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Evening star., 1945-10-13
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-24
REDS ACROSS ODER
 SAYS BERLIN
BY ROBERT MUsEL

London, March 24. - (UP) -Nazi broadcasts said at least 9O,OOO Red Army troops, already six miles beyond the Oder river, were stormlng German defenses 32 miles east of Berlin today in what may be the first stages of the climactic battle for the cap ital.
 Six Soviet rifle divisions, supported by 100 or more tanks, cracked through the Oder river line opposite Kues- trin and smashed down the shortest road to Berlin as far as Golzow, 32 miles from the capital, before being halted yesterday, German broad casts admitted.
 The Germans said a ding -dong" battle was raging in the outskirts of GolzoW.
 Other German broadcasts said Soviet pressure was increasing all along the Oder front between Kues- trin and Frankfurt, 16 miles to the south.
 The Russians have been attack ing Klessin, B 1-2 miles east Of Berlin and nine miles south Of Kuestrin. fiercely from all sides" for nine days, the Germans said. The reference to "all sides" 1ndl- cated the fortress town two miles west of the Oder may have been surrounded.
 While Moscow did not immedi- ately confirm the thrust, both Rus sian and NaA dispatches for the past few weeks have reported prep arations for a resumption of the Soviet march on Berlin almost complete. Allied observers have Speculated that the Russians would strike to- ward Berlin simultaneously with an Allied smash across the Rhine in the west in coordinated win-the- war offensives.
 Berlin said crack units of Mar shal Gregory K. Zhukov's First i White Russian Army launched their attack yesterday from Oder bridge heads at ManschnoW, three miles southwest of KueStrin, and near Grenschmar, seven miles northwest, and linked up at GolzoW.
 A 9O-minute artillery barrage and accompanying aerial bombardment pave the way for the twin attacks, Berlin said.
 The enemy succeeded in break ing through our front, owing to the great masses of war material employed" the Berlin account said,
 Far to the northeast, Second White Russian Army forces drove VA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-24
4 ALLIED ARMIES CROSS RHINE
UNIQUE COURT RULING FILED
 IN AUTOCASE

In the first case of it's kind to be heard in Waterbury, City Court Judge T. E. Con- way ruled recently that a minor becomes liable in a civil action, when after reach ing his majority he does not disaffirm the act in question within a reasonable period of time.
 The ruling was made in the case of Edward Voegtle vs. Mary Petro- kaitis and Frank Petrokaitis, in which the plaintiff was given judgment against Mary Petrokaitis in the amount of 48055 and costs for money given her to purchase an automobile in November of 1940.
 The defendant claimed that she was not liable because at the time of the loan she was a minor, aged IT. The plaintiff claimed that she was liable because she did not dis affirm within a reasonable time af- ter reaching her majority, and she still retained the consideration of the loan and had not returned. or offered to return the same to him.
 Judge Conway wrote: "To allow the defendant Mary Petrokaitis not only to retain the automobile after she reached her majority but to continue to receive it's benefits and at the same time escape liabiliay on her contract offends the sense of right and justice. Since there is no question involving the rights of third parties /. it is concluded that the defendant Mary Petrokaitis ratified and terminated her power to disaffirm after she reached her majority"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-24
Life Pension
 To Cleveland

Hartford Conn.,, March 24-(UP) Creation of commissions to sur vey the states port facilities and to do planning and research for all agencies was proposed yesterday in two judiciary committee-raised bills offered in the Senate.
 The port survey commission would consist of five members, while the administrative research and survey commission also would have five, but with a paid direc- tor. The latter commission would be provided with 8 $l80,00O appro- priation.
 Both bills were referred back to the judiciary for public -.earings.
 The House passed allowing $50 to the town of Hampton for the care of Ida Pacitto; 5000 to Fred F'errente of Norwalk for loss of a hand while in the state employ, and $2OO to Robert E. Dougan, Manchester, for loss of wages re- sulting from an injury while on state guard maneuvers. A life pension of $9O a month to Herbert w. Cleveland, Plymouth, also was approved. Cleveland was one of the first members of the state po- lice force.
 The Senate passed 8 bill per- hitting the merger of the Putnam Title and Mortgage Co.,, and Put nam Trust Co.,, of Greenwich, and another allowing the Greenwich Hospital Association to increase the members of it's board to nine.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-24
Keck Estate, $105, ,827.40,
 Bequeathed To 2 Daughters

