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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-13
FUNERALS

The funeral of George R. Ford former resident of Waterbury and president of the Windsor Bank and Trust O., was held Tuesday in Windsor.
 The services were held at the Windsor Congregational Church with Rev. Sherrod Soule, Q lifelong friend of MT. Ford, officiating, as- sisted by Rev. Joseph H. TwicheN, pastor of the church.
 Active bearers were John Gold" berg. Arthur E. Clark, William A. zacher, Walter J. Madigan, Harry Tohler, Edmund Morrison, Qustave Martinchek and Ralph T. Peters. Burial was in Palisado Cemetery, Windsor.
 Funeral services for Mrs. Amelia Pauline (schoeck) Witzman, 693 wilson street, will be held today at 2 D. m. ct Aldersan Funeral Home, 70 Central avenue. Burial will be in Riverside cemetery.
 The funeral of Mrs. Mary (Shea) Jones, 3079 Fairfield avenue, Bridgeport, was held this morning at s:l5 from the Mulville funeral home, 270 West Main street, to St. Francis Xavier church, where sol.' emn high Mass of requiem was cel- ebrated at @ o'clock by Rev. David O'Keefe, assisted by Rev. Thomas Dignarn, deacon, and Rev. James J. Sullivan, sub-deacon.
 Burial was held in new St. Jos- eph's cemetery, Father Sullivan reading the committal prayers. Pallbearers were Joseph Cava. naugh, Joseph Shea, John Shea, Cornelius Shea, Matthew Shea and James Shea.
 The funeral of Emery Austin was held this morning ct s:30 from the Bergin Funeral Home. 2o0 East Main street, to St. Ann'S church where Q solemn high Mass was cele- brated at Q o'clock, by Rev. E. A. Lamontagne, assisted by Rev. Ubald Laurion, and Rev. Alfred Mathieu. Burial was in Calvary cemetery with , Rev. Ubald Laurion, ofnciating ct the committal.
 The funeral services for Mrs. Catherine (F1anigan) Morgan were held this morning at 6:30 from the Bergin Funeral Home, 200 East Main street, to St. Thomas's church, where q solemn high Mass of re- quiem was celebrated at 9 by Rev. Joseph Daly, Rev. Alfred Dyer, dea. con and Rev. John Kennedy, sub. deacon. Burial was in Calvary cern- etery with comnlittal services by Father Dyer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-13
Present Rote
By JOHN L. CUTTER

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Washington, Sept. l3. (UP)- snowballing discharges reaching Q rate of 100000 @ month by Dec. were the Army's answer today to senatorial ire at the slow pace of demobilization
 That would far exceed the SOC, 900 monthly promised by President Truman the night Japan surr- endered, and would be more than twice the present rate.
 The 000,000 figure was given by top Army officials to senate pri- vately after a senate military af- fairs committee hearing called yes- terday to investigate the slow pace of demobilization.
 Testimony
 Top generals of personnel and training divisions were called be- fore the committee today to con- tinue their explanation of how de- mobilization is being stepped up.
 The committee summoned It.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-13
CTS TOT DIES

Hartford, Conn, Sept. 13.--(UP)- Harold Fisher, Jr., one.year old son of a serviceman in the South Pa- cific, died Wednesday night as re- suit of a fall from a third story window at his home. The baby fell through Q window screen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-13
DemoeEot EmpIoye Succumbs Suddenly

Laurits s. (Larry) LAuritsen, veteran linotype operator at The Democrat for many years, passed away suddenly last night at the Waterbury hospital, after he was admitted earlier in the evening for treatment of an illness which caused him to leave Che employ of The Democrat early last spring.
 Born in Denmark Jan. %, 1887, Mir. LauritEen came to this country at an early age and resided at 7iS Frost road for the pasa SSVcral years. Employed Ny C. DeIneyat early In 1921, he Uorvs1 6 CAe capacity q . @sNwVe Op@Nosg up until As wUU eUgWONa Co Ve. tire bscaUeO st heaSeO. HO @m took up residence W1gN ess sister, Mrs NlcOElne Q TlSklasd, West Hartford, only known survivor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-13
IN MEMORTAM

In loving memory of our wife, mother and sister, Mrs. Mary Des laney Madden, who departed thlN life, Sept. 18th, ie40: "You are not forgotten,
 Nor will you ever be. AS long as life and mmeory lest We will remember theO." (slgned)
 TIMOTHY J. MADDEN
 and FAMILY, MRS. LORETTA HENDERsON, JOHN DELANEY.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-13
CARD OF TyfANTSa

