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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-07
Victory Ouer Too

Waterbury's Victory Loan drive underway since October 28, went lover the top today with flying col ors, according to estimates received at the War Finance office, James E. Moran chairman. announced this morning.
 Long in the lead among cities in the nation in the final drive to bind the nations wounds, Water bury has exceeded it's E bond quota of $2,4OO,0OO by $14z,72l. Sales of bonds of other denominations, total- ing $1,926,000, against quota o1 $1,766, 100 in a conservative one, MT. Moran said. The six weeks old campaign will end tomorrow.
 It is further believed that the overall city quota of $15,l79,OOO will undoubtedly be exceeded by sev- eral million dollars. G. Horace Baldwin, of the Securities Division with quota of $11,0l3,000 reports sales, according to an estimate of several days ago, are already over the top by several million dollars.
 Waterbury schools have exceeded their quota of $25, 900 by wide mar gin, though final figures are not yet completed, John Gilmartin, chair man has reported
 Towns Over Top
 The towns of Watertown, Middle bury, Prospect and Wolcott have also surpassed E Bond quota by
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Miller and Peck Sold
 To Boston Operators

The Miller & Peck Company, one of the oldest business firms in the city, was today sold to Gorin's of Boston, operators of a group of de- partment and speciality stores in that area. The Massachusetts re- tailers acquired the entire capital stock of the firm, giving them en- tire ownership of the business and real estate, it was reported. Simul- taneously, Willis Tate, manager of the company for many years, an- nounced he will retire from the firm.
 While the purchase price was not disclosed, it was reported that the cash consideration was in the neigh borhood of $600,0O0, believed to be the largest amount of casn that has ever changed hands in a single transaction in connection with the sale of a parcel of real estate and mercantile business in the history of Waterbury.
 Joseph Gorin, the new president of the Miller and Peck Company, stated that his firm was attracted by the possibilities of, the 85-year-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-07
Chnstison
 Attacked

Batavia, Dec. - (UP) - An ap- parent attempt to assassinate Gen. eral Sir Philip Christison, British commander of Allied forces in Java, upon his return from conference in Singapore failed today.
 A hand grenade, believed to have been thrown from roadway, struck hangar at the Kemajoran airfield just as the plane carrying Christi son and his staff touched ground.
 The grenade blasted hole in the hangar door, but failed to damage the plane. There were no casualties.
 Christison returned to find the situation tense at Semarang, where British troops were reported ready for an expected Indonesian Nation- alist attack. Two British cruisers stood in the harbor, ready to support the defenders.
 Royal Airforce Dakota transport planes began evacuation of women and children, many of them stretch CT cases, while Indonsians Shelled the airf1eld at Semarang.
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old retailing business largely be- cause of the sound merchandising policies and high principles under which the firm had been conduct ed for several generations.'
 In Line With Gorin Policy
 MT. Gorin declared the policy of operation of the company is in line with the Gorin methods of doing business and that there will be no change in personnel or any of the we'll established merchandising methods of the company.
 The old-time mercantile firm was established in 1860 by Charles Mill CT and Henry H. Peck, in Baldwin's block, in the heart of the city un- der the firm name of Miller & Peck Stock, on hand at the time of the opening consisted of two cases of prints and three pieces of dress goods. A year later the merchants moved their establishment to the Hotchkiss block, where they remain ed until they took possession of pres
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Church Leaders
 Survey Germany

Frankfurt, Dec. 7-(UP)-Three American Protestant Church lead CTS ended a two-week investigation of religious and social conditions in Germany today and headed for home without comment on the results of their survey.
 The clergymen were G. Bromley OXnam, Methodist bishop of New York and President of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America; Henry Knox Sherrill, Episcopal Bishop of Boston, and pr. Franklin Fry, president of the United Lutheran Church of Ameri- ca.
 During their tour, which covered the principal cities in the Ameri- can occupation zone and included a visit to the Nuremberg trial, the clergymen conferred with Roman Catholic Archbishop Faulhaber of Munich, Lutheran Pastor Martin Niemoeller and other German re- ligiouS leaders.
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Tickets Cut At Stamford
 Unrestricted Entry
 Permitted Officials

