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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-15
Suicide Jop Pilot Wrecks U. $. Vessel
BY BORUFF SMITH

San Francisco, June 15.-CUP)-A Japanese suicide pilot crashed his explosive-laden plane into the vet eran destroyer U. s. s. Hazelwood off Oknawa April 29, smashing and setting afire the bridge and super structure. Ten officers and 67 men were killed or missing, the Navy re- vealed today.
 The 2,10O-ton Hazelwood commis- stoned June 18, 1943, steamed into San Francisco Bay yesterday, on its way to Mare Island Navy yard for reconditioning.
 The Hazelwood say almost every action in the Pacific from the Gill berts to the Philippines. The day of the attack she was escorting a fast carried striking force 100 miles northeast of Okinawa. Three Jap planes were sighted, and one dived into a nearby destroyer.
 The Hazelwood swung around to go to the aid of the stricken ship when another suicide pilot swept out of a cloud, roaring directly at the destroyer.
 The Haseiwood's 5-inch guns opened fire. The Jap plane was hit and 1t swept past the Hazelwood, grazing gun station and plurnmet- ing into the water 50 yards off the port quarter
 Another plane, a Zero, dropped from cloud directly astern the Hazelwood. The destroyers 40 NM and % NM guns opened fire, but were unable to reflect the Zero from its course.
 The planes right wing hit the No. 3 stack, swinging the plane into the superstructure. Its bombs exploded at the base of the bridge.
 The main battery director crashed from atop the bridge to the deck, 40 feet below. Thirtyfive men were wounded in addition to 67 killed. Names of enlisted casualties were not yet released.
 Officers dead or missing included It. Henry Gardner, 73 Congdon St. Providence, R. I.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-15
JAPANESE OFFICERS KILL THEIR OWN
 SOLDIERS WHO ATTEMPT SURRENDER
C0SC|A DENIES INTENTIONS TO
 KILL RELATIVE

States Attorney William B. Fitzgerald's cross-examin- ation of Domenic Coscia, which ended abruptly in superior court yesterday afternoon when the accused said he was too tired to answer further questions, was scheduled to be resumed at 2 o'clock this afternoon before Judge John A. Cornell and a jury.
 Coscia was on the stand all day yesterday to defend himself against a flrst degree murder charge in the staying of his brother -in- Jaw, Adolph Cyr.
 Before packed courtroom, Cos cia yesterday afternoon gave dramatic demonstration of the struggle which he said preceded the shooting early on the morning Of last Sept. 28, and the events that led to the fatal blast from his 12- gauge shotgun. It was the first time since the trial opened that nearly every seat in the spectators section was occupied
 Unusual Demonstration
 Coscia denied emphatically that he had intended to shoot his brother-in-law. and illustrated step by step how Cyr and he allegedly struggled to get hold of the gun and how 1t went off The unusual demonstration was given in the cen- ter Of the courtroom.
 Perhaps the greatest tenseness in the courtroom was created when Cossia, at one point in his demon stration, tried and tried to put his gun through a small hole in the Cyr door and then uttered that the gun wouldn't fit. His lawyer di- rected him to turn the gun side ways. ard then the accused finished the task. The hole was the only one he said he made.
 Indications are that the state may seek this afternoon to introduce as evidence an alleged confession made by Coscia. Two psychiatrists are waiting to be called by the defense. but may not be questioned until next week if the state today turns its croes-examination to a state ment given by Coscia to the coroner. The state is expected to try to | show that a discrepancy exists be- tween Coscia's direct testimony and |
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A British lieutenant and two ser. geants discovered him lying naked in bed. Dressed and taken to British headquarters, he was found to have secreted a can of poison in his crotch.
 Ribbentrop registered at the boarding house under the name of Reise April 30, but admitted his identity to his captors. A sister ar rested today confirmed the identi- fication.
 He had been in disguise.
 Wants Fair TriaP'
 The Foreign Minister who engine cred the diplomatic phase of Adolf Hitler's European conquest told his captors that he had hoped to hide until British opinion against Ger many had died down and he could surrender for a flair trial"
 GA London dispatch said Ribben- trop was on the individual war criminal lists of many cour<ries and also was accused under the general classification grouping all members of the Nazi government. The dis patch said he probably would be taken to Britain pending trial)
 He had three letters in his pos session, one addressed to Vincent" presumably for Prime Minister Winston Churchill, another to Brit ish Marshal Sir Bernard L. Mont gomery and the third to Foreign Anthony Eden.
 A British staff officer casually revealed the prize capture in answer to routine question from newsmen about rumors that Ribbentrop had been captured in the American oc- zone.
 The officer revealed that Ribben- trop had gone to Hamburg April 30
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-15
Lou Dodorio Loses Life At Okinawa

