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Evening star., 1945-12-18
|con,muier Train Hits
Newark Drawbridge;
One Dead, 50 Hurt
By the Associated Press.

6s tHe ASSOCltteQ fFeSe.
NEWARK, N. j., Dec. ia Hud-
son g. Manhattan tube train, carry
ing nearly 1000 bound
commuters from New York, crashed
last night into the raised center
span Of lift bridge over the Passaic
River-only 100 feet from its New
ark misunderstanding the motor
man and injuring at least SO pas
Isengers.
Eugene Dubois, public relations
executive OF the Pennsylvania Rail-
road, Of which the H. g. M. is an
afnliate, said the seven-car train
apparently passed stop signals and
the smash board" which gives extra
warning that the span is closed to
train traffic. Mr.. Dubois set the
time OF the accident at 6.37 pm.
He said the signals were in proper
working order at the time.
Bridge Nearly Closed.
Police Chief Philip Siebold of New
ark said the lift section of the bridge
was 4 feet short OF closing, after
being raised for passage OF a ship,
when the head car of the train
jammed into the opening The first
car buckeled in the middle and the
second car partially telescoped it.
The motorman, Michael j. Mullin,
SO, OF New York, was crushed in his
small cab, Mr.. Dubois said.
Detective 1t. Arthur Ford of the
Harrison IN. j. police said an
autopsy would be performed today
on Mr.. Mullins body to determine
whether he died before the accident
occurred.
If the tube train had arrived at
the bridge few seconds earlier, 1t.
Ford said, 1t would have plunged
through the open span and carried
its / 900 passengers into the icy river.
Trapped Passengers Freed.
Emergency crews and rescue work.
ers struggled for more than three
hours cutting away twisted steel
with acetylene torches before free
ing two men and a woman trapped
ir the lead car. They were identi-
fed as Robert Kelly, 48, conductor,
New York; Chester Middleton, con-
ductor, Newark, and Alice Horowith,
80, Newark.
They were taken to st. Michael's
Hospital, Newark, where Mr.. Mid
dleton and Miss Horowith were re-
ported in critical condition.
Police said the injured persons
were lowered with ropes from the
jammed cars to the tracks and then
carried back on stretchers to the
40-foot embankment on which the
railroad rises from the Harrison
station as it approaches the bridge.
Embankment Ice Coated.
The embankment was ice coated
and police said they had to drive
stakes into it and string ropes to
enable the stretcher bearers to get
down.
The injured were treated at both
City Hospital and at ST. Michaers,
where II were detained.
Chief Siebold said doors in the
last five cars of the train opened
quickly. enabling those not seriously
injured to make their way to the
tracks and down the embankment.
Evening star., 1945-12-18
u. S. Officials Coll Uprising
In Azerboijon Inspired

By the Associated Press.
American officials expressed belief
yesterday that the uprising which
led to the creation of an autonomous
regime in Aberbaijan was inspired
and not spontaneous.
These officials, who asked not to
be identified, said this Government
attributed the troubles in Northern
Iran largely to the presence Of Rus
sian occupation troops. '.'..
A request that the United States
register vigorous protest with
Moscow was made by Iranian Am
bassador Hussein Ala After a visit
to Acting Secretary of State Dean
Acheson, he told reporters. that
Russia had deliberately engineered
establishment of the Azerbaijan
regime.
American officials, although con-
ceding that the history of Azerbai-
jan includes several incidents OF
revolutionary ferment, said there
had been no widespread demands fol
complete autonomy until the present
uprising was considerably advanced
They added that the United States
differed strongly with the Russian
view that Soviet officials had the
right to bar regular Iranian govern
ment troops from Azerbaijan on the
excuse that their presence would in
crease the disorders.
The movement of troops within
the borders of Iran should be the
private affair of the central gov
ernment at Teheran and not the
concern of foreign forces, the ON
cials said.
Ala said he had asked Mr.. Acheson
to forward his governments request
for protest to Secretary of State
Byrnes, who is expected to discuss
the Iranian situation at length with
Russian Foreign Commissar Molotov
and British Foreign Secretary Bevin
at Moscow.
Evening star., 1945-12-18
kimbaI| Pupils Return
After Parents STAGE
Successful Strike

