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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-17
Allied Heads To Decide
 War Criminals Penalty

an inter Allied court be established to try Hitler, Mussolini and other international culpritS.
 Eden said there had been "a good deal of misunderstanding" regard ing the war crimes commission. Its purpose he said, was to investigate all cases referred to 1t by any of the Allied governments of atrocities committed by, or by the order of. nationals of any country at war against the United Nations, par ticularly atrocities organized and committed in accordance with a de- liberate policy.
 Emanuel Shinwen interposed a question as to whether an attempt was being made to whitewash Hitler publicly, but Eden declined to an- swer on the technical grounds that the question was on the order pa per for later reply.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-17

London. Jan. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden said today that the punishment to be meted out to Adolf Hitler, Benito Musso- lini and other major war criminals whose oftenseS were not confined to a particular geographical area would be decided jointly by the Al lied governments.
 He denied. that fundamental dit- ferences" existed between the Allied war crimes commission and the British government and said the Allied governments had made known their stand on the pinish' ment of the chief war criminals in a statement issued following the foreign ministers conference in Moscow Nov. l, 1943
 Reliable soudces have said that Britain has refused to endorse the commissions recommendation that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-17
Bridges Asks Group Merger
BY CHARLES B. DEGGES

Washington, Jan. 17-(UP)-Sen. Styles Bridges, R., N. H., will propose to the joint committee on stream. lining Congress, he said today, that the Senate's 33 standing committees be reduced to 12, and that their staffS be merged to give the re- grouped committees adequate help
 His proposal came as the national plsnning association sent to each member of the Senate and House a 14-point program for strengthening Congress" which has been endorsed by business, agriculture and labor leaders
 Prominent among the planning associations proposals were:
 Elimination of the filibuster, in- creased political party responsibil- ity through policy committees in both Houses, $25,000 salaries for members instead of the present $10,000, and fewer committees.
 Forming his committee plan "the first ABC proposal in which the language is spelled out" Bridges took into account both the NPA rec concentrations and mobilization Di- rector James F. Byrnes' suggestion that there be fewer committees in the interest of efficiency.
 Bridges said he would recommend that the present Senate naval af- fairs and military affairs commit tees be merged into new national defense committee.
 Among other considerations he proposed putting irrigation and re- clamation, and public lands and sur- veys under an enlarged agriculture and forestry committee. Under ap-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-17
RUSSIANS CAPTURE WARSAW
 Tanks Cross LuZ0n Flats Toward 7arIaC
Z 2S|XTK ARMY TROOPS MERGE
 NEAR PAN|QU|.
BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON

D1 WILLIAM D. DIChINSON
 General MacArthur's Head quarters, Luzon, January IT. -UP)-Two strong Sixth Army columns have merged near Paniqui, 36 miles in- land, and are sweeping south across the Luzon plains to. ward Tarlac and Manila virt- ually unopposed, a front dis patch said today.
 Tarlac, a provincial capital and strategic communica- tions hub only 12 miles south of Paniqui, was eX- pected to fall without a fight and speculation was growing that the Japanese might not even attempt a strong de- fense of Manila, 65 miles farther south.
 H. D. Quigg, United Press War Correspondent with forces on the Luzon plain, said the two columns joined forces near Paniqui after ad- vancing respectively from Moncada, four and one-half miles to the north, and Camiling, II miles to the west-northWeSt.
 Few Bridges
 Lack of bridges was causing more difficulty than enemy opposition in the frontal advance on Tarlac, Quigg said He said the Americans may use the roadbed of the narrow Bauge railway running from Mon- cada as the roaabed for 8 new highway to Manila.
 Five highways merge at Tarlac and its capture would put the Amer jeans only 20 miles from the great Clark field air center and almost half, way from the Lingayen Gulf of Manila bay.
 Though there was no sign of Jap anese preparations for stand north of Manila, the enemy was of- fering stiff resistance and even att tempted futile tank counter-at- tack at the northeastern corner of the bridgehead.
 Frances Mccarthy, United Press war correspondent in the north eastern sector, said enemy resist ance was stiffening steadily in the area and there appeared little doubt that the Japanese would make
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-17
James 8. Mellon Killed
 M Action Ouer Germany