Marine Pfc. Louis J. Dadario, 19 son of Louis A. and Catherine Gal win De.dario, 1885 Thomaston av- enue, Waterville, has been killed in action on Okinawa, the Navy De- partment notified his parents last night. A marine a little more than a year, Dadario landed on Okinawa on Easter Sunday with the Sixth Mar inc Division in the second wave that stormed the island, and fought all the way through the campaign, in- cluding the bitter struggle for Sugar. loaf hill.
 A few weeks ago, his parents re- ceived letter from him that he was at rest camp, but he was appar- ently put back in the line for the final drive that is still in progress.
 Dadario attended Sprague gram mar school and Leavenworth high school, and worked for the Scovill Mfg. Co.,, and Waterbury Tool, di- vision of Vickers, Inc, before en- tering the Marines on March 16, 1914.
 He took his boot training at Paris Island, South Carolina, was transferred to Camp Lejeune, N. C., and Guadalcanal, before the Oki- nawa campaign. He was originally assigned to a demolition outfit as a flame -thrower, but was later transferred to combat infantry division as rifleman.
 Besides his parents, Dadario is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Will liam Johnston, and Christine Da- dario, both of Waterbury. He was a nephew of newspaperman James Calvin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-15
52O Forts
 Hit Osoko
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By EDWARD L. THOMAS

Guam, June Is = UP0 = A deet of 520 Superfortresses smashed It Japan's great war production cen- ter of Osaka today, officially open ing an offensive to wipe out Japan- csc industry with 100000 tons Of bombs in the next 12 months.
 The big bombers dropped 3,O00 tons of fire bombs on steel p1antx and other key war factories n northern and eastern Osaka and adjacent Amagasaki. Radio Tokyo admitted a number of fires bruk6 out during the hour r-long attack.
 The planes bombed by instrument through heavy overcast that obs, scured results.
 The raid inaugurated the second year of B-29 attacks on Japan. General H. H. Arnold, commander of Army Air Forces, revealed at . press conference here what is ini store for the enemy homeland dur ing those coming months.
 To Double Tonnage
 SuperfortreSses, Flying Fortreq1ex Liberators and the remaining bura- bers in the American air arsenal will drop twice the tonnage Of bombs on Japan in the next year as they did on Germany during the entire European war, he said.
 SuperfortreSses of the 21st B0m- Der Command alone will deliver l. 300,000 tons, he said. Lieutenant General James H. Doolittle's Eighth Air Forces, the terror of the Euro pean skies, and General George Q. kenney's Far Eastern Air Forcoa will contribute another 700, 900 tom.
 Complete and utter destruction IT industrial Japan will be the ainn. Arnold said. The program calls for an average of more than 5000 tom
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-15
30 Million Phoney Meat Points Issued

1 New York, June l5-CUP)-Th Office of Price Administration in
 tensified 8 search today for addi tional leaders of 8 racket whicl flooded the country with spuriou meat coupons to the amount O 30,000,000 red points.
 Two of the alleged heads of the fraud were held in bail for a fed eFal grand jury in Brooklyn ano action has been taken against 131 New York food dealers charged with turning in counterfeit ration points to banks, OPA said.
 Daniel P. Woolley, Regional OPA Director said the racket was worked two ways by nine rings of racketeers. Three rings used false ration checks some of which turned up in Phila- delphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Chicago. False checks already col lected by the OPA represented enough points to supply 100000 per- sons with full months supply of red point foods, he said.
 The other six rings were said to deal in checks written by whole Salers on the basis of false ration point bank accounts. The deception was carried out by stuffing envel- opes with waste paper, and mark ing them as holding a high num- Der of ration points.
 The envelopes are not opened by the banks. The number marked on the envelope is accepted as &C., curate until OPA accountants check the envelopes contents.
 Woolley said that all food deal- erst-he majority of which are ex- pected to be found in New York involved in the racket will have the number of food points falsified subtracted from their regular sup ply, an action tantamount to sus- pension of their business.
 Criminal charges will be brought against deaelrs who knowingly pur- chased false ration checks he said.
 Largest inventory penalty to date, Woolley said, was debit charge of 50O,0O0 red points against K. Lerich, butter wholesaler New York. A to- tai of debit notices is expected to reduce inventories of some 500 other New York dealers by g, 900 900 red points.
 The two alleged ringleaders al- ready arrested were named by the OPA as Gach Barlotta, owner of the Larosa Oil Company, of Brooklyn, and Frank Mignone, meat dealer, Brooklyn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-15
Australians
 Busy In Mir
BY DON CASWELL