The Kifhball Elementary Schools
classrooms were overcrowded as
usual today following yesterdays
100 per cent effective protest strike"
on the part of parents seeking to
persuade the District Commissioners
to request a. deficiency appropria-
ton to build a 10-classroom addi-
ton to the school and other i'm.
lprovements. -
AT the school 1t was said this
morning that attendance was COM
plete except for the few children
normally absent due to colds and
other reasons.
Yesterday delegation from the
kimban Parent Teachers Associa- :
ton, headed by Mrs. Harry Good
man. president, received assurances
from Col. Joseph D. Arthur, assistant
Engineer Commissioner, that II a
second set of bids made on the
school additions still are too high.
ne would start construction of the
adoitional classrooms and request
appropriation later of funds for
m assembly room and lunchroom.
A $2S7 800 appropriation now is
available for the work but the low
est bid on the project was 1886, 400.
Parents felt this was so high that
III would be hopeless to ask for
additional bids. They said it would
be better to take the matter di-
|rectly to Congress and ask an addi-
|tional appropriation.
Col Arthur, however, told parents
he thought bids would drop by
February. :.
The present eight classroom school
building serves 544 pupils on 4 half
day basis through the third grade.
Miss Dorothy Lewis, principal, said
yesterday the half -day schedule
probably would have to be extended
to the fourth grade next September,
leaving only the fifth and sixth
trades on full-time basis.
The schpol, built in 1912 to replace
two portable school buildings. serves
an area bounded BY Texas avcnue.
Massachusetts, avenue. East Capitol
street and the Anacostia River. S:E..
q neighborhood rapidly growing
through Government housing prof.
ects.
Evening star., 1945-12-18
Hasfy DemobiIization
By U. 5. Confounds
World, Forum Hears

The United States consternates
foreign nations by throwing away
the instruments of peace in hyster-
ical rehabilitation, Bruce Hopper,
Harvard University history pro-
fessor. told the United Nations
Forum last night in Constitution
Hall.
You must not expect Russia or
China to understand u.s." he said.
1--WE smash the garden walls of
Europe and leave the fruits of peace
untouched. We destroy the monu-
ments of thousand years and 60
home to chew gum in the drug
store"
With Representative Mansfield,
Democrat, of Montana, and Brig.
Gen. Carlos P. Romulo, resident
commissioner of the Philippines,
Mr.. Hopper discussed the problems
Of Asia before the forum.
Representative Mansfield, who
once served with the Marines in
China, scored the decision to send
them back into that country after
the war ended and called on Gen.
George C. Marshall, President Tru-
mans special envoy to China, to
arrange date for their withdrawal.
Gen. Romulo said the Japanese
taught the subjugated peoples of
Asia that the white man is not in
vincible and thereby sewed the seeds
of liberty. The time has come, he
said, for the Allies to carry out the
intentions of the United Nations
Organization and take the first step
toward granting self-government by
establishing guardianships for peo-
pies not yet ready for independence.
Mr.. Hopper pointed out that the
policies of the United States and
Russia in China must run parallel
or crash in to each other.
He warned that this Nation can
not win the friendship of others by
Haunting it's power because vast
superiority invites envy. Yet it
would be silly to give way to
Russia since she doesn't understand
that. She has got to bargain and
talk"
The professor recommended that
the Government pay to exchange
with Russia thousands of students,
scientists, technicians and politicians
as the first step toward making the
American public world citizens.
Evening star., 1945-12-18
Dr.. Miller, Hotel Owner, /,
IWiII Be Buried Today
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW MARKET, Va, Dec. lS.-
Funeral services for DR.. Casper Otto
Miller, SO, retired physician and
businessman and owner of the
Shenyalee Hotel, who died Sunday
were to be held today from the resi-
dence, with burial in Emmanuel
Cemetery.
DR.. Miller helped found the Shen-
andoah Valley Inn and Was active
in working for establishment OF
Shenandoah National Park. He
served one term in the Virginia
House of Delegates.
Education in medicine and surgery
at the University of Virginia and
New York University. he once taugh,
at the University of Maryland.
Surviving are his widow, the
former Miss Mary Schumacher o1
Baltimore, and three sons, John C.
Miller, New Market; DR.. James A
Miller, Winchester. and william b
Miller, Fanwood, N. J.
Evening star., 1945-12-18
houses" She refused to

