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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-08
NEWS. OF MEN N THE SERVICE

Private First Class Donald F.. Ross, son of MT. and Mrs. Seymour Ross of 76 Bamgen street, Torring- ton, Connecticut, was recently pro- noted to that rating in Belgium. He is a surgical technician at the 95th General hospital in Advance Section, Communications Zone, with with the U. s. Supply Forces in Belgium.
 Pfc. Ross entered the army at Fort Devens, Massachusetts in May, 1943. He had been employed at the Torrington Excelsior Plant. He re- ceived his basic training and specialized medical training at Camp Pickett, Virginia, and ad- vanced technical training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. He went overseas in the Spring of 1914.
 Recent arrival at Corsica-baSeG B-25 squadron Is Corporal Nicholas A. Autore, whose home is at 1926 North Main street. He will serve as engineer-gunner with a veteran Mitchell group that has given aerial support to six amphibious landings in the Mediterranean area.
 With an APO Havoc Group in Italy-Second Lieut.. William H Jones, of 229 Wood street, received his most welcome Christmas gift of the year when on the morning of December 25, the veteran light bomb group to which he belongs received official orders awarding il a War Department citation, the highest organizational honor be slowed by the U. s. Army.
 The award, which entities Lieut. Jones to wear the Distinguished Unit Badge, was granted in recogni- tion Of outstanding services rem dered by the 47th Bombardment Group on 9 February 1943 at Kas- serine Pass, Italy, where with AL lied positions oVerrun by the en- emy, A-20 Havocs of the group re- peatedly drove home bombing and strafing attacks through rain, fog and complete overcast and finally brought about an enemy retreat through the Pass, thus saving the Allied holdings in Algeria and TunLsia.
 Lieut.. Jones went overseas Oct 1944. He has been with the 47tE Bombardment Group since Novem- Der, l944.
 Pvt. Nicholas Mastracchio, 20, was slightly wounded in action in Bel gium on January IA, according to word received by his parents, MT Mrs Mrs. Vito MaStracchio, 53t Baldwin street.
 The soldier was inducted or March 24, 1943. receiving training with an anti-aircraft artilelry unit at Camp DaViS, N. C., and Fort Fisher, N. c. He has been sta toned in England, France and Bel gium since going overseas, and wa: transferred to an infantry uni about five weeks before he wa wounded.
 Pvt. Mastracchio has two broth. CTS in the service, Pvt. Louis Mas. tracchio, now at Camp Banding Fla, and Martin Mastracchio, fire. man 3-C. now serving on de. stroyer escort in the South Pa. cific.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-08

Recent arrival at Corsica-baseG BPS squadron is Corporal Nicholas A. Autore, whose home is at 1926 North Main street. He will serve as engineer-gunner with a veteran Mitchell group that has given aerial support to six amphibious landings in the Mediterranean area.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-08

The weekly Bible meeting will be held tomorrow evening at Gospel hall on Thomaston avenue.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-05

NJ YOU were a Lilliputian walking through
/ your garden, everyday bugs and butter
, flies that scarcely attract attention now
would take on a truly sinister look
You'd have a right 20 Shuddcr at sight
of the ambush bug upper right looking SC
much, like some fantastic creature from
Mars This familiar inhabitant Of the insect
world really is armed 10 the teeth and using
the powerful claws attached 10 its forelegs
can catch and crush other bugs three times
its size. 1t is less than one inch long
Less ferocious in looks and actions is the
jewel-like leaf hopper upper lcfU You've
seen multitudes of these little fellows.
The biggest asset of the leaf hopper is
its ability TO jump as much as y times the
length OF its body, which, after all, iS2t|
quite as long as common pin. W.
But the leaf hopper isn't as innoceneM
it looks, because it has an injurious sap
sucking habit that destroys many plants
Every gardener recognizes the aphides as
prolific pests. Like living pumps they draw
life blood" from vegetation. But would you
ever imagine one of these little lice, magni
fled many times, actually is as gruesome as
the creature in the lower left corner?
1t is only their tremendous power to
Evening star., 1945-07-10
Potent Office Starts Returning
900 Employees From Richmond

