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Detroit evening times., 1945-02-14
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-10
T. E. roland Transferred

Brig. Gen. Thomas E. Troland of New London, who was named to succeed the late Judge Frank P. McEHoy as superior court judge, started duties this week as the commanding general of the Penn sylvania district, third service com- mand, in Philadelphia.
 The general, who may possibly be assigned to preside in Water bury during the next court year, is expected to continue his mih- tary service for a portion of the summer and then ask for inactive status.
 The new appointee has not yet been sworn in as a state judge. His duties, however, will not start until September, and his is expected to continue military service until he assumes the judiciary post.
 The late Waterbury jurist had been assigned to preside in Wa terbury for the winter term, and q possibility exists Judge Troland may be asked to take that assign ment. Ordinarily, however, the judges are assigned near theil homes for the winter term. Int assignment is expected to be set. tied when the state judges holt special meeting this Thursday il Hartford.
 Gen. Troland formerly had beer with the fiDst service command headquarters in Boston.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-10
Niece Given Six Months
BY ESTELLE BOND

Fort Devens, Mass, July 10- CUP)-Pvt. Joseph V. McGee, 25, of Worcester, who served a jail sentence. for slapping nine Naz prisoners, was sentenced today to six months in jail at hard labor for being AWOL for the third time in six weeks.
 Mai. Frank Reeder of Newton, president of the special court-mar- tial, announced that two-thirdS of the five members had concurred in the finding of guilty on all counts. The court, which deliberated only 10 minutes, also ruled that during the six months McGee must for felt $35 month out of his pay.
 McGee gained national attention as a 'bemedaled hero" who was jailed because he slapped nine Ger man prisoners of war in France His two-year jail sentence was commuted recently.
 Today, however, he admitted he had lied about his record and pleaded guilty to these charges:
 Being AWOL.
 Being drunk in public place In uniform.
 Taking an oath to affidavits con- taining false matter.
 It was in considering this latter
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-10
Five Nozi Prisoners
 
BY ROY CALVIN

Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, July 10.-UP)-Five German prisoners of war whose Nazi zeal led them to murder a fellow soldier in an Oklahoma internment camp were hanged at the disciplinary barracks early today in an historic .appli- cation of U. s. military justice.
 It was the first time that an en- emy war prisoner had been executed in the United States.
 The doomed men, former mem bers of Rommel's Afrika Korps, dis played the stolidity and iron dis cipline for which that unit was known as they were marched to the gallows set up in an elevator shaft.
 Seven reporters, with War De- partment permission, witnessed the executions.
 The German prisoners of war Walter Beyer, Berthold Seidel, Hans Demme, Hans Schooner and Willi Scholz-were found guilty by a U S. Army court martial at Camp Gruber, Okla, last year of murder ing Johannes Kunze, a German prisoner whose Nazi spirit showed signs of tagging.
 From the 32-year old Beyer to the 22-year old childlike Scholz, the condemned looked anything but supermen. They did, however, main tain strict military bearing as they were marched into the execution hall and heard Col. William s. Eley read War Department orders that they must die.
 Then, with black hoods adjusted
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-10
Gas Workers Call Strike

Charleston, W. Va, July 10 - (U. P.) - A strike of employees of the United Fuel Gas Company which serves consumers in seven states be- gan today, a union official an- nounced.
 William Wonsettler, international representative of the Oil Workers Union (CIO) said employees of the company's pumping stations voted 644 to 40 yesterday in favor of a strike. The vote was taken under the Smith Connally Act.
 Harry A. Wallace, Jr., company president, said ne had asked for protection" to insure continued operation of non-union pumping stations. Wallace said that striking workers were threatening to close a large non-union station at Spencer, w. Va.
 Wallace said that minimum service" continued to domestic con- sumers and hospitals in United dis tribution areas. The strikers. he said forced closing of lines through which the company receives gas from the Tennessee Gas and Trans mission Company in Texas.
 Natural gas was shut of com- pletely in the Huntington area, where the company serves indus trial and private consumers, Won settler said. Gas pressure in Charleston was sufficient to serve private consumers and hospitals, but service to- industrial users in the Kanawha Valley of West Vir- ginia was shut of.
 Wonsettler said that gas pressure in Cincinnati, O., was going down at 3:30 a. nn., when he checked, and that gas supplies soon might be shut of there. The Gas Company serves some plants in Pennsylvania as a supple
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-10
GERMANS USED
 HUMAN BODIES TO MAKE SOAP
BY M. S. HANDLER