Of the houses" She refused to
name them.
Emile Bure, political director Of
the newspaper LOrdre, In an edi-
torial assailed the councils action
as opening the door to q wave OF
sex crimes. 81.
Nine. Richard had argued that
the 5000 registered prostitutes Of
Paris were responsible for the in
creasing incidence Of venereal dis
ease, and said In an interview: IT
have told the council that in them
girl Is forced to receive 70 or 80
clients a day. I have seen such
girls in hospitals, physically ruined,
Of course"
Evening star., 1945-12-18
Azerbaiijjan Residents
1errorized, Teheran
Government Charges
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
TEHERAN, Dec. 18.-The Iran
ian government charged in q
statement today that people OF
doubtful character" were ter
Irorizing the residents of Aver
baijan Province and imprison-
ing and tormenting government
officials in the area.
Can Azerbaijan national gov
ernment was reported by the
Soviet news agency Tass in a dis
patch datelined Teheran yester-
day to have been formed in Azer-
baijan Province, part of the Rus
sian-occupied zone of Northern
Iran.)
The Iranian government state.
ment listed specific acts of violence
which it said very clearly estab:
lished the fact that a number Of
armed adventurers in Azerbaijar
have taken advantage of the pres.
ence of foreign forces and engaged
under the treacherous title of de.
mocracy. in an armed uprisinf
against the monarch and the demo.
cratic government of Persia 1ran) >
The statement was submitted t.
foreign embassies under the title
"Observations of the Persian gov.
ernment on the contents of a mem.
orandum addressed by the Soviet
Commissar for Foreign Affairs "
M. Molotov) to the United State.
Government" 90
The government statement charged
that the founder of the insurgent
democratic party which set up the
autonomous regime lin Azerbaijan
lis a member of the Communist
party at Baku (Russia) named Ida
lat" The statement declared that
members of the party were not in
habitants of the Iranian province.
The Russian reply to the United
States note concerning the Azerbai-
jan crisis was "by no means con-
sistent with the actual facts" the
statement declared "
Evening star., 1945-12-18
Truman May Outline
Full Military Plan in
Message Tomorrow

Congress today speculated on the
possibility that President Truman
would detail at some length his
views on the makeup of the post
war military establishment of this
country in his impending message
on unifcation of the armed forces
The message is expected to go
to the Capitol tomorrow and Press
Secretary Charles. G. Ross said
Yesterday 1t would run 5000 OF
5000 words, which would afford
Mr.. Truman the opportunity to ex-
pand on whatever ideas he. may
have. .'l-<
There has been no hint of the
content Of the message from official
quarters but the. President is ex-
pected to approve some form OF
unification. That he expects Con-
gress to adopt broad program was
indicated yesterday when he vetoed
. bill to give chiefs OF naval bureaus
the rank of vice admiral and as
sistant chiefs that of rear admiral
declaring it "piecemeal' legislation
The President said:
THE matter OF increased personal
rank for chiefs of bureaus Of the
Navy. Department and their assist
ants should await decision by the
Congress on the matter Of the or
Eanization and composition OF on,
whole postwar military establish
ment and considerat ton Of the prob
lem OF suitable rank for higher COM
mands and stan assignments in the
ground, sea and air forces" Z
In the meantime. rs the. Senate
Military Affairs Committee pro-
ceeded with hearings on the Army.
Navy merger proposal, Gen. Brehou
3. Somervell, chief OF the Army
Service Forces, joined other mem
bers OF the Army high command In
advocating the merger which is az
vigorously opposed by the Navy.
He said 25 per cent or more could
have been saved on military con-
struction costs, during the war il the
War and Navy Departments had
been combined, and cited a;long list
Of duplication overlapping and
conflicts In procurement ana con-
struction which he attributed. 70
divided command. 8'
Evening star., 1945-12-18
By MURLIN SPENCER.
Associated Press Foreign Correspondent

/ Associated Press Foreisn Correspondent.
TOKYO. Dec. 18.-Japan's answer
to an American plan to, preserve
peace in the Pacific was blocked
for eight days in the spring of I94l
while Foreign Minister Yosuke
Matsuoka sought to learn Ger
many's attitude toward the nego-
tiations, Prince Konoye wrote in
his memoirs
The Associated Press obtained
Konoye's memoirs three days be-
fore his suicide Sunday. They are
being translated and copies have
been given to Joseph B. keenan,
who will prosecute Japans leading
war criminals. :
To gain time Matsuoka proposed
neutrality pact with the United
States, a suggestion summarily re-
jected by Cordell Hull, then Amer
lean Secretary Of State, Konoye
declared.
U. s. Plan Rejected.
Konoye said that earlier Mat.
suoka, returning from Germany ir
bad mood" prevented japanese
acceptance Of the American plan
eight months before Pearl Harbor
That plan, Konoye wrote, was based
on an American promise to heir
obtain Chungking's agreement tt
peace in China.
Pressed by political, army anc
navy leaders to quit stalling-the,
saw in the American plan an oppor-
tunity to pull Japan's chestnuts ou,
Eof the China fire-Matsuoka for
warded his answer to the United
States May IL. -
Shortly thereafter he received
rom Germany reply which sought
to use the negotiations as a means
OF preventing the United States from,
conveying goods to Britain, under
threat that such action would force
Japan to enter the war.
Matsuoka told the Emperor on
May 8 that If the United States
should Join in the European war.
Japan would naturally have to
stand -on the side of Germany and
ITALY the former Premier wrote.
+ 'Konoye related his excitement at
receiving the American plan for an
understanding between the two ma
tions, an excitement that prompted
him to meet Matsuoka at Tachikawa
airfeld when the latter returned
from Europe, where he had con-
ferred with Nazi chieftains.
The plan was explained to Matsu-
Okla on the drive back from the air
field, but Konoye noted: TT is said
that as expected. Matsuoka was in
bad mood and assumed the atti.
tude Of having almost no interest In
the plan"
Later that night, April a. Matsu-
Okla waxed "leud and fiery ON his
visit to Europe and when the prob
lem shifted to the important Amer
ican plan he showed excitement and
especially stressed the problem OF
fGermany's trust of Japan" under
the Tripartite Pact.
He also declared he understood
this American plan as having 10 pe,
cent evil will and 80 per cent good
will" Konoye noted, $.
Matsuoka then stalled. But he did
60 so far as to draft his own re-
Evening star., 1945-12-18


