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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-03

say Mcdonald, Let's forge chain from London to Moscow to halt Hitler"
 He said that war was inevitable when Germany annexed Austria.
 we should have done something to prevent that he said. Mongibeaux, watching Laval closely, became irritated and halted him for second time. Cut it out" he ordered. This has nothing to do with the Petain affair"
 Laval, very much on his dignity, answered sarcastically:
 If this is not interesting to the public, I apologize. I am sure that what I am saying is of interest to Frenchmen, but am in the dark concerning the Petain trial. I was- n't here and have had no news papers"
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'IHote. War Says Laval
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(COuJlIluC0 3dSC ~ meet as Laval nervously strode into the courtroom. Petain slumped in his chair, his eyes staring into space.
 Laval plunged into an account of his diplomatic activities in the years leading up to the outbreak of war.
 He told how he and Sir Samuel Hoare had agreed to let Italy have a free hand with Ethiopia and how at the same time, prior to the Ger man Austrian Anschhuss, he and Mussolini made a secret deal where by Italy would protect France in event of Nazi aggression against Austria.
 Then, he said, he went to London where he had private talk with the Prince of Wales, urging him tc get Britain to make a deal with Germany.
 Edwards reaction, Laval indicat- ed, was noncommittal but he prom ised to talk to his father, the late George V. However he warned Laval that "my father doesn't med de in politics"
 The pre-war military agreement with Italy, Laval said, was signed by Marshal Pietro Badoglio. wf1e became premier after the fall od Benito Mussolini, and by Gen Maurice Gamelin, Allied generalis- simo' in the west early in the war.
 Laval's testimony began with ar answer to a question by a red robbed Judge Pierre Mongibeaux.
 "Wtlen did you have the flrst political contact with Petain?" the judge asked.
 In a rasping voice, his nicotine stained teeth showing under scrag. gly mustache, Laval replied:
 T think about 1936."
 He retraced negotiations witt Russia leading up Franco-Sovie pact, and turned to Frances rela. tions with Italy.
 T was doing everything to avoic war" Laval said.
 He then went into Frances ces' sion of 114,000 square kilometers O the Tibesti region of the Sahars to Ita.7, adding: "Tunisia is for Italy what AlSace. Lorraine is for France" He began technical discussion of Italian rights in Tunisia whei Mongibeaux, leaning forward ovel his desk, pereI11ptorily brought hin up short.
 "It seems you are of the track. he said sternly. Please cut i short"
 Looking somewhat non-plussed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-03
By Jack Lait
She's Stoky's great

morphosis She's Stokyis great est orchestration.
 Monte Proser, of the Copacabat1a. has closed his deal for a cabaret cafe in the Beverly Wiltshire Rev. erly Hills hotel. It is to be called the Blackamoor Room and will pre- sent name bands and stars. but no chorus line. Since Monte's mar rage, he thinks chorines don't in- terest anybody. How he's changed!
 And, oh yes I must-I have to tell you A Hollywood star who dramatizes her personal cardiac con- colutiOns intensely has dyed her hair to exactly match the color of that of her latest lover!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-03
Jop General
 Dead, Runnor
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(COnClnueQ rom rage U
 Striking the Asiatic coast fleet re- connaissance bombers hit Tighai airdrome in the Shanghai area and destroyed or damaged five enemy cargo vessels along the South China coast.
 They also attacked enemy motor transport, barracks, and Harbor de- lenses along the South China coast and on Hainan Island.
 In the Indo- China area freight CT was left burning and Is troop carrying junks were attacked, with many of the personnel killed. It was impossible to determine in which direction the junks were moving. Several barges also were damaged.
 Other planes off Malaya destroyed freighter and four smaller vessels.
 In the East Indies, Australian heavy bombers, escorted by fighters. attacked enemy installations in the CelebeS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-03
A. Alexander Retains Post
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George Alfred Isaacs became min ister of labor and national service.
 Ellen Wilkinson was appointed minister of education.
 Aneurin Bevan was appointed minister of health.
 Tom Williams was named min- ister of agriculture and fisheries.
 John Wilmot became minister of supply and aircraft production.
 Alfred Barnes was appointed war transport minister.
 Sir Ben Smith was named min ister of food.
 Emmanuel Shinwell was appointed minister of fuel and power. Philip John Noel-Barker was named minister of state. Wilfred Failing was appointed minister of pensions. William Whiteley was named par liamentary secretary to the treas- ury.
 The king also approved the con- ferring of a barony of the United Kingdom upon Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence. The king ap. proved the swearing in to his ma. jesty's most honorable privy coun. ell of George Isaacs. Aneurir Bevan, John Wilmost, Alfret Barnes, and Emmanuel Shinwell.
 Lord Addison will be the leader of the house of lords.
 Remaining appointments, includ ing the under-secretaryships, are tt be made within the next few days
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-03
vornGARIs MAY RESIGN

