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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-14

There was a large building about 120 by 50 feet located in the middle of large open area, consisting Of a field. The building was of sement and brick construction with no win dows. Two large double doors lead inside which comprises just one room. The roof was supported by posts about as big around as small telephone polio
 The building, used at least once to burn people, had 100 badies in 1t. Some of the piles of bodies were still smoking. AS far as l could judge they were all men. Most seemed to be rather emaciated- legs no larger than arms, waists only slightly larger than my neck. On the other hand, there were some who looked rather husky. One man apparently tried to escape and was shot just outside.
 Escapes Called Miracle
 "The prisoners were apparently slave laborers-either Russian, Pol ish. and probably Jews. From what I could gather the last group was put in the barn. The doors were closed and a match was tossed in to ignite a large quantity of hay. How few escaped I don't know. I saw one who had gotten his head under the door. There was two or three men at the scene who had eS- capped. One talked fair English, But I wasn't able to get the whole story. Many or most, believe, died of suffocation. Strangely neither the hair nor the clothing was not burned. The hands and feet of al- most all were clinched as if in pain. Most wore a green and white striped uniform said to be the slave labor uniform.
 Behind the building American soldiers were supervising and forc- ing the opening of mass grave by German civilians. When was there, there was a large ditch about five feet wide, 100 feet long and feet deep. In it were bodies tumbled to- gether. Some seemed somewhat de- composed but most of them seemed to have been recently buried. Some appeared burned, others not.
 Between the ditch and the build ing were three rows of bodies which
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-14
Friendly Enemies Out Says Eisenhower

Paris, May IA. - (UP) - Gen Dwight D, Eisenhower announced today that drastic measures" had been set in motion to end any treatment of high Nazi and German officials as friendly enemies"
 Eisenhower's statement followed criticism by French and other com mentators of what they called the preferential attitude adopted by American army officers toward Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering.
 The generous Americans invited him to lunch" one Paris radio com mentator said. One could think we are back in the old ages when opposing leaders were lowing to each other"
 Eisenhower said his attention had been called to press reports of ln- stances of senior American officers treating Nazi and German officials as friendly enemies
 Any such instance has been in direct violation of my express and long standing orders" he said. Drastic measures have been set h motion to assure termination ot these errors forthwith.
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(Continued from Page D death penalty for Himmler. His name also led the list of Nazis charged by the British, French, Bel gian, Dutch and Czechoslovaks with concentration camp atrocities.
 The commission has charged Himmler specifically with atrocities in the Jewish concentration camp at Terrain, where 142000 Czecho- slovakians of Jewish extraction were imprisoned before July, l943.
 Informants said 65,Ooo were sent to extermination camps in Germany and Poland, 15,0O0 died of starva- ton and epidemics, and the re- mainder were believed slain in a final mass slaughter of Jews in con- centration camps late last year.
 AS SS leader only, Himmler faces charges arising from the seiz- ure and internment of several thou sand Czechoslovakian hostages in September, 1889 That was aimed at preventing a sympathy uprising when the Germans marched into Poland.
 He also faces separate charges of systematic terrorism through spe- cial courts set up in Czechoslovakia after his appointment as minister of interior These courts ruthlessly enforced Nazi rule by mass eXecu- tions, not only of Czechoslovakian patriots but their wives and families as well.
 Finally, as a member of the Ger man government. Himmler was charged jointly with other ministers with the Nazi forced labor and slav- cry policies which were directed by his colleague, Goering.
 Charles Collingwood, CBS Core spondent, broadcast from Paris Sat urday that Doenitz had seized Him. mler, next to Adolf Hitler the most wanted Nazi. and possible turned him over to the British.
 Supreme headquarters in Paris announced, however, that it had no confirmation of Himmler's capture and a BEG broadcast from the Bri- tish front said he had not been ar rested by either Doenitz or the Allies.
 Doenitz and his government were believed still in F1enSburg, just across from the Danish border. Flensburg was proclaimed an open city by the Germans, to be occupied at will by Marshal Sir Brenard L. Montgomerys British forces.