become a Repre-
sentative an d
big time gri d
referee, yester-
day r ST & n e d
from the House
to become COM
mon pleas judge
in ALL e 6 h e n y
County, Pa.
Elected to the
judicial post in
November, Mr..
Weiss said he
was quitting the
House because Il
can't afford to
Evening star., 1945-12-18
Weiss Leaves House
10 Take Judgeship
In Pennsylvania

Representative Samuel A. Sam
my" Weiss. Democrat. OF Pennsyl-
yania, who went on from starring
roles on the Duquesne University
Evening star., 1945-12-18

Every s. invested in Series .Es
Victory Bonds viii get you. 81 d
maturity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-03
FUEL SHORTAGE
TO Be SERIOUS
State Administrator Very
Pessimistic Over Out
look Next Winter

I'VE are headed straight for the
worst solid fuel shortage of the
war" State Fuel Administrator Seth
w. barley declared today, urging
Connecticut coal and coke users
to file consumer declarations and
place their orders for next winter s
fuel without delay.
We Day won't solve the prob
lem Mr.. barley said. Coal con-
sumers have got to think and act
now if they expect to keep warm
next winter"
Consumer declarations are slow in
coming in, Mr.. barley said, and
dealers are finding that many of
them are improperly filled out The
declarations are to be signed on
the reverse side, but many consum-
ers have failed to fill this part Of
the form.
The consumer declaration. if filed
by May, Is, Mr. barley emphasized,
assures the consumer delivery Of 80
per cent OF his winters needs by
October l. Without the filing Of
tllS NtCfdI dUlOll, JIlS OSdlST CdIlLlOl
deliver any fuel to a consumer s
home.
Anthracite receipts by dealers in
the last coal year, up to the end
OF March, were 8O.2 per cent Of
total requirements. Production OF
anthracite coal in the first three
months of this year was 1874 per
cent less than last year. The in
dication is plain" Mr.. barley said
that We will not get 30 per cent
Of what we need this year"
There are two things We can
do to meet this situation" he said.
conserve every ounce of coal and
coke, and make use Of any substi-
tute fuels we can get
Goal users should consult their
regular fuel dealers without delay
They may have a chance now to
get 100 per cent of their require
ments by combination of regular
and substitute fuel. But there is
not time to lose as their will only
be half as much substitute fuel
available as there was last year"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-03
MOTHER WITNESSES
SONS ELEVATION
Mrs. Blanche Gesner At
tends Conservation Cere-
monies for Bishop Gesner

Rt. Rev. Conrad H. Gesner,
former Waterburian, became bishop
coadjutor Of the Missionary district
OF South Dakota at conservation
ceremonies conducted yesterday at
the Church of st. John the Evon-
gellst in st. Paul, MINI.
Participating in the exercises were
Rt. Rev. Henry St George Tucker,
presiding bishop of the Protestant
Episcopal church; Rt. Rev. w. Blair
Roberts, bishop Of South Dakota
and Rt. Rev. Stephen E. Keeler,
bishop of Minnesota. The sponsors
were Rt. Rev. Douglas H. Atwill,
bishop of North Dakota, and Rt.
Rev. Frank A. McElwain, retired
bishop of Minnesota.
Bishop Gesned is the son of Mrs.
Blanche Gesner of II Hewlett street
and the late Rev. Anton T. Gesner,
who was rector of All Souls church
in this city for many years. Mrs.
Gesner and the bishops sister, Mrs.
Paul Shepardson, also of II Hewlett
street, attended the ceremonies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-03
LABOR RELATIONS
TO BE DISCUSSED