Athens, Aug. S-tUP)- Fremier Petros Voulgaris called on the Greek regent today and was expected to submit his resignation.
 The fall of the conservative Greek government had been ex- pected as a result of the election Of labor cabinet in Britain. The labor party supports a more lib- eral regime for Greece.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-03

its first comment on the Potsdam declaration that the Big Three 'conspicuously failed to make any reference to the Pacific or the war against Japan"
 Tokyo broadcast the communi- que's reference to military discus sions without comment. Spanish exile sources hailed the Big Three's blunt denunciation o1 Spain as a death blow to the Franco government. Madrid dispatches saio the warning had brought uneasi- ness, though not panic, in respon- sible Spanish circles.
 Ralph Forte, United Press cor respondent in Madrid, cabled that millions of Spaniards were wonder ing whether the declaration would be followed by restrictions on ex- ports to Spain and severance of re- lations.
 Luis Araquistain, London dele gate of the anti-Franco Spanish Junta, flatly predicted that. the United States and Britain will break relations with Spain. Russia never has recognized the Franco govern. meht.
 Diplomatic circles said the dec. laration went as far as it could ir denouncing Franco. If the state ment had been any stronger, they said, the Allies would have exposed themselves to charges of meddline ill Spanish internal affairs.
 French resistance groups, Pari dispatches reported, said the over throw of the Franco governmen could not long be delayed.
 Labors victory in the British election was believed partly respon sible for the tone of the referenc, to Spain. Whereas the Churchill cabinet had been inclined to ap pease the Franco government, La borites had advocated stiff meas ures toward it.
 Other neutral nations in the Flu ropean war, notably Switzerland ans Sweden, seemed assured of admls sion to the United Nations, how ever.
 Disgruntled Complaints
 Disgruntled complaints from thu small western European Allies ap psared likely as result of the Bil Three's failure to make specific al lowance for them for adequate reparations from Germany.
 Belgium, Holland, Norway ant Denmark, all subject to five year of German occupation. must ap proach Britain, the United State and France, hat in hand, for share of reparations from the western zone.
 Disposal of German merchan shipping was left entirely to tn Big Three without any provision 10 the needs of smaller countries whlcl sacrificed large parts of their snip ping in the Allied war effort.
 This was particularly true of NOT way. which lost almost half of wha once was the worlds fourth larg est merchant marine. Her shippln experts had been hoping to .ge some German ships to help replac her losses.
 Ridsdale, the head of the Sri tish foreign office press section told newsmen that there was HUI possibility also of German coal be | ing shipped from Germany to I'D erated countries this winter.
 In the absence also of any an nounced plan to ship food from Ger many to the liberated countries, th burden for helping them througl | the winter crisis appeared to Il with the United States and to som degre ewith Britain.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-03

