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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-26
TEACHERS GROUP
 HOLDS MEETING
Miss Kathleen Crowley Guest Speaker at Din=
 ner Session
WOLCOTT Correspondent: Alma P. COla
 Tel 3-2803

Wolcott, Jan. 2G-Ine Wolcott uary meeting at the Press Club in Waterbury, A brief business meet ing was held After dinner Miss Kathleen Crowley, probation super visor, spoke of problems that come to probation authorities. It was voted to hold the next meeting at the South school with Miss Mae McElligott in charge. Those pres ent were the Misses Lydia Young, Loretta Barry, Ann Cronin, Ednah Dumschatt, Mary Flahive, Leona Steinle, Mrs. Mildred Krasney, Mrs. Helen Dunlop. Mrs Shirley Sheri- den, Mrs. Joan Schuster, Mrs. Law Tor, Mrs Rose Klitka. Mrs. Betty Affeldt, Mrs Daniel Sullivan and Mrs. Helen Finley.
 Mrs. Benjamin CoWles of Hitch cock Lake was guest of honor at party Tuesday night given by Mrs. Harry Bergen at her home on Ran- som Hall road. Cards were played with high scores had by Mrs AL bert HomeWood Mrs. Roswell Stev- ems and Mrs. Edward Hayes, Many gifts were received by Mrs CoWles. Refreshments were served after the card games. Those present or send ing gifts were: Mrs. James Bergen, Mrs. J. Arthur Bergen, Mrs. Wal ter Rogers. Mrs. Harry Cole, Mrs. James HomeWood. Mrs. Albert HomeWood, Mrs. Elmer Symonds, Mrs. Lyman Atwood, Mrs. Mary Willard. Mres. William Lowe, Mrs Roswell Stevens Mrs. Edward Hayes. Mrs. Cowles and Mrs Harry Bergen.
 The Republican town committee will meet at the home of the chair- man, Martin Whalen, Mat:atuck avenue. Hitchcock Lake tonight al 8 o'clock.
 Mrs. Arthur Peterson and tlaugh-- ter Christine, of Mad River road. have gone to Gulfport, Mis-. where they will stay for sometime with Fireman Second class Arthur W. Peterson.
 Maxwell Bates of the Wolcott- Bristol road. who has been in thc Merchant Marines, has now enlisted in the Naval Air Corps and left Monday for Jacksonville. Fla. for training.
 George Williams is i'll at his home on Lakeside drive.
 Mrs Cleophas Deiziel of Lakeside drive is visiting her parents in Mon- treal. Canada.
 MT. and Mrs. Leonard Bond of Oak street, are home from Wash ington, D. C.. where they visited their son. Chief Petty Officer Ray mond Bond and Mrs. Bond.
 A daughter, Celinda Eloisc. was born Thursday at the Waterbury hospital to It. Elliott R. Mayo and Mrs. Mayo of Prospect street Wa- terbury. Mrs Mayo was before her
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marriage Miss Celinda Wakelee. daughter of Mrs. John Wakelee of Wolcott road. It. Mayo is with the Navy Medical Corps and is sta. toned at Camp Lejuene, New River. N. c,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-26
SUM-UPS:
 HOW DEAR TO MY HEART" by Emily KimbrOugh (DOdd, Mead: $2.50) deserves

HEART,' by Emily KimbrOugh (DOdd, Mead: $2.50) deserves belated mention. Elsewhere ex- tolled for readers who sigh for the days fo the linenduster, let it be known that this pleasant story of childhood In Indiana has its charms, too, for 8 gen. eration that can't remember farther back than a IT Max well.
 "Wind On the MOOn,' by Eric Linklater Macmillan: $2.5O). A delightful fantasy which had it's roots in tale spun for the authors children, and merits mention in the same breath with Lewis Carroll.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-26
By TOM WOLF NEA Staff Correspondent

