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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-11
DictotorioI
 PoWerGiven Jap Premier
(NEA Telephoto)

San Francisco, June 11-CUP)- The Japanese house of representa- tives passed g wartime emergency bill Monday night CTokyo tine) which granted virtual dictatorial power to Premier Admiral Baron Kantaro Suzuki and surrendered most of the Diets powers.
 The bill now goes to the house of beers for final action.
 Tokyo radio. recorded by United Press at San Francisco, said it was believed the upper house would ap- prove the bill in the same form it was passed by the lower house.
 After considerable debate in the house of representatives, article four of the bill was revised to pro- vide that the government should advise the diets wartime emer- gency committee of any ebergency acts it has decreed
 Article four now reads:
 "The government shall confer with the wartime emergency meas ures committee before taking inn portant steps, and if the govern ment should omit this procedure when circumstances shall require it's action. it shall report to the said committee afterwards.
 The revision apparently was a face-saving gesture for the diet. In effect, it meant that the govern ment was expected merely to in form the diet committee of any emergency action it planned to take or actually had taken.
 But to all intents, the bill in its present form presumably abolished the diet as a war policy-making or ganization.
 Makeup of the diets wartime Emergency Measures committee" has not yet been announced, al- though last week Tokyo said it probably would consist of twenty to thirty" legislators. C
 An unexpected hitch occurred in the course of the afternoon Ses- sion when representatives held up the whole committee proceedings by making unduly lengthy remarks on certain words uttered by Pre- mier Suzuki in his reply to an in terpellation," Domei news agency reported.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-11
Tenth Army Captures 2 Towns, 4 Hills In Big Push On Japs' Defense
BY WILLIAM F. THREE

Guam, June 11.-(UP)- The 10th army, smashing southward in a final big push, captured at least two towns and four hills in the outer works of the last Jap anese defense line on Oki- nawa today.
 A front dispatch revealed that one army battalion also won precarious foothold on the rim of jagged Yaeju-Dake escarpment, backbone of the defense line, Saturday and held it against six separate counter-attacks.
 Three Army and Marine divi- sions were crawling, shooting and burning their way uphill toward the crest of the escarpment and Kun4sai ridge, it's western extension, against point-blank enemy fire.
 The last ragged remnants of the Japanese garrison of Okinawa, once 8O,00O strong, were trapped on the ridge and escarpment at the south ern tip of the island with their backs to the sea.
 Pocket EncircIed
 To the northwest, two regiments of another marine division linked up on the East China sea coast and completed the encirclement of an isolated enemy pocket just below the Oroku Peninsula
 The junction squeezed the enemy pocket to three and half square miles and gave the Americans full control of the coast from ANalla south to Itoman, Japanese defense anchor town captured yesterday.
 Though the bloody ground battle of Okinawa fast was nearing an end, the Japanese continued to throw suicide planes against the American fleet off the island. One light war3hip was sunk Sunday, Pacific Fleet Headquarters an- nounced.
 The loss brought the toll of Am- erican ships sunk or damaged in the battle of Okinawa or associate ed operations to 78, mostly light units. Never before has the U. s.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-11
Propaganda Costs High For British
BY CHARLOTTE G. MOULTON

Washington, June 11.-UP)- Foreign information bureaus" spent nearly five and half million dollars to propagandize the United States in 1944, with Britain topping the list, Atty. General Francis Riddle re- vealed today.
 Britain spent two and half times as much as any of the Is nations maintaining official information ser- vices here. Next came Poland (the London group, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.
 The Soviet Union, Riddle said. does not maintain an official bureau in this country but conducts parallel activities by other means in large part not subject ito the foreign agents registration act Riddle issued 560 page report to congress on the justice departments l-2 year ad- ministration of that act, which re- quires persons representing foreign governments, groups or individuals to file statements revealing thelr identity, connections and the nature of their activities.
 During the 3O-month period cov- cred by the report sos statements were filed at the Department by 227 organizations and 28l individuals. Riddle estimated 12,OO0 items of pro- paganda were filed annually in 26 languages.
 Violations are punishable by a $1O0O0 fine, five years imprison- ment or both, and Riddle said the government had obtained 81 con- victions up to the end of last year. Three others involving ex-King Carol of Romania were obtained in January.
 Two of the more famous break CTS of this law were Laura Ingalls,, who failed to register and was found to be in the pay of the Ger man embassy, and George Sylvester Viereck, who failed to disclose that one of his principals was the Ger man foreign office.
 The attorney general said that most foreign governments were giv- ing over their propaganda work here to official information bu- reaus." Tn 1942 such agencies spent S2,873,0OO. In 1944 this was hiked to s5 ,368, 900.
 The British Information Service
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-11
War MoyLost
 2 Years Says Vinegar Joe
By EDWARD L. THOMAS