Michael Keck, prominent restau- rateur, who died December 3, 1944, left an estate valued at $105, ,827 40, according to an inventory of his estate filed in probate court yester- day.
 The deceased bequeatIled the en- tire estate to his two daughters. Seven thousand five hundred dollars will be held in trust for the benefit of Lena Keck; while the residue will be received by Emma Neck OLeary, who has also been named executrix of the will.
 The estate comprises real estate valued at $17,4OO; 10 mortgage notes, at $21,450; stocks, $22,O46.75; bank accounts, $8,412.41; insurance bene- fits, $7,982.87; partnership deposit credited to the firm of Drescher and Keck, $10,124.77; and partnership in- terest in that firm, $14,515; war bonds, $2,945.60; and an automobile appraised at $950.
 MT. Kecks real estate holdings in cluded three pieces of property on Plank road, valued at $9,900, and another piece on Orange and Wal nut street, appraised at $7,500.
 Stock investments. composing ap- proximately one-fifth of the estate, are as follows: 94 shares of Ameri- can Telephone and Telegraph Co.,, $15 5,580.5O; 15 shares of Westing- house Electric Mfg. Co.,, $1,642.50; 50 shares of Radio Corp of America, $5O6 25; 50 shares of General Motors Corp, $3,125; 100 shares of Pack ard Motor Car Co.,, $537.5O; 28 shares of International Telephone and Telegraph Co.,. $455; and 25 shares of Continental Motors Corp. $2OO.
 Cash deposits in the Waterbury Savings bank amount to $3,621 .22: while a savings account with the Citizens and Manufacturers Ma tional bank amounts to $2,407.17. Also invested in a checking account in that bank was $2,384.02.
 MT. Keck'S assets i'll the firm of Drescher and Keck, Harrison ave- nue restaurant firm. in which he was partner with Alfred C.. Drescher, IS Wildwood avenue, for the past 35 years, are as follows: One-half accumulated partnership account, on deposit with the Citizens and Manufacturers National Bank, $1O,124.77: and one-half interest in
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-24
Jap roops Fleeing To Luzon Hills
BY H. D. QUIGG

Manila, March 24-(UP)-Japan- csc troops were reported fleeing into the western Luzon hills today before American 33rd Division forces which overran Naguilian and -ts airfield and thrust to less than 10 miles from the enemy stronghold of Ba- guio.
 Naguilian, which had a pre-war population of 15,00O, was taken against only minor resistance. It's airfield provided another base for Gen. Douglas MacArthur's bombers which sank or damaged II more Japanese ships, including two de- stroyers and a minesweeper, in new attacks through the China Sea.
 The Japanese had Town up the 25O-yard bridge across the Nagullian river and the American troops were forced to wade across river to reach the town.
 A rolling artillery barrage blasted 8 path for the advancing troops and they met little opposition in pushing into Naguilian Wednesday. One heavy artillery shell scored a direct hit on a Japanese ammunition dump causing an explosion that rocked the earth for several miles.
 A front report said the Japanese around Naguilian were fleeing into the hills before riflemen under the command of It. Col. Arthur Collins, Boston, Mass.
 The thrust carried the 33rd divi- sion to less than 10 miles from Ba- guio, former Philippines summer cap ital and headquarters for Japanese forces in the Philippines. There were no further reports of another Amer ican column whic' last was revealed only six miles south of the city.
 Bitter fighting continued in north central Luzon, where American troops were closing 8 two-way drive on Balete Pass, escape route into the Cagayan valley. Four sharp counter attacks were repulsed by the Tanks as they moved within four miles north and south of the Pass.
 In the fighting east of Manila, the 43rd division advanced to one mile from the town of New Boso- boso, east of the shattered Japanese Shimbu line, while the Sixth divi- sion steadily compressed e n e m pockets at the northern end of the line against machine-gun and mor-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-24
Vast Fleet
 PuIverizes Ruhr Sites