Stamford, Dec. 7-tUP)- Heed ing the admonishment of Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin to stop il- legal mass picketing at the strike bound Yale and Towne Manufac- turing Company, and permit unre- stricted entry to the plant, the AFL-IAM reduced its picket line today as IA self-exiled company executives marched out of the fac tory for their first real meal since Monday.
 Gov. Baldwin had told both labor and management to get down to business" and settle the month-old dispute over wages and a closed shop, and threatened use of State Police if the unlawful picketing was not curbed.
 Today, as a driving rain lashed down, only two pickets were at the main gate, and Police Chief John B. Brennan was the only law agent on the premises.
 Cheered On Sidelines
 The IA executives, who had been firing the boilers and making fire inspection patrol emerged at 8 a. m., after a breakfast of bacon
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Chelsea. Mass, Dec. 7-(UP)-- FBI agents prepared today to join in the search for Kidnapped Ronald Carlan if an alleged demand for thousands of dollars" that was telephoned to the infants frantic parents was followed by a ransom letter.
 Police were inclined to attribute the call to a crank, but Arch bishop Richard J: Cushing of Bos- ton volunteered to serve as an inter- mediary and said he would treat with extreme secrecy any contacts with the kidnaper.
 Mrs. James Carlan, mother of the 6-month-old infant, received the demand by. telephone yesterday within two hours after she made a fearful radio plea for the return of the child who was taken from his carriage near his home Nov. 2s. lpesp,t Have Monsx A
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Boston Archbishop Offers Aid ir1 Chelsea Kidnapping

Mrs. Carlan-so distraught she had been able to understand little of the alleged ransom demand-re- ported that a man told her to 'get up !. thousands of dollars"
 T haven't any money" Mrs. Car Ian said.
 wen get in touch with you again tomorrow" the man said and slammed the receiver down.
 Police immediately traced the call to a Boston cafe where a waitress said she overheard part of call made by a tall. swarthy-faced man at the time of the demand She said she heard him loudly discuss the kidnap case with hard look ing" red-haired woman twice yes terday and that the. couple left inn naediateiy after the call
 Pleads Over Radio
 Scarcely had authorities begun thelg iayestigatioR Nk this s3alRl
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sentenced to death by hanging. .
 Maj. Gen. R. B. Reynolds, presi- dent of the commission, announced the verdict after a 12-minute state ment reviewing outstanding points of the case including uncontested evidence that troops under Yama- shita's command Wantonly murdered 60.000 civilians and war prisoners"
 "The atrocity acts seemed planned and Yamashita failed to take precaution against them,' Rey- holds said.
 Addressing the defendant directly, he said:
 According to secret ballot with the written vote of tWo-thirdS or more of the members concurring you are guilty as charged and sen tenced to death by hanging"
 The sentence, pronounced on the fourth anniversary of the Japan ese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, dazed Yamashita. When ordered back to his prison cell under heavy guard, he started walking in the wrong direction. Military police had to turn him around.
 The verdict is subject to review by It. Gen. w. D. Styer, com
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TheoriesVory
 In Blast Probe By 3 Units
Pilot Light Moy
 Have Set Fumes, Investiqotor Soys

A probe, officially launched by three agencies, continued today into yesterdays pre- dawn explosion and fire on Semin- ole avenue which resulted in the death of Mrs. Ethel c. Ringenberg, 63-year old owner of the house, and the hospitalization of her daughter son-in-law and granddaughter.
 MT. and Mrs. Theodore Hansen we're reported in good condition at Waterbury hospital today, and their 23-month-old daughter, Jean, was scheduled for discharge from St. Mary's hospital today. The child had suffered from exposure.
 Mir. Hansen received treatment for seriously lacerated hands and feet and his wife, Ruth, received treatment for a deep laceration of the scalp. The couple also suffered from shock.
 ] Causes Are Varied
 Fire Marshal Dennis J. Lahey stated today the three-way probe was being officially conducted by his office, the Office of the Coroner and the Public Utilities Con1mis- sion.
 Probable causes of the explosion are as varied and numerous as the unofficial" agencies involved in the probe, Lahey said. Lahey added that the investigators of his office con- cluded the explosion was caused by pilot light that ignited the gas- filled home. A break in six-inch gas main about hundred feet from the house allowed escaping gas to enter, the structure through the cellar
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Forecast ShoDs Average Normal