Tenth Army Headquarters, Oki- nawa, June - (U.P0 - General Joseph w. (Vinegar Joel Stilwell, chief of army ground forces, said today that the war in the Pacific well may last another two years.
 Even after Tokyo and the main home island of Honshu fall, he said, Tt is quite possible that we will have to fight the Japs in Man churia."
 If that happens" he said, "the war could easily last as long as two years in the provinces north of the Yellow river"
 StilWeu told neWsmen at press conference that the United States would need an army of at least 500,- 900 men to invade Japan.
 T think we would be foolish to start to invade Japan with anything less he said. You know when you. have to attack an enemy you're not exactly sure about, you want to take along the full load.
 He criticized what he called widespread feeling in the United States that the war with Japan would be 'pushover."
 "A lot of people think the B-29s will take care of Japan, that Japan will give up, that the voice of the Japanese people will be heard, and such slop as that" he said.
 T believe the defeat of Japan will require ground action in addition to anything done by heavy bombers. I don't see any reason to expect the Japs to rack. I can't see why when they are so tenacious individually that We can expect crack in mo- rale in the mass.
 T have to keep of that subject by order he said.
 He said the OkinaWa campaign has been "helluva tough fight It reminded him of the terrain in France in both world wars, he said, but I don't believe the Germans showed the tenacity in defending it that the Japs have
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-11

With negligible" casualties in the first phase of the invasion, the Australians captured Labuan town and air field, and on the mainland moved 4,00o yards from Brooketon toward Brunei town.
 A powerful air-sea bombardment leVeled the Japanese beach de- lenses on Borneo. strategic island rich in oil, rubber, coal, lumber, Iron and other resources. It lies 300 miles north of Singapore and 500 miles east of the shores of Indo- China
 Aided By Warships
 The landing Sunday morning was supported by warships of the U. s. Seventh Fleet and the Royal Aus tralian Navy, together with bomb- CTS and fighters of the U. S. 18th and Australian Air Forces.
 The invasion followed the seizure of Tarakan, c1 the opposite side of Borneo. It caught the Japanese of guard and unprepared to offer any effective resistance.
 Macarthur and Gen. George C. Kenney, his air commander, went ashore with the assault waves on LaBuan island
 The seizure of Brunei Bay gave the Allies keystone naval base for further operations. It's 500 square miles of sheltered water will accom- modate countless ships of any size.
 The establishment of air and naval facilities at Brunei Bay. sup plementing those in the Philippines, will complete a chain of mutually supporting startegic bases, 1900 miles long from which air and naval forces will be within effective range
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-11
Bridges Case Before Court
(BY LYLE c. WILSON

Washington, June II. - (UP) - The case of Harry R. Bridges is a five-year legal tangle which the Supreme Court may unsnarl today by deciding whether the West Coast labor leader is a communist, as charged.
 The court also will be deciding whether Communists are just mem bers of another political organiza- tion or whether they advocate re- bellion against the United States. The case against Bridges, an Aus tralian is for his deportation as an alien Communist.
 The high tribunal, which has al- ready delayed its customary sum- mer recess two weeks due to a large number of undecided cases, is expected to announce another delay today. Still on the docket are 32 cases. including the gov- ernment's antitrust suit against the Associated Press, labor suits testing regulatory laws of Alabama and Florida and the Bridges case.
 HTlOr to 1cluldlly lAFooASAl VI the Soviet Union in June ,l94l, Bridges was factor in some of the West Coasts most spectacular labor disputes. He is president Of the Longshoremen's and Ware housemen's Union (CIO). The de- portation case against him began in 1899.
 James M. Landis. an original member of the 1882 Roosevelt brain trust and later dean of the Har- yard Law School, conducted an in- ouiry into Bridges political beliefs. After II weeks Landis reported in 1889 that Bridges was not a com- munist and therefore not subject to deportation.
 On May 2S, 1s42, Attorney Gen. ef. Francis Riddle overruled the appeals board. Riddle ordered Bridges deportation on grounds that he had belonged to the Com munist Party since coming to the United States in 1920.
 Riddle ruled in ordering the de- portation that the Communist party from the time of its incep- tion in 1939 to the present time is an organization that believes in. ad- yises. advocates and teaches the
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Big 5 Stays Pot On Veto
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By R H. SHACKFORD

