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Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-27
President Eyes
Polish Problem
BY CHARLES P. DEGGES

SAN FRANCISCO. April 81. CUP)
President Truman has sent a
message to Marshal Josef V. Stain
apparently stating his objections to
seating the Lublin Poles at the
Unuited Nations conference, it was
learned Friday from a responsible
American official.
The Polish question was the sub
ject of hurried diplomatic exchanges
but some quarters believed a solu-
ton unlikely before the end of the
conference here. In Washington,
Soviet Minister Counselor Nikolai v.
Novikov delivered a communication
from the Kremlin to Acting Secre-
tary of State Joseph C. Grew who
subsequently conferred with presi-
dent Truman.
The U. S. delegation meanwhile
scheduled another meeting after
comforting in closed session Thurs
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AssemIy Votes
Pay Increase
For LEGISLATORS

SACRAMENTO, April 81. UP
The assembly Friday approved a
constitutional amendment to raise
the pay of members of the legis-
lature from $1,000 to $4,000 a year. 1t
will be effective only if approved
also by the senate and by the
people.
The assembly's social welfare COM
mittee, meantime, recommended
passage of a bill earmarking $4,000
600 for postwar unemployment. re-
lief.
The legislators postponed until
Saturday and Monday visit to the
United Nations conference in San
Francisco and were holding after
noon sessions.
The amendment giving the law
makers a boost in salary was adopt
ed on 81 to Is vote. three more
than required. The chief OBJ
lection of those opposing the meas
ure was it's wording.
1t provides that members of the
legislature shall receive the same
pay as county supervisors in coun-
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Truman HeraIds
JunCture Of
Russ, Yank Units

WASHINGTON, April 27. CUP)-
President Truman Friday announced
the juncture of U. S. and Russian
forces in the heart of Germany and
proclaimed the near approach of the
victory over Nazidom for which Al
lied peoples "haye toiled and pray
ed so long"
The historic juncture, which the
world has been eagerly awaiting for
days, was accomplished in force at
IL a. m. (PWT) Thursday, at Tor
gau, rs miles due south of doomed
Berlin. Torgau is at the apex of
triangle, the other points of which
are formed by Leipsig to the south
west and Dresden to the south
east.
The coming together of the Allied
armies, President Truman declared,
means that 1.-The last faint, desperate
hope OF Hitler and his gangster gov
ernment has Lcen extinguished.'
1t proves, he added in an al
lusion to the United Nations con-
ference at San Francisco, that
Nations which can plan and
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famous central park west of Unter
Den Linden, under a hail of Sov-
let shells that reduced famous biuld-
ings within the redoubt area to
heaps of smoking rubble, Moscow
said.
German reports relayed by the
Hamburg radio said Soviet van
guards had penetrated the inner city
as far as Grosser Stern, which runs
through the Tigergarten. Another
spearhead was said to have reached
at least temporarily the Potsdamer
Platz, geographical center " the
capital.
Both Potsdamer Flatz and Grosser
Stern were less than half mile
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NAz|S MASS FOR LAST STAND IN BERLIN
Lost Battalion
OF Yanks Meets
With Russ First
Failure of Message
Paves Way for
Accidental Juncture
BY JOHN b. McDERMOTT

WITH THE UNITE D
STATES ARMY IN GER
MANY, April 27. (UP) =
The: first juncture between
the American and Russian forces
actually took place Wednesday,
and by accident!
A 20-man American patrol, which
failed tc receive orders to halt its
advance, walked into the Russian
lines. The formal juncture at
Torgau did not take place until
the next day.
The surprise meeting occurred at
the little town of Riesa on the
Elbe river. A radio message had
been sent to the little American
task force, ordering it to halt after
it reached five miles beyond the
Nude river. But the Americans
never got the message.
KEPT ON GOING
On and en- they went, mile after
mile, until they were % miles be-
yond the point where their orders
had told them to halt.
There they met the Russians.
None of the Americans spoke
Russian, but it didn't matter.
Lieut.. Albert Krevetcrew of the
American patrol, his uniform COW
cred with dust, walked toward the
Russians and stuck out his hand.
A Russian soldier Shook hands with
him.
History may record that the Off
cial juncture took place at Torgau
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War Production
SIuSheS Start

by the time the fighting in Eur
ope stops we may have taken so
many successive bites out of two
front war schedules that there will
be little remaining to be DONE" said
INLAND G.. Batcheller. WPB chief
of operations.
The WPB official cautioned that
it will be necessary to make $48.-
000,t t90000 worth of weapons during
the year following We day--a stag
gerihg quantity, he said, when
measured by any standards except
those set by this country during
the past two years.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-27