Boston, Dec. 7s-- (UP) - The extended New England weather forecast:
 The temperature during the next five days will average near normal. There will not be much change in the day-to-day temper ature range until Monday or Tuesday when it will be warmer and Wednesday which will be colder.
 . Some normals for the period in- clude Boston and New Haven, Conn.,, 34
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Acceptance  Is Expected
Decision Moy Be
 Influence on JAW Wage Negotiations
BULLETIN

New York, Dec. 7.-UPl -CIO electrical workers in four General Motors plants have unanimously rejected tha firms offer of a $1.08 per day wage increase, the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, CIO, an. nOunced today.
 New York, Dec. 7.-(UP)- The CLOS United Electrical Workers will decide today whether to accept a General Mo- tors offer to raise wages $1.08 a day "a decision that may influence cur- rent wages negotiations between GM and striking United Automo- bile Workers.
 The electrical workers had de- manded a g day wage boost, equivalent to the 30 per cent in- crease asked by the JAW and other CIO unions.
 Neil Brant, JEW international representative, indicated that the GM counter proposal might be ac- ceptable. The offer was turned over last night to locals in Dayton, Yellow Springs and Warren, O., and Rochester and Long Island City, N. Y, for membership vote. The votes were to be tabulated today. Know Offer on Vote Brant said the JAW and United l Steel Workers knew that the offer, made by GM Vice President H. w. Anderson, also company negotiator in the Auto Workers dispute, was being voted upon.
 The offer was made in a letter to the union Anderson said if 1t were accepted the union could re- open negotiations on further wage increases and other contract clauses Feb 28.
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 appeared on a routine training flight.
 The planes joins a fleet of sur face craft, including carriers, de- stroyers and Coast Guard cutters, which were securing the sea off the Florida coast for a sign of the missing bombers and a sixth plane which reportedly crashed during an earlier search.
 The five bombers, carrying IA Navy personnel. were missing since Wednesday. It was the first time in naval air history that whole flight of planes disappeared without trace.
 13 Others Missing
 Thirteen other Navy men were lisued as missing aboard the huge Mariner Patrol bomber which re- portedly crashed in flames into the sea Wednesday night while hunt ing the other planes.
 The rescue planes took off from the naval airStrips here, at Jack sonville and Banana river in close formation relays. They famed out as they zoomed over the coast to cover the widest possible area.
 Some of the aircraft swooped in over the Florida swamps and flat lands on the possibility that the five missing bombers may have been grounded or wrecked, over land.
 Navy officials discounted chances of the planes having landed at other airflelds after developing flight trouble. If that had happened, they said, the home base would have heard from the pilots by now.
 No distress signals were heard from any of the five pilots, the Navy
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British SaDe Trapped Dutch

Batavia, Dec. 7-(UP)-Britisll troops rescued several hundred trapped Dutch civilians from tile center of Bandoeng yesterday after calling up RAF warplanes to blast the Indonesian beSiegers from their path.
 Four British Mosquito bombera sWooped low over the Nationalist strongpoint behind the Homann Hotel and scattered the Indonesians with a barage of rockets and aerial gunfire.
 As soon as the bombers opened up. Indian Gurkha troops swarmed through the Nationalist lines and began evacuating the surrounded civilians, many of whom were said to be on the verge of Starvation.
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Sugar Stamp 39
 Good on Jan. {