Paris, Jan. 26-The only pleasant part Of a tour of southern France in this sixth year of war is that driving is a positive pleasure. The
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-26
BO0KMARKS
Photographs, Paintings HghGght Weeks Books WORLD WAR II DEPICTED BY EXPERTS WITH THE CAMERA

THEY CALLED IT PURPLE HEART VALLEY" by Margaret addition the
 atre this not only in photographs but in words well Miss CaldweD realistic the of unheralded fighting the Italian to be
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-26

Americans who toured south ern France in the better days would find many drawbacks to such a tour today. These notes, made after 12O0-mile tour from the Loire to the Spanish border and back via Bordeaux, explain what it's like today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-26

Chile has prohibited the destruc- tion of surplus wine.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-26

Mrs. Arthur Peterson and daugh- ter, Christine, of Mad River road, have gone to Gulfport. Mis-, where they will stay for some time with Fireman Second class Arthur W. Peterson
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-26

Maxwell Bates of the Wolcott- Bristol road. who has been in thc Merchant Marines, has now enlisted in the Naval Air Corps and left Monday for Jacksonville. Fla. for training.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-23
SUPERFORT ARMADA
BLASTS JAP PLANTS

GUAM, Saturday, June 23-R,-
Hundreds of Ame- lean Superforts
blasted huge Japanese naval ar.
senal and five aircraft factories
in daylight yesterday with 5000
tons OF demolition bombs, expand
ing the destruction already spread
over more than 112 square miles
OF Nippon's industrial areas in
previous BIO raids.
Tokyo broadcast Japanese corn.
munique claim that 26 of the $50
Superforts that pounded Honshu L.
land targets were shot down.. There
was no immediate U. S. announce.
ment of plane losses.
The naval arsenal at Kure. last
big plant of its type not previously
hit in BIZ visits to Japan, was
struck in visual bombing from
visual boml 'ng from medium al.
titude. The arsenal covers around
1000, 900 square feet and turns out
heavy guns, projectiles, fuses and
torpedoes.
Aircraft factory targets were the
Mltsubishi and Kawasaki plants at
Kagar~' gahara, 20 miles north of
Nagoya; the Kawanishi establish
ment at Hlmeji and the Kawasaki
factory at Akashi. both near Kobe
and the Observation-Disclosures plant
at Tamashima, 80 miles west Of
Kobe.
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TROPICAL BLOW HEADS
SLOWLY NORTHWARD

MIAMI, FLA, June 22.-W.R)-
A tropical storm in the Gulf con-
tinued its slow progress northward
tonight and the Weather Bureau
said interests on the middle and
east Gulf coast should take "pre-
!iminary precautions and stand
by for further advices.
A 4:45. P. M. EWT advisory plac,
ed the storm 280 miles north north
west of Key West and said winds
near its center were estimated al
from 45 to SIS miles per hour. with
fresh to strong squalls extending
outward $50 miles to east and
North.
Northward movement of the
storm, which has progressed from
Yucatan, was put at from 8 to 70
miles an hour. The advisory said
small craft from the Florida Keys
to the mouth of the Mississippi
river should remain in safe har
Dor. -.
''All other interests on the mid
die and east Gulf coast should
take. preliminary precautions and
stand by on the alert for further
advices and possibly warnings to
night and Saturday." the advisory
concluded.
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Poles Reach Full
Accord At Moscow
Gen. Eisenhower Denies
He Will Enter Politics