Gdansk (Danzig), Poland, July 8-UP)-An experi- mental laboratory for the manufacture of soap from human bodies was inspected by correspondents today.
 This chamber of horrors is one of the few buildings still intact in this ancient Hanse- atic City. Still standing in the laboratory are the pres sure boilers, the soap residue, tanks of chopped human fat and flesh.
 Outside the laboratory the ground is filtered with whitened human skulls and bones-the waste prod ucts of this ultimate NaZi atrocity. There is no doubt about what went on in this one-story, red- shingled gabled house. It is lo- cated in the yard behind the build ines of the Anatomical and Pharm- geological Institute of the Danzlg Medical school, at No. "A Del br,,ck street-which the Poles have renamed Curie- -Skladowska street, In honor of Mime. Curie.
 Assistant Captured
 One assistant who worked at the laboratory has been captured and we were allowed to question the half-demented man. His testimony filled in details of factory.
 On the ground floor the labora- tory is divided into two rooms. Each is fitted with pressure boilers. They are of white enamel and look like oversize electric washing machines. Theye are also several smaller pressure chambers in which bones were rendered.
 The soap was poured out into Hat dishes or cylinders resembling ice cream containers. The final boilers in which the soap was refined are rectangular enamel tanks with epigot at the lower right hand side.
 Alongside one pressure boiler was . bin filled with dried hunks of skin and fat, removed from the hu- man bodies, and ready for the boiler. In one cylinder container there were vestiges of yellow soap and a block of hardened f1aky soap was on the table.
 Tn the basement of the Anatom- ical school we saw tanks filled with corpses of Poles and Russians who had been hanged, shot or guillotined and whose bodies were used for lab- oratory purposes. There were whole bins filled with the heads of gull lotined victims.
 We questioned Sigmund Mazur, identified as a laboratory assistant,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-10
.City's Bond
 Status Good

The city is in position to borrow upward to $5,814, ,365 95 by means of bond issuances according to esti- mates of City Budget Director Ar hold E. Furlong. The sum repre- sents the excess of debt limit over aggregate indebtedness.
 The city's bonded indebtedness, at present is comprised of $7,719,5O0 in general bonds and $6,457 900 in wa ter bonds.
 By acts of state statute a total of $4,363,000 in bonds is excluded from the city's indebtedness. This Sum is comprised of the following bond issues-Street and General bonds: issued in 1935-$7OO, ,OOG; issued in 1936-$31O,OO0; issued in 1937-$260, ,000; 1938-$585 900. Muni- cipal Abbatoir bonds, issued in 1888 -$5,000. Funding bonds issued in i933-$320,0OO; issued in 1884 -$360, ,00O; issued in 1935-$4OO OOO; issued in 1936-$41O, 900; issued in 1937-$444, 900 and issued in 1938- $430,000. School bonds issued in 1935-$139,O0O.
 Means of determining a compari- son of the bonded indebtedness with the bonded limit is set out as follows
 Grand List for the city for 1914 totals $227, ,703, ,489 made up of $780, 610,009 in taxable real and personal property and $36,893, ,480 in exempt real and personal property. From this total is deducted the exempt federal, state and county owned real property and exempt personal property to total amount of $14,- 586,17 for an adjusted Grand List for 1914 of $213,117,319.
 The city's bonded limit of $10,- 655, ,865.95 is determined by a rate of 5 per cent of the adjusted grand list. The city's general bonds of $7.719,500 plus the $1 ,485 900 includ- ed by the 1941 statute Especial Acts) equals $9,204, 500.
 From this total is deducted $4,- 363, 900, the excludable bonds for a tctal of $4,481, 500. This latter amount is deducted from the bond limit of $10,655, ,865.95 for the excess of debt limit over aggregate indebt- edness- ,814 ,365.95.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-10