We. wish to thank our many friends, relatives and ne!ghbors, TOT their many o%pressions oe sym. members of Traffic Squad of Wa. terbuPy Police Dept, shown to us during our recent bereavement, the death of our loving wife, daughter and sister, Mrs. Gertrude ganimon Cotter, of Troy, N. Y.
 JOHN ID. COPPER,
 JAMES F. and ELIZABDTR
 R. SALMON,
 MRS. ALICE 10. FRHToT.
Evening star., 1945-12-07
Truman Due to Ask Congress
Soon for OK of British Loan
z Conservatives Move
In Parliament to
Reject Agreement
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 1.-Two Con-
Servative members of Parliament
today offered a motion to dis
approve the proposal for a
$4,400,0 100000 United States loan
and to reject a ratification bill
for Britain's participation in the
Breton Woods monetary agree
ment.
The motion was offered by Robert
Boothby and Christopher Hollis
just an hour after the introduction
of the ratification bill.
What support Boothby and Hollis
could muster was not Immediately
apparent. Labor government spokes-
men continued to express confidence
that both financial measures would
be approved by the end of next
week.
Boothby, wealthy manufacturer
said the loan agreement would be
harmful to Britain in that 1t would
restore an international gold stand
ard, abolish the sterling area and
cause return to the principle OF
non-discrimination in trade, which
he termed "disruptive." He said &C
ceptance of the conditions of the
loan would deprive this country OF
ISee RPETvTON W0OnC pooa At
Evening star., 1945-12-07
lee HOSPITALS, Page A-l8J
Big 5 Foreign Ministers
Announcement Expected
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. IA Foreign
Office spokesman said today that
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin was
expected to make an announcement
possibly late today, about possible
meeting of the Foreign Ministers of
the United States, Britain, Russia
France and China.
Reports circulated in well-in-
formed quarters that the five For
eign Ministers might meet in
Moscow soon.
The spokesman said no further
indication of the nature of Mr.
Bevin's announcement could be
given now.
Such meeting would be the first
for the FIVE Foreign Ministers since
their inconclusive conference in
London last October.
The London Evening Star said it
was understood proposal for FIVE
power meeting came from Moscow.
At the previous meeting, wide
differences appeared among the dele
gates over such questions as Euro
pean boundaries, peace treaties for
the Balkans and trusteeships for
colonies. 1t finally ended without
the settlement of the major uues-
tionS.
Evening star., 1945-12-07
Stricken 1roopship
Arrives With q GIs

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. THE stricken
troop transport Navarchos- Koun-
douriotis limped into port today with
the aid of a Navy tug. Twenty
eight happy GIs, who had been
three weeks in crossing the Atlantic,
were taken from the ship to Fort
Hamilton for a steak dinner and a
chance to stretch shaky sea legs.
The Greek ship left Antwerp for
New York November IT, 1t reported
to the Navy December l that it had
dropped its propeller 800 miles
southeast of New York. The rescue
tug Alsea reached the transport
Wednesday and took it in tow,
Eastern Sea Frontier headouar-
ters said it believed second troop
ship in distress, the George w. Nc
Crary, was safe in Bermuda. It
had reported boiler trouble but pro-
ceeded for Bermuda under its own
power.
A third troopship, the Henry Ward
Beecher, is expected to reach Ber-
muda with SAL soldiers tomorrow.
This ship dropped its propeller $40
miles off Bermuda and was taken
IN tow by Navy tug, the Restorer.
Rescuers are trying to float the
7,200-ton merchant ship John Glib
bons, which went aground off the
beach near Cape Henry, Va.
Evening star., 1945-12-07

Union Station officials said q tele-
phone jam there began when hun
dreds of Washingtonians began
calling in shortly after 10 a.m.-the
hour train reservations for Christ.
mas were thrown open.
The heavy demand for reserva-
tions was attributed to the four-day
holiday Government workers will
enjoy this Christmas.
A ruling by ODT states that
reservations could only be made Il
days prior to Christmas. Many
persons learned of today's opening
of reservations through having called
previously to arrange for them.
Asked how many calls it had taken
to tie up the dial switchboards for q
full half hour, Mr.. Davidson said the
company was unable to supply such
a figure. He said too many factors
entered into such a calculation to
make it worthwhile.
Telephone officials said there are
about 100 trunk lines to Union Sta
tion and nine operators were oper-
ating them this morning.
Evening star., 1945-12-07
Weather Delayed Nozis' Attack
On France 6Months, Court Told

military and naval leaders among
the 20 top-ranking Hitlerites ac-
cused of being war criminals, point
ing out their part in plans for the
crushing invasion while Hitler de-
ceitfully told Holland, Belgium and
Luxembourg that he had no plans
to attack them.
The fifth-column conquest of Nor
way and Denmark was only a prel-
ude to the invasion a month later of
the Low Countries, the evidence
showed.
Prosecutors introduced German
naval orders revealing that German
warships and camouflaged troop
transports carried British flags and
signals to screen the attack on Nor
way and Denmark.
Hitler signed his directive for at
(See NUREMBERG. Page A-2J
Evening star., 1945-12-07
Legislators Are Split
Along Party Lines in
Reaction to Accord
BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD.

