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The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-06-07
GORMAN NOW TIMEEEKPER

LaVerne CBuster) German, former
linotype operator at The Courier, is
now serving as a timekeeper in ship
yards in Portland, he has written
local friends. He left here in 1913.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-06-07
TRAINS AT WOLTERS

Private Clarence L. Rasmussen,
whose wife lives in Glasgow, has ar
rived at Camp Wolters. Texas, to
begin his basic training as an in
fantryman. He has been assigned to
a battalion stressing rifle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-06
Newman Not pected To Survive Day

Fort Worth, Texas, July 6.-(UP) They bought new ribbons and new ehevrons today for Cpl. Jim New man. That was so he'll be in prop CT uniform when he gets out of bed and strolls along his hometown s~eets again.
 The decorationS-Six of them for the boy who fought on Bataan, spent three years in a Japanese prison camp and then came home to die will be pinned on new uni form for Corporal Jim.
 If he lives to wear it-and his doctors said it would be a miracle if he survived the day-the two stripes will be strange. He got the promotion after his liberation on Luzon.
 Still very much alive and still cocky in the face of medical ver- oict he was dying, the soldier re- stunned reading fan mail and tele- grams pouring in from all over America.
 The ribbons were gift from the corporals brother, E. L. Newman, Of Houston. Among them are an American defense ribbon with one star; a Philippine defense ribbon; Philippine liberation ribbon, a presidential citation badge and the combat infantryman's badge.
 Mrs. O. Fl Newman said the fan nail-a source of amazement to Jim-is helping her son to get well. That and his daily prayers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-06
GI Racket Uncovered

Hampstead, N. Y, July 6.-fUF1 First air force investigators at Mitchell Field disclosed today that they had discovered a soldier -civil- ian racket reaping huge sums from sale of false medical discharges and transfers from outfits alerted for combat duty overseas.
 Names and details will be revealed later, First Air Force Headquarters said, but the preliminary report said two non-medical officers at tached to the hospital stan of the Mitchell Field base were involved, along with others.
 With investigation still in pro~ gress. the First Air Force said tho freedom for money, safety -caslz racket was cooperative scheme linking civilian middlemen and n1ili- tary personnel.
 Evidence indicates" 1" Headquarters said, that payments of money were made to certain interruptions civil~ ians in the metropolitan area and that the soldiers (names) were passed on by them to military members of the conspiracy at Mitchell Field who then effecte3 completion of the fraudulent pr0@ cessing."
 Bogus medical discharges were priced at several thousand dol= lars," investigators said, and trans@ fers from hot outfits" (those ready to ship overseas for cornbat) t9 units in a safer position cost less.
 Detection of the racket came last April when Mitchel Field officers discovered that several enlisted men from ground and air force units had been granted fraudulent sx- tensions of furloughs.
 Check showed that false ofhciaA messages had been sent to tl1e home stations of these men none of whom were from Mitchel Field advising their commanders that th4
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ss Picketing was resumed at the four New York evening newspapers involved shortly after the 10 a. m. deadline. Six pickets were at the Journal-American plant, four at the Post, four at the World-Tele- gram and two at the Sun. Picket ing of morning newspapers contin- ued.
 Louis Waldman, union attorney, called closed conference of union officials at his office at 9:30 a. m. The meeting continued after the deadline union officials had declined comment on the VILE order before the meeting.
 It was learned at police head quarters that the union which is unaffiliated, had called a member ship meeting for Monday. It had been reported earlier that a Sum- day meeting had been set. Union leaders said they could not call of the strike without a vote of the membership.
 The strikers faced possible loss
 
 of any retroactive benefits which might accrue under a contract en- tered into later with the Newspaper Publishers association of New York City.
 The WLB last night threatened forfeiture of such benefits in a tele- graphed order to union officials to end the strike by 10 a. m. today. This action followed a telegram sent the VILE by the publishers calling attention to the defiance of the union in continuing the strike and asking for VILE steps to end it.
 Millions of New York and subur- ban readers were unable to get newspapers as the 1.7o0 delivery men remained out for the sixth day. Over the counter sales continued, however, at all papers except the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-06
JAPAN BLASTED FOR 31sT STRAIGHT DAY
CITY BILLS
 REACH DESK
 OF BALDWIN