WASHINGTON, April 81. CUP) -
The gigantic U. S. war production
machine, which has been whirring
st increasing speeds for three years.
is now being deliberately slowed
down and should be adjusted to the
needs of one-front war by the time
We day arrives, it was announced
Friday.
The war production board reveal
ed that We day cutbacks in NUM-
tions already have started and will
come at faster rate from now on
regardless of when We day official
ly proclaimed.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-27
Valley Absorbs
Surplus Labor

Imperial Valleys surplus of farm
labor has been assimilated by labor
demands from adjoining counties,
thus clearing up the unemployment
situation in this county, George
Garrigues director of the Ell Cen
trc Farm Labor office, said Friday
Harvesting CT sugar beets began
in the county this week, Garrigues
said. Many men are being en-
ployed. This condition, Garrigus
predicted. will continue until the
end of the harvesting season in
October.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-27
House Votes Druftee Bill
With Combat Restrictions

WASHINGTON, April 27.
(UP) : The house Friday
unanimously adopted a draft
extension bill carrying a provision
banning future use of 18-year- old
draftees in combat until they have
had six months training.
The legislation, which now goes
to President Truman, extends the
Selective Service Act to May Is,
1916, or to the end of the war,
whichever comes first.
The provision on training of 18-
year-clds was placed in the bill by
the senate. The house military
affairs committee approved the
amendment unanimously In a
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-27
II Duce Ndbbed, ,
Says Report

secretary of the Fascist party, had
taken refuge in a monastery ut
Como after fleeing Milan.
Further adding to the mystery of
Mussolini's whereabouts, a late dis
patch from Zurich said II Duce had
not reached Como.
An unofficial controversy ragged in
Rome over who would win the privi-
lege of trying Mussolini for his va
rious war crimes. Most Italian Of
ficials thought the united nations
would reserve that right.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-27

ought first to be referred TO the
naval affairs committee for clari-
fication of the use in combat by
18-year-clds in the navy.
Rep, John j. Sparkman Cd.
Alabama, told the house that the
amendment would apply TO l8-year-
olds already in the service but no
yet assigned TO combat and TO thos
yet to be inducted. Those already
in combat will not be affected, even
II they have not had six months
training.
Gen. George c. Marshall. army
chief of staff, and war department.
officials had opposed the training
amendment.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-27

closed session Thursday and it was
offered to the house under unani-
nous consent.
The amendment contains no re-
strictions en- the use in combat of
l7-year-old navy and marine corps
volunteers, nor does it say anything
about the training of inductees 10
and older
1t does not prevent the navy from
assigning l8-year-olds to warships
fer completion of their six-months'
training although the ships may
find themselves in combat.
The bill was approved unani-
mously, although Rep. Michael j..
Bradley CD, Pennsylvania, said he
thought The training amendment
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-27

The British. compromise calls for
rotation of presiding officers chosen
from the delegates.
Soviet Foreign Commissar v. M.
Molotov, whose refusal to agree to
designation of secretary CT Edward
R. Stettinius, Jr., as conference
chairman brought about the stale
mate, arrived at the Veterans
building in this city's ornate Civic
Center at 10 a. m, half hour
ahead of the meetings. scheduled
time. Other delegation chairmen
followed him in.
Molotov, Stettinius, Foreign Sec
retary Anthony Eden and Foreign
Secretary T. v. Soong met half an
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-27