Staff Sgt. Jamse B. Mellon, son of MT. and Mrs. James Mellon, Sr., Taylor street, was reported killed ill action, according to telegram received by his wife, the former Theresa Wersig, Riverside Drive, Naugatuck, last night.
 The airlnan was previously re- ported missing in action in a flight over Germany since September 28.
 Before entering the service on January 27, l943, he worked in the office of Swift & Go. He is n grad uate of Wilby High school and worked for the circulation depart ment of the Waterbury Democrat while going to school.
 Beside his wife and parents he is survived by 20-month-old son. Richard, and brother, Robert, also in the service.
 Before he was assigned to over- seAs duty he was stationed at a gunnery school in Miami Beach, Florida, at Las Vegas, Nevada. for advanced instruction in aeroplane gunnery, and at the Army Air field at Amarillo. Texas.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-17
Temporary Leave ToLiferO Okayed

Thomaston, Me, Jan. l7-(UP)- Sentenced to life imprisonment for murder in 1900, George Champion, 82, will leave the institution for the firstt ime January g to under go an eye operation, it was dis closed today.
 Officials said that cataracts on his eyes had rendered him almost totally blind, necessitating the oper- ation that will be performed at the Ihayer hospital in Waterville.
 Champion will travel the 50 mile route to the hospital by automobile and will be maintained in a priv ate room under 24-hour guard dur ing his 10-day stay.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-17
Indian Troops Toke 10 Nozi Prisoners

Rome, Jan. 17-(UP)-Indian troops, fighting their way out of an ambush at the west flank of the Eighth Army, killed 10 Germans and captured 10 more in the days big gest action on the Italian front, headquarters said today.
 A communique reported active patrolling on both the Eighth and Fifth Army fronts despite poor visi- bility.
 An American patrol of the Fifth Army probed enemy positinos di- rectly south of Bologna but was forced to fall back under intense enemy fire.
 Bad weather curtailed air opera tions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-17
NAz| DEFENSE CRACKSUNDER
 DRIVE IMP ACT
BY BRUCE w. MUNN

London, January IT. = (UP) - The Red Army cap- tured Warsaw today in it9 greatest triumph of a six day winter offensive sweep ing across Poland and rapid ly undermining the German positions along a 600-mile battlefront.
 Marshal Stalin proclaimed the capture of Warsaw in a Special Order of the Day which revealed that the first White Russian Army had forced the Vistula north of the capital and clamped it in a pincers.
 The announcement of WarSaw's liberation came as 8 flood of nerv- ous Nazi broadcaStS reported that the Russians had plunged within IS miles of the Silesian frontier at Czestochowa, had shattered the Na- rev river line of German defense northeast of Warsaw, and were rac- ing at top speed across central Pos land
 The entire German defense sys" tenn in Poland appeared to have collapsed under the weight of prob. ably the mightiest single land of fensive of the entire war, and Stockholm relayed Berlin hints that the NaZis had written off all of Po- land.
 Stalin, announcing the capture of Warsaw on the sixth day of the winter campaign, ordered Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's victors saluted with 24 salvos of MoScow's 3A v1c- tory guns.
 zhukov, StalinS deputy in the So- viet supreme command, set up War; saw for a three-way assault by Q double flanking maneuver. Swing ing up behind the capital from a great bridgehead south of it, the Russians captured zyradow, % miles southwest of Warsaw, and cut the roads running west from the city
 Then the White Russian Army Stormed across the Vistula north of Warsaw and wheeled down to close the jaws of the pincers and isolate the city.
 StorIning in from three directions and avoiding 8 dangerous crossing of the broad Vistula from the long, held Praga suburb, the Russians "by combined blows from the north, west and south captured the capital of our ally, Poland, the City of Ware saw, the most strategic center of
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-17
Mexico Talks Facing Delay
By R. H. SHACKFORD

Washington, Jan. 17.-UP)-The possibility of Secretary of State Ed ward R. Stettinius, Jr., attending both the big three conference and the inter-American meeting in Mexico City increased today with reports that the Mexico session may be postponed week or more.
 If he does accompany President Roosevelt to meet Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Josef Stalin, 1t will be the first time that the President has taken Sec retary of State to one of his war parleys.
 StettiniuS' predecessor. Cordell Hull, did not attend any of the Roosevelt-Churchill meetings abroad or the Cairo and Teheran confer- ences He did participate in some of the discussions during Churchill's three trips to Washington and, just prior to Teheran, went to Moscow to confer with British Foreign Min ister Anthony Eden and Soviet Com missar V. M. Molotov.
 Informed sources said that the American governments-except for Argentina and Fl Salvador - were now considering postponing the Mexico meeting from Feb. IS to
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-17
HARD FIGHTING STILL EVIDENT
 IN H0UFFAL|zE
BY BOYD D. LEWIS