 Radio Flensburg, taken over by the Allies yesterday, anonunced series of Allied military laws abol- iShing Nazi statutes. including ra- cial discrimination laws. The Nazi party was dissolved and the Swas- tika banned as the German flag.
 French broadcasts said Allied tri- bunals already hae begun the trials of German war criminals and have executed some.
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Austria Ends German Lows
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The broadcast said representa- tiVes of three political parties had signed the Declaration of Inde- pendence. Eaih ministry in the Renner government, it added, in- cludes there state secretaries-on from each party-to assure im- partiality.
 Tine United States and Britain have objected to the Renner gov ernment on grounds thatt hey have no knowledge that it represents the wishes of the majority of the Aus trian people. They have main tained that formation of a govern ment should await plebiscite in more settled times.
 Dr. Renner was a member of the Social-Democratic party eXecu- tive and was president of the International Association for social progress at Basel from 1926 to 1884. He was a member of the Austrian peace delegation in 1919 and foreign minister of Austria in 1920.
 Informed diplomatic quarters said Britain and the United States have adopted a firm but polite attitude toward Tito over the administra- tion of Trieste and other points of the Istrian Peninsula.
 Tito's partisans liberated most of Trieste and the Istrian Peninsula and immediately laid claim to it. Italy appealed to the United Ma tionS to retain the peninsula within her borders.
 The United States took the stand that Trieste should remain under Allied control until it's final dispos- ition has been decided at the peace table. Britain concurred.
 It was understood that President Truman and Prime Minister Chur- chill exchanged notes recently em- | phasizing their united stand on the question.
 However, It. Gen. w. D. Morgan, | aide to Marshal Sir Harold R. L. G.. Alexander, supreme Allied com mander in the Mediterranean, failed to bring about YugoslaVia's consent to the Allied plan during conversa- tions in Belgrade.
 The next step may be for the United States and Britain formally to communicate their views to Tito's government.
 The Western Allies and Russia re- mained as far apart as ever on the question of new Polish govern ment and the status of Is under ground leaders arrested by the Red army.
 The official Soviet newspaper Pravda said the arrested mems di- verSionary actions in Poland had cost the lives of more than 100 of ficerS and men of the Red army"
 However furious the Polls h Emigre press may be, however ir- ritated the supporters of these de- serters. the fact of this monstrous crime is well established and so are the organizers and thos- who car ried it out" Pravda said.
 The l6 men, all supporters of the Polish exile government in London. were arrested while responding to a Soviet invitation to discuss a coali- tion government and Britain for membership in the coalition govern ment.
 Comdr Stephan King Hall, mem- Der of Parliament, said in speech at Burscough last night that Brit ish-Soviet differences could be re- solved only by personal discussions between Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-14
Attack On Nagoya
 Beats Nazi Raids
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| the task forces since Sunday night the broadcast said.
 Pacific fleet headquarters was si- lent on the report of carrier raids on Southern Japan. However, task forces customarily observe radi, si- lence while in enemy waters.
 The raids presumably were de- signed to neutralize Japanese sui cide-plane bases and to divert ene- my attention from the Nagoya as- Sault.
 Savage Jap Resistance
 On Southern OkinaWa, gains were being measured in yards as two marine and two army divisions fought slowly southwnrd against some of the savagest Japanese re- sistance of the Pacific war.
 Japanese shellfire froze marines in their foXholes On Two ridge so named by the marines because of the lives it cost-overlookirg the ruins of Naha, once a bustling city of 5000.
 Ahead of the marines still lay the Asato River Valley, which separates them from Nah. proper. The Jap- anese hold high ground south of the river from which to loose a hell of mortar and machinegunfire once the marines drive forward.
 Two Ridge was taken by the sixth marine division only after advanc- ing American tanks opened up on the Japanese in their stone and concrete defenses with liquld fire that cremated them where they stood.
 The 77th Army Infantry Division seized high ground east of the in- land town of Shuri, second largest on OkinaWa. The First Marine Division advanced on Shuri from the northwest after killing 100 Jap- anese in beating off a counter-at- tack.