President Truman is expected
to send Congress a message soon
asking approval of the $780,
100000 loan which the admins
tration has committed itself to
make to Great Britain in the
interest of invigorated foreign
trade and the removal of cur
rency restrictions.
An agreement embodying the loar
and s650,OOO,O0O for British pay
ment of lease-lend material ano
claims-a total of S440O,00O, 900
was signed at the State Department
Yesterday by Secretary of State
Byrnes and the Earl of Halifax, the
British Ambassador.
Immediate congressional reaction
to the agreement, which climaxee
three months of negotiations, fol.
lowed strictly party lines.
Chairman Wagner of the Senate
Banking Committee told reporter.
that while he had not had time tt
study the agreement in detail. q,
believe something must be dont
toward helping Britain to cooperate
Evening star., 1945-12-07
Freak DeIuge Of Phone Calls
Locks 3 Exchanges in District

A freak tieup of dial trunk lines
in Washington, affecting principally
the National, District and Republic
exchanges, occurred between 10 and
1890 am. today, causing a tele-
phone situation which was never
experienced even during the tensest
periods of the war and newsbreaks
of vital national Importance.
At the Chesapeake & Potomac
Telephone Co. officials said the tie
up was the result of an unprece-
dented number of phone calls which
simply locked" dial switchboards
on those exchanges so persons
making calls could obtain no dial
tone.
They said a large number of calls
to Union Station, where Christmas
reservations were opened today
under an ODT ruling, could have
been a principal cause for the tieup
Robert H. Davidson, company
spokesman, said he did not know
that the calls had any particular
origin except the rush had been on
the three exchanges mentioned.
Evening star., 1945-12-07
BY the Associated Press.

bS lne Associated PreSS.
President Truman was re-
ported today to be planning to
restore building materials to a
priorities system in an effort to
break a bottleneck in home
building.
Officials of Government agencies
familiar with the program under
consideration said it had been agreed
there must be move quickly to get
home construction rolling
Government agencies preparing
the program hoped to have it ready
Tor announcement by Mr.. Truman
at his news conference scheduled
for 4 pm. today, but a spokesman
for the Office of War Mobilization
and Reconversion said at noon there
was considerable doubt" whether
it could be whipped into shape in
time.
The purpose of the plan would be
to make sure materials get into the
Evening star., 1945-12-07
Truman May Restore Controls
On Home Building Materials
Priorties for Homes Over Commercial
Construction Aimed at Ending BottIeneck

hands of contractors who want to
build homes.
"As things stand now" said one
official, virtually all materials and
construction labor are going to
commercial and industrial building
projects. We just are not getting
homes built"
There is a possibility that any
priorities set up may earmark ma
terials for low and moderately
priced houses only. One top figure
which has been mentioned is the
$4,000 sale ceiling which was in
effect for homes built during part of
the war.
Also in the picture, 1t was re-
ported, is preference rating for
veterans wishing to build homes.
The plan is not to prohibit COM
mercial and industrial construc-
tion, but to allow it only in cases
where materials are available after
Evening star., 1945-12-07
Rejection Of GIN Offer
Fails 10 Dim Hopes
OF Early Settlement
Company and UAW Stick
To Pre-Strike Figures
As Talks Continue
,y the Associated Press,