ABILENE, Kas., June % - Up
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
tonight brought 1.-The very great
est moment in my whole life"-his
homecoming - to an official close
in a press conference in whcih he
denied with the utmost vigor that
he had any idea of going into
politics, and stated that when he
takes off his uniform it will be to
return to civilian life.
Look he said in response tc
question about whether he might
become Secretary of State, I'm
in the Federal service and I take
the orders of my commander in
chief. All l want is to be a citizen
OF the United States, and when the
War Department turns me out to
pasture that's all want to be.
Il want nothing else"
1T is silly to talk about me in
politics, and so for once I'll talk
about that, but only to settle this
thing once and for all. I should
like to make this as emphatic as
possible. There's no use me deny.
ing that I'll fly to the moon, be-
cause no one has suggested it anc
l couldn't if wanted to. The same
goes for politics.
I'm a soldier and I'm positive
no one thinks of me as politician. .
Referring to the victorious Alliec
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Siin1la Farley Success
In To AH-lndia Party

plan as such would not arise"
unless there was clear under
standing on certain fundamental
issues .
He would not elaborate. But earl
Ter Mohandas K. Gandhi and other
leaders had said that the Wavell
formula for parity of caste Hindus
and Moslens inferentially limited
the Congress to representing the
Caste Hindu community. They in
sist, however, that the Congress re.
presents all castles and creeds. in
GLIDING not only Hindus but Mos
lens.
There also were indications that
the fundamental" might include
a clear definition and commitm ents
on the Viceroy's veto power, and
perhaps some definite blueprint OF
the role India was expected to play
in the Japanese war.
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Nonstop Airline Plan
Gets Chamber Approval

A letter in which the Airport
committee Of the Wilmington
Chamber of Commerce registered
it's consent to a nonstop program
by National Airlines from Jackson.
vile, Fla, to Philadelphia, Pa, up
Until the time the local air field is
available, was to be sent today to
the airline and a copy mailed to
the Civil Aeronautics Board.
National, whic his not presently
operating into the Wilmington air.
port because of its operation by the
Army Air forces, had been granted
a permit to service the city, but
in a recent letter to the CAB. a
copy of which was forwarded to
Mayor Ronald W. Lane, sought
permission to begin operating the
nonstop route ''in order to facili.
tate heavy through traffic"
The inference drawn here from
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Communication Embarrases
European High Command

PARIS. June 22-P)-A Spokes.
man at the Provost MarshaFs Of
flee said today a Stars and Stripes
story that Gen. Eisenhower had
committed the death sentence i'm
posed on Pvt. ca 1uel .osenblum
to life imprisonment was very
embarrassing" to the supreme
command.
1--WE have no record to show
that Gen. Eisenhower has taken
any action in the case" the spokes'
man said, and declared it had moi
come up for review.
An Army News Service dispatch
appearing in the Paris edition Of
Stars and Stripes quoted Rep. Gel
Ter (D-NY) as saying Eisenhower
had reduced the. penalty imposed
on the 23-year-old Brooklyn soldier
for failure to obey captains com
mand.
(Rep. Celler said in New York
Tuesday that a death sentence I'M
posed on Rosenblum had been re-
duced to life imprisonment
The Provost Marshal's office de-
clined to disclose details of the
case on the grounds that it was
not completed until it had been
through the regular routine of re-
view by the supreme commander
or a body representing him.
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OF Die-Hard
laps Now On
DEAD TOTALS 10000
American Flag Now Waves
Over Okinawa Invasion
Launching Base

GUAM, Saturday, June 22-(P)-
Slaughter of japanese 6ie-haSds on
Okinawa, where more than 10000
have been killed, and more mass
surrenders, swelling tht bag well
beyond 1000, continued Friday as
the American flag waved in vic.
tory over that potential staging
base for the next invasion.
Nippon still dashed back from
an invasion-jittery homeland with
the air arm, however, sinking two
light American vessels, heavily
damaging an auxiliary unit and
slightly damaging two other light
units, Adm. Chester w. Nimitz
acknowledged in today's communi.
que.
Tenth Army patrols, working over
three weakly resistant pockets,
killed 500 Nipponese in all ssctors
Thursday night and early Friday
One hundred sixty of the foe
commi ed group suicide with HAND
grenades at the southern tip Of the
island.
Ceremonial raising of the flag
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
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Coast Guard Saves Crew
From Burning Cargo Ship