without loss.
 At Nagasah Wednesday-250 Okinawa-based planes sank 10 en- emy ships and wrecked drydocks, shipyards, railway yards and har- bor installations without loss.
 Admiral William F. Halsey's Third Fleet still was under the security blackout claimed down on 1t after Mondays carrier-plane raid on the Tokyo area. The final tally for that attack showed four warships and 20 merchantmen sunk, B war ships and 59 merchantmen damaged, 124 enemy planes destroyed and 154 damaged
 This represented an increase of 35 vessels and 51 planes destroyed or damaged over the earlier totals announced for the strike. Ships previously unreported included a destroyer sunk and two destroyers and 8 destroyer escort damaged.
 Ground installations stretching from Tokyo to the Nagoya area also were damaged, among them the Nagoya arsenal.
 Allied losses for the raid totalled IA planes and IA airmen.
 At NagaSaki on the west coast of Kyushu, the Okinawa based raid- CTS sank a 2,000-ton enemy tanker and one large, one medium and seven small freighters. Three other vessels and a submarine were dam aged.
 Fires visible more than 9 miles away were kindled among shore in- stallations. Nagasaki builds one third of Japan's ships and is her ninth largest port.
 1,500 Planes Available
 Radio Tokyo said the American command now had 1,500 planes op- erating from 30 airstrips- on 13 air. fields on Okinawa.
 This strengthening of the Okin- ava base could be anticipated as preparation for the Japanese main- land attack" Tokyo said. Tt also could mean a preparation for g landing operation on the China mainland or possibly a plan tc blockade our shipping to the main- land"
 Tokyo said the Japanese have constructed series of intricate camouflaged strong points from the coast of occupied China ".deep into the Hinterland" in anticipation of an American landing. The widely-scattered Notifications were divided into number of sections closely woven for coordi mated action So that if one section falls into enemy hands it can be subjected to concentrated fire from all directions" the broadcast said. Another Tokyo broadcast de- nounced the new American practice of dropping warning leaflets on Japanese cities scheduled for attack as extremely elaborately propa- ganda," but at the same time held out no hope of preventing the raids
 The broadcast confessed that the number of Japanese cities which have the appearance of cities un- harmed has become extremely small"
 The 20th Air Force at Guam dis. closed that it had dropped 143,0oC tons of fire and demolition bombs on Japan since it began operations from the Marianas last year.
 Radio Tokyo corrected a dis patch it had broadcast yesterday. c Island, 70 miles south of Tokyo was not bombarded by Allied war ships Wednesday as had been re- ported, Tokyo said. Instead the island attacked was long by-passeo Wake. far to the east.
 Admiral Chester w. Nimitz an. nounced the raid on Wake in com- munique yesterday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-03

. Dairly and beef herds in Eng land are 76 per cent larger now than they were at the outbreak of the war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-03

The biggest catalpa tree in Texas stands 96 feet high and blooms every May.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-03
Walter WincheII
 On BrOadw0y
qsas. MaF RssasDA csVvnsaA sstA Osas N''sss

During this while Walter Winchen is vacation this will conducted by guest cOlunnis and Jack Lait's column Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-03

A South African woman nearing her tooth birthday has just had her first airplane trin.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-03
StaIin L.ouds ItoIy's Plan

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-03

Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski is a new girl. The white-haired macs tro-b bridegroom of the 21-year old heiress has transformed her into
 charming. subdued, sedate person
 Not long ago, Gloria would storm into high-priced bars, her scarlet toenails protruding from loud wedgies. smoking through a cigarette holder as long as an al- penstock, her hair upon her head with a tall bolster under it. swig- ging highballs with Pat Di Cicco
 when it was illegal to serve her. a minor Now she sits in an in.
 conspicuous box at her husbands concerts and never takes an eye off him. Her clothes are grlish-
 finely made but exquisitely simple
 Her raven hair is parted flat on her shapely young head. She doesn't
 smoke, at least in public. She t
 rarely seen in the gay spots. Shs takes art lessons faithfully every
 day The youngster who has
 come into some $4,000.00 to cal
 her own has undergone a meta
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1945-11-10
TIME 70 can HALT ON GOVERNMENT spENplNe

Now that the only natural for the average citizen
wonder how long the great machine win be sadded the
workers of the nation Washington should act before 1t too late
and its expenditures The military forces should be trimmed
down the point safety and the millions of unneeded and
should be returned to industry
Every hundreds of millions of dollars of additional
told and with debt of 300 billion dollars
frightening note the indifference of the ofcehoder
and the the street the road bankruptcy Too
people prong from the waste of money They will
criticize this Washington Santa Claus
quicker bureaucratic in Washington and
the nation deobzed and these workers returned
their industry the quicker this nation viii be the road
safety Wealth from the ground and our war debts are
be paid the entire nation must forget soft jobs and
to labor in the mines and in the fields.
According Congressman Cannon of Missouri chairman of the
appropriations committee the trouble with this is
that has used spending and it going to be hard
down to plane of not spending we are not going to
repudiate debts not going into great tapn
initiation back sound commonsense basis
stop throwing money around in this proigae
Denver Mining Record.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1945-11-10
Pennsylvaniun
Underlying All
OF New Mexico?