DETROIT, Dec. 7.-An air of
optimism for early settlement of
automobile industry wage dis
putes continued to pervade De-
troit today despite union rejec-
ton of another General Motors
offer.
The CLIO United Automobile
Workers again sent its top officials
into conference with the corpora
tlon whose offer of 13l2-cents-an-
hour increase was turned down
yesterday at the first regular nego-
tiating session since the GIN strike
was called November 21.
The CIO United Electrical Work
ers, demanding $2-a-day increase
also received 1917 k-cents-an-hour
offer from General Motors. The
unions $4,000 members in GIN plants
voted on the offer last night, but re-
suits were not Immediately an
nouneed.
H. w. Anderson, General Motors
vice president, termed the proposal
to the UEW a Reinstatement" OF
the pre-strike offer of approximately
10 per cent, which he said would
boost wages of GIN workers to sc
per cent above the January, 1941
level.
Calls Offer Better.
However, Walter P. Reuther, UAW
vice president, estimated it would
raise the average rate of s1.15 an
hours by 11.7 per cent and described
1t as "a better offer than the one
made prior to the strike"
Union officials, still demanding 80
per cent above present levels and
within the present price structure
said the company's refusal to dis
cuss ability to pay" provided the
chief stumbling block as the wage
parleys resumed.
They would not argue whether
or not they are able to pay it (the
30 per cent?" r. J. Thomas, UAW-
CIO president, declared.
Mr.. Thomas, in his statement re-
Jecting the 1874 -cent proposal said !:
The corporation offered a 1872
cents-an-hour wage increase straight
across sthe board. I told the cor
poration that it was my opinion that
the proffered wage increase was in
adequate and the strike will con-
tinue until such time as an agree
ment Is made on satisfactory terms.
Can Pay More.
"The corporation has taken the
position in the past that it did not
want to discuss prices. put it on
a different basis, that because Of
chronological improvements, in
creased productivity and the way
we have kept workers on the job
General Motors Corp. can pay con-
|siderably more from competitive
position.
II am quite sure shall have the
support of all General Motors Corp.
workers that this offer is made
quate. The adequate solution Is q
80 per cent increase whether taken
Continued on Page A-4. Column n
Evening star., 1945-12-07
0ks
Hospital Center
Under New Plan
lone-Term Federal
Loan Proposed for
Entire Sum Needed
BY DON S. WARREN.

Members of the House District
Committee today voted approval
OF a Federal advance for the de-
Velopment of a modern hospital
center here under a new finan-
cial plan.
After two days of hearings which
stressed the lack of modern, ade-
quate and sanitary hospital build
ings in Washington, the committee
directed Federal, District and hos
pital leaders to redraft the Senate
approved bill to motivate the new
financial plan.
Under the new financial plan
agreed on by the committee, the
Federal Government would loan the
entire sum needed to buy large
site and the development and equip
ment of the hospital center. Title
would be held by the United States
but the management of the center
would be left entirely to nonprofit
private hospitals participating in the
center.
| The private hospitals would be re-
quired to carry the maintenance
costs and to amortize the Federal
outlay over long period of years
Details Of the charges to be carried
by the participating hospitals and
other features of the financial plan
are to be worked out before the
committee sends the measure to the
House for action.
Hope for House Passage.
Representative McGehee, Demo
crat, of Mississippi, who presided IL
the absence of Chairman Randolph
and Representative Dirksen, Repub
lican, of Illinois appeared hopefu
that the House would approve tn,
new plan.
The proposal is similar to recon
mendations submitted earlier toda,
by Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming
Federal Works administrator. Ger
Fleming and other FWA officials ha
Joined with private hospitals an
civic spokesmen in declaring 9Th
crying need" for expanded an
modern hospital facilities here an
in urging prompt action.
| Mr.. Dirksen, speaking of the brie
executive session at which the plal
was adopted, said, I'VE were unani
NOUS on the point that somethin.
should be done and only the me.
chanicS of the arrangement and ths
bill remain to be worked out"
Instead of bringing out a new bill
the committee will take the Tydings.
Bilbo measure passed by the Senate
and rewrite necessary sections. The
new draft is to be prepared by Alar
Johnstone, FWA general counsel
and Vernon E. West, District cor.
poration counsel, in consultation
with private hospital leaders spon.
soring the Senate bill.
Gen. Fleming proposed that the
Federal Government advance tn,
whole sum for the project, that il
keep title, and that the facilities bs
Evening star., 1945-12-07
President Accepts
Houston Resignation
lin Transit Controyers,
Advises FEPC Member
He Sees No Reason to
Inject RociuI Issue

