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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-15

Taken prisoner at Tobruk in 1942, Trumpeter R. Carter arrived home at Coalville, England, just in time to enter . contest and win basket of eggs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-15
CARD OF THANKS

CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our many friends, relatives and neighbors. especially Fellow Workers in Sco- will North Mill and Dept. AZ, U. s. Time Corp, for floral offerings and the expressions of sympathy and kindness shown us during our re- cent bereavement, the death of our beloved wife and mother, Mrs. Ernest Pagle.
 (Signed)
 PAGLE. DIANE and
 BELLMAY FAMILIES.
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MASS

CARNEY-A months mind Mass of requiem will be celebrated Monday morning at 500 o'clock, at the St. Thomas Church, for the repose of the soul of the late Mrs. Mary A. Carney.
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DIED

BANFE-In this city, June 18th, 1945, Mrs. Elizabeth Banfe, of 241
 Willow Street.
 Funeral Monday at s:15 a. m., from Mulville Funeral Home, 270 West
 Main Street, to St. Margaret's Church, at 800. Burial in Calvary cemetery.
 EVANS-In this city, June 14th,
 1945, Harry F. Evans, of 152 East Main Street..
 Funeral Saturday at 200 D. m., from Alderson Funeral Home, 70 Gen. tral Avenue. Burial in old Pine Grove cemetery.
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Is Dead In
 Train Crash

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DISCHARGE POINT
TOTAL UNDER s.

WASHINGTON, July 22.-W.D-
Soldiers with slightly less than 85
points will become eligible for dis
charge within a few days. The
promised revision of the critical
score" set at IS in May, will be
made before the end of this month,
War Department spokesman said
tonight.
Meanwhile, many veterans with
more than IS points, who were
returned to this country mon-t
ago, are complaining bitterly that
the Army won't release them. Over
point men in camps here, rated
''non-essential,' but unable 70 gel
discharges, are resentful ct the de-
lay.
Others with a surplus of points
say their commanding officers
won't declare them hon-essential
because of personal prejudices o'
because they hope to keep up 3
big army.
The Army's answer to charges Il
that five chief barriers are in the
way: Time required to transfer
men from one service to another,
to supply requirements, to train
them, and give furloughs, and lack
Of shipping space. "
Chairman Edwin c.. johnson. D..
Colo, of the Senate Veterans sub
committee. charged however. that
the Army is '1eisurely" about
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MARINE SERGEANT.
INJURED IN WRECK,
DIES AT HOSPITAL

Sgt. Herman E. Smith, 30-year-
old Marine of Camp Lejeune, who
was injured Thursday afternoon
when tho car in which ne was
riding skidded and overturned
about three and one-haf miles
north of Wilmington on U. S. High.
way II, died at 5:22 p. m. yester.
day at James Walker Memorial
hospital, Coroner Asa W. Allen
reported last night.
Coroner Allen said there would
be an inquest this afternoon. A
coroner's jury will be impanneled
at 10 a. m. at the hospital and the
inquest will take place at p. m.
at the courthouse.
The operator of the car, Cpl.
Clyde E. Tyler, 25, also of Camp
Lejeune, was removed to the Blue
thenthal Army Air Base after the
accident, where it was reported
that he suffered only minor cuts.
Smith was unable to be removed
from James Walker Memorial
hospital before he died.
Investigating officers said the
accident occurred at Ais p. m.
Thursday in front of the High Hat
club, where the vehicle was at
tempting to pass another car, also
headed south, when the Marines
automobile skidded about SO yards,
overturninS and skidding another
IS yards, stopping on the rigat
side of the road.
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IN PECU MOUNTAINS
Mountbatten's Troop.
Counter-Attack Enemy
In Force