Manila, June 15-(UP)-The Aus tralians today opened a drive fo, the rich Seria and Mir oil fields on north Borneo, where air and naval units were reported paving the way for future operations United Press correspondents Rich ard Harris reported from Borneo that minesweepers had cleared TIT mines the last few days along the jutting piece of coastland where Mir and the town of Lutong lie.
 Pt boats, patrolling the waters there, exchanged fire with coastal batteries just north of Lutong. An American destroyer poured shells into caves and gun positions along the coast. 18th air force planes strafed the Miri airstrip, probably destroying six planes parked there.
 Tokyo Nervous
 Tokyo seemed nervous about coming operations on Borneo. A Japanese broadcast reported spe- cial suicide corps was being formed among natives in South Borneo. An other Tokyo broadcast reported that 46 Liberator bombers and a few fighters yesterday raided the oil center of Balik Papan on Borneos east coast.
 The Australian Ninth Division, after taking Brunei, capital of the Sultanate, struck out along the road to the oil fields. Their next objective was the oil refinery town of Tutong, 18 miles from Brunei and about halfway to Lutong, where the naval activity was re- ported. The Seria and Mir oil- fields, which formerly produced 100000 tons annually, are linked with Lut ong by pipe line.
 Harris reported dozen columns of smoke rose inland, indicating the Japanese were burning the oil in stallations.
 Wild men from Borneo," fierce little natives, armed with poison blowguns and spears, were fighting the Japanese in the jungles as the Australians adavnced.
 The Japanese were retreating along the Brunei-Tutong road, the only highway in the vicinity, taking with them number of British and other European prisoners. Natives
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Maj. Gen. Pedro Del valle, com. mander of the 1st Marine Division predicted complete conquest of Oki- nawa within two days to two weeks and said:-
 We've just reached the turr point-the point where the Japs' vi 7 fight is broken. The enemy ia beginning to fold up through surren- ders, suicides and disorganized re- sistance"
 The greatest slaughter was at the Oroku peninsula, where hundreds of milling. screaming Japanese were killed by their own leaders for weakness" because they tried to give up.
 United Press War Correspondent E. c. Valens reported several score Japanese succeeded in surrendering.
 The enemy garrison of 5000 to- 10000 soldiers and sailors, plus thou sands of civilians, were cornered on a rocky slope approximately four miles long and three miles wide. At the end of the slope are 100-foOt cliffs towering over the East China Sea.
 Hill Seized
 Tenth Army veterans seized the highest and last important hill on Yeju-Dake plateau behind flame splitting tanks yesterday and rolled downhill against the last 5000 to 10000 enemy troops on the island.
 The entire plateau now was under merciless American gunfire. Artil-s lery, flame ttrowers, tommy gum and grenades were cutting the last, Japanese remnants in 12-square-] mile pocket to pieces in savAge fighting.
 Sixty-four marine corsair bomb CTS scared 8 cave-studded ravius thought to be Japanese headquart- CTS with 1920 gallons of incendiafy jelly and 465 rockets yesterday, then sprayed the entire area with ma chine-gun bullets.
 Field dispatches said Japanese troops were srrrendering by the scores, something unprecedented in Pacific warfare. Thousands of civil
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-15
Is Deod In
 Train Crash

Milton. Pa. June 15-UP)-The Battle-Ground dominion express of the Pennsylvania railroad was de- railed near here today and 16 bodies were recovered from the wreckage five hours after the accident.
 Railroad officials announced wrecking crews had recovered the bodies of two crew members and IA passengers. At least 27 persons were injured seriously enough for disqualification. At least g were de- tained.
 Six cars of the passenger train left the rails one mile south of Mill ton after the engine rammed into
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-15
Other Sites Surveyed For City Airport