Paris, January 17.-UP) - Allied troops hammered the Ardennes salient down into a narrow pocket on the rim of the Siegfried Line to- day and swung over to the attack on either flank with two offensive thrusts that staggered the Germans in Alsace and the Netherlands.
 Hard fighting still ragged in the Houffalize area where a few German Panzer units were struggling to escape envelopment by the Ameri- can First and Third Armies, but the focal point of the Ardennes battle had shifted eastward to the St. With area and late dispatches said the Nazis were being squeezed inexorably back across their own frontier.
 The remnants of Marshal Kar! yon Rundstedt'S three attacking armies were compressed into thin band of Belgian and Luxembourg soil extending down about 50 miles along its eastern base from Mon- schau to the Echternach area and measuring about 12 miles at its wid- est point.
 Nazis Forced Back
 An Allied headquarters com- munique reported that the Germans were being forced back all along the Ardennes front, giving ground fairly rapidly on the southern and western Hanks and fighting back furiously against three American First Army divisions driving in from the northwest on their last strong point at St. With.
 Fifty miles to the north, tank led British Second Army troops lash ed out against the German salient west of the Roer river in a sur prise attack that official spokeS- men said was making good progress against only moderate. resistance.
 The Tommies showed off from the Sittard area early yesterday jn what appeared to be limited offensive aimed at eliminating the Roer bridgehead as a possible spring board for another NaN counter drive.
 There was no immediate informa- ton on the scale of the British at- tack which at last reports wa: pounding steadily ahead into tri- angular salient roughly IS miles at its base on the Roer IS miles on each side, bounded by Sittard in the west, Roermond in the north and Geilenkirchen in the south.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-17
/ Priestly Character
 OF Bishop Extoued

Manchester, N. H., Jan. 17-(UP) In traditionally impressive cere- monies, the Most Rev. Matthew F Brady, native of Waterbury Conn, former Bishop of Burlington Vt., today was enthroned in the Gothic cathedral of St. Joseph as fifth Catholic Bishop of Manchester.
 Before 12 archbishops and bish- ops, one abbott, monsigniori, priests and laity, the new prelate was in- stalled by Archbishop Richard J. Cushing of Boston who wore the cappa magma indicative of his jur- iSdiction over the ecclesiastical province of New England.
 After the reading of the apostolic mandate announcing the legitimacy of Bishop Bradys accession, Arch bishop Cushing led him by the hand to the episcopal chair on the gospel side of the sanctuary. Bishop Brady, then celebrated his first pontifical Mass as head of the Manchester See and spiritual leader of more than 170,00O Catholics. The See of Man chester has been vacant since the death of Bishop John B. Peterson last March 15.
 At the gospel of the Mass, the most Rev. Francis Patrick Keough, bishop of Providence, R. l., preached the installation sermon. enumerating the Christian glories of the diocese and paying tribute to the priestly character of it's fifth bishop. Bishop Keough performed the same function at the recent in- stallation of Archbishop Gushing and also preached at the consecra- tion of Bishop Brady in Burlington seven years ago.
 Among the other prelates partici- pating in the colorful rites were
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-17
Dime Novel Creator Succumbs In Sleep

Vista, Cal. Jan. 17.-UP) )-Fu- neral services will be held tomor- row for Gilbert Patten. IT. crea- tor of the dime novel hero, Frank Merriwell.
 Patten died ill his sleep att he home of his son, Harvan Barr Pat ten, yesterday. The younger Pat- ten sald' his father appeared in good health when he retired the previ- ous evening.
 Writing under the name of Burt :. Standish, Patten began his Mer- riwell stories in 1896 and continued shem for IT years, piling up more 6aan 25,00O, ,00O words describing his bsro's dramatic and always manly" seeds.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-17

Dyersburg, Tenn, Jan. 17-(UP) Ten victims of a B-17 flying for tress crash near Halls, Tenn, yes- terday were identified today by army officers at Dyersburg air field where the plane was based,
 The dead included:
 Cpl. Robert F. Therrien, Bristol, Conn
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-17
DIR. FLANDERS DIES