Waterbury bills passed by the Legislature have arrived at the desk of Governor Baldwin from the expressing clerk today and await the governors review and likely signature. The chief execu- tive is not expected to re- turn to Hartford before Mon day and is now attending the governors conference in Michigan, his office today told The Democrat.
 The bills include the hotly contested and now revised city pension bill, the asses sor's bill, charter change bill and minor other ones.
 5-Man Commission
 The pension bill which was re- vised at the last minute and hur- ried through the legislature during its final days of session will insti- tute in the city the first formal pension system ever had there. It provides for a five-man pension commission. Contributions provid- ed for by the bill, by employees, are 5 per cent by policemen and fire men, and per cent by general em- ployes and teachers. Service retire. ment provisions entail 30 years service and the age of 60 years for policemen and firemen; 25 years and age 65 or 35 years of service for general employees and 25 years ot service for teachers
 Under this bill. one and 2-3 per- cent for each year of service will constitute the amount of pension allowance. Disability retirement service connected, will be met by payment to the employe of one half pay while death benefits will be made up of, service connected or after 10 years service, of pay ment of one-fourth pay to widows of policemen and fremen, and for general employees and teachers the option of reduced allowance to be continued to the widow.
 Under the assessors bill provi- sions are made for a chief assessor at an annual salary of $7.500 in- stead of the present five-man board of tax cosnTaissieners.. Assistants may be appointed by the chief as- sessor at salary approximatlng $4,000 itAhas been stated by author ities although the latter salary is not contained in the bill. It also provides that candidates for the board of tax review must have the qualifications of lawyer, or an accountant or realty-experienced layman. As reported here, Aldro
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-06
Pondonsori
 Threatened ByAussies
By HUGH CRUMPLER

Manila, July - (U.P0-Austra- lian troops held all of Balikpapan today and were on the verge of talk ing PandanSari, site of the biggest oil refinery in the Dutch East h. dies.
 The Australians also had captured the valuable Manggar airdrome, 12 miles east of Balikpapan, a com- munique from General Douglas Mac Arthur's headquarters reported to- day.
 The Borneo beachhead now meas ured about IS miles wide and was as deep as four miles inland at some points.
 With the capture of Balikpapan, once teeming oil port but today a smoking, blackened pile of rubble, the Australians won cracking plant, an oil refinery, and a lubri- eating oil and paraffin refinery.
 Pandansari, their next objective on the left flank, was built just be- fore the war on reclaimed swamp land by the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company. Today's communique said the defenses of Pandansari had been penetrated"
 United Press War Correspondent Richard Harris reported from the Balikpapan front that the Pandan- sari oil refinery apparently was al- mot totally destroyed. He said vir- tually all the native quarters in Balikpapan were razed, but that some of the European residences still were standing.
 Harris said that operations still were hindered by the black smoke from burning oil tanks, which has hung over the battle area since the landings last Sunday. Some of the fires were set by the Japanese as they retreated, but most of them resulted from Allied air and naval bombardment.
 In the drive cross-country to Manggar, the Seventh Division met moderate opposition, but their path was thickly mined and booby-trap- ped. They had to ford the Manggar river, wide, shallow stream.
 More than 50 carrier based planes continued to support the Borneo op- eration, while engineers worked to ready the Sepinggang and Manggar airf1elds for land fighters.
 More than a dozen Liberators bombed the airfield at Jesselton, near the tip of North Borneo, and the Bagu Kawa airfeld, south of Kuching. A Seventh Fleet Privateer
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JopHospitoI
 Ship Stopped By Destroyer