The report said Germany is try ing to Hoodwink the rest of the world into thinking she is "com- pletely crushed" But in reality, 1t said, German industry, far from being knocked out, "could readily attain and surpass their previous war production lever' if given short period for repair.
 Despite wartime destruction. the senators found, Germany probably would have had her synthetic oil industries rebuilt underground had the war lasted six months longer and would have been sending w. bombs to smash New York.
 The subcommittee recommended:
 l. Exhaustive examination of records of the German government and industrial and other organiza- tions. These records should be pre- served and given to Congress to study.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-10
200 Ne1u One-Fan1ily Homes Assigned City
(By Democrat Stan writer)

A quota of 200 new one-fanlily dwelling units has been assigned Waterbury under the H-2 quota of the National Housing Agency.
 According to plans of the MIA about 250,0O0 new homes of this type will be assigned throughout the nation, in an attempt to get the anticipated building boom ur1- derway.
 It is understood that these hous- es, prescribed by the H-2 program must be sold for a price at or be- low $7,5O0 with monthly rental not be exceed $65. A similar quota was assigned to Hartford just recently.
 It has been estimated by the Na- tional Associations of Realty Boards and Home Builders that the building boom will be given birth about spring of 1946.
 Just recently the government be- gan to relax numerous wartime controls. However, the abundance of such commodities Is not apparent thus giving little value, as yet, to the release.
 Shortages exist as yet in lumber. building labor, and the thousand and one component parts that go into building house, or other type constructions etc, such as plumb ing, pipe of all kinds, heaters, etc.
 Building Boom Expected
 Private builders and lumber dealers are anticipating a golden age" for the building trades after the war with best estimates depicit- ing & SIP billion building boom. This figure includes not only lum- Der and such construction but all the component parts heretofore mentioned plus roads. highways etc.
 Plans call for low-cost housing with possible blanket mortgage plans in effect whereby you can buy a house completely equipped and ready to be moved into for oc- cupancy.
 It has been reported that the government plans first considera- tions for deferred maintenance and repair construction work. By this is meant, immediate work on jobs which were curtailed or abandoned after the wars onset because of building restrictions, and those jobs in need of repairs because of the inability to obtain materials for such unessential work. Fear Federal Program Although government authorities have stated the belief that private construction interests should lead the way in the building boom, this latter group is expressing fear of Continued on Page 5
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-10
Ruthless Illumination or Nazis' Power To Wage War Urged By Senate Group

2. U. s. Representatives on the Allied Control Commission should submit annual reports to Congress for IS years on the progress of German disarmament and control. The first report should be made next Jan. 1 and quarterly reports should be required for the first three to five years.
 While it called for the elimina- tion of Germany's war-making po- tential the report did not ask for the destruction or removal of all German industry, as suggested by Financier Bernard M. Baruch, one of the witnesses at the subcommit- tees hearings.
 Two of the subcommittee mem- bers, Sens. Edwin c. Johnson, D.. Colo, and Chapman Revercomb, R., w. Va. said in an interview that Germany should be permitted to rebuild her industries and com merca. under strict supervision.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-10
Chinese Capture Luchoi and oyu

Chungk1ng, July lU.-(UF)- Chinese troops have captured Lu- chai, 25 miles northeast of Luchow in central Kwangsi province, and have broken into Chungtu, 35 miles northeast of Liuchow, the high command announced today.
 Earlier the high command had reported the recapture of Tayu, lo- cated inside KiangSi province on the Kiangsi- Kwangtung border, cutting Japanese communications between southern Kiangsi and northern Kwangtung.
 Tayu's Japanese defenders were said to be fleeing northeast toward Manning.
 The earlier communique also claimed that Japanese troops, driv- ing from East Haiteng IT miles west of Annoy on July g, suffered at least POO casualties when Chinese troops hit them flanking blow near Chikhu, IS miles east of Changpu and 50 miles southwest of Annoy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-10
Serop Tin Salvage Collection July 14

All city streets north of East and West Main street will be canvassed on Saturday, July IA, in a collection for scrap tin salvage. Street Supt. Herbert Scott Smith who will direct the activities has asked all residents to start now to prepare all tin cans for dona- tion to the drive.
 Tin cans should be cleaned, have ends removed and flat tened before depositing in box and placed in front of resi- dence. The collection will get underway at ] a. m. Satur- day, weather permitting.
 Tin salvage Is still high on the priority list of salvage materials needed for prosecu- tiOn of the war.
 GIVE YOUR SCRAP TO BEAT THE JAP!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-10
Screen Comedion Irked at Studio