Rela tionships of labor and man
agement, and the functions of the
two groups will be discussed at a
meeting of the Waterbury Social
Action committee Sunday night al
$50 at the Bunker Hill Congrega-
tional church.
Scheduled to speak are: John
Driscoll, state secretary of the C. I
O., Rev. Paul Dubois of the First
Methodist church in Bristol; and
Attorney Joseph Burns of Hartford
William w. Vosburgh, Jr., will be
moderator.
The forum has been arranged by
committee composed of Henry
Burghoff, John Ensor, Lillian
Loeffler, Gwendolyn Hurton, Clar-
ence j. Bartlett, and Mr.. Vosburgf.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-03
TRAINING SESSION
ON POSTWAR PLANS

A group of industrialists from
the Waterbury area will meet Sat
urday at Wildly High school for a
four hour training session on
preparation of inventory or settle
ment proposal forms and property
disposal. The session will be con-
Quoted by training team from the
Springfield Termination commit
tee, with about 10 war contractors
expected to attend.
Plant clearance procedures and
the preparation on partial pay
ments or interim financing will be
explained. A sample termination
case will be described, and a gen.
eral discussion has been planned.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-03
PAGE EIGHT
BY FREDERICK c. OTHMAN

Washington, May - U.PD -
When President Truman entered
the White House he announced that
he would hold press conferences
only when he had something to say.
He wasn't kidding!
When the gents of the press filed
into his freshly-painted (seafoam
green Office late Wednesday for his
second press conference they found
the President standing behind his
desk in his new spring suit.
1t was gray, with thin red stripes
making plaid. With it he wore a
blue shirt. a white and blue-speck-
led handkerchief and a knitted
necktie striped in blue, black, gray
-yep-and yellow. l don't want you
to get the idea that President Tru-
man looked like Sideshow barker
that red plaid was pale; the yellow
stripes in his tie were narrow.
Fact is, he looked fine. not too
gay, but not too somEer, either. for
a man who had lots of news, most
ly good, to announce.
He stood on his toes to see whe-
Their all 200 correspondents had en-
tered; when he saw they hadn't he
sat down in his new chair, one of
those leather jobs with patent in
sides for posture's sake. He rested
there until he heard the all in" an
nouncement. Then he stood up and
said he had two letters to read. He
said not to bother taking notes, be-
cause he had copies to distribute.
One was the resignation of Post
master General Frank Walker. The
other was Humans reply, couched
in regretful language.
The President took up the rest Of
his news in this order. while the
scribes scribed furiously, wearing
their pencils down to nubbins In
their efforts to keep up:
denomination Of Robert E.
flanagan, the chairman of the
Democratic National committee
(Who is no SLOUGH as a Selector of
neckties, himself to be the Post
master General.
denomination Of David E. Lii
1enthal Ga nice guy once mistook
years ago as a polite Office boy) to
continue as head of the Tennessee
Valley authority.
3.-An executive order appointing
Justice Robert H. Jackson to help
try war criminals.
Here President Truman an
nounced he was ready for ques-
tons: He got 'em.
He answered them all, saying
that he was against modifying the
little steel wage formula; that he
never heard of the supposed
Morgenthau plan to turn Germany
into a group of farms; that he was
considering the possibility of re-
ducing taxes after the war: that
he had ordered a seven or eight
billion dollar cut in federal ex-
penses, and that he anticipated this
would mean reduction in the
number of governments employees.
Then somebody asked him wheth-
er he had any comment on the
death of Mussolini and the report
ed death of Hitler. That brought
on the biggest headline of all
Mr.. Truman said he was happy
they were out of the way.
Does that mean, Mr.. President,
that you know officially Hitler is
dead?" reporter asked.
The President said, yes that was
what he did mean; that he had it
from the best possible authority
that Der Fuehrer was no more. The
reporters, taking no chances on
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-03
RABBI DAVID POLISH
CONFERENCE SPEAKER

Rabbi David Polish will be a
speaker at a conference OF Reform
Congregations of the Connecticut
Valley Sunday at the Taft Hotel in
New Haven. He is director of the
New England region of the Union
of American Hebrew Congregations.
Formation Of a state affiliate of
the union will be discussed at the
session. DR.. Solomon Frehof of
Pittsburgh. president of the Gen.
trail Conference of American Rab-
bis, will be the principal speaker.