Guam, July 6.-(UP)-A United States destroyer twice intercepted Japanese hospital ship, evacuat- ing nearly 1000 starving and sick members of the bypassed Japanese garrison at Wake Island and allowed the ship to proceed toward Japan, Admiral Chester w. Nimitz an- nounced today.
 The U. S. S. Murray, an an- nouncement said, sent boarding parties aboard the TakaSago Maru or July and again yesterday, ap- parently to determine if sine was on a legitimate errand of mercy Or merely transporting Japanese troops to the homeland under protection of the Red Cross.
 ,oa The first search was made some 300 miles
 300 miles north of Wake Island and the second about 100 miles further north after the Takasago had picked up it's cargo of Japan ese, believed to be the greater part of the garrison of Rake.
 The island was seized from the gallant American troops in the early days of the Pacific war.
 The boarding party yesterday found the ship was carrying 974 military patients suffering from malnutrition and tuberculosis.
 She was allowed to proceed to- ward the enemy homeland. The Murray, the announcement said, was exercising its right of visit and search provided for under interna- tional law.
 The Murray, special announce ment here said, also stopped the hospital ship on it's way to Wake July 3, when the ship was found to be carrying crew of 157, includ- ing civilians, Navy boat crew and communications personnel and 189 naval medical personnel.
 Presence of the civilians was not explained in the headquarters an- nouncement.
 Of 49O Navy and ASA Army pa : tents, IA were wounded, 15 were tubercular and the remainder were suffering from severe malnutri- tion."
 It was estimated that Is per cent of the malnutrition cases would not survive the voyage to Japan, the announcement said.
 The inbound search was made about 300 miles north of Wake while the hospital ship was following a southerly course.
 "A boarding party from the de- stroyer searched the ship, receiving tull cooperation from her command ing officer who stated that the veS- eel was en route to Wake Island where it was proposed to evacuate the sick and wounded from the gar rison of that island" the announce ment said.
 ''tIe stated that the ship would remain at Wake for few hours ano then proceed to Japan"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-06

Close to 2S,5OO, ,0O0 votes were cast in generally quiet day. some ob- servers estimated, that figure would be more than 4,500,000 more votes than in any previous election.
 The morning papers let their po- ntical consciences dictate their stories on the election The Labor ite Daily Herald predicted the Con- serFatiyes would lose tat least 100 seats" If they did, Churchill's gov- ernment would be out.
 Lord Beaverbrook Conservative Daily Express, on the other hand. said the government would gain a 60 to 90 per cent majority. It claimed Socialist and Liberal lead- CTS were conceding defeat.
 Despite the heavy ballot, it was a quiet election. The incomplete ness of the voting register, which hadn't been used for 10 years, caus- ed some complaints. At Plymouth hundreds besieged the police sta tion demanding the right to vote and saying they had been residents of the city for years. At Devon- port, it was discovered that a baby's name. was on the registry list. al- though his father was not reg istered.
 Some people turned up at seven a. m. to vote, and the inevitable British Queues formed in front of polling places. There was another
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Circus Tragedy
 Year Old To-day

Hartford, Conn, July 6.-(UP) The Hartford circus fire, which claimed 16S lives and injured more than 625 persons. occurred one year ago today.
 Responsibility for the roaring blaze, which consumed the "big top" of Ringing Brothers -Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, Inc, i'm less than IS minutes, was fixed on five circus officials, now serv- ing prison and jail sentences, and the circus corporation which was fined $1O,O0O.
 Today, all of the persons in- jured in the fire had been dis- charged from hospitals as recov- cred or nearly recovered. The mystery of the unidentified i've years -old curly-haired blond girl Killed i'm the blaze. remained un- solved.
 To date. sl.5oO,ooo in awards to come of the AIS claimants had been made by the special arbitra- tion committee which includes representatives Of the circus, the claimants and . superior court judge
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-06
More Cabinet Changes Seen
By LYLE c, WILSON