 The 96th Army Infantry Division on the east coast neared the sum- init of Conical Hill. key position shielding the Hanks of both Shuri and the port of Yonabaru. Gains of 300 to 600 yards were reported in the center and eastern sectors of the line.
 U. s. Navy search planes sank a lugger, set a small cargo ship afire and heavily damaged a small oiler in waters around Korea yesterday.
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Bockstoge Deals Hit
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thority of the central security council is maintained, it may devel- op into a form of isolationism which is calculated to destroy the world organization at it's birth
 Unless the supremacy of the security council is clearly estab- lished, he warned, regional wars may be precipitated without the world organization being given the right to suppress the aggressor."
 The Australian official said 1t was surprising to note how many Latin American countries-coun- tries which originally wanted a se- curity council of 13 or 15 seats switched in committee last Satur- day to keep the council at Il seats as favored by the big powers.
 "The Press he said, was sug- sested that this was preliminary to an understanding by which Amer ican regionalism will be given a special immunity. If this kind of thing goes on in San Francisco, the world organization will inevitably be subverted.'
 Evatt's statement made it clear that there will be bitter fight be- fore any regional system is freed, to any considerable degree, from the world organization. Many oth- CT small and middle powers, for whom Evatt has served as unoffi- cial spokesman, share his views on this issue. They can be expected to align them; elves against the Western Hemisphere bloc.
 The Australians statement came as officials here were studying a new U. s. formula for settling the regional issue. The plan may be presented in charter form today at a meeting of the special regional subcommittee.
 In brief, the American formula provides that in event of aggression in the Western Hemisphere and until the security council acts, the principles of joint action specified by the act of Chapultepec-basis of the Pan-American syStem-Would apply. But hemispheric action would in no way limit the security council in any action which it eventually may take.
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On Southern OkinaWa, U. s Marines were Slugging it out with desperate Japanese in the northern outskirts of the capital city of Naha in battle as bloody as any or TWO. One marine company lost 5C per cent of its strength in the past two days.
 Other Japanese attempted to land behind American lines five miles northwest of Mana and were wiped out to the last man.
 The B-29 raid on Nagoya, 165 miles west of Tokyo on the main Japanese home island of Honshu marked a renewal of the fire raids in which superfortresses burned out 53 68 square miles of Tokyo, Yoko- hama, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe ano KaWasaki in March and April.
 More than 32 square miles ot Tokyo were burned out in three attacks and 5.36 square miles oi Nagoya in two raids during the earlier offensive.
 Todays mighty armada concen- trated on nine square miles ot Northern Nagoya, an area crowded with filmsy homes, numerous shadow factories ard the huge Mitsubishi Electric Works and Chigusa plant of the Nagoya arsenal
 B-29s from Guam, Tinian and Saipan rendezvous near Two for the attack and thundered north in columns of II planes to squadron without fighter escort.
 The vanguard hit Nagoya at 8:15 a. m. Tokyo time from medium al- titude and the parade of destruc- tion continued uninterrupted with mehodical precision for nearly 9C minutes. Each squadron dropped its entire bombload in one minute.
 It was an all fire-bomb raid. Each superfortreSS carried about seven tons of the Army air forces deadly new M-69 fire bombs, which spray flaming gasoline jelly over radius of 30 yards. They are dropped in clusters of 38.
 Other Tokyo broadcaSts said 900 Allied carrier planes and minor formation of superfortresses at- tackled airfields and military in- stallations on Kyushu, southern most of the Japanese home islands, yesterday.
 The carrier planes returned to the attack today, striking southern Honshu and neighboring Shikoku in addition to Kyushu, Tokyo said.
 The enemy broadcast said the planes were believed operating flom two task forces, each comprising two to three carriers and two bat tleships. southeast of Kyushu. Jap anese planes have been attackir :.