San Francisco, June l1-(U.P)- The Big Five powers refused to re- treat by as mI':h as word or com- ma from their stand on the veto issue today despite barrage of or atorical opposition from the little nations at the world secruity con- ference.
 Under the generalship of fiery Australian Foreign Minister Herbert V. Evatt, the little nations prepared for a final do-or-die assault on the veto at late afternoon meeting of the conference committee on voting procedure.
 The Big Five remained confident that when the speech-making and argument was over, the Yalta vot- ing formula and their interpretation of it will be accepted by the com- mittee and eventually by the con- ference.
 There was hope among the major powers that the weekend recess in conference activities might give the veto opponents an opportunity to cool of after last Saturday nights hectic session. But Evatt didn't rest. ell was busy all day Sunday con- tacting other delegations in an ef- fort to win their support and map new strategy. He also served notice that he had a lot more to say per- sonally about his objections to the veto.
 The conference, weanwhile, moved rapidly forward with other phases of its charter making task. The gen. eral assembly commission scheduled morning meeting to act on the re- port of its committe on economic and social cooperation. Oficials hoped to get all four commissions down to work this week in order to wind up the conference by the mid- dle or latter part of next week.
 Aside from the veto question, there remained a little better than
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-11
ToyIor May Visit
 Paris and London

Rome, June Il - (U.Po - My ron c. Taylor, presidential envoy to the Vatican, will leave for the Uni- ted Sta.s, tomorrow by way of Paris ar; London.
 Pope Plus XII granted Taylor g uriyate audlerce today. Taylor m- frodued to the Pontiff eight mem- bers ofg Senate committee which arrived yesterday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-11
Final 0kinawa Offensive Underway Australians Land On Borneo Mainland
Strategic Brunei Bay On Northwest
 Coast Taken Over

Manila, June H. (UP) Allied headquarters an- nounced today that Australian forces had invaded Borneo sezed control of strategic Brunei Bay on the northwest coast and thrust than two miles inland toward Brunei capital of the sultanate of the same name
 Led by Gen. Douglas MacArthur troops of the Austra- nan Ninth Division landed against scattered opposition Labuan Island at the entrance to Brunei Bay Muara Island along its eastern shoe and at nearby Brooketon n1a
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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-08-04
Plantation On
Coast Closes

LOS ANGELES.-Count Basic,
the Jump King OF Swing" moves
onto the stage of the Orpheum
theatre in Los Angeles on Tues
day. Aug. Z, for a one-week en-
gsgement, with the Count setting
his sights on the Orpheum's at
tendance records he established
last summer.
The Jump Kings next stop on
his swing through California will
find him opening at the Golden
Gate theatre, San Francisco. on
Aug. IS, in another weeks engage
ment.
1t is still problematical as to
when the Basic band, which last
week concluded a record-breaking
four-week stand at the famed
Casa Manana nightery in Gull
yer City. will play the Plantation
in Los Angeles. which is now
closed during the hot weath e r
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-08-04
Joe Norris Band To
Addition Vocalists