London March 24-CUP)-Vast fleets of Allied planes dumped pull verizing loads of explosives and bullets on select targets in the Ruhr ahead of the armies driving across the Rhine today.
 More than 1900 American heavy bombers and upward of $50 escort ing fighters lashed 12 German air fields north of the Ruhr.
 The fighters carried out armed patrols over northwest Germany in addition to protecting the bombers.
 Most of the air fields attacked were jet-propelled fighter bases. The fields were at Hopsten Ach- mer Wechta Vechtel Rheine He sepe Nordhorn Ateenwijk, ZWische- nahn Plantlunne Vaarelbusch and Varrell.
 It was the fourth straight day of aerial assault on the Ruhr and its environs which were being softened for the Rhine drive.
 American flying fortresses and liberators with strong escorts of fighters led the parade at dawn, followed by squadron after squad ron of RAF spitfires.
 Hundreds of planes were counted in the first half hour alone wing ing their way across the English east and southeast coast. The pro- sessions continued hour on hour, rivalling and perhaps exceeding those of D-Day. The sky was black with planes.
 German broadcasts reported air formations over the Ruhr, as far east as Hanover and as far north as Bremen. Many probably at tackled railway and highway targets to block movement of German re- Inducements to threatened fronts.
 During the night, RAF heavy bombers smashed at German troops and fortified positions on the east bank of the Rhine north of the Ruhr Valley. Smaller formations of mosquitoes dropped two-ton block busters on Berlin for the 32nd straight night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-24

Official reports said the tive ground armies were making good progress east of the river against the first German paratroop army an enemy force numbering b to 20 divisions, or 150,00O to 2O0,0OO men.
 Ten thousand square miles of Germany's Ruhr valley and west phalian plains stretching back l5O- odd miles beyond the Rhine, were Uttered with flaming wreckage from Allied air fleet raids.
 Throughout the area thousanos of American and British sky troops of the Allied First Army showered down behind the German rear de- lenders. Miles-long trains of glid- CTS streamed across the Rhine all morning, landing infantrymen on enemy fields and scattering para troopers across the countryside.
 Veterans of the American Ninth and British Second armies crossed the Rhine in assault boats and U. s. Navy invasion craft from num- Der of solid bridgeheadS in the 12- mile sector between ReeS and Wefal. Wesel is 30 miles north of Duessel- dorf and IA 1-2 miles north of the Rhine-Ruhr confluence.
 The British started the attack in bright moonlight late Friday night, striking monty" barrage.
 Wins Crossing
 At 2 a. m, the Ninth Army swept across the river, apparently south of Wesel, and won its crossing.
 By dawn both armies had won firm footholds on the east bank of the river and the parade of troop carrying gliders continued.
 This was history's Third and greatest crossing of the Rhine. Montgomery's troops were follow ing in the path of Ceaser's and Na- poleons on a high invasion road that headquarters observers predict ed flatly would end in Berlin within 8 month.
 Once through the hard core of German resistance along the Rhine and part of that objective ap- peared to have been attained in the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-24
Krus Will Help Enforce Curfew

Washington, March (UP)- War Production Chief J. A. Krug is preparing to throw the full weight ot his agency behind the en- forcement of the midnight curfew on amusement places, it was learned today.
 Krug is empowered by the sec- ond War Powers act to withhold building materials, electricity, coal and gas from consumer If he con- siders such action necessary to aid the war effort.
 War Mobilizer James F. Byrnes, at the time he decreed that bars, movies and other places of enter tainment should close at 12 o'clock, asked Krug to nelp enforce the curfew.
 The WIPE chairman, however, took no action to back up Byrnes' request until this week, when plans were drawn up to crack down on curfew violators.
 Krug is expected to warn movie houses, bars. and others who are still catering to post-midnight pleasure seekers that they will face the ire of WIPE if they aren't shut tight by 12 o'clock.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-24
Food Problem Critical
BY RUTH GMEINER