Washington, Dec. ' - (UP) = Sugar Stamp No. 39 will be good Jan. l. Sugar stamp 38 will be worthless after Dec. 3l.
 That's the OPA's latest word on sugar, which the Government says will continue to be rationed dur ing large part of 1946. The new stamp will be good through April 30.
 Industrial users will get about the same allotment in the first three months they are getting now OPA said. There will be adjust ments for makers of jams, jellies, fruit buffers and marmalades, but they will average out and there will be no general increase or de- crease.
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.. s. Suffers Landslide Defeat In Nominations Plan for UNO

London, Dec. T. (UP) The United States was defeated by 37 to 3 vote yesterday in its attempt to set up small committee to make all nominations for officials of the United Nations Organization Gen eral Assembly.
 Only Brazil and Canada suppor- ted the United States on the issue in the first roll call vote taken. in the UNO preparatory commission.
 Virtually all the other member nations, especially Russia and the small powers, had denounced the American proposal as. undemocratic and a threat to the nominating power of the little states.
 The decision left the nominating process to the UNO General As sembly itself, with all nations eIn- pogsFea in make 9QMinatlogs fF0p
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Y. C T. Tickets Are Poets. Too

Stamford, Dec. 6-CUP)-Pickets at the Yale & Towne Manufactur- ing Company took up collection today. bought five-pound chunk of Swiss cheese-which they care fully wrapped in be-ribboned box and passed it into the factory to the IA company executives who have isolated Themselves in the plant since Monday.
 An accompanying lyric read:
 Heres cheese for you
 "Wbe are so true
 ITO the principles of MT. Carey President w. Bibson Carey)
 But look out rats,
 For we are the cats.
 And long you cannot tarry."
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COP Choirmon Is Optimistic

Chicago, Dec. T. (UP) = Chair man Herbert Brownell, Jr., of the Republican National Committee said yesterday he was confident that the COP would take control of both Houses of Congress" in next years election.
 Asked about Republican chances in the 1946 off-year election, Brownnell said at press confer ence, T feel confident we will take control of Congress next year."
 "The prospects look very bright"
 Brownwell's statement was made on the eve of two-day meeting of the Republican National Commit tee.
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Investiture Of Rabbi Set
 City Synagogue
 PIons Ceremonies

Rabbi Seymour Gewirtz will be in- stalled as head of Beth Isreai Synagogue at 2:3O o'clock Sunday afternoon in impressive ceremonies at which three guest Rabbis, Reu- len H. Bendelstein of Bayonne, N J., David Polish and William P. Greenfield, both Of this city, will participate.
 Final plans for the installation were completed at 9 special meeting .nf the arrangements committee last night in the vestry rooms of Beth Isreal Synagogue.
 The remode1ed and redecorated interior of the synagogue also will
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-07
Christmas Trade Volume Rises Despite Weeks Rain and SnotO

Boston, Dec 7- (UP) = Heavy Christmas buying kept retail trade at high volums in New England the past week despite rain and snow, Dun and Bradstreet, Inc, re- ported today.
 Christmas trade was especially heavy in lingerie, gloves, handbags, cosmetics and toys. More toys were reported available. Retail shoe dealers reported that only limited shipments are being received from wholesalers and stocks are becoming depleted
 Food volume was monerately lower than ip tAs pEeyiQsa Essk
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General Tells Dec. 7 Details
 Does Not Recoll
 Time He Sow Notes

Washington, Dec. 7-(UP)-Gen. George c. Marshall said today he could not recall exactly what time he saw the final intercepted Jap anese messages before the attack on Pearl Harbor the morning of Dec. v, l94l.
 An Army Investigating board charged that delay on MarShall's part that morning-because he was out horseback riding-waS partly to blame for failure to get an ade- quate warning message to Pearl Harbor.
 Appearing before a Congressional Investigating Committee on this fourth anniversary of the attack, the former chief of staff gave his best recollections of his movements
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P. "A. Branch .WorkersQ Quit
 In nWoterbury
Join Thomoston Men in Protest To PIont Order