the country's best small band COM
binstions.
'WeII soon be ready TO COM
pete against such bands rs John
Kirby and Others" Norris stated.
Meanwhile Norris band is ar
ranging old tunes and writing new
ones, as preparation for the day
when they may be able to 60 on
a road tour and work up to music
battle with other band combina-
tons
ACCORDING TO NORRIS. he
has other plans in mind which he
hopes will someday lead him to
the pinnacles of musical success
and recognition as leader of one
Of the nations best small band
units.
Members Of the Joe Norris
Qulntette are Joe Norris, alto
sax; Geraldine Smith, piano;
Albert Martin, bass; Othello Col
Inns. drums and Wilson Warren
on guitar.
Immediate plans for Norris out
At include a song contest to select
a female vocalist to sing with the
band and to later sing with lead
ing name band in proposed music
battle. for which plans are already
underway.
SINGERS wishing TO addition
for the vocalist spot are asked to
send in a card or letter stating
their name, age, address and phone
number to Larry Chism. SO Eliot
street. A letter or card containing
the above information will do.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-08-04
Ida lanes To Sail

Ida James, whose singing was
heard in Memphis Bound" will
head seven-man variety show.
Johnny Hudgins, veteran panto-
mimiSt with Lew Leslie's Black
birds" Will be among the seven
members OF Miss James group.
The unit will sail for overseas
entertainment this month.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-08-04
Patrons Applaud Fine
Club Sensation Revue

Best show ever is the COM
ment Of nitelifers after they have
seen and been entertained by the
current floor show at Uzziel Lees
Club Sensation, 1900 Owens
THE SHOW. which commence
rates the third anniversary of the
cabarets opening is provin
pleasing fare 10 out-of-towners and
local lovers Of fine floor shows.
Heading the list of theatrical
talent In the show Is recording
artist and singer, Walter Brown.
His blues singing style leaves the
female patrons applauding for
more Of such tunes as Comics
sim the Blues" and others.
The Duchess opens the show
with a pair of tunes, including
"Someday I'll See You Again" fol-
lowed by Mac Sisters, fast step
ping dance team Of young girls in
top hats and tails.
ivy ANDERSON'S" comedy stuff
is on the risque side. The enter
tainer's jokes are climaxed with
the use OF printed signs. 1t must
be seen to be appreciated.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-08-04
SWINGING WITH
NI1ElIFERS
By LARRY cHisM

4 nlis Barbec. visiting Ruby Trib-
bic and Clara Jackson Mrs Bar
bee personiheS sunshine when she
smiles.
Noah Brown IL confined 10
Mercy hospital. Jackson. follow
lowing q traffic mishap en- route
home from Chi this week. lie
Is manager AT Club Zombie.
Friends are visiting him II
the hospital.
Shape,ieSt entertainer grazing
'1ca. foorboards is Princess
Tyeena. = jungle dancer in Uzziel
Lees Club Sensation show
MEMBERS OF New Era Bust.
ness ORGANIZATIONS party Friday
Was success rs Johnny Miller
and his boys furnished entertain
ment for the club guests Leonard
Conley is president. and Earl Rob-
erts Is secretary OF the club.
Lester Po.ndeSter. capable bar
tender. wants his friends To visit
lam a. Double V Bar out Conant
Garden way. Jimmy Caldwell
and his boys are on the music
stand al the tavern
SOME DATA: Thousands Of De-
,roiters, passing across into Wind
sor in 1000 autos helped Canadians
observe the 18th Emancipation
celebration in Jackson Park, Wind
sor on Sunday The affair was
sponsored by British American As
ISOLATION OF Colored Brothers. I'M
der the supervision OF Walter
Perry
Long lines before the BARBECUE
stands. soft dring stands and those
seated in the grandstand and
spread throughout the park num-
bered approximately 5000 on Sun
day evening.
Charming and winsome local
talent seen enjoying the affair
were SBT EumiIler Beatty. TIC
Brooksie Carson. vivacious
Grayce Sadler and Mrs. Edna
Simpson Met charming Isa-
bell and Stella Grant and Robt.
Smith ~ GIL Mercer street. Wind
sor Thank to Past Comman-
der Mckinley Freeman Of Tom
Phillips Post for helping us en-
joy the evening Ut the Emsncipa-
alton.
Lawrence Watson made an i'm
pressive emcee In announcing the
celebration program. He is a PROM
ising local singer Other
LeHionnaires present were Past
Commanders Earl Rhodes and
George Ingersoll Of Phillips Post.
A newcomer to local bartending
circles is Bob Whitaker lately OF
Chi's club DeLisa. Bob attended
a bartender's school for 10 months
and dares you 10 task for a dring
he can't mix when you visit the
Rex Bar Among those enjoy.
ing Sunday out were Monty Mont
gomery. Lillian and George Hooks
Elliott Rankins and Ophelia Mar
shall IL Horsemen, Elks are
readying 70 open their new club
house doors al SO Erskine. Charles
Reeves is grand exalted ruler OF
the lodge.
Club Paragon dance presents sea-
sons first slack dance with Buddy
Johnson's band at IL Horsemen
Civic Center. come August 10. Cash
prizes will be awarded the man or
woman wearing the best sports en-
semble,
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-08-04
Goodman Band
Earns $4,000