turned as soon as the space would
be available again.
Patent ONCE officials report they
are having difiiculty in making the
transfers because OF the reluctance
of some Of the employees to return to
Washington.
For one thing, many of them
have bought or established homes
in Richmond. Others fear that
Washington's housing shortage will
prevent them from getting homes
here.
In an attempt to be fair to these
employees, the Patent ONCE is per-
mitting most of the objectors to re-
main in Richmond temporarily.
This Is done by transferring an en-
ploye from returning section to
one of the sections stifl remaining
in Richmond. Employees who wish
to return to Washington are as
signed to returning section.
The sections returning to Wash
ingtOn are design, board Of inter-
ference examiner, docket and part
Of the manuscript section.
Evening star., 1945-07-10
Seamen Picket VISA
In Bonus Cut Protest

Pickets of the National Maritime
Union (CIO) assembled before the
office of Admiral Emory S. Land of
the War Shipping Administration
here today to protest a reduction in
wartime bonuses which is scheduled
to go into effect July Is.
The NMU, according to an Asso-
ciated Press report from New York,
voted to picket VISA offices in As
cities. A picket line was formed
there this morning. The union is
demanding that no bonuses be cut
before the War Labor Board acts on
its application for basic raise to
SIS cents per hour as minimum
wage and free board and quarters
while on ships.
The proposed reduction would
lower bonuses to 1873 per cent of
base pay in the Atlantic and part of
the Pacific, and 6625 per cent on all
other waters except the Pacific and
Indian Ocean war zones, where 100
per cent bonuses, plus S. per day,
would be paid.
The bonus cut has been ordered by
the Maritime War Emergency Board,
an arbitration group created by the
ship operators and unions.
Admiral Land is not member
of the board and it is not a part of
the War Shipping Administration.
Evening star., 1945-07-10

The Patent ONCE has begun the
job of returning to Washington its
900 employees now working In Rich
mond, 1t was learned today.
Return Of some of the employees
was made possible by additional
space obtained in the Commerce De-
partment when the Office of the CO.
lordinator of Inter-American Affairs
was moved to quarters at 499 Penn
sylvania avenue.
Although the new space obtained
won't house all the 900 employees.
Patent ONCE officials said today
that eventually all the transferred
workers will be returned to Wash
ington. Approximately 100 en-
ployes already have returned.
The classification section Of the
Patent ONCE was transferred to
Richmond in January, 1912, as part
of the Governments decentraliza-
tion program. At the time, the
Budget Bureau issued the order
transferring the division to Rich-
mond, it was with the understand
Ing that the division would be re-
Evening star., 1945-07-10
Jap Writer Hits Regime
For 'Untruths' on Losses
Rs the Associated Press.

BY the ASSoclated PreSf.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 10.-The
dean of Japanese journalists today
severely criticized the Tokyo govern
ment for failure to tell its people the
stark truth about the loss of vital
Pacific islands, Tokyo radio reported.
Soho Tokutomi opposed the gov
ernment's policy, which since
Guadalcanal has tended to dismiss
the loss of strategic islands with su-
perfcial optimism.
The enemy broadcast, recorded by
the Federal Communications Com
mission, said Tokutomi emphasized
the fall Of Saipan last July, recalling
that Japanese authorities at the time
lulled the nation with the assurance
that loss of tiny Central Pacific
island should cause no worry.
Everybody now knows what the
loss Of Saipan meant to Japan" To-
kutomi wrote in the. newspaper
Mainichi.
Evening star., 1945-07-10
BY GARNETT d. HORNER.