CALCUTTA, July 22.-W.D-Jap-
anese troops in the Pegu mountains
have broken out Of trap and
opened a powerful drive toward
Pyu, vital Rangoon-Mandalay rail
town 10 miles west of the Sittang,
communique said today.
Allied infantry, supported by ar
tillery, tanks and armored cars
counter-attacke in force, Adm.
Lord Louis Mountbatten said.
The enemy group, estimated I'M
officially at several thousand, re-
Gently was pocketed west of Pyu,
100 air miles north of Rangoon.
The Japanese drive apparently was
aimed at crossing the rain-swollen
Sittang and either joining the hard
pressed Wawchi garrison, so miles
to the northeast, or lunging toward
Thailand, some 70 miles away.
Mountbatten said that Pyu was
the "center of the zone of activi-
ty."
Northeast of Pegu at the bend
of the Sittang river, Japanese units
moved toward Myitkyo. British
Gurkhas seized two villages in that
area after fierce skirmishes.
British artillery shelled a con-
centration of 200 Japanese two
miles northwest of Taunggyi, 1T
miles east of. Maiktila.
Liberator bombers yesterday bat
tered supply points at Singora in
Southern Thailand. Heavy dam
age and fires were reported by re-
turning airmen.
Supporting ground troops south
east of Pyu, other warplanes at
tackled enemy positions. Twenty
huts and buildings were destroyed.
On the previous day, Japanese
bunker positions and supply dumps
were pounded west of Pyu and in
the Myitkyo sector.
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CHURCHILL, ATTLEE
TO RETURN HOME FOR
RESULTS OF ELECTION

LONDON, July o. Up Prime
Minister Churchill and Clement
Attlee, leaders respectively of the
Conservative and Labor parties,
are expected to return Wednesday
night from Potsdam to be on hand
when results of the July 5 general
election are announced.
All day Wednesday returns will
be coming in ard the complexion
of the new House of Commons
should be known by late afternoon.
A special service has been arrang-
ed to Churchills residence to keep
him speedily informed on all re-
turns.
1t is believed that if his govern
ment gets a working majority
Churchill will quickly return to
Potsdam, assuming the conference
there still is in session. If Chur-
chill should be defeated. then some
interruption of the conference
work would seem inevitable while
political changes care made at
home.
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Civilians To Feel Pinch OF Japanese War More
LnHom e Heating Fuel Tanks Than Auto Gas Tanks

WASHINGTON, July o. R) -
Henceforth civilians will feel the
pinch of the war against Japan
more in their home heating fuel
tanks than in their automobile gas
tanks, the Petroleum Industry War
Council said today.
"From now on this is largely a
fuel oil war;" the council said in
report from it's committee on
petroleum economics.
1.-THE moderate decrease in gas
oline requirements is more than
offset by increased requirements
for diesel and residual fuel and
hence the total demand for crude
oil and its products is greater than
before VE-Day."
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SENATE TO PROBE
RAILWAY SYSTEM

WASHINGTON, July 22.-(P'-
The Senate War Investigating COM
mittee will give the. right OF way
tomorrow to an Investigation OF
the Nations war clogged railway
system.
First witness will be Col. ]. Mon
roe Johnson. director of the OF
flee of Defense Transportation. the
gove1 nment agency charged with
coordinating all forms OF trans
port during the war
Although the situation has been
developing for some time, publc
and congressional interest was TO-
cussed on it more sharply after
complaints that some soldiers had
to ride in coaches instead OF Pull
mans in making cross-country trips
after their arrival from Europe.
The situation stems primarily
from two factors, says J. j. Policy.
American Railroads-first, a short
age of passenger cars, and second
ly the speed of redployment from
Europe to the Pacific.
In letter to Senator Lucas y
| ILL.,, who had made inquiries, Pei
ley said:
The forces which we were build
ing up in Europe over period OF
almost four years are to be rede-
ployed in less than ten months.
And the pressure of that move
ment, he explained, is aggravated
by the shortage of passenger cars
and the great increase in other
passenger travel.
Peely said that:
1.-The total passenger travel or
the railroads this year will prob
ably be close to five times that Of
pre-war years, but it is to be car
ried in virtually the same number
of coaches and sleeping cars
which were then available. Thi!
years load will probably be near
~ two and one-half times that o.
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AUSTRALIA RECEIVES
OYER BILLION WORTH
OF AMERICAN GOODS

CANBERRA, Australia, July %.
= up - United States lend-lease
goods valued at more than bill
hon dollars were received by Aus
tralla up to the end of last April,
II was officially disclosed here to.
day.
Reciprocal Australian lend-lease
goods and services to America be.
tween April 1912 and last March
totaled about $500, 1000, 900.
The official report showed that
U. 5. forces received $10,500. 00C
worth of Australian radar and sig
nal equipment-one-fifth of the to
'ai output of the Commonwealth
radio Industrial before 1912 had nc
experience in this technique.
,,lhe report said American carbon
black, tire fabric and synthetic
fuooer received under lend-lease
was used in part in Australia te
produce tires for American forces
1t added that lend-lease tractors
seeo and other farming equipment
was used to increase food produc
Won Tor American force.
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TWO WOMEN GET
NIEMAN AWARDS