Benny Goodman's new aggre-
CATION is all brass and mile
wide" said a local theatrical
critic, after the King Of Swing had
Just broken the all-time record for
the motor capital.
For the week end July 10. he
amaSsed the astounding gross of
$50, 849.50. as compared with the
former record OF S55,800 piled up
by the latet Major Glenn Miller
several years ago. No further
proof is needed that the greatest
swingster Of them all and idol of
"longhair" symphony audiences is
still the unchallenged King of
Swing. despite a years lay-off and
the formation of new orchestra.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-08-04
Club Queens Has
Sparkling Show
For Its Patrons

Something new has been added
to the current show at Club
Owens. II is the dancing Of a new
conner, Mary Nomi. She is hailed
as leading exponent of the art
OF the dance and is creating a fol-
lowing from patrons OF this the
atre bar.
"SWINGTIME in the Valley" is
the title of the revue and offers a
lineup of all star entertainers for
the entertainment of discrimi.
mating cabaret lovers.
Spotlixhting the show is AL
berta Adams and her bluesonEs:
and Naomi Webb. singer Of
semi-c,assical and popular num-
bers. Walter Altman amazes you
with his intricate dancesteps.
For laffs. it's the pantomine,
jokes and songs Of Sparkplug
George, veteran comedian Of old
minstrel days.
Others adding TO your enjoy
ment here are Lena Brown, with
songs and piano work during the
intermission and the music of
George Dawson's Chocolateers.
THIS THEATRE BAR Is fast be-
coming the mecca for celebrities
whenever they visit the city. So
il you want to see and be seen by
some outstanding theatrical per-
sonality. then visit the Club
Owens, theatre bar spot.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-08-04
Grs PRAYER

els FkANfk
Only OF you do ! wait and dream
As purple shadows veil the Light
OF day.
Reckoning forth haunting memo
ries OF wore
Only ior YOU does Il now Secn
Breath Was given this human CLAY
Giving II life. creams, forever
more
Memories a. your charms
Scared on the tender flesh
OF my pulsing heart;
Memories 81 your love
Enshrined IN the reeeSSes
o. my soul
Make me yours forever
- Chism.
WHICH Is YOUR iavorite dance
band How would YOU Ike 10
dsnce 10 the hitting. swing or
sweet music note beats 81 your "a
Norite orchestra II YOU have long
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-08-04
To MiITinder
Show Must Go On

Lucky Millinder's stage appeal
lies in his unbounding conducting
energy. He does everything but
stand on his head while directing
his musicians; he jumps and jives,
struts and stomps in frenzied
rhythmic motions. Once during
an engagement at. the New York
Paramount theatre, Lucky mis-
cued a jump from the piano and
broke his leg. But the show went
on-for Lucky finished the next
three weeks conducting on crutch-
es.
The band is currently touring
the South and Middle Atlantic
States with Sister Rosetta Tharpe
as an added attraction. *
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-08-04
MEMPHIS CENSORS BAN FILM
ABOUT DIXIE SHAREHOLDERS

MEMPHIS Tenn The movie busy
little blue pencils again.
This banned The Souherne" film depicting
the life Of southern hareroppers United Artists
movie this that Memphis
censors' decision.
Rochester" people
in the picture"
ANY individual individuals will
conditions the depicted
pey false before United
provide this production with the widest market available
said Grad Sears VA vice president
The film by five chapters Daughters
Of the Consedracy in Atlanta following
for members Of that Moeand Sp president
Atlanta chapter,
members praised "The Souherner" tribute the
the the southland
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-08-04

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