ROME, April 81. (UP) - Benito
Mussolini was reported variously
Friday to have been captured or to
be hiding in monastery on the
SWiss-Italian frontier.
The italian conference could
neither confirm nor deny a Swiss
agency report that II, Duce had
been captured at Pallaiaza on Lake
Maggiore. However Rome radio re-
peatedly broadcast the report.
Other dispatches said that Musso-
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-27
WPB REVOKES TELEPHONE.
TELEGRAPH RESTRICTIONS

WASHINGTON, April 81 CUP)-
The War Production beard Friday
revoked two restrictive controls on
telegraph and telephone services.
WPB eliminated the limitation
of new telegraph and teletype in
stallations to listed essential users,
and discarded production quotas
fer the manufacture of telephone
instruments.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-27
Two Army F|iers
Die in Crash

SACRAMENTO April 81. (UP)-
Two army flyers were killed Friday
when their plane crashed in the
American river canyon Is miles
above Folsom, California, McClel-
land field officials announced.
The plane, not based at McClel-
land, had taken off from the field
on routine training flight, they
said. Names of the flyers were
withheld pending notification OF
next of kin.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-27

Nazi capital naared the end OF It's
first week.
Moscow said the battered. deci-
cimated German garrison--once es-
timated at 100000 and purportedly
under the personal command of
Adolf Hitler-had withdrawn every
where behind the circular railway
ringing the inner city.
MASS IN PARK
German artillery and troops were
massing in the 1iergarten, Berlin's
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-27
Rotation Plan Urged
As Final Compromise
Compromise Plan Gets Backing Of
Americans, Britain and China;
Molotov Puts Veto on S+e++inius

SAN FRANCISCO, April "a. UP)-U. S. Secretary Of
Of
United Nations
The a Michael
McDermot, chief OF he confe
be of the
conference their to
of confer
SAN FRANCISCO, April 27. UP)-Russa was report
ed Friday afternoon to have agreed in effect to the Brit
ish compromise the security conference charmanshp
There immediate details the agreement but the
steering committee session described Smooth" in
contrast to Thursdays stormy meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-27

canvassed here believed that, while
the world watched the battle of
Berlin, the highpriests of Nazidom
were slipping away into hiding in
Germa$y itself in the hope they
would live to fight another day.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-27
y AMBLINe
EpoRTER
The Has Been

The Has Been
Why we yaWn to remark, is Bill
Duflock's car still wearing a rodeo
poster?
Can it be that he is going to wear
il until next year and then change
the dates?
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-27

There was growing suspicion here
that other Nazis-possibly including
Hitler himself-were using the battle
of Berlin to cloak their disappear
ance into hiding
Political and military observers
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-27
Battered Germans
Hold In Park:
YanIks n Austria
Defending Garrison Of 100000 Men
Takes Stand in Famed Tiersar+en;
Russ Shells Make ShambIes of Civ.

U. ARMY April 27 UP)-Lt. Gen.
generally spokesman
surrendered to 9th Americans.
LONDON, April 27. (UP)-Moscow dispatches said
Friday that the Germans pulling back into the Tier
garten in the heart of encrcled Berlin for death
against Soviet columns closing in from all sides
The First White Russian and FRS. Ukrainian armies
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-27
Powerful Stuff

Powerful Stuff
Give me some high powered fer
tilizer for my bougainville,' Bill Fox
said to Jimmy Marshall.
dig some holes around the
roots" Marshall instructed, land
put the fertilizer in the holes" Since
the bougainville was next to the gas
meter at the Fox home, some of the
fertilizer was put in the earth half
way between bougainville and the
meter
How did the fertilizer work."
MARSHALL asked later
ITS powerful stuff" said Fox,
"the bougainville died and the gas
bill went up SO per cent"
Time Will Tell
Whats that thing you're fiddling
with?" Mrs. Mae Hill asked Mildred
Poindexter in the soil conservation
office.
That's a wire pencil holder" Mil
dred explained. 1T was made to
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BULLETIN