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, July o.
R-An Associated Press editor
and a political reporter for the
San Francisco News today became
the first women TO receive Nieman
Fellowships in journalism at Har-
ward University.
Charlotte L. F'itz Henry, AP
night editor at Chicago, and Mary
Ellen Leary, San Francisco news
political reporter, were among the
ten men and women chosen for a
years study at Harvard begin
ming in September.
This is the first year that wo-
men have been eligible for the
Fellowships, which provide sti-
ponds that approximate the salar.
les of the recipient.
The awards were first made in
1898 under the will of Agnes Wah]
Nieman, widow of the publisher Of
the Milwaukee Journal, and since
then 81 newspaperinen have stud.
led at Harvard under the Fellow.
ships.
The eight men who received
awards this year for study be.
ginning in September are:
James Batal, editor and publish
err Cleghorn Courier, Fitchburg,
Mass, now with the Owl in New
York; Arthur w. Hepner, St. Louis
Post-Dispatch reporter; Frank W.
Hewlett, United Press war cor.
respondent; Robert j. Manning
state department. reporter for the
United Press at Washington; Cary
Robertson, Sunday editor of the
(Cor{;ruod ~, D,ro T,hro.. rov 0\
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Australian Troops Make New Landing
In Balikpapan Headwaters Arel

MANILA, Monday, July o.
W.H-Australian Seventh Division
troops nave made a new landing
in the headwaters of Balikpapan
Bay on Eastern Borneo while Al
lied heavy bombers have wiped
out a japanese base in the North
ern Celebes across Makassar
Strait, Gen. Douglas Macarthur
announced today.
The new Borneo landing was
made Friday night and Saturday
morning at Tempadoeng, IA miles
Northwest of Balikpapan, after a
six-1nile shore-to-shore jump. There
was no opposition and the Aus
tralians sent patrols six miles
southeast to the village of Ber-
angoe without meeting opposition.
Heavily armed U. S. naval
landing craft in cooperation with
Australian Spitfires attacked and
completely wiped out a japanese
barge hideout in the nearby Rikc
river, according to the Netherlano
News Agency Aneta.)
1t. Gen. George C. Kenney's 18th
Air Force stepped up its hammer
ing of the Japanese in the north
ern Celebes, some 230 miles Eas
of Borneo, by sending 20 Liberatol
bombers to destroy the enemy bas'
at Toboli in the Gulf of Tomini.
The planes heaped scores Of 100
pound bombs on Toboli, site o
large Japanese troop concentra
tons, and completely levelled tn
town, Toboli is the Tomini gull
terminal of the Japanese sup
ply road across the narrow waist o
land separating the Northern is
land from it's Southern section. I
was the first raid against Toboli
The Makassar strait termina
Of the road, Donggala, has beer
repeatedly and heavily hit by Al
lied filters blasting Japanese in
stallations and airfields in tina
area.
Other night bombers of the Fa1
Eastern Air Force returned agar
to hammer Japanese installation:
in the Pescadores islands West O.
Formosa,, while other planes de
stroyed or damaged 43 large junks
and luggers along the China coas'
near Hong Kong.
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BRITISH NAVY MEN
SEARCHING CLYDE
FOR GERMAN MINES

LONDON, July 22.-R)-A Ger
man submarine slipped into the
Firth of Clyde three weeks before
We Day and planted Is large
magnetic mines, three of which
have not been located despite a
search since April 20, when the
first of them exploded and sank a
200-ton fishing trawler.
Disclosing this today, the Ad
iniralty said an area of more
than 1000 square miles had beer
dragged by Royal Navy mine.
sweepers.
Both the Queen Mary ano
Queen Elizabeth, loaded with
American troops returning to the
United States, have made at least
two departures down the Clyde
since the potential danger has
existed. They are equipped with
every known anti-mine device.
After We Day, the Admiralty
said, the commander of the u
boat 218, one of the first Nazi sub
marines to surrender, told question
ers he had penetrated the Clyde
April 10 and laid Is mines. He
gave the exact position where each
was placed.
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FINALLY
RECOGNIZES LAW