MIAMI, Fla, June 22.-(R)-The
Coast Guard announced here to.
night that the entire crew of 81
aboard the cargo ship, Sonora,
bound from Freeport, Tex, to Bos-
ton, was saved when the ship
caught fire between West Palm
Beach and Fort Pierce late this
afternoon.
The crew was rescued by an Ar.
my crash boat from Fort Pierce
and taken to West Palm Beach.
The vessel was loaded with sui
phur and was still burning late
tonight. The Coast Guard has two
vessels standing by.
The Coast Guard said it was I'M
able to learn Immediately the
cause of the accident.
The burning ship was spotted at
5 80 pm. by a plane from Morrison
Army Air Field near West Palm
Beach and in answer. to radio
message, six rescue boats were
sent out from Fort Pierce and West
Palm Beach.
The burning vessel is 20 miles
due East of West Palm Beach, off
of Hobe Sound, the Coast Guard
said.
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BATTLESHIP TIRPITZ
HIT BY DAMAGED SUB

LONDON, June %. Up - A
British midget submarine, patch
ed with chewing gum and BAN
dages crept inside the torpedo net
around the 35,OOO-ton German bat,
tleship Tirpitz and placed an ex-
plosive charge that heavily dam
aged the wa ship in September
Of l943.
This and other details were
made public today when King
George vi decorated two midget
suomarine commanders, Basil
Place and Donald Cameron, with
the Victoria Cross, highest British
decoration. The Tirpitz subsequent
" was sunk in a Norwegian ford
by six ton bomb hits. The decofat-
ed Naval offers commanded two
OF the three submarines which were
Sunk in the attack. They were b.
Grated from enemy prison camps
on May %.
Place said leak developed
around the exhaust pipe of his craft
Just before it went in for the at
TACK. After chewing gum and ban.
oages were applied, the vessel
broke through the Tirpitz' anti
torpedo defense nets and then col
naed with the battleship underwa'
Ter. 1t sowed two mines, however,
before the crew abandoned ship
and was captured.
Cameron's ship was sunk soon
alter it too wriggled through the
torpedo netting and placed its
charges. Survivors were captured
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GI Braves Briny
Deep For A Kiss

BOSTON, June 22-(P)-Staff
Sergeant Tommy Carpenter is
a literal man, but he rot wet
proving it.
This morning Carpenter with
several thousand other soldiers
arrived in Boston on a trans
port from Europe.
WACs aboard a welcoming
tug shouted "come on over, and
get it-a kiss"
He went down the TRANSPORT
hawser hand over hand and.
after fighting tides and grab
bling a life preserver tossed
from the WACs' boat, he reach.
ed the arms of pretty Mary
Delage of Southbridge, a WAC
private.
After the primary smack by
WAC Delage, other members of
the feminine welcoming de-
tachment smothered the wet
sergeant. while his envious fell
low soldiers looked on from the
nearby transport.
Carpenter was one of 1856
Second Armored Division SOL
diers aboard the IS Howard
Kelly. He had been overseas
since 1912 and is from Ham,
burg, Ark.
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Meat Shortage Hits
Home Of OPA Boss

WASHINGTON, June 22.R)
Price Administrator Chester
Bowles has heard from his
own family how serious the
meat shortage is.
He told a group of Virginia
cattlemen at conference to-
day that he is "a sort of
Backyard farmer, with about
300 chickens, three hogs and q
cow"
Whenever the COW has had
a calf in the past, he said, his
children have made a pet of
it, giving it a name and cele-
brating its birthday.
mot SO long ago." Bowles
said, 1.-THE COW had a calf,
and a week Or 50 later, my
young daughter said, How
long before we can eat it, Dad
dy''
Commented the OPA Head:
There has been a very de
finite shift in the Situation"
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BOMBAY, June 22.--1ndlca-
tons arose today that the success
of the Simla Conference, set for
June Is to devise an interim III
dian Government, may hinge on
whether leaders of, the al-lndla
Congress Party can clarity Ger
tain fundamental issues" before
hand.
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, all.
India Congress president. has ask,
While the congress party's work
vincial premiers to meet with him
before the Sinla Conference call
ed by Lord Wavell viceroy of In.
dia.
While the Congress party's work
ing committee in session here
made no official statement, one
member declared the question OF
accepting or rejecting Wavel's
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u. S. SENATE WILL
APPROVE CHARTER
Connally Will Fly To
Washington Tuesday
To Head Debate