LONDON, April 27. (UP)-The
Evening News said reports are
current in London" Friday that
gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler
was dead.
LONDON, April 27. (UP)-Mar-
shal Stain announced tonight
that the Russians had captured
POtsdam, Sandau and RatenOw.
WITH U. S. THIRD ARMY,
Germany, April ~. (UP)-Ameri-
can Third army troops today cap
tured the Danubian stronghold of
Regensburg, 60 miles north of
Munich.
ROME, April q. (UP) - u. S.
Fifth army troops captured the big
Italian town of Genoa Friday.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-27
WEATHER

Maximum Thursday 81, minimum
Friday 81; am. Friday SO, humid
ity 70; noon Friday 85, humidity 26;
5 pm. Thursday 10, humidity 80.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-14
FUNERALS

Funeral services for Harry F. McOuskey, 51, 61 Brewster street, who drowned in Hitchcock lake Tuesday night, were held today at II g. m. at Bragdon funeral home, Miilinocket, Maine, with burial in Millinocket cemetery.
 Funeral services for Linda Marie Brewster, infant daughter of MT. and Mrs. Claude Brewster, Wolcott, were asld from the Clark funeral home, 20 State street, today at Il a. m, with Rev. Ariel Ainsworth. pastor of the Advent Christian church, officiating. Burial was in new Pine Grove cemetery.
 The funeral of Mrs. Bertha Oeary) Gleason, wife of William r. Gleason. 59 Thomas street, who died suddenly yesterday morning at the New Haven General hospital, will be held Monday at 9:15 a. m. from the Mulville funeral home, 270 West Main street, to St. Francis Xavier church for solemn high Mas of requiem at 10. Burial will be in Cal- vary cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home today and tomor- row from 2 to 10 D. m.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-14

was in contrast with the elegant Hopkins Institute" raided two years ago where police found "$100 girls" with clientele of persons of national importance.
 The Pennsylvania avenue mas sage parlor" raided yesterday was known as the Scientific Institute of Therapy'. Blick said the five rooms consisted of 8 living room and four others equipped as massage units with six-foot leather tables in each.
 Entrance was through glass door beyond which was heavy wooden door with small peep-holes sinni- lar to those of speaxeasy days. Po- lice said a gong was sounded when customer entered the wooden door and his arrival also announced on the public address system.
 Blick said $20 was the minimum the bare minimum"
 But for $10 spectator privileges could be enjoyed by peering through holes in the doors," he added.
 equipment WEcCkeO
 The vice raiders wrecked all the equipment they found, including two boxes built for steam cabinets but never connected up.
 All of the women were freed on bond. Three of them-Judy Hunt, 27, and Mary Marika and Debris Nieto. both 24-year-old Puerto Ri- can Negroes-were charged with be- ing inmates of the house. They were ordered to appear for arraign- ment today after posting $500 bonds.
 Miss Beach and Margaret Locke, 57, alias Philomena Lockhart, said to be the real Madam" of the massage parlor', were charged with operating the house and held for separate arraignment on $2,500 bond. Miss Beach was accused also of being an inmate.
 Miss Beach, raven-haired former rhumba dancer at the Copa- cabana night club here, had been accused of providing sex pleasures for some of the capitals notables.
 Two years ago she was convicted in District Court of white slavery. The conviction was upheld by the supreme court which sent the case back to the Court of Appeals for a hearing on other grounds of error claimed by Miss Beach. The appeals court reaff1rmed the former convic- tion and the dancer was out on ap- peal bond from the latest ruling when she was re-arrested yesterday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-14
OBITUARY

NATALIE - vincsnt NataIe, 7- year-old son of Mir. and Mrs. Vir@ ginio Natale, died last night ct his home, 80 Jefferson street, after c brief illness.
 Besides his parents he b sure vived by Q brother, Gene, end c sister, Marguerite.
 Funeral services will be held at the Colasanto funeral home, ga Bank street, Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from T to 10 D. n. to- day and from. 2 to 10 ?. m. to- morrow.
 BUCKMASTER-Miss Mabel R. Buckmaster, 109 Robert street, died last evening at Waterbury hospital. Born June IA, 1874, in Water bury, she was the daughter of the late Martin and Wilhemina (Vogtl Buckmaster. She was employed for many years by the American Brass Co.,, until her retirement about IS years ago. She was Q member of Naomi chapter, Order of Eastern Star.
 Surviving are sister-in-law. Mrs. Irving F. Holihan, with whom she lived, and several cousins. Funeral services will be held Monday at II a. m. at the Alderson funeral home. 70 Central avenue, Rev. Francis O. Ayres, rector of St. Johns Episcopal church, officiat- ing. Burial will be in Riverside cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home tomorrow evening
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-14
Charter Gets SpeedyStort
(Continued from Page D