Dover, N. H., Jan. IT - (U.P) - Dr. Louis w. Flanders, 30, Dover physician who retired in l943 after practicing 40 years, died here last night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-17

iop salaries. BOOkkeepers. stenOg- rlPhers, typlstS. Day &Night school. Post Jr. College of Commerce.
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The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-15
Eleven Army
Divisions Now
DeActivated

WASHINGTON up The War
Department has announced that 10
o. the 80 Army Divisions of World
War II had been deactivated by
Oct. 81 and that more than a dozen
Others would be deactivated lin the
near future"
The divisions already activated,
the Department said, are:
Infantry - 63rd or Blood and
Fire" division; 65th Battle AK"
division; Fighting 69th" division;
10th "Trailblazer" division; 10th
"Onaway" division; 85th Custer"
division; 9th Acorn" division;
95th Victory or o. K" division;
99th "Checkerboard" division; 103rd
Cactus division; 1O6th Golden
Lion" division.
Armored-6th Super Sixth" div
ision; 7th Lucky Seventh" divi-
sion; 9th Phantom" division;
10th Tiger" division; 18th "Thun-
derbolt" division; 14th division;
10Th division.
Airborne-17th division.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-15
SERVICE PARADE

Calf, in a SuperfortreSS with 10
other nigh point veterans who are
being returned TO the states for ro-
tation, reasSignment and discharge.
The Bog was one of the los air
craft of Colonel Carl r. Stories
314th Wing which will bring home
some 1000 officers and enlisted
men Low-point men of the wing
will remain on Guam to police the
Pacific.
1t. Colley has compiled a log OF
1000 flying hours, 500 of them in
combat. The toughest mission, ac-
cording to the lieutenant, was the
raid on Saeki. Fighter opposition
was heavy and the bomb crews
were also troubled by a tropical
storm, with the Bog struck by
lightning.
With his plane badly shot up and
damaged by enemy fighter craft
and the storm, Colley crash-landed
al Saipan.
He mas been awarded the air
medal with one oak leaf cluster,
Asiatic- Pacific theatre ribbon with
one battle star Colley, who has GA
points under the army's readjuSt-
ment point system, is the son of
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-15
Civilians Again; Down River
Servicemen Receive Discharge

Fourteen Down River Servicemen
are civilians again following their
discharge this week under the
point system.
After 50 months service with the
AAF, Sgt. Paul r. frost, GLIB High
land. received his release at the
Mcclellan Field, Calf, Army sep
aration point. His last duty station
was Douglas Army Air Field, Ariz.,
where he was assigned as an air.
plane mechanic for one year prior
to his discharge. Previous to en-
tering the armed forces he was
employed at Great Lakes Steel. He
is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Orville
frost of the same address.
The following men were included
among Naval personnel discharged
at the Great Lake, Ill, separation
center:
William II. Abate. Cox (T), 274
W. Jefferson, Trenton; John E.
Bagley, MING &c. CT). 2O73 Fourth
street; Frederick Brown, Ems, 1858
Sycamore street; Edward v. Bush,
SSM G), $50 Goddard road; Ru-
6olph B. Debolt, BKR SC CT,
15245 Allen road: Peter Galloway
NJ &c CD, $50 Lindbergh; E. F.
Grail. Jr., NM &c CD, $50 Lind
bergh; Walter j. Kur. PRIV &c,
1885 Fourteenth street: Eugene E.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-15
$4,000 Vets to
Return This Week

SAN FRANCISCO - WP) - The
Navy announced Monday that So
ships with a capacity of $4,000 are
scheduled to arrive at five west
coast ports this week with returning
veterans of the Pacific war.
Eleven ships were due then, with
a total Of 6,4O2 passengers.
The navy announcement said
there are 144 vessels with a capa-
city of 100000 loading in the Pa
cific or Ell route east OF those due
or the Pacific coast between Nov
ii and Nov. II, % were scheduled
to dock at San Francisco, including
Il from Okinawa and Japan, three
from the Philippines. II from the
Marianas. three from Hawaii, one
from other Pacific areas.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-15
ParatrOOper Returns Home