Failure of the Legislature to pass the state aeronautics commission bill has resulted in the need, by Wa terbury, to seek other sites for a potential municipal airport, it was stated by Mayor John s. Monagan today. Previous plans by the city called for establishment of such a site in Wolcott
 At present two substitute sites are being considered by city authorities, 1t was disclosed by the Mayor. One is located in Southington near Plantsville and the other in the southern part of Watertown near Lake Winnemaug, near the Wookey Farms.
 Residents of Wo1cott had opposed use of that area for the location of municipal airport and succeeded in having attached to the original bill an amendment calling for condem- nation of land by state authorities only with approval of the towns people. While the bill, with the at tached amendment, passed in the AAOCAoC ~ Wdo oC1CdVCu, III lIS Sll- tirety, in the senate. The bill had provided also for state aeronau- tics commission.
 The Plantsville site would be feas- ible from the standpoint of develop ment costs. it was stated by the Mayor, because of the naturally flat terrain in that area. A somewhat similar condition prevails in the Watertown area. The Southington Cor Plantsville) site is about g miles from the center of Waterbury and the Watertown area has been ad- judged to be about six miles. The previously proposed Wolcott site is about four miles.
 Possibility of securing the Wolcott area is still held by city authorities subject, of course, to approval of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-15

derailed cars of an ore train. Twelve bodies were removed from one coach and two other bodies were found in combination baggage-passenger car.
 The ore train of 103 cars, moving .ast. derailed at 1:08 a. m. when one of the cars buckled, throwing a number of the heavily loaded cars ,nto the west-bound track. Before rew members coud set up a warn- ng signal, the Buffalo train rammed nto the wreckage.
 The engine and six cars crashed sff the tracks. The engine crew was killed when the big locomotive toppled off the right-of-way. One eoach and seven Pullman cars re-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-15
Limited Kills 9 N. Y. Trock Crew

Amsterdam, N. Y. June Is. -(UP)-Eight members of a New York Central track crew were killed today when the saktbound water level limited, crack passenger train, plowed into a section gang.
 The accident occurred a mile and a half east of Amsterdam at De Caprio's crossing.
 State Police at Fonda who went to the scene immediately reported shortly after the acci- dent eight members of the track crew were killed.
 State troopers said that the section gang was engaged in laying track. Members of the crew were killed when they apparently stepped from a westb0und track, where a train had just passed into the path sf the eastbound limited.
 Names of the victims were being held up pending check of the bodies.
 The limited, due in Albany at 9:03 was delayed for 20 min- utes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-15
Iemperoture Here Reaches 95

Temperature in downtown Wa terbury rose to 95 degrees at noon today, according to records kept by the City Engineers ottice at the city hall as a record break ing heat wave entered its second day.
 The thermometer hit 9S degrees yesterday afternoon, and gradually fell to low of 67 degrees at ; o'clock this morning.
 No heat prostration case was re- ported at either local hospital.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-15
Boettinser Resigns As Hearst Publisher

Seattle, June IS. (UP)-Lt. Col. John Boettinger has resigned as publisher of the Seattle Post-Intel- ligencer because of "irreconcilable differences with the owner, William Randolph Hearst.
 Boettinger's wife, the former Anna Roosevelt, daughter of the late President also resigned as associate editor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-15
PAGE APPOINTED

Albany, N. Y. June 15-(UP- Social Welfare Commissiner Robert T. Lansdale announced today the appointment of Harry O. Page, 40, Health and Welfare Commissioner of Maine, as Deputy Commissioner in the New York State Social Well fare Department. Page will receive $8,0OO annually.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-15
Many Others Kill Selves In Okinawa
 In Mass Suicides
BY WILLIAM F. THREE

Guam, June 15.-(UP)-Japanese officers killed hum dreds of their who tried to surrender in the southern Onawa death trap today under pressure of American forces driving toward the sea with hrowers fire bombs and artillery.
 Many Japanese killed themselves with grenades and knives in suicides
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-15
Disguised Captive Seized InHamburg
BY RONALD CLARK

With British 2nd Army, Germany, June 15-(UP)- Former Foreign Minister Joachim Rbbentrop last of the Nazi hierarchy not tentatively accounted or
 tured yesterday in Hamburg boarding house where he had lived unrecognized for more than six weeks
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-15