SAN FRANCISCO, June 22-RH
Chairman Connally D-Tex) of the
Senate Foreign Relations com
mittee predicted today that the
Senate will ratify the new United
Nations Charter with a comfort
able edge over the necessary two.
thirds.''
This will be true" Connally de-
clared in a statement, 'becalse OF
the non-political support of the
charter"
Republican and Democrats will
support it. That has been the con.
slant policy of the foreign relations
committee for the last three years.
I'VE believ that partisan
politics should end at the water S
edge"
Assurances of prompt British &C.
ton on the Charter drafted here
at the United Nation Confer.
ence came today from the United
Kingdom delegation.
Continued Page Three; Col. g.
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E. 6. AUXILIARY
TO GET SHIELD
Wilmington, Wrightsville
Flotillas To Be Honored
On 9th Anniversary

The United States Coast Guard
Security Shield of Honor will be
awarded to the Wilmington and
Wrightsville flotillas of the U. S.
C. G. Auxiliary, at exercises
commemorating the sixth ami
versary of the Auxiliary, s O'clock
Tuesday evening at Hanson's
lodge, near the Brunswick river
bridge.
Capt. M. J. Ryan of Charts S.
ton, district Coast Guard officer,
Sixth Naval district, and Captain
c. H. Jones, national director OF
the Auxiliary, will attend the
general muster for the presenta-
ton of the Shield.
All members of the Cape Fear
flotillas will appear in uniform
and the meeting will be attend
ed by Auxiliary members and
out of town officers.
Capt. Jones will be accom-.
panied here by Lieut.. (jg) Rich
ard W. Carly, also Of Coast Guard
headquarters in Washington, D.
c.
Also attending will be Lieut..
Louis Hansan, director of the
Auxiliary, Sixth Naval district.
Lieut.. T. E. Murrell, USCGR
(D, is commander of Division
4, comprising the Wilmington and
Wcightsville flotillas. Lieut.. Gg)
Robert M. Williams, USCGR (T))
is commander of the Wilmington
flotilla and Ensign DuBrutz Pois.
son, USCGR (T), commander Of
the Wrightsville flotilla.
Lieut.. S. B. Frink, acting Cap.
tain OF the Port of Wilmington,
and other personnel from the
local office will be present.
Refreshments will be served and
appropriate exercises celebrating
the Auxiliary's anniversary are
being planned.
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To Embrace
All Groups
EXILE LEADER READY
Decision OF Conference
Satisfactory To Britain,
United States, Soviet