Honolulu, July 10.-(UP)-Radio and screen comedian Jack Carson, according to the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes, has accused Hollywood studios of trying to prevent him from making overseas entertainment tours.
 Carson was quoted as saying in an interview with the Army publi- cation that his studio consented to an overseas tour only after his draft board had classified him IA. The Warner Brothers studio, he added, believed that by permitting the tour it could obtain deferment for him as an essential entertainer.
 Carson was quoted as saying that the need for his obtaining draft deferment was obviated by the new regulation lowering the draft age limit to 30.
 I'm 34, SO that was that" he said. T was booked with the U IS. O. alysady, SO here ann
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-10
Foreign Assignments
 Affect 100000 Men|

Washington, July 10- All qualified army personnel in this country who have not served at least six months overseas will be replaced by next May l so they may be given foreign assignments.
 Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said the replacements would be made by returning veterans and others in special categories. The changes will affect about 40O,0O men un- der 35 who are now in this country.
 The army for several months has adhered to 8 policy of giving overseas assignments to personnel in this country and replacing them with vet erans. The new order, how ever, sets May l as the dead line for the changes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-10
RECORD NAVAL ARMADA BLASTS JAPAN
BABY KIDNAPER STRANGER SAYS. Fb|.
BY THEODORE ALEXANDER

BY THEODOKE ALEAANDEN
 Marion, O., July 10-(UP) Y Sheriff Leroy Reterrer said today the Creviston baby Kidnapping case has been solved and he predicted an arrest before nightfall.
 Regional Federal Bureau of Investigation headquar- ters at Cleveland said it had the impression" that the case had been solved and that a stranger had taken the baby girl.
 Reterrer refused to amplify his statement. It was the first major break in the case since week-old Jean Eileen Crevison was taken from her nursery crib at Marion City hospital Sunday night.
 Lead Works Out
 Reterrer said he and two depu- ties and State Police assigned to the case had been working on lead furnished by city police officials and that it had worked out" He would not say whether the arrest was ex- pected to be made here or else where.
 The development came after off, cers had worked most of the night running down slender clues and ex- hausting the possibility that the baby had been abandoned in a slum section of the city.
 Police Chief William E. Marks had expected help from the fed eral Bureau of Investigation today.
 Marks said he had definitely de- cided that the infant was stolen in a criminal action" He ruled out the possibility that her father, Serg- cant John L. Creviston, had any connection with his daughters dis appearance.
 The hospital broadcast a warn ing to the kidnapers that the baby would need feelings every three hours and would have to be pro- tected from excessive heat and drafts.
 Mrs. Helen Elizabeth Creviston, the mother, was at the home of her father, Roscoe D. Mezger, wholesale grocery company manager. She and Mezger declined to make any state-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-10
FinoI Peace reoty With Italy Looms
By WILLIAM R. HIGGINBOTHAM

London, July 10 - CU.P9 Reliable informants declared today that pro- posals for 8 peace treaty with Italy will be considered at the forthcom- ing Big Three meeting.
 The time of the conference has not been announced although Pres ident Truman was revealed to be on his way.
 The plan behind the proposals obviously would be to establish Italy in the near-future as a full-fiedged independent nation at peace with the world and empowered to deal with her sister nations on an even footing.
 However, the treaty would not im- ply automatic membership in the United Nations, nor would 1t neces- eArily settle outstanding territorial GAestionS.
 British sources said 1t is unlikely 0At a peace treaty in anything re- eembling final form will emerge from the Big Three pow-woW. MT. Truman, Prime Minister Churchill, and Premier Stalin may decide the scope and timing of the treaty but will leave any detailed negotiations primarily to Britain, the United States, and Italy.
 The British feel that Russia has only 8 secondary interest in Italy while the French must be consulted before the treaty is signed.
 Italian colonies would come under United Nations trusteeship, but what power or powers would admin ister them is unknown. Observers believe Britain can be expected to press strong claims, particularly for those colonies located along the Mediterranean shipping lanes.
 British attitude toward Italy is believed decidedly more friendly now than it was six months ago. The formation of 8 new government under Ferruccio Parri is cited to show that Italy is wiping out her sins.
 British quarters suggest that the treaty will be signed sometime be- fore Italy is accepted into the United Nations. Spain, some ob- servers point out, has been banned from the United Nations although 1t was nevr at war:
 They ask. why then should the United Nations hasten to accept their one-tine enemy, belligerent Italy?"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-10
BY EULALIE MCDOWELL