President Truman today tolc
Charles H. Houston. resignine
member of the Fair Employment
Practice Committee. that the
Government seized the Capita.
Transit Co. to guarantee trans
portation to the citizens OF
Washington and not "for the
purpose of enforcing the aims OF
the Fair Employment Practice
Committee, laudable as these
aims are"
The Presidents statement was in
corporated in letter accepting Mr.
Houston's resignation from the COM
mittee-a step the colored member
took when the President, in order
ing seizure of the strike-bound Cap
ital Transit properties, refused to
enforce an FEPC order requiring
the employment of colored operators
on streetcars and buses.
Truman Cites Law.
In his letter to Mr.. Houston, the
President said:
when it was found necessary un-
der the wartime powers conferred
upon the President by the Congress
to seize the Capital Transit property
the conditions under which the
property was to be operated were
the same as any other property so
seized. The law requires that when
the Government seizes a property
under such circumstances it shall
be operated under the terms and
conditions of employment which were
in effect at the time possession of
such plant, mine or facility was so
taken
"In view of this apparent contra
diction between the law and the
order which the Fair Employment
Practice Committee proposed to is
sue, it was thought best to suggest
that the order be temporarily post
poned.
THE property was not seized for
the purpose OF enforcing the aims
of the Fair Employment Practice
Committee, laudable as these aims
are, but to guarantee transportation
for the citizens of Washington and
vicinity.
Can't Contravene Law.
"As anxious as I am for Con-
gress to pass legislation for a per-
manent Fair Employment Practice
Committee, cannot contravene an
act OF Congress in order to carry
out the present committees aims.
Under the circumstances it was
felt the issuance of the proposed
order would prove injurious to the
accomplishments desired by all of
lSee TR ANCIR paue Az
Evening star., 1945-12-07
Commissioners End
Efforts 10 Arbitrate
D. {. Truckers Strike
Statements Outlines
Proposal Rejected
By Company Agent

In a statement apparently
writing finis to their efforts tc
settle the seven-Week-old team
sters' strike, the Commissioners
today outlined negotiations be-
tween the union and II strike
bound trucking companies which
ended last night with rejection
by the employers of a seven
point arbitration proposal sub
mitted by the city heads.
Copies Of the statement are to be
sent to more than Is businessmen
and organizations which requested
their intervention on November %.
From the outset, the Commission
erS said, it has been their main pur-
pose to bring back a resumption of
work so that more than 1000 car
loads of important freight" now
piled up in Washington rail yards
might be unpacked and delivered
to our merchants and made available
to the citizens of Washington"
Efforts Futile.
THE Commissioners have spent
many hours, they declared sin
what has now appeared to be a
futile attempt to bring the two par
ties together Throughout the dis
cussions with both the representa-
tives of the local union and the
representatives of the District
Trucking Association, the Commits
Sioners have had the full co-opera-
ton and counsel and guidance of
the United States Cancellation Serv-
ice of the Department OF Labor"
The Commissioners said it had
been their objective at all times to
remain impartial and "the only
proper and equitable method of
bringing the two parties together
would be by the selection of an arbi-
traitor.
Certainly there must exist among
the various business, professional
and civic life, a person who would
be agreeable to both. parties who
would arbitrate the issues that keep
the two factions separated"
Ask for Arbitrator.
They reiterated as their unalter-
able opinion" that last nights
memorandum, calling for appoint
ment of an arbitrator by either
Commissioner j. Russell Young or
Chief Judge George G. Barse of
Municipal Court, to pass on all
issues in dispute as contained in
the original union contract, was
"just, fair and reasonable method
of bringing about a settlement.
At the very moment they issued
Evening star., 1945-12-07
BY DANIEL DE LUCE,

associated Press Foreign correspondent.
NUREMBERG, Dec. 7.-Hitler's
armies were poised for the in
vasion of the Low Countries and
France November Z, 1899, but the
attack was postponed week by
week for six months because OF
bad weather, official German
records disclosed at the war
crimes trial here today.
While the rest of the world spoke
sarcastically Of "a phony war;" the
German military machine was ready
and waiting only for favorable
weather." according to records intro
duced before the International Mill
tary Tribunal.
British prosecutors turned most of
their evidence against the German
Evening star., 1945-12-07
Churles Town Results

FIRST RACE-Purse, 500; 3-year-olds
and I'D; claiming; about Az furlongs.
Flexico tNapier) 900 $50 440
General knight (Garrettson) 900 720
Silver Sting (Challis) 1910
Time, 0:543s.
Also ran-Psychoanalyst, Refreshment,
Del Charm, Copperette, Ariels Elite.
SECOND RACE--Purse, 5000; 3-year.
olds and up; claiming; about Z furlongs.
Decisive {E. Wright1 $40 $50 400
Pride O'Light Martinez 1880 1870
Rough Amos (PuglisD GAO
Time, :35
Also ran-Schley Rhoda. Just Judgment,
Merry Elgin. Royal Display. North Sea. :
(Daily double paid S67.S0)
THIRD RACE-Purse. $500; 3-year-olds
and up: claimins; about 7 furlongs.
Pharant &C. Kirk 500 $3.50 500
Toll Away (D'Camillis) 1880 $50
Morgils Lad &c. Wrightl ESQ
Time, 1877
Also Tan-Teheran. Honest Girl, Second
Attempt. Mor-Lady.