WASHINGTON, July o. up -
Japan has agreed, after three and
a half years of war, to comply
with the international law permit
ting neutral observers to visit
prisoner-of-war camps.
The State Department disclosed
the japanese decision today in an
announcement that Switzerland
will take over representation OF
Japanese interests in this country.
Spain represented Japan here un-
til April 4, 1915, when it decided
to stop after receiving unsatis-
factory replies from Tokyo to pro-
tests about treatment of Spaniards
in the Philippines.
The announcement said the Jap
anese then asked the Swiss to
take over. Since the Swiss also
represent United States interests
in Japan, they said they would
agree on condition that Tokyo al
lowed their observers to visit "all
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ICKES PLANNING
TERRITORY END

WASHINGTON, July o. WD -
Secretary of the Interior Harold
L. Ickes is planning a policy dec
laration aimed at future iquida.
ton of U. S. territories and de-
pendent areas through political
self-determination, it was disclosed
tonight.
The plan, which may be Ickes'
swan-song to Washington political
life, points at final disposal of the
nations outlying possessions &C.
cording to the democratically-ex-
pressed will of their peoples.
Ickes is expected to leave the
cabinet within a month or six
weeks, according to reliable quar-
tiers which said that President Tru-
man soon will accept the self
styled "old curmudgeon's" resig-
nation. The source said there is
mo acute reason for 1ckes' de-
parture "other than that the Presi-
dent wants a cabinet Of his own
choosing. 80: s.''ss% t.'- v.
Ickes has been charged with the
administration of territories. and
island possessions since. 1884. He
said recently that colonial" ad'
ministration under the Interior De-
partment was a ''ness" and that
a coherent policy" is needed.
Under his plan, which parallels
President Truman's Potsdam dec
laration that the United States
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JAPANESE TROOPS
IN BREAGGTHR0UCH
45.MiIe Dent In Chinese
Lines M a d e On In
vasion Coast

CHUNGKING, July %. - P -
Japanese troops covering lob miles
in % days. have made a 45-mila
breakthrough along China's in
vasion coast opposite Formosa
in drive apparently designed TO
build up defense wall against
any possible Allied landings, the
Chinese High Command acknowl-
edged tonight.
While the enemy forces battled
to link their pockets in the seaports
Of Annoy and Swatow in Southeast
China, battle-tough Chinese veter
ans frightened their siege arc
around the Japanese-held airbase
city of Kweilin, a communicate re-
Vealed
Striking southwestward toward
Swallow, the japanese advanced
from a point six miles south OF
Yunsiao, midway between Annoy
and Swallow, crossed the border
from Fukien Province into KWang-
tung and captured Chaoan, 20 miles
north of Swallow, the communique
said.
Chaoan, a port on the Han river
Delta and the site of an airdrome,
was, however, recaptured by the
Chinese in bitter fighting and al
Friday noon still was in the hands
Of Generalssio Chang Kai-Shek' :
troops.
The 45-mile Japanese advances
from the Yunsiao area to Chaoan
took several days and was made
by troops who were landed on the
coast south of island-bound Annoy
June 80 and now are threatening
10 break through for a link witt,
enemy forces holding the former
treaty port Of Swallow.
Chungking observers expressed
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TRIAL OF PETAIN
WILL OPEN TODAY

PARIS, July o. W.H Henri
Philippe Petain, 89-year-old former
head of the Vichy Government, sat
tonight in a heavily guarded cell
built specially for him in the Palace
of Justice, resting in the few hours
that remain before he goes on trial
on charge of betraying the France
which once honored him as a mar
shall of her armies.
Petain was brought to the palace
secretly in the "Black Maria Sat-
urday from the Montrouge prison.
He has been held at Mntrouge al
most, all the time since he gave
himself up on the collapse of Ges-
mony and has spent his time COM
posing his memories. His wife was
reported with him at the Justice
Palace as she was at Montrouge.
Before leaving Montrouge, he was
permitted to confer with Marcel
Peyrouton, former Vichy Interior
Minister, to clarity a point of his
defense involving the Dec. 49, 1910
arrest of Pierre Laval, Vichy chief
of government now fugitive in
Spain. It was reported their con-
ference confirmed Petains conten-
ton that he gave Pelrouton a free
hand to arrest Laval.
Only a few spectators were pres
ent as he was moved into the JUS
tice Palace. The Republican guards
and police. 600 of which will guard
the building and it's surrounding
during the trial, doubled their
vigilance.
Republican guards had walked
those pavements before to guard
notable prisoners of France. In
1893 Marie Antoinette, Queen OF
France, was led forth from the
Justice Palace to the Guillotine
after revolutionary court found
her guilty of treason.
A France smarting under the
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Conference
May Discuss
Jap Defeat
BIG THREE BUSY
Deliberations Resumed AT.
ter Truman Attends
Church Services
BY MERRIMAN SMITH