Washington, March M.-(UP)- The world food situation has reached "a most critical state" with demands upon the United Nations continuing to pile in, British off, ficials here said today.
 Already a hundred million more people are depending on the United Nations for food as a result of lib- eration," the officials said, adding: There will be millions more"
 The British statement was made at time when the American pub lie has been told it may have to tighten its belt to send food to starv- ing people of other countries.
 A food official of this country said the United States must be con- sidered the principal source from which relief food can be drawn. Other nations are in no position to increase their exports, he declared.
 There have been strong objections raised to feeding others while this country's own food supply is re- putedly in bad shape. A special Senate subcommittee will begin hearings Monday in an effort to find out just what the food situa- ton really is and what needs to be done about it.
 The subcommittee will take ur the meat problem first, looking into reports that there are record herds of live cattle on the ranges but little meat on American tables Meat producers will be questioned first.
 President Roosevelt also may have something to say next week on the food situation. He has said that the public should be given the facts as soon as possible.
 Meantime the administration has instituted a new cattle subsidy pro- gram intended to spur slaughterlng and bring more beef into markets Yestreday Economic Stabilizer Will liam H. Davis authorized price increases on young chickens effec- tive July 1, intended to bring more broilers, flyers and roasters to mar
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-24
Police Entry
 Age Reduced 40-30 By Act

An act providing, in part, for changing the age limit for appoint ment to the local police force from 40 years to 80 years is scheduled for public hearing Tuesday at the Capitol before the committee on cities and boroughs. The act, House Bill 919, has been introouced by Rep: John Membrino.
 An act amending the city char ter whereby the salary of the city probation officer, Atty. Yale Matz- kin, will be increased from $2,2OO to $3,500 will also appear before the cities and boroughs committee on Tuesday for public hearing. The act, House Bill 651, originally was submitted by Atty. J. Warren Upson of this city. It was intro duced by Rep. Wanderer, (R).
 Other purposes of House Bill 9l5 are as follows, as introduced by Rep. Membrino, are:
 Section l. To authorize the City of Waterbury to pay the cost O. living adjustment to employees whost compensation is fixed by charter
 Section 2. To eliminate the fix ing by charter of the compensa- tion of the Assistant City Clerk and the Assistant Town Clerk.
 Section 3. To change the date of filing the annual reports by the heads of the departments from September 18th to February 18th.
 Section 4. To permit period Of ten days after the fourth week Of November within which to print the budget instead of five days.
 Section 5. To provide a legal coverage for a practical procedure in relation to preparing claims for payment by the Board of Finance.
 Section 6. To provide practical procedure for accounting purposes that will be adaptable to the avail able equipment in relation to the manner of payment of claims and accounts.
 Section '. To provide written notice from the Comptroller that funds are available to pay for any particular work instead of a writ ten notice from the Board of Finance.
 Section 8. To correct typo- graphical error by substituting the word by the city instead of the word ito" the city in the middle of this paragraph.
 Section g. To allow the Mayor to appoint person to act temporar-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-24
Films Called Wor Preachers

New York, March 24.-UP)-Mo- ton pictures on How to Complain to a Policemen" or How to Go to Church" would help educate the postwar Nazis to democracy, accord- ing to Professor Robert GesSner, chairman of the motion picture de- partment, New York university.
 Gessner, former Hollywood script writer, said he believed the Germans would need "a heavy diet" of educational pictures to make the transition from fascism to democ- racy. He suggested that such pie lures as How to Make a Speech" and How to Organize a Union" would help.
 He told the opening session yes- terday of two day forum on mo- ton pictures in education that mo- tion pictures have already proved to be one of the great teachers of this war" The signal corps eSti- mates the Army training period was shortened 40 per cent through their use, he said.
 Dr. Alice V. Keliher, chairman of the conference. urged that projec- tion equipment now used by the armed forces be given to the schools after the war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-24
Jops Lack War Fervor
By FRANK TREMAINE