Summer schools opens July 2. Reg ister now. Phone 4-S772. Post Junior C0llAxa af C0nanaarca.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-01

wore an arrangement of the
daisies in their hair.
The t hree attending brides
maids: Misses Gladys Burton, and
Lee Clark of Wilmington, and Miss
Helen Little of Charlotte, wore
identical gowns and carried a
similar arrangement of flowers.
The flower girl, little Julia
Langston, wore a long white dress
of dotted Swiss with a sweetheart
neckline, long b o d ce, pulled
sleeves, and carried a miniature
nosegay. Her b r o t h r, Master
Warner Langston, served as ring
bearer and wore a knee-length
white Palm Beach suit with the
Elton jacket.
The brides mother, Mrs. T. j.
Henry, wore a street length dress
of pink and black lace and a cor
sage of pink carnations. The bride
groom's mother, Mrs. A. F. Stel
lar, wore a dress of light blue
crepe and a corsage of pink car
nations.
Clarence H ous ser, of Bearea
Ohio, acted as best man. The
ushers were ]. L. Lamb, and w
S. Marsh, of Wilmington, G. E
Henry, and B. J. Brady, Of Lon,
Creek.
Mrs. Stellar received her B. S
degree from Flora Macdonald col
lege and for the past two year
has been employed by the Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad, Wilmington
Sgt: Stellar is a graduate Of Nortl
Royalton school, North Roval.on
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-01
Grand Assembly
OF Rainbow Girls
Held At Hamlet

Cardinals Grand Assembly OF
the Order of Rainbow for Girls
has closed its eighth annual ses-
sion at Hamlet, with Mary Glen
Thompson of H m e t. Grand
Worthy Advisor and Miss Mary
Madison Baker, supreme deputy,
Of Reedsville, presiding. Many
Rainbow Girls, distinguished Ma
sons and Eastern Stars of North
and South Carolina attended.
Betty Ann Clendenin of Char
lotte, was elected Grand Worthy
Advisor, with Mrs. Betty Ann
Clendenin of Charlotte, as Grand
Mother Advisor. The 1916 conven-
ton will be held in Charlotte, with
Charlotte Assembly as hostess.
Honors conferred upon members
Of Wilmington A e m bly, are:
Wynona Hughes, Grand Chaplain
Hazel Harris, Grand Love, Mary
Orrell, Grand Immortality. Grand
Representatives chosen from VIII
mington Assembly are: Mary
Alice Rose, Grand Representative
to Texas; Bettina Marable, Crane
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-01
Miss Mary Henry
Becom es Bride
!. OF Sgt. Stellar

Miss Mary Belle Henry, daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. T. J. Henry
Of Long Creek, became the bride
Of Sgt. Wesley F. Stellar, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. F. Stellar of
Berea, Ohio, on Saturday, June %,
at $3.50 pm. in the Riley's Creek
Baptist church, Long Creek.
The church was beautifully dec
Grated with white gladioli and
bfanched canoelabra, which were
placed against a background OF
long leaf pine. The Rev. C. R.
Taylor, pastor of the church, Of
ficlated, using the double ring
ceremony. A program of nuptial
music was rendered by Mrs. B.
j. Brady, and prior to the cere-
mony, Rev. William Poole sang
Because" (d'Hardelot) and "At
Dawning'' (Cadman. The bridal
party entered to the music of
Wagner's Bridal Procession"
from Lohengrin. Mendelssohn'
wedding March" was used for
the occasional.
/ The bride, who was given in
marriage by her father, was
dressed in a wedding gown of
white marquisette fashioned with
a sweetheart neckline, long bodice
encircled by lace, full length
sleeves coming to a point over the
hand, and a long flowing train.
The finger-tip veil of bridal illu-
sion fell from a crown Of seeded
pearls and was caught on either
side with cluster of orange bios
SONS. The bride wore single
strand of pearls of her mother.
h The bridal bouquet was Of white
carnations, certered wi tn an
/ orchid, and showered with white
satin ribbons.
H. The maid-of-honor, Miss Julia
Henry, sister of the bride; and
\ the matron-of-honor, Mrs. J. E.
|fHenry, cousin of the bride Of Long
/ Creek, both wore beautiful floor
|flength dresses of blue lace and
|snet. They were designed with a
full gathered net skirt, low fitted
lace bodice, short sleeves, and
sweetheart neckline. They carried
arm bouquets of shasta daisies
tied with yellow satin ribbon and