The Japanese are using "pur-
ported peace feelers" as a means
of psychological warfare to stir
up diSSension in the United
States and among the Allies,
Acting Secretary of State Grew
said today.
In reaffrming the American policy
of unconditional surrender, Mr.
Grew said mo thinking American
can give credence to the feelers."
He warned that any temptation to
call it a day" in the war against
Japan short of unconditional sur
render, with its thorough stamping
out of the "cancerous growth Of jap
anese militarism," would mean that
future generations of Americans
would have to fight this dreadful
war over again."
Mr.. Grew admitted the State De-
partment had received reports of
unofficial peace feelers" by the
Japanese from the various parts of
the world, which he said amounted
only to inquiries as to our posi-
tion," describing them as familiar
weapons of psychological warfare"
But he said fatty that mo peace
Evening star., 1945-07-10
Franco Conferences
Reported as Churchill.
Rests al Hendaye
London Denies PIons
For Prime Minister to
See Sponish Leader
BY the Associated Press.

ST. JEAN DE LUZ, France,
July 10.-Prime Minister Church
ills vacation at nearby Hendaye
took .on a possible diplomatic
significance today as reports cir
culated here that Generalissimo
Francisco Franco had crossed
the frontier from Spain and
conferred with British officials
at Bordaberry Chateau.
an London a spokesman at
No. 10 Downing Street said,
There is no truth whatsoever"
to reports that Mr.. Churchill had
held a conference or was plan
ming a conference with Franco.
Gan Associated Press dispatch
from Madrid said rumors were
current there that Franco would
go to Hendaye to see Mr..
Churchill)
Mrs. Churchill, who Is vacationing
with her husband at Hendaye near
the Spanish border, meanwhile can
celed o scheduled visit to Spain
because Of threatening weather.
Col. Julio Ortega, Spanish frontier
commander who had come to Hen
daye to greet Mrs. Churchill, was
informed of the change of plans by
telephone and expressed disappoint-
ment.
Perhaps she will come tomorrow"
he said.
Evening star., 1945-07-10
Senate Unit Approves
Symingfon Nomination
By the Associated i Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Senate Military Affairs Com
mittee today approved the nomina-
ton of w. Stuart Symington, St
Louis, to be a member of the Sur
plus Property Board.
If confirmed by the Senate, Mr.
Symington will succeed former
Senator Guy Gillette of Iowa on the
board, which supervises disposal of
Government surplus property.
The committee also approved
these other nominations:
Luther Deck Miller to be chief
Of Army chaplains with the rank of
brigadier general. He succeeds Maj.
Gen. william r. Arnold who re-
tired June 80.
Dan I. Sultan to be Inspector
General of the Army with the rank
of major general, succeeding Mai.
Gen. Virgil Lee Peterson whose
term expired February 26.
William Henry hasten to be chief
Of finance of the Army with the
rank of major general, succeeding
Maj. Gen. Howard X. Loughry
whose term expired April %.
Evening star., 1945-07-10
WLB Orders Printers
To Stop Forcing Union
Bylaws on Employer,
Agency Threatens TO
Refuse Recognition of
Future ITU Wage Poets

Moving to end strikes of two
New Jersey newspapers and
avert possible work stoppages
elsewhere in the publishing field,
the War Labor Board today or
dered the international Typo
graphical Union TO revoke a
policy designed to force recog-
milton OF union bylaws on EN-
ployers.
WLB said 1t would refuse to rec
ognize future ITU wage agreements
unless the union reverses its stand
of forced acceptance of its de-
mands through strike or lockout"
international officers of the TTU
and three officials of the local at
the Jersey (City) Journal and
Times were ordered by the
board to appear at a hearing Satur-
day to show cause why stronger
measures should not be taken if the
union fails to retract its policy.
Unprecedented Action.
WLB officials, saying today's ac-
ton was unprecedented, expressed
fear that the policy of forced ac-
eeptance of union laws might
spread to other fields. They said
the policy would result In circum-
vention of collective bargaining by
allowing employees in effect to die
tate their own working conditions.
WLB subpoenas, designed to as
sure presence at the hearing, were
served on five international officers
of the ITU, including Woodruff
Randolph, the president, and one of
three officers of the New Jersey
local. Service had not been OBJ
tanned on the other two local Of
ficers.
The Jersey Journal and Bayonne
Times have been shut down for
nearly a month by the strike. wLB
has score of cases involving other
in which substantially
the same issues are in dispute.
A board telegram to the union
pointed out that Mr.. Randolph at
a hearing two weeks ago at which
the officers of the local failed to
appear, said the international un-
ion assumed full responsibility for
the two New Jersey strikes and that
the printers would not return until
the employers accepted the union
demands.
Refuses to Bargain.
Mr.. Randolph refused to submit
to collective bargaining or to the
WLB for settlement the question
of employer acceptance of union by
laws as binding upon them and
held that the War Labor Disputes
Act did not apply in the case.
Today's board telegram said ""any
purported agreement which may
be negotiated in persuance of the
(CnA nDYAYrrY7ro q
Evening star., 1945-07-10
5 Nazi War Prisoners
Hanged by Army for
Murder Of Comrade
Leuvenworth Executions
Called Unprecedented;
Group Dies in Uniforms
BY the Associated Press.