United Press Staff Correspondent
POTSDAM, July 22.-U.H-Presi-
dent Truman, Marshal Josef Stain
and Prime -Ministe ter Winston
Churchill returned again to their
mOmentous discussions today amid
indications that the most vital mill
tary issue in the Allied world-the
defeat of Japan-may be laid be-
fore the Big Three conference be-
fore the week is ended.
1t was believed probable that the
question of the Japanese war
would be brought up before the
conference by President Truman,
who already has voiced his de-
termination to achieve the quickest
possible victory in the Far East to
save American lives.
Reports yesterday said the Big
Three have cleared their agenda OF
all preliminary routine and now
are prepared to make their fate
full decisions dealing with major
economic and military problems.
It was believed the Big Three
will dispose of their top European
problem - an overall ECONOMIC
policy for postwar Europe and
broad details governing the oc-
cupation of Germany - before
turning to the vital issue of Japan.
The virtual news blackout on the
discussions continues. The only Of
ficial news Sunday was a brief
announcement that the conference
reported officially that much seri-
Truman, Stain and Churchill met
again in the former Kaiser's
| palace at Potsdam.
This announcement followed the
first definite statement of accom-
plishment yesterday when it was
ported officially that much serl-
GUS business has been done in
the first four days of discussions.
The Big Three did not even per.
NIT the Sabbath to interfere with
the urgent matters of world import
receiving their attention in the
high-ceilinged conference room of
the palace.
President Trum n attended
church services in the morning be-
fore he returned to the discussions
in the afternoon. AS the leaders
met, a freak cyclonic storb struck
the shattered German capital. The
storm ripped Up trees, levelled tot
tering walls in Berlin'S ruins and
delayed army communications.
The storm lasted only few min
utes and early reports said there
were no casualties.
There were no new indications
today when the conference will end.
When Truman and Churchill ar
rived a week ago, it was estimated
the session would last from 10 days
to three weeks. There is feel
ing now that it is likely to run
the full three weeks, indicating the
wide scope of issues to be decided.
While the strictest secrecy sur
rounded the discussions themselves
correspondents still were permitted
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25attleship Nagato, AS Other
Ships, $50 Planes Destroyed, Damaged
By Mighty Third Fleet In Ten-Day Raids
Singapore Drive
Expected Shortly

COLOMBO, Ceylon, July %.
-P)-The Times of Ceylon said
today that a new Allied often
sive with Singapore as the
great prize" was expected
soon.
"Singapore is a great prize,
not necessarily to use as a
great naval base again, but for
securing sea passage through
the Malacca Strait which would
greatly shorten the haul of
supplies to our forces in the
Pacific" the editorial said.
cit is worth noting that Singa-
pore is only 800 miles from
where Australian troops are
now operating in BorneO."
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Light Units
Also Blast.
0mura Town
BRITISH TAKE PART
Raiders Meet Strong Anti
Aircraft Fire At Yoko-
suka Base
By EDWARD L. THOMAS

United Press War Correspondent
GUAM, Monday, July 23.-U.p-
Adm. william F. Halsey's mighty
Third Fleet, augmented by units
of the British Navy, destroyed or
damaged 416 ships, including the
81, 7O2-ton battleship Nagato, and
$50 planes in their sweeping at
tacks along the coast of Japan
which are now in their 18th day,
it was disclosed today.
Lifting the curtain of secrecy
which had shrouded activities OF
history's mightiest fleet since it
bombarded the japanese shoreline
South of Tokyo early last Thursday,
Adm. Chester w. Nimitz announc-
ed that light units operating in the
same area today destroyed or DAM
aged an entire four-ship convoy.
Other light units of the Third
Fleet, Nimitz disclosed, early Mon
day morning shelled the town of
Omura on the island of Chichi, in
the BONN islands 165 miles north
VI AlllS1ICdll 1lC1o lWO ollo 'No
miles south of Tokyo.
Nimitz disclosed that in last
Wednesdays aerial bombardment
of the Tokyo area by some 1,500
American and British planes, U.
S. Navy pilots attacking the Yoko-
suka naval base 80 miles south Of
Tokyo heavily damaged the battle
ship Nagato, previously damaged
in the Philippines sea battle last
October.
The Americans, it was disclosed,
found only a small part of the
remnants of the japanese fleet at
Yokosuka. They attacked through
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