee recommen- dation to S62,O00,000. MT. Tru- mans proposed WING reductions would have totaled S10,30O 0O0
 Largets single reduction in WING funds recommended in the report is s15,000000 for employment of- fee facilities and services. It also commented that WING general administration funds be cut by S5,- 100000 from the budget recommen- dation of S15 598,oo0, that the s9 9,349,- 900 migration of workers and sl,- T78000 training within industr' be eliminated
 Other recommended cuts were smaller
 McNutt Testifies
 Washington, May 14.-tUP)-Em- ployment is a national, not a state problem, and the U. s. Employ ment Service should be made a permanent federal agency to meet postwar job problems, according to Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the War ManpoWer Commission.
 McNutt took this stand while testifying today on the 1S45 ap- propria ton for the War ManpoWl" Commission and uses before the House appropriations committee.
 The USES was made wartime federal agency under WING by eX- ecurive order. McNutt revealed ir closed committee meeting that there has bene some talk of transfer ring the agency back to state con- trol after the war. USES functionec independently on state basis be fore the war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-14
Walter Lynch E, eyewitness
 At Gardelegen Atrocities

Mai. Walter J. Lynch, who has been attached to the 40th Field Ar tillery at the western front, was ar eyewitness ot the atrocities commit ted at Garelegen, pictures of which have been widely pub1icized in var ious periodicals, including Life mag azine of May 2.
 Major Lynch, who practiced law here with his father, James M. Lynch, since 1929, wrote the follow ing letter on April 25 He has served with the American First, Third, Seventh and Ninth Armies, the British Second Army, and the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-14
NO CONFIRMATION

London, May 14.-(UP)-The London Daily Mirror reported with out confirmation today that It. Gen. James E. Doolittle lis leaving England;" to be succeeded as 8tn Air Force commander by Maj Gen. William E. Kepner.
 The Mirror neither credited It's story nor gave details.