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kans.,
July 10.-Five German prisoners
of war, convicted in the murder
of a fellow prisoner, were hanged
early this morning at the United
States disciplinary barracks in a
move unprecedented in the an
mails of United States military
history.
The prisoners, termed @fanatical
NaZis" by Army authorities were
convicted January Is, 1914, at Camp
Gruber, Okla, for the murder of
Johannes Kunze at the Tonkawa,
Okla, branch compound. They were
the first foreign war prisoners ever
to be executed in the United States.
The Germans, all members of
Rommel's Afrika KorpS, were:
Walter Boyer, 80, whose rank was
equivalent to that of first sergeant
in the United States Army; Ber-
thold Seidel, 80, staff sergeant;
Hans Demme, %, sergeant; Hans
Schooner, 27, sergeant, and Will
Scholz, %, corporal.
Died in Nazi Uniforms.
All died in their German uni
forms, their only request. Their last
meal consisted only of the regular
issued rations. Boyer, the ranking
member Of the group, was the first
to go to the gallows. Eight guards
marched the German into a utility
warehouse, where Army engineers
had constructed trapdoor gallows
in an elevator shaft.
Col. William S. Eley, commandant
Of the disciplinary barracks, read
the Execution order, relayed to the
prisoner through an interpreter.
Asked if he had a last statement,
Boyer replied:
'I can't see why this is being done
to me-"
Chaplain Offers Prayer.
| AS a black hood was placed over
Beyer's head, Maj. John Sagar, post
chaplain, prayed as he was marched
to the gallows, where the trap was
sprung at 1905 am.
The warehouse where the execu-
tions were held was 100 yards from
the Castle" main detention build
ing on the diciplinary section of
the Fort Leavenworth Army Reser-
walton. Windows near the execu-
tion chamber were blacked out by
Army blankets. The new hemp
Evening star., 1945-07-10
Elaborate Radar Plant
Found Under Site Of
Berlin Olympic Games
S., 100000 Foctory Wos
Operated Secretly; Never
Was Priority forget
By the Associated Press.


BERLIN. July 10.-The Nazis
had a $5.0O0,OO0 radar plant
under the Berlin Temple of
Sportsmanship, site of the 1896
Olympic Games, it was disclosed
today.
= The factory. operated with great
secrecy for the Luftwaffe, manu-
factured equipment that supposedly
could determine the weight, size and
speed of any plane leaving England
for the continent.
There is no factory there now
only a labyrinth of nearly empty
underground chambers under the
shell-scarred concrete apron at the
south side of the great stadium.
Machinery Removed by Reds.
British occupation forces now oc-
cupy the entire 325-acre park site
ON the western fringe Of Berlin.
German caretakers who remained
said the Nazi machinery was re-
moved by Soviet authorities before
the British arrived.
British officers indicated they
were not surprised that the Russians
took away the radar equipment. The
British followed the same policy re-
garding secret German plants in
Northwestern Germany. Americans
thoroughly combed the Zeiss optical
works at Jena before evacuating it
for the Russian occupation.
The Sports Temple xadar plant
was operated by the Blaupunkt
company, subsidiary of the Bausch
works.
On the north side Of the stadium
the British also found underground
chambers used as storerooms for
aircraft parts. Some intact speci-
mems were left behind by the Rus
slams.
Never a Priority Target.
The Berlin Olympic village, it ap-
peared, was vital cog in the NaZi
war machine, although 1t was never
made priority target by Allied air
forces. About 80 bombs fell in the
area during the war, but they were
spillovers from other objectives.
At least feet of concrete pro-
tected the top story of the under
ground tunnels where the various
war activities were carried on.
The Berlin radio maintained an
emergency transmitter and studio
underground in the beautifully land
scaped Olympic village that Adolf
Hitler built to house the worlds
greatest athletes. So far as is
known, the studio was never used
for regular broadcasts.
Evening star., 1945-07-10