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Aldermen To Meet Tonite
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From indications today it was be- lieved that the zoning committee will recommend to the full board tonight that the area be maintained "as is thus permitting the con- cerns to proceed with construction The fact that the area has been zoned industrially for the past Ia years, without protest from any residents, is said to have prompted the decision, particularly in view it was declared, of the fact the con- cerns had already purchased the land, hired surveyors and archi- tects to proceed with the construc- tion.
 The area involved is that of Homer street on the north side to Thomaston avenue and the south side to Waterville St. About TO resi- dens among the protestants reside on Homer street.
 The area involved specially is the site of the former Carney Coal Co.,, it is likewise owned, in part, by the Cashin Dairy Go.
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(Continued from Page D warn you that there is still a lot to do"
 Threaded throughout his speech were references to his advancing age and the tremendous load he has carried in five years at 10 Downing St. Listeners thought he sounded tired, and lacked his usual fire. But the oldtime Churchillian rhetoric shone frequently and brightly.
 He said the San Francisco Con- ference must not become "a shield for the strong and a mockery for the weak"
 Churchill revealed that one-third of the troops and one-half of the losses in the western front cam- paign were British. He said the Royal Navy had borne the brunt of the North Atlantic battle while the United Staes Navy has had to use it's immense srength mainly against Japan
 He again pledged Britain to a final fight against Japan, saying, we must never forget that beyond all turks Japan, harrassed and failing, but still a people of hun dred million. for whose warriors death has few terraors."
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(Continued from Pare J Yugoslav Partisan forces had dis armed four German and II pro- Nazi Ustachi divisions in northern Yugoslavia and southeastern Aus tria. He reported the liberation of number of towns, among them Maribor. Apparently without oppo- sition.
 Rear Admiral Bruening, German commander in charge of torpedo boat operations from Dutch bases, accompanied two of the boats into Felixtowe on the English coast yes- terday. The boats were escorted into the habor by British motor gunboats and boarded by armed search par ties.
 Bruening later, was reported Tn conference with British naval off, cerS at Dover on the location and clearance of mines in English Chan nel, North Sea and Baltic Sea.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-14
Conodion Post For Windsor Duke Seen

Detroit, May 14-(UP) The De- troit Free Press said today that the Duke of Windsor will become the the new Governor General of Can ada. probably within a month.
 The dispatch credited the infor- maticn to a high dominion official" who said that the appointment of Windsor was expected to build strong Canadian American relations. Wind
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-14

sor and his Amcrican-born Duchess are in New York. The dispatch said they would remain there about 30 days. then proceed to Montreal.
 The dispatch said that the present Governor General, the Earl of Ath- hone, who has served past the cus- tcmary five-year tenure would be due for retirement
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-14

An advertisement on a piece of wood picked up on the beach at Ilfracombe England, read "Whis- key 60 cent a bottle coal, s3.20 a ton."
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Allies Take
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Churchill
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Lend d-Lease
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-09-20
MaeARTHUR's FUTURE

Washington gossip Is 90 the effect that
General .f ths Army Douglas Macarthur
.f4u o. the United States. posi- bly
ffr ..res months. and accept one or
".u often. tor civilian activities which
...| n,f "a personal fortune Of az least ST.
||HHH". O. Is believed bee will stay in ia
..u .rf Wtil occupation becomes merely
f..Ine TASK which could be turned over
. . capable subordinate.
$50 other person u recent times ha-
-n eagerly sought after. Publishing
..s want MS memoirs. stage and
... have sent 0atteriug offers. News
..u.. ...a.,atr. are willing to bid high Tor
artmg- Chain stores. life insurance
.Hu an.r. and large financial orVau,za-
.... .r. eager Geo have him as president.
U. $3.50 v,4Id pas him handsomely toI
lf.afca-ts and oxeeuttve duties. IN a.
Onc story predicts be viii De- in the
f.t. D.. Christmas Thor would follow
rumphal tour and q reception in Wash
..sr after vhi,h b. may accept the best
d r.r gouren.a offers and settle down
'.len 81 whatever city be- chooses.
AU#fh.r news story l- 20 the effect that be-
.. .tl. down u Manila. where be is re-
.Ff.8 O.. have prcNar business interests.