Washington, July 6 (U.PD - Further cabinet changes were fore seen here today after President Truman's announcement that Sec- retary of Treasury Henry Morgen- thau. Jr., has resigned.
 The resignation was made public in an exchange between the two men of letters containing the cus- tomary compliments even more lengthy than usual. Political Wash ington was skeptical of the show of contentment.
 Morgenthau will remain in office until MT. Truman returns in August from the Big Three conference near Berlin. The President has a Suc- cessor in mind, and will announce his identity at that time. Among those mentioned for the imminent vacancy were:
 John w. Snyder, of Missouri. Fed eral Loan Administrator; Walter J. Cummings, of Illinois, board chair man of the Continental and Illinois Bank and Trust Company; and Fred M. Vinson, of Kentucky, direc- tor of the Office of War Mobiliza- ton and Reconversion.
 | Four members of the holdover Roosevelt cabinet remain. One of them, Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes, is the last survivor of the original Roosevelt cabinet which took office on March 4, 1883. The others are Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of Navy James V. Forrestal, both of New York, and Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace, of Iowa. Only Wallace's job is deemed to be secure under all forseeable circumstances. Morgenthau will leave the treas ury after heading it since Novern- Der IT, 1883 when he was named undersecretary and acting secretary upon the death of the late William HI. Woodin, the original treasur, secretary in the first Roosevelt cab. inet. Prior to that Morgenthau hat held minor positions under Mir Roosevelt when the latter was gov ernor of New York,
 As secretary of treasury. Morgen thau was responsible for fnancinl the war. The treasury accomplishe' the job at an average interest rat of 3-4 per cent compared with Il-4 per cent in world War I.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-06
Six Joponese Spies
 Executed in Monilo

Manila, July 6. (UP)-Six Jap anese spies were hanged here early in June after one of them made in- quires indicating plot against Gen. Douglas Macarthur. it was disclosed today.
 The executions occurred June 6 and 2. One of the six hanged asked Manila residents where Macarthur and other high-ranking officers lived. He also tried to learn such facts as when MacArthur left home in the morning, and what time he arrived at his offce.
 A Filipino-spy was executed at the same time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-06
Boundaries Up To Biq 3
BY ROBERT J. MANNING

Washington, July y6-(UP)--United States, Britain and Russia, agreed at last on the composition of Polish government, were expected today to settle the question of Po- lands new boundaries at the forth coming big three meeting near Ber- lin.
 Ire books on the bitter American Br,Gish- Russian dispute over the rolish government were closed yes- terday. The United States and Bri- tain formally ended all ties with the London Polish government in exile and established diplomatic relations with the new Warsaw provisional government of national unity.
 American officials revealed that the three Allies already are close to agreement on the next step determination of the Russian-Polish boundary and the amount of Ger man territorly to be awarded the Poles in compensation for eastern Polish soil ceded to Russia under the Yalta agreement.
 American and British recognition of the Warsaw regime paved the way for some final decisions among tae big three on these important esEyitorial questions. Their decisions S3 be almost final, although sub- tsct to ratification by the final peace conference of the United Na- tions.
 The big three, according to well- informed sources, agreed tentatively at Yalta to award Poland 8 slice of German territory measuring rough Iy a little less than one fifth of pre- 1888 Germany. It would include all Germany east of a north-south line Mnning from the Baltic along the
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Japanese broadcasts said 90 Iwo- based Mustang Fighters and lone Superfortress raided a chain of fighter stations surrounding Tokyo at Midway.
 Shortly afterward, waves of Mus tang and Thunderbolt fighters, 160 strong, struck from Okinawa at the KamiKazi fields in southern Kyushu,
 The enemy broadcasts gave no word on the results of the Tokyo attack but claimed that bad weather forced the Kyushu raiders to turn back without hitting their targets.
 Airfields Hit
 The Iwo-based raid was the third straight blow at. the Tokyo area. Striking in across the east coast of Honhu, the American flyers shot up airfields and other military ila- stallations in Chiba, Irabaki and Saitama Prefectures, east, north and west of Tokyo.
 Photo reconnaissance reports dis closed that in attack of the past ten days the B-29s have badly damaged four aircraft factories in two cities. four industrial military plants, on9 oil refinery and one military air- port.
 Hardest hit by the attacks was Tokyshima, the largest city on Sni- koku Island, whose textile mills have been converted to war produc- ton. The city with normal popula- tion of 10000 was "A per cent des- troyed by the July fire raid-tle greatest percentage of destruction yet achieved upon any single Jap city. Only small parts of the western and eastern outskirts of the city re- main.
 About 63 per cent of the build d-np portion of Okayama, 100 miles west of Osaka on Honshu, was burned out in the June 29 attack.
 Another 27 per cent of the Kas waaki aircraft plant at Kaganli@ garara, near Nagoya, was desefoved1 bringing sthe tOssf to sos per cent. The nearby Mitsubishi aircraft works was further damaged, bring ing apparent destruction up to 20 per cent
 Forts Over Tokyo
 The Japanese Domei news agency said nine Superfortresses were oyer east central Honshu, including Tokyo, earlier today, apparently re-
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.4 Perish In
 Resort Fire