Evidence to support the conten-
ton that rocks of Pennsylvania
age underlie ali of New Mexico
from its northwestern 10 its south
eastern sections is cited this week
by the Albuquerque Oil News.
According to the Oil News,
palaentologists have re-classified
pay zones In the deep wells of
eastern Lea county and now de
clare these to be Pennsylvania,
rather than basal Permian, as was
originally believed. These wells are
in the southeastern section of the
state.
Previously, formations cut by
drilling in the northwestern sec
ton of the state had been identified
as Pennsylvania, the Oil News
says.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1945-11-10
Us. HAS sIzEABlE
STORED OIL SUPPLY

Stocks of domestic and foreign
crude petroleum at the close of the
week ended October n totaled 224,-
10000 barrels, according to data
reported to the Bureau of Mines,
United States Department Of the
Interior Compared with the total of
226, 1897, 900 barrels for the preceding
week, this represents a decrease of
2,167,0 900 barrels comprising a de-
crease of ], 739, 900 barrels in stocks
of domestic crude and a decrease of
$4,000 barrels in stocks of foreign
crude. Heavy crude-oil stocks In
California, not included In the gaso-
line bearing stocks, totaled 4,540, 900
barrels, decrease of 10000 barrels.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1945-11-10

Fifty years ago a publication was
established in New York entitled
The Horseless Age. There were
exactly four "horseless carriages"
in the entire United States at the
time.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1945-11-10

A poll conducted by national
automobile association indicates va
cation travel viii exceed five billion
dollars a year in the immediate
postwar year. Eighty-five percent
of the, vacationers indicated a
preference for automobile travel.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1945-11-10
The SunburSt
Badger SoYs

Some men are so absent-minded,
that finding a piece of rope in their
hands confuses them. They don't
know whether they have found a
piece of rope or lost a horse.
.
For a girl to win a husband she
must show:
l. A generous nature.
?. How generous nature was to
her.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1945-11-10

'Pa, tell me how you proposed
to Ma" requested the young hope
full.
well, son, as l remember it was
like this. We were sitting on the
sofa one night at her house. She
leaned over and whispered in my
ear. l said, the hell you are and
the next day. we got married"
do you believe that dark-haired
men marry first?"
mo, it's the Iight-headed ones"
For most persons success brings
not only poise but also avoirdupois.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1945-11-10
Thought For Today.

Sometimes the possibilities of the oil business bit
fantastic.
That in the Cat Creek field today All of the wells
in that field produced by drive with gas Water
coming upslope drives oil ahead of it, Some earday Cat
Creek wells producing from the shallow Cat Creek sands
flowed up to 1000 barrels daily
Downslope, pressures greater, but the sands
carried o-only water, which in authenticated
instances flowed up to 100000 barrels daily
Now rotaries are being used down-sope The rotaries
mud off the upper water flows go deeper sands
of these deeper tests finds OIL backed by with
the hydrostatic head the upper sands 1O0
0O0barrel wells possible 1t very unlikely that wells
of that caliber will be drilled in this area but definitely
possible It is something to think about in making in
vestment
And in ANY oil field, the best a royalty
For information write
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-01-10

marine. When the two girls arrived
at the subway entrance, they saw
that the child, James Jefferson Jr.,
had been caught in the turnstile.
He was being carried into the sub
way and was being crushed by
the pushing crowd trying to force
him out Of the turnstile. SPAR
Merrill entered the crowd, picked
up the nearly unconscious child, or
dered the crowd to stand back, then
sent her sister for help.
While the emergency crew work
ed for two hours to release the
trapped boy, Miss Merrill held him
and attempted to ease the pain of
his broken foot. Pictures of her ap-
peared in various newspapers anC
magazines throughout the country
She refused to give her name al
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-01-10
scheduled for an important COM

scheduled for an important COM
mittee assignment, it is learned.
During the course of the day the
two men expressed confidence that
the session would see the passage
of anti-poll tax and permanent
FEPC legislation. T hey wer e
equally hopeful that the bill to pro-,
vide protection for all men in the
armed forces against assault would
be adopted. 1t has already wealth
cred the Senate.
DR.. Adam Clayon Powell, Sr.,
the congressman father, was here
to witness the proceedings.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-01-10
WHITE SPAR WHO
SAVED NEGRO BOY
GETS CITATION

PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 10
(ANP)-Miss Helen M errill,
white, a member of the SPARS,
who extricated the foot of little
Negro boy in a New York turnstile
last September, has been cited by
the coast guard for saving a hu-
man life.
The subway incident occurred
while SPAR Merrill was on fur
Tough with her sister, who is a
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-01-10
80 NEGROES WATCH AS
DAWSON, POWELL SWORN IN

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (ANP)
For the first time since 1896,
two Negroes are sitting as men,
bers of the house of representa-
tives. Reps. William L. Dawson of
Chicago and Adam Clayton Powell
Jr., of New York were sworn in
when the first session Of the 10th
congress was called to order. This
is Dawson's second term.
There was no pomp attached to
the ceremony. A packed gallery
watched the proceedings, among
whom were not more than 80 Ne
groes.
Dawson renewed acquaintances
with his colleagues while Powell
was taken in hand by members of
the New York delegation who in
troduced him to "some of the boys
my friends" as Vito Marcan-
tonic of New York put it. Also
shaking hands with the freshman
congressman were Fred Vinson,
Economic Sterilization director,
and James McGranery, special as
sistant to the attorney general.
Both men formerly had been con-
gressmen and so were entitled to
floor privileges.
There was no particular celebra-
ton in the Dawson office. Next
door, however, mild form of fes-
tivity was evidenced by a few New
Workers. and other well-wishers
who had come to Washington for
the occasion. A bunch of flowers
were sent over by Rev. Marshal
Shepard, recorder of deeds.
The two congressman attended
the Democratic caucus on Tuesday
and helped elect Sam Rayburn o1
Texas to his fourth term as speak
er of the house. Vacancies on vari
GUS house committees will be fillel
by the Democratic members of thu
ways and means committee.
Dawson held positions on five
standing committees. Although ;
newcomer. CONGRESSMAN Powell j.
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though hundreds of people wanted
to know the name of the unidenti-
fled SPAR.
Miss Merrill's identity was 'es-
tablished when she returned to San
Francisco.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-17
FAIRBANKS MAN HERE

Y. H. Jussila of Fairbanks has arrived in Juneau. He is staying at the Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-17
z6 PASSENGERS FLY 10 SEATTLE VIA pAA

Pan American Airways flew 8 passengers from Seattle and one from Fairbanks to Juneau yesterday. On it's southbound return trip it carried 26 passengers.
 Disembarking at Juneau from Seattle were: Capt. Dellvon Fall, Duncan Robertson, Mary Robertson, Carol Robertson, Henry Bartollnl, Mervin Sanford, Glen Patten, and Mildred Boyston; from Fairbanks; Alice Sturruck.
 Outgoing passengers were: to Seattle: Earl Case, Rose Case, LOT enc Nash, Harry James, Jean Cal houn, Robert Davlin, Maxine Dav- lin, Roy Stewart, Tom Morgan, Tom Taylor, Phyllis Frimoth, Darlene Gerlach, Jessie Crankshaw, Eldon Richards, Henry Haberman, Ida Filley, Maxine La Faunce and Hazel Coy; to Ketchikan: Jack MolyneuX; to Whitehorse: Floyd Holt, Hugh De- laney, Irene Dudics, Raymond Mar shall, Charlotte Marshall; to Fair banks: Lloyd Peterson; to Nome: Don BurruS.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-17

terminal leave, arrived in Fort Lewis two weeks ago from Europe. He serv- ed in England, France, Belgium and Germany in the Medical Corps of the U. s. Army. As a doctor in the Fifth Armored Division he saw service with the British First Army and with the American First, Seven tn and Ninth Armies.
 Major General Lunsford Oliver, one time stationed with the Alaska Road Commission in Juneau, com manded the Fifth Armored Division.
 Captain Robertson plans, shortly after his discharge from the Army, entering into private medical prac- tice. although he has not yet chos- en a location.
 In the meantime he is busy getting acquainted with his small daughter who was born while he was in Eng land and whom he had not seen until his recent return to Seattle from Europe.
 Mrs. Robertson, Jr., is the former Miss Mary Eggert of Seattle. She, with Carol Jeanette, visited MT. and Mrs. Robertson, ST, year ago this fall