tack is the first step of aggres-
sion" against the home islands
and that lack of ground action
docs not lessen its meaning"
(The paper attributed the
forced japanese retreat from
Guadalcanal and Okinawa as due
to lack of air power)
The B-29s sent over the home is.
lands by Maj. Gen. Curtis E. lie
May, commander of the Goth Ali
Force, dumped $500 tons of fire
bombs and high explosives on five
industrial centers. Pilots reported
excellent" results.
Fires Sweep Cities.
Conf1agrations swept Wakayama
Gifu, Saka and Sendai. Sendai is
100 miles north of Tokyo and the
most distant point ever hit by the
Super Forts. A demolition bombing
of the Utsube oil refinery south of
Tokkaichi also was believed success
full, crewmen said.
(Tokyo mentioned two B-29
targets not included by Gen. LIE
May. 1t named Osaka, on Hon.
shu; Kochi, on Southern Shiko-
ku, and said 10 other Super Forts
laid mines of Honshu's west
coast.
con the basis of both Amer
lean and Japanese announce
ments, three Japanese home is
lands were hit in the whitening
Evening star., 1945-07-10
Grew Says Jap Peace FeeIers'
Seek to Stir Up Dissension
Declares No Offer Hos Been Received
Through Official or Unofficial Sources

offer" has been received from the
Japanese government through
either off1cial or unofficial channels
Conversations relating to peace
have been reported to the depart
ment from various parts of the
world" Mr.. Grew said, "but in nc
case has an approach been made to
this Government, directly or indi-
rectly, by a person who could estab-
lish his authority to speak for the
Japanese government, and in no case
has an offer of surrender been made.
"In no case has this Government
been presented with a statement
purporting to define the basis upon
which the Japanese government
would be prepared to conclude
peace"
He added that it should be borne
in mind that the Japanese now rely
principally upon the hope that they
may be able to divide the Allies
and to produce division of opinion
within the Allied countries"
ITO that end" Mr.. Grew asserted,
''it would be to their interest, as
they see their interest, to initiate
a public discussion of the terms to
be applied to Japan. This they have
Evening star., 1945-07-10
Nuzi-SIupping Pvt. McGee Gets
Six Months at Hard Labor

said he was obviously drunk and
that he resisted arrest.
Maj. Leon A. Mccarthy, post
adjutant, testified that Pvt. MCGEE
admitted in a sworn statement that
he had record of Is court-martial
convictions before coming to Devens.
An Army psychiatrist, Maj. Charles
A. Angelo, told the court that Pvt.
McGee's mental age, according to
Army tests, was II years, 6 months.
He found that the soldier had a
history Of maladjustment in both
civilian and Army life.
Evening star., 1945-07-10
Atrocity Picture
Showings Listed

The free exhibition of NOV
ing pictures and photomurals
OF Nazi atrocities will be pre-
sented by The Star and st.
Louis Post-D Dispatch today as
follows:
War Department motion
pictures: Today, Eastern High
School; tomorrow, Randall
Junior High; continuous from
2 to 10 pm.
Photomurals at Library of
Congress, 9 am. to 10 pm.
(Full details on Page 81
Evening star., 1945-07-10
New Overseas Edition
Will Be Out Tomorrow