was able to answer searching ques- tion as to the rights and respon- abilities of the United States as a member of the new organization.
 Under intensive questioning by Sen. Eugene D. Millikin, R., Colo, Dulles said:
 1. The United States could with draw from the organization at any time for good reason" of which world opinion would be the only judge.
 2. The Senate will have the final word through treaty requiring a two- thirds ratifying vote on terms under which the United States will make military contingent available to the organization.
 3. The United States cannot be bound to any disarmament program without its own approval.
 4. The Monroe doctrine of hem- ispheric defense is unaffected ex- cept that it is recognized as a re- gional means of maintaining peace.
 5. The United States retains com- plete freedom in deciding whether any strategic Pacific islands captured from Japan shall be placed under United Nations trusteeship. '
 Domestic Statute Out
 Dulles said if the senate chooses to place any restrictions on the military contingent it should be done through a treaty which the char ter provides shall be negotiated between the security council and member nations. He said it should not be done by subsequent domestic statute.
 He said some of the smaller na- tions doubtless will specify in such treaties that their contingents may be used only in nearby areas.
 Finally Millikin asked Dulles to estimate the total size of the mili- tary contingent the organization would need to halt any conceivable future acts of aggression.
 Dulles doubted that any one ra- tion's contribution would have to be very large. Pointing out that the big five nations accept a major share of responsibility for the or ganization's success and could veto any use of organization force against themselves, he suggested that Milli- kin pick "the most formidable of all the other states" and make his own estimate.
 T think it hardly will be neces- sary to use this force for anything more than a demonstration" he added.
 "As far as it is possible to predict now I doubt that any state or group Of states is going to stand up against the combined will of the five major powers and at least two other ra- tions."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-14

Continued from Page D Gauss said he had no statement but desired to ask question. h. formed he could only make a state ment, he replied:
 T can say no more than that g. great injustice is being done. I com- mitted no murder. I have nothing more to say"
 He went through the trap at TAO and was pronounced dead at 1:55.
 Both men died in what remained to them of their German uniforms. They were to be buried in the prison cemetery here. Each was married, Straub the father of one child, Gauss three. Both were captured by the British in Sicily.
 The two Germans were convicted of staying Host Guenthem, a fellow prisoner at AikeI., on April 5, 1914. Guenther, a kitchen orderly, was lured to a tent where Gauss and several other prisoners were wait ing for him.
 Gauss accused him of being a traitor and charged he had divided milk unfairly between Americans and German prisoners, had reported other prisoners to American officers for taking too much food, and had revealed a threatened strike.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-14
Polish Labor Still Scarce
(Continued from Page 1)

iCOnClnueu rom PaSe U in Gdansk, according to the au- thorities, although more are coming back including about 50,000 from Lodz. Meanwhile, any mass expul- sion of Germans would mean that crops would rot in the fields.
 As more Poles arrive, the Polish authorities gradually expel Germans beyond the Oder. The Germans in the Gdansk area get fairly good ra- tions If they consent to work. If they don't work, they get nothing to eat.
 In Upper Silesia the problem is complicated by the fact the Ger mans "de-nationalized" a large number of Polish miners, steel workers and farmers, forcing them to accept German nationality. If such people were expelled, the mills and factories would just have to close down.
 So in this region the government restored Polish nationality to the "denationalized" citizens.
 The Germans had recognized four categories of citizens in this region: Reichsdeutsch; Germans who form erly had Polish nationality but re- turned to their German status; and Poles who remained Poles.