Among recent Wyandotte dis
charges is Harold Scott, son of
Mrs. Yvonne Soucie, $50 Cherry,
who was mustered out of the para
trooper medical infantry Novem-
Der at FIT. Bragg, N. G.
He served eight months with the
18th airborne division in France,
Holland, and Germany and wears
the ETO ribbon with two battle
stars representing northern France
and the Rhineland, the American
theater ribbon, and the good con-
duct medal
A former private first class, Scott
plans to return to his work at the
Ford Rouge plant. He was in uni
form nearly three years.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-15

saw action in the Saipan and Oki-
naWa campaigns.
A member of the los Infantry
Regiments Cannon Company, the
sergeant is now in Japan with the
9th Division as part of the ecu
patton forces. He flew TO HOnshu
from Okmawa shortly after hostIl-
tiles ceased.
Sgt. Wiedman was a chemical
operator with the Monsanto Chem
iCal company before entering "he
armed forces on Sept. 30, 1912.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-15
Wiedman Promoted

John Wiedman, %, husband OF
Mrs. Ann Wiedman, 1906 Chest
nut street. has just been promoted
from Technician Fifth Grade TO
Sergeant. it was announced recent
IL at the 9th Infantry Division
Headquarters in Japan. A three
year Army veteran, Sgt. Wiedman
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-15

First Lieutenant James R. Col
ley. B-29 pilot with 10 missions
over the Japanese mainland, re-
turned to the United States this
week after spending a tour of seven
months with the goth Air Forces
3l4th Bombardment Wing on
Guam.
1t. Colley landed at Mather Field,
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-15

Labadie, Lit. C.g), "a E. ST. John
street; Howard L. Murphy. 1t.
G.gD, 332 Goddard road; William
T. Orr. 1t, 2061 Nineteenth; JUL
ian Rodriguez, Cox CD, 34l6 Fourth
street, Trenton; Lawrence L. Stro-
ble,. 1t, 21311 Northline.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-15

BAY CITY = UD = The Disabled
Veterans of America will hold a
statewide convention here Dec.
to 9.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-15
DedCtirdte Sixth
Army IN January

TOKYO U.P - The u. S. Sixth
army, which was scheduled to lead
the invasion Of the Japanese main
land, will be deactivated next jan
uary, 1t was revealed today.
More than $4,000 officers and
men Of the Sixth already have en-
barked Tor the United States. They
began leaving Japan Oct. 26
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-15

Noah Colley of Wyandotte and
the husband OF the former Mary
Il. Carson who lives at Pennington.
Milford chronicle., 1945-11-23
NEED FOR CLOTHING
IN FL ROPE CONFINES

The need for clothing and bed
ding in Europe continues. Milford
folks have sent large quantities of
clothing in the past few years. but
the need is still great European
Industry is SLOW to recover from
the war. In some countries only
l3'C OF industry is operating. and
that is al a low point of efficiency.
The World Council of Churches.
with headquarters in Geneva, is
constantly gathering information
about conditions in the Overrun
countries. and il is sending appeal
after appeal TO the Christians of
America. The UNRRA provides
food relief but clothing and bed
ding have To be- supplied by pri-
Vate agencies
BRING this matter to the atten-
ton of your church, society or club.
Clothing of all kinds and bedding
are needed. See to il that the ar
tlcleS are in wearable condition.
Send them by freight or express
to the United Service Center, New
Windsor Maryland. They will be
sorted. packed, and shipped by the
Church Committee on Overseas Re-
lief and RcconStructiOn. an inter-
denOminational body. Clothes may
be shipped at any time. as no dead
line has been set Make your
church. school. or club room a col
lection center.
Milford chronicle., 1945-11-23

TIE POPULAR HOLD Of Shinto is one
Of the most important and battling obstacles
to our present efforts to encourage the growth
Of democracy in Japan. There is little evil
dence as yet that its basic concept OF en-
peror worship has been in any way weaken
cd by IIirohitoS acceptance of Allied terms
Of surrender or that the idea of Japan's di
vine mission to conquer the world has been
wholly abandoned. The japanese milltarists
have been repudated, but not the philosophy
which was the basis Of their power.
We should draw clear distinction be-
tween the three overlapping aspects OF Shin
TO- The popular form is d composite OF folk
beliefs and practices which still includes tree
Worship, Worship of mountain and forest
gods, and the cult Of lnari, the fox god. Sec
tartan Shnto is described as a genuine reig-
lOus force, still containing many primitive
and superstitouS beliefs, but with potential
values Of enlightenment. 1t has some 17,00O,-
600 adherents who are divided into thirteen
sects and have enjoyed, together with Budd-