A new issue of The Stars
Overseas Edition will be ready
tomorrow. Free copies, with
envelopes for mailing, may be
obtained at The Stars busi-
ness counter and the Victory
Bond booth in Lansburgh's
Department Store.
The edition is strictly lin
tied. Please don't waste a
single copy.
Evening star., 1945-07-10
80 Tokyo AirfieIds Hammered
By 1000 u. S. Carrier Planes
As $50 B-2os Hit Five Cities
Homeland Suffers
Greatest. Aerial
Loshing Of War
MAP and Pictures on Page A-3J

MAP and Pictures on Page A-3J
Ry the Associated Press.
GUAM, July 10.-More than
1,5o0 planes from carriers and
American-held islands to the
south today gave Japan its
greatest single days lashing OF
the Pacific War.
More than 1000 fighters, dive
bombers and torpedo planes from
Admiral William F. Halsey's Sd Fleet
smashed at Tokyo'S 70 to 80 air.
fields hour after hour.
simultaneously, the 2lst Bomber
Command sent a great feet of pos
sibly more than $50 Super Fortresses
out from the Marianas to rip five
more japanese industrial centers in
weather generally clear as bell"
(The Tokyo radio added still
another $50 planes to the massive
air blows. 1t said that several
B-29s led 100 Mustang fighter
bombers from Two Jima in at
JdChS O1l IluibdIy coJdp1lSIullcIltS
in the Osaka-Kobe area, and 130
fighters and bomberS from Oki-
nawa bases hit Western Kyushu
today. 1t listed 80 Liberator
bombers, 80 B-25s and 10 fight
er planes.
(The enemy broadcast, heard
by the Federal communications
Commission, declared the carrier
force assault indicated IAN at
tempt to crush Japanese air pow
er" in the Tokyo area. 1t con-
ceded that the United States
must have repaired carriers dam
aged of the Philippines and add
ed news ShipS0
No Fighter Opposition.
The carrier feet hurled its first
Hellcats into the air in the crisp
dawn and they swept in to catch the
enemy capital mapping. Admiral
Chester w. Nimitz said complete
surprise was achieved. Returning
pilots reported light antiaircraft
fire and no fighter opposition.
(The Tokyo newspaper Nippon
Sangyo Keizai warned editorially
today that the intensified air at
Evening star., 1945-07-10
Six Chinese Sentenced
In Gold ScundulP
By the Associated Press.

CHUNGKING, July 10.-Six junior
officials of the Central Trust, Chi
nese purchasing agency, were SEN
fenced today to varying terms of i'm
prisonment on charges of completely
in the notorious gold scandal" in
which fortunes were made through
leakage of the governments inten-
ton to boost gold futures last March
28 from 10000 to $1,000 Chinese dol
lars per ounce.
The heaviest sentence was i'm
posed on Tai Jen Wen, who received
II years imprisonment. None of the
leaders originally accused have yet
been sentenced.
Evening star., 1945-07-10
Many of u. S. Ships
Joining in Attack
On Tokyo Announced
By the Associated Press.

~ hAC ASSoSAabCG IItoSs
GUAM, July 10. Among
ships participating in today's
carrier strike against Tokyo
are:
Aircraft earriers-Lexington,
Essex, Independence, San ia
cinto.
neutrality-suspicious., Mass
achusetts, South Dakota, Iowa.
Cruisers-Chicago, San Juan,
Springfield, Atlanta.
Destroyers-Dehaven Samuel
N. Moore, John Rodgers,
Schroeder, Cogswell, Herman,
Switzerland, Ault, John w.
Weeks, Colohan, Wedderburn,
Rowe, Caperton and Frank
Knox.
Many of these ships, particu-
larly the new. Lexington, Essex,
independence, South Dakota,
Iowa and the new Chicago and
} Atlanta have been announced
sunk many times by the Tokyo
radio.