Egypt, Mass, July 6.-UP)-Four persons including widow, her brother and two daughters were fatally burned early today when an explosion followed by fire razed their home at this south shore summer resort.
 The victims were:-
 Mrs. John H. Murphy, former Boston school teacher and widow of a reputy state correction commits sioner.
 Jane Murphy, 6.
 Ann Murphy, 3h.
 Paul Dooley, the dead woman'S brother who was discharged only a week ago from the U. s. Army.
 Critically burned and suffering injuries incurred in leap for life from second floor bedroom was Mrs. Murphy's 70-year old mother, Mrs. Marion Dooley.
 All but Ann were trapped and apparently, burned in their beds. She was rescued by an unidentified
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COSCIA TAKEN
 TO PRISON AT
 WETHERSFIELD
tBY Al,NE c. zEMAITIs)

(BY .AlvNE c. ZEMAITIS)
 Domenic Coscia became Prisoner No. 15276 today at WetherSfield State Prison, where he was taken last night to begin a sentence of 10 to Is years on a convic- tion of manslaughter for the shotgun staying of Adolph Cyr last September 28 at 419 Washington avenue.
 The verdict of manslaugh- ter was returned by a super for court jury of six men and six women at 4::44 yesterday afternoon, following deliber- ation of more than three hours. Sentence was inn posed by Judge John A. Cor nell, following brief argu- ments by counsel.
 The diminutive, 51-year old. for nler factory worker, who had been charged with first degree murder for the shooting of his wifes broth er-in-law, was unconsolable after the proceedings ended. and was in tears for many minutes after he was led to the cell in the basement cf the courthouse.
 Under Quarantine
 Today Coscia was placed under quarantine at the prison" He will not be allowed to have visitors for two weeks, in accordance with pris- on regulations, Warden Ralph Walker announced.
 He was described by prison of- Bcial9 to be under control and feel ing ''all right" today. He is In ward with other newcomers at the institution and today took his meals with them. He will not be allowed to mingle with other in- mates until the quarantine period ends.
 Before he was led by Sheriffs Chris Olsen and Eugene Fitzpat- rick and six local police officers from the courthouse for the final time yesterday, Coscia told report ere md court attendants that he wished to express gratitude to his friends for sticking by him. T hope for better days iii the future," he stated between sobs
 1t is understood that neighbors. relatives, and friends of the ac- cused had raised portion of the funds necessary for his legal ex-
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|vviIIiom Kirschboum|
 |ColIopses From Heot|

Temperature in downtown Wa terbury rose to moderate 80 de- grees at noon today, from a mid- night low of 70, but oppressive humidity made the day decidedly uncomfortable.
 One heat exhaustion case was reported at local hospitals. Wil- liam Kirschbaum, 73; 20 Delaware avenue, was stricken in the Post Office shortly before noon, and taken to Waterbury hospital In the police ambulance by Patrol men Augustus RinaIdi and yohn ] iAEcg2enelI.