Washington, July 10-(UP)-A Senate subcommittee warned to- day that Germany is now better prepared to implement her plot for world conquest" than after World War I. The group recom- mended ruthless elimination of the Reich's capacity to wage war.
 At the same time two of the sub- committees members suggested that special Allied observers keep a close watch on the Germans to see that they don't build up a new war machine. A "watchful eye" policy, they said, would eliminate the need for a prolonged military occupation.
 The subcommittee, headed by Sen. Harley M. Kilgore. D., w. Va, based its report on on-the-spot in- vessigations in Germany and tes- tiinony Of government officials at open hearings here.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-10
Dutch Forces
 In Landings On Peninsula
By HUGH CRUMPLER

Manila, July 10 - (U.P) - Jap ans last grip on Borneo's vital oil was threatened today as General Douglas MacArthur announced Dutch amphibious forces had made two new landings on the north shore of Balikparan Bay while Aus tralian troops were wiping out trap ped defenders of the great Pandazl- sari refineries.
 The Dutch fighters landed on Teloktebang and Kariango Penin- su1as completing encirclement gof the lower Balikpapan Bay on Its eastern, western and northern shores.
 They were opposed by determined Japanese small arms fire from the shore and from the decks Of enemy river craft.
 Reports reaching here indicated the Seventh Australian Division holds a good portion, and possibly; all, of the Pandansari Refinery. An Australian army announcement broadcast by Melbourne radio said that Seventh Division troops have advanced through swamp country behind the Soember river estuary and have captured the village ot Soember, effectively cutting of the. Japanese in the refinery area where the enemy was being wiped out.
 Japanese forces continued batt1- ing desperately in the Manggar area with Japs setting up roadblocks Of blazing A gallon oil drums in an ef- fort to halt advancing Aussie mech anized equipment.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-10
|23 Arrested In Narcotic
 Raid In N. Y.

New York, July 10 - WP) - Fifteen men and one woman were held today on federal charges of possessing and selling narcotics in Manhattan's night club district.
 Assistant U. s. Attorney Clayton Hollinger disclosed yesterday that g persons were arrested along swing line" the Sand street police district, in the climax of a two- month investigation of Marijuana distribution.
 Hollinger said federal agents had purchased Marijuana from some of teh defendants for as much as SIS a pound. Single cigarets he said sold for 75 cents each.
 The arrests all took place Satur- day, Hollinger said. There were no arrests in night clubs or theaters, although some of the defendants were connected with orchestras and night club entertainment groups.
 Four of the B were arraigned here Saturday before U. s. Com- missioner Garrett Cotter. They were James Washington, 35, and Maurice Hackney, $3,000 bail each; James Hairston and Bernard Jackson IT., $500 bail each.
 Three others were scheduled or arraignment in Newark, N. J., Hol- finger said.
 Among the 16 arraigned yesterday was Claude Ellison, member of the Louis Prima Band, who was arrest ed outside the Strand theater where the band was playing. Ellison was held in 1000 bail.
 Also held in $1,0o0 bail was Otis (Alabama) Merritt, 25, who said he worked as a comedian at Miami's Beachcomber Club last winter.
 Holland (one-armeO Jones, 28, Negro, was held in 5000 bail. He was described as supplier of nar- cotics for at least IS peddlers in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-10
Saturnio Refitted As Hospital Ship

London, July 10.-(UP)-The for mer Italain luxury liner Saturnia has been reflected in the United States as the worlds largest hos pital ship and has arrived at Southampton to pick up its first load of casualties, it was announced today.
 The U. S. Army statement also revealed that the Saturnia, which crossed in nine days, is now called the Francis Y. Sanger.