..u engage u writing.
rhs utar, looks bright Tor the great
oddities. f.rv,a-'uE prosperity which no
$3.50 H,.rudv, him after his magnificent
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-09-20
In hNfuN nm

Icr's bald head elistened In the
glare Of ne overhead lights For
an instant the fun impact Of the
mans entrance puzzled Christie
phcr.
he was staring AZ his foor
manager, Bill Hanson.
Hello. Bill" Christopher ex-
claimed IN surprise. They Just
tcld me you we're sick and
wouldn't BE- down this morning i"
Before the man could answer
Lieutenant Don0hlae. who was
walking directly IN front Of the
gioor manager stepped aside and
Christopher gaspcd has astonish-
ment.
Bill Hanson was handcufIed 90
the detective beside him.
MY God. BILL" he raspcd out
the words with q sharp fash Of
apprehension. YOU'RE not-you
can't be-RizzO!"
The face before him was ex-
prcsSionle&s "A mask a. the
chucklina. good nstured man hc
had known for the past few
months.
My numbers up. Mr. Hum
bert" Bill replied in a fiat. life
less voice. 4 am Pete Rizx0."
The devil you are" In his be-
wildrrmcnt Christopher looked 40
Dnnohue, who Nodded bat DID not
speak. Suddenly the Office became
very quiet CHANGING around the
rom Bill Hanson--aliaS haxz0--
said quietly: ~aS long as the Pig
up-Ill tell you how easy Il was
o. ret this sob 81 fhguibcri'a
They needed men 80 badly in the
stnre-4thcy didn't pay Hrueh at
teutiUn 20 my references. They
acre faxed Getting a JOB here
as fl8or manager was a cinch.
Dad you come into the depart
ment t1st--iuEt % make hauly
Christopher demanded. q thin line
Of anger Ia has voscc.
sure. knew theTe'd be \ lot
u easy Jack lying around tals
sect lon during the fur sale IL
didn't take me long last week 60
figure the store had gotten some
one AZ hst VINO knew how a. drag
b. the cash customers-and that
was What / was Waltln' f0T-be-
liCve me. that first day ~ the sale
was something | got away with
nearly ~ grand "a cash."
Christopher said ~ disgust. i
siiu don't set al Of this. Rlzzo
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-09-20
GIVE Us A BEACH

The shief thing needed 20 provide Key
"a ssl wdh attractions to make il an ideal
"a otter resort Is a beach. aud the first step
n aftam that object was taken Tuesday
afternoon by the Monroe county commits
..e#er
ThyR aet December II as the date on
ahleb fryeholders In the county will vote
aa proposal to bond the county $3.50. 600
fa ohlsin a fund a. pay for the building of
'he PROPOSED beach and a pavilion or
laa.na
on, frceholders will be permitted TO
EHfe .n thr election. and Supervisor John
tanand explains that the only thing the
atHsf of neal estate In the county will have
fH da in eet his name placed on the quail
.i as' vill be- Go sign q certificate declar-
"H owns realt, Ia the county.
Dor several wears before the beginning
a. th. war when anybody spoke about
-.s ar ksy West a tourist town. among
ffe question that arose was. II tourists
come here what accommodations have We
.ar bern Then the rooms in this and that
tofe were enumerated. and after the
.HaHeFatiun the remark made was that
hen those accommodations were taken
.ar nImncr 81 tourists here would be- linn
r,a tn O. comparatively few.
And Sc were apt 20 point out also that
tU had ro sewage system and no running
ra..r. two things on which tourists insist
.a h.siag wheushey remain FOR any length
ums Doe ans Resort,
nut things are different now We
r.te running water. sewer system and
r.a.Hg accommodations for several thou
.aH8 tourists
that brings us now 10 where we
.rTaa our chief need now Is a beach. and
.. $500 obtain that also if the S25O.000
.ra ssu, IS approved at the polls.
Ta, Citizen feels confident that the
proposal vii be approved. Give us
....H together with our other attractions
Hnv me best winter climate IN the
country. end Key West, future a. a winter
...aI. . a-.ured