Employees of the Waterbury branch of the Plume and Atwood Company today joined workers of the Thomaston division by walking out from their jobs in protest to 8 company order on operation of a particular machine in Thomas ton and the subsequent discharge of the Thomaston operator who objected.
 Ovide Garceau, CIO international representative, reported 100 per cent shutdown at 10 o'clock this morning at the Waterbury plant, where about PTS workers are en- ployed. About 300 Thomaston work CTS have been on strike since Tues day.
 Workers To Stay Away
 Although the strikes have not been authorized by the union, the workers have indicated they will stay away from their jobs as long as the dispute on arbitration of the grievance remains, Garceau
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Anniversary of Infamous Attack Marked
The blow came

Dec. T, 1941. The
 surprise was complete. Torpedo bombers led the assault, followed by waves of dive
 and horizontal bombers. Eighty six American naval craft were caught like sitting ducks" in Pearl Harbor.
 The U. s. s. Arizona, right, was hit quickly and
 she went to the bottom. The West Virginia, left, and
 the Tennessee, center, were dam
 aged. Sixteen
 other U. s. war ships were sunk or put out of action. Air installations were assaulted at
 virtually the
 same. instant as
 the U. s. naval craft. Few Amer ican planes got into the air. Scores were destroyed or rendered useless as they sat wing to wing. Hangars were bombed and set ablaze. Scenes like that shown
 made at Pearl Harbor Naval Air Station soon after the attack ended,
 were typical.
 American air
 power in the
 Pacific was crip- pled for months.
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and was about equal to the lD44 mark. Retail volume in all classes tor New England was estimated at from 3 to per cent above the l8f4 week.
 Wholesalers reported an increased volume of from 4 to per cent above the previous week and from 5 to 10 per cent above the l841 week. Manufacturing activity e0i14 tinued to be hampered by r6u lnN4 serial and skilled labor shortaees
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Play Safe!

Annually hundreds of Wa terbury residents are injured as result of careless accidents. Annually, thousands of Amer ican civilians are killed by such accidents. Because this rate is tragically on the in- crease a nation wide safe ty-education" campaign is under way. In Waterbury a Safety Council has been formed to assist local residents in becoming safety conscious A comprehensive program soon will be introduced to Water- bury along such lines. Read to- morrow's Waterbury Democrat, for the first account of such a plan.
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be dedicated simultaneously. Several other prominent rabbis are on the speakers list for the afternoon ses- sion including Rabbi Isaac Seigal, Jersey City. N. J., Rabbi A. Hanach Liebiwitz, dean of Yeshivah Chofetz Chaim in Brooklyn, N. Y.,. Rabbi Joseph Rosen, Passaic, N. J., Rabbi Leib Forer. Holyoke, Mass, Rabbi Bezalel Cohen, Patterson, N. J., and Rabbi Samuel Levenberg, New Haven, have indicated their in- tentions to take part in the days celebration.
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Admits Justice
Yan1ashiita to Hang For War Atrocities

Manila, Dec 27-( UP)-Gen. Tomoyuk Yamashta, first top flight Japaese criminal to be tried convicted by five-man -U. s. Military Commission today and
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JEW Rejects GM $l.O8 Raise Offer
Bulletins
BIG FIVE TO MEET SOON

BIG FIVE TO MEET SOON
 Washington, Dec. 7.-(UP)-The Big Five" foreign ministers plan to meet before long in Moscow to resume consideration of problems left unsettled by the prOduc tive meeting London earlier this fa reported today
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Mysterious
 
Mysterious
 Search Continues
 For Lost Bombers

Miami Fla, Dec. .--(UP)-Two hundred forty-two Navy planes roared over Atlantic dawn today search of five Navy torpedo bombers which mysteriousy dis
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JAP TRIAL OPENS IN JANUARY

Tokyo Dec. 7-(UP)-Trial of 363 suspected Japanese criminals including former Premier Hdeki TOjO vii begin next month, it disclosed today.
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CUSTOMER KILLR SENTENCED
 Springfield Mass, Dec. 7-(UP)-James Demas, 26 Springfield restaurant cOunterman sentenced t six to years in state prison today for killing customer who demanded service.
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The Weather
Light Rain

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