Agana, Guam, March "A. (UP)- The Japanese people lack enthuSi- asm for the war, Bishop Michael Angel Olano, of Guam, one of the few internees who was permitted to go freely about Tokyo since Pearl Harbor, said today.
 Bishop Olano, member of ths Capuchin Society of the Franciscan Order. returned here after Spend- ing 21 months in Japan and another IT in returning to his diocese. He left Japan in October, 1943, on the Gripsholm for Portuguese India. Subsequently he went to India and Australia.
 An invasion of the Japanese home. land Is the quickest way to force the war to an ending, Bishop Olano said. He added that such an in- vasion might perhaps be made cas- fly.
 Don't go to China" he said. 'Go directly to Japan. That's what will end the war quickly. In China, many lives will be lost There are many places where Japan can be invaded. That will make Japan cease fighting"
 Nipponese civilians, he declared. were apathetic over the war. At the time of the Allied defeats at Singapore and elsewhere, there were "big manifestations" At other times the people did not even discuss the war, the bishop said.
 President Roosevelt once said their sky would be covered with thousands of warplanes. They re- membered that. But they are forc- ed to stay at their work.
 The military clique controls everything by an intricate organiza. tion dividing each city into 1O-houss
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-24
Planes Rake Okinawu Isle
By FRANK TREMAINE

Guam, March 24-(U.PO - Tokyo reported that hundreds Of Amer ican carrier planes attacked Okln- ava Island, enemy naval and ar base 300 miles southwest of Japan, last evening and today.
 Some 300 planes opened the as sault late yesterday and other form ations carried 1t into a second day with raids still continuing after eight hours today, Japanese broad casts said.
 Miyako Island, 180 miles south west of Okinawa and only 21O miles northeast of Formosa, also was under attack today, Tokyo said.
 The planes presumably came from the Fifth Fleet with Vice-Ad- miral Marc A. Mitscher's force Of a dozen or more carriers fresh from wrecking at least 73l Japanese planes and damaging IT Warships in attacks on Kyushu and Japan's inland sea Sunday and Monday and in air battles to the south Tuesday and Wednesday,.
 Tokyo, apparently seeking to jus tify the new raids in the light of earlier claims that Japanese planes had broken up the fleet With the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-24
9th Belieues Zero Hour or European War Arriues

army group. with the Allied First airborne Army and units of the American Navy, stormed the Rhine in the early morning hours.
 The assault troops swarmed across after monumental artillery and air preparation that hammered down German Notifications and strong points around the heads of their de- lenders.
 Some of the best assault divisions in the U. s. Army kicked off the attack.
 Optimism was running high. The officers and men of the Ninth Army believed this was the zero hour Of the last great campaign of the European war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-24
Montgomery Calls
 Undertaking Last Drive On Germany
BY BOYD D. LEWIS

Paris March "A - UP) - Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery sent four Allied armies-three on ianos one in the ar-across the Rhine broad front norm o he Ruhr today in what called "the final assault OH Germany" u.o.r
 The American Ninth and British Second armies spear headed the ground assault on the Rnne wltn te First Arborne Armys sky troops striking an undlscoseo distance beyond the river
 The Canadian First Army also was disclosed to nave joined assault and front reports said the eo grou troops were at two miles beyond the Rhine at some Ortc
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-24
Cologne Bishop
 Evodes Germons

Paris, March 24.-UP)-BiShop Stockums, senior auxiliary bishop of the Cologne cathedral, was dis covered recently hiding in an old peoples home where he had fled after denouncing the Naz party plan to turn the cathedral into g political museum early last year.
 The Nazis forced the archbishop of Cologne to evacuate to the west side of the Rhine. but Bishop Stock ums stayed in the city. Both evaded the gestapo for more than year by moving from house to house.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-24

Washington. March 24.-(UP)- The senate defeat of Aubrey Will Hams gave birth today to rural sis- ter of the CLOS political action com- mittee.
 Its aim-the placement in govern ment of liberals of the stamp of Williams, and the defeat of mem bers of the Republican-conservative Democratic coalition that engineer ed Williams defeat.
 Plans for a rural PAC were an- nounced by James G. Patton, presi- dent of the National Farmers union, after the senate rejected 52 to 36 Williams nomination to be rural