LONDON, Saturday, June o.
|tR-The Moscow radio announced
today a complete agreement had
been reached among the Polish
groups meeting in Moscow on the
formation of Polish government.
The broadcast, quoting a Tasa
News Agency report, said repres.
entatives of the Soviet-sponsored
Warsaw government and other Pc.
lish groups had reached full
understanding as regards the re.
organization of the provisio al
government" to establish a ma.
tional unity government.
Polish leaders taking part in the
discussions included Boleslaw Bic.
rut, president, of the Warsaw gov
eminent and Stanislaw MiAolajcI
zyk, Peasant party leader and for.
mer head of the London Polish
government in exile. /
The broadcast SAID Wincenety
Witos, Peasant party leader, and
Stanislaw Grabski, formerly an
exile government leader, had been
invited to join the presidium of the
Polish National Council.
The report added that Mikolajc.
zyk, Jan Stanczyk, one-time minis
ter of labor in the Polish govern1
ment in exile; M. Thugut and Las
islas Kiernik, former Polish minis
ter of interior, would be included id
the government.
The full composition of the 60 4
eminent will be announced in War
saw within a few days, the broad
cast said.
Beirut notified Soviet Foreign
Commissar v. M. Molotov, Sir
Archibald Clark-Kerr, British ann
bassador and U. S. ambassador wi
Averen Hartman of the decisions
reached by the Poles, the broad
cast said.
The report added that the three
noted the agreement with sat1
lisfaction.''
The broadcast said members oil
the Warsaw government and DEM
ocrati leaders from Poland and
abroad were convinced that tho
feeling of national dignity ond SOD
vereignity of the Polish state rel
quires Polish affairs to be settled
by themselves"
The text of the announcement fol-
lows:
Representatives of the provision1
al government of the Polish rel
public: President Beirut, Vice
President Kowalsko, Prime Minis
ter Osubka-Morawski nd Vice.
Premier Gomulka; Democratic
leaders from Poland: DR.. Kernik
who arrived in place of MIR. Witos
who is indisposed, DR.. Kohodziei1
ski, Prof. Krzyzanowski, Prof. Kut1
zreba and MIR. Zulawski; Polish
democratic leaders from abroad:
MIR. Mikolajczyk, Mr.. Kolodozeii
as well as Mr.. Stanczyk arrived
IN Moscow at the invitation of the
commission set up on the basis of
the Crimea decision and consisting
OF Mr.. Molotov, Sir Archibald
Clark Kerr, ambassador of Great
Britain, and Mr.. Averell Harri1
man, United States ambassador.
CONTINUED on Page Two: Col. az
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$4,000 WORKERS
IDLE BY STRIKES
Unionists Quit Over Lack
OF Meat In Sandwiches
Supplied AT Plant
(By The Associated Press)

Four New York stoppages, one
over lack of meat in lunch sand.
wiches, boosted the total of work
ers idle in labor controversies to
nearly 5000 yesterday.
An aggregate of 8,700 persons
in the aircraft, chemical, rubber
and artillery fuse industries was
involved in the fresh outbreaks.
On the peace side of the labor
picture, an unestimated number
of striking Chicago truck drivers
were resuming work after a week S
idleness and $500 Chicago Inter
national Harvester Company work
ers returned to their jobs after
a four-day dispute.
The War Labor Board took ac-
ton in another big strike. It order
ed CLIO United Rubber Workers
representatives to appear today at
hearing on failure to end a strike
of 5000 at the Goodyear Tire and
Rubber Company in Akron, o.
The walkout, which began, Sun
day, was over failure to reach an
agreement on issues involving
wages, hours and overtime pay.
Some $500 workers left tnei-
posts at the Conner Avenue Air
craft plant Of Briggs Manufactu
ing Company, Detroit, in protest
against lack of meat in sandwich.
es supplied by a catering concern.
Harold R. Wood of the CLIO Unit.
ed Automobile Workers said
there was no strike but workers
have to take time off to take their
wives shopping for food because
they cannot get what they need in
neighborhood stores" The action
was expected to involve $500 on
three shifts.
In Monsanto, ILL.,, production of
the Monsanto Chemical Company
was halted when 1900 workers
failed to report after picket lines
had been set up by warehouse en-
ployes. The company declined
comment and the union officials
were unavailable for a. statement
on the dispute.
The Carter Carburetor Com
pany's artillery fuse plant in St.
Louis was compelled to shut down
when 1900 employees refused to
cross a picket line established by
$50 workers. A CLIO United Auto
mobile Workers Union represen-
tative said employees accused the
company of delaying several ar
bitration cases unnecessarily.
Two thousand workers were
idle in Eau Claire, Wis, because
of work stoppage in the tube de-
partment of the U. S. Rubber
Company's Gillette tire plant. A
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