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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-05
Boys, IS, Only Draftees After Germany CoHapses

turn IS each month, of which about 70 per cent are acceptable under present draft regulations.
 They should be enough for the replacement problem confronting us in the war against Japan" com mented one member of the senate military affairs committee. "The real job will be one of demobiliza- tion of the men already in service rather than drafting anything more than replacements."
 The Army already has nearly B. 100000 men in uniform.
 That's more than we can use in the Pacific war;" it was said. We haven't even got the shipping to put that many men in the Pacific. "
 The Navy revealed yesterday that 1t is lowering its calls for men through selective service and by June will be calling up only half as many as the 35,00O drafted monthly during the past year.
 It is contemplated that not more than 100000 men will be left in Europe as an Army of occupation.
 Congressional leaders generally believed that all men over 18 who have not been drafted before the German collapse therefore will never sec service in the present war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-05
Penn Coal Strike On

Pittsburgh, April Strikes in the Pennsylvania soft coal fields developed today into an open revolt against the leadership of the United Mine Workers.
 Rowing pickets went through the coal fields, discouraging budding re turn-to-work movements.
 A truck driver at Perryopolis, Fayette county, said he was forced to turn back from the mines with his truckload of miners when mo- torized pickets forced him at gun. point Ito go home"
 AS production slumped and mines were closed throughout the coal fields, some strikers were reported visiting miners at their homes to urge them to stay out until a new UNIV contract is signed with the operators.
 The walkouts, now in their third day, cut into vital steel production. Some UNIV officials admitted frankly that the stubbornness of the striking miners had caught them off guard. It was the old story of mo contract-no work" despite John L. Lewis agreement to extend the contract which expired at mid- night March 31.
 Preliminary reports indicated that the production picture today would be worse than yesterday when 28,O0O miners were idle. With production of 116,000 tons, the pro- duction loss Tuesday was 45O,OOO tons.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-05

Washington, April 5.-(UP)-Tht War Department expects to draft nothing but 18-year-old boys after the collapse of Germany, it was re- ported in congressional circles to- day.
 Plans for Army strength after VIE day have been under discussion re- gently between military and con- gressional representatives in con- nection with two bills now pending in the senate.
 One measure would extend the selective service act for one year beyond the present May IS expira- tion date.
 The other would permit reSump- tion of enlistmentS in the regular United States Army instead of the war time Army of the United States. It is designed to build up a regu- lar Army force that will continue in service through the period of postwar demobilization of draftees. Discussions in connection with those two bills, in addition to gen. eral demobilization plans, have given congressional leaders the inn- pression that the Army wants only 1S-year-olds after Germany is de- feated. Approximately 100000 boys
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-05
Honshu Island BIozes Raqinq

Guam, April 5.-(UP)-Big fleets of B-29 superfortresses left fires burning in five target areas af- ter yesterdays pre-dawn attack on Honshu Island, 21st bomber com mand headquarters announced to- day.
 Three of the targets were bombed for the firstt ime by the big raid- ers-an aircraft engine plant at Shizuoka, 85 miles southwest of Tokyo, and the Tachikawa and Ma kajima Aircraft plants in the Tokyo suburbs.
 Some B-29s, thrown off their course by bad weather, attacked ln- dustrial targets in urban Tokyo and at Kawasaki, on the shore of Tokyo Bay between the capital and Yoko- hama.
 We saw reflections of fires Cx- tending along the coastline from the Tokyo Bay dock area to Yoko- hama" said Capt. Joseph L. Ham ilton of Alton, H., whose plane nit the Tachikawa factory and rock area.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-05
Reds Fight On Capital Outskirts
BY ROBERT MUSEL

London, April 5-(UP) Russian troops and tanks laid siege to Vienna along a 50-ml1e arc today. Van guards were fighting through the southeastern outskirts of the Aus trian capital.
 Massed Russian artillery and Red Air Force bombers pumped ton after ton of explosives into the burning city, which Adolf Hitler has ordered defended to the death to protect the back door to Germany.
 A Moscow dispatch said assault forces fighting the suburbs of Vien- na had been joined by the Vanguard of other army units racing vest ward from captured Bratislava, and the junction of the two armies was expected to result in the speedy fall of the capital.
 Bratislava Falls
 Vienna's last big outer fortress, the Slavakian capital of Bratislava, 25 miles to the east, was toppled yesterday by Marshal Rodion Y. MalinovSky'S Second Ukrainian Army group.
 Malinovsky's forces rushed on through the Bratialava Gap be- tween the Danube and Lake Neu- sielder for a frontal smash at Vien- na while Marshal Feodor I. Tolbuk- hin's Third Ukrainian Army group closed in on the city from the southwest, south and southeast.
 The Third Army group broke into the outskirts of Vienna after capturing zwoelfaxing, only two miles southeast, yesterday. The advance carried seven miles inside the greater Vienna administrative district and cut the Munich-ake Neusiedler super-highway.
 Heiligenkruez, 10 miles southwest of Vienna, Gaaden, eight miles southwest, and Baden, 10 miles south, also fell to Tolbukhin's troops. Heiligenkruez lies only nine miles below the Vienna Munich railway and highway.
 Advances of up to 50 miles were reported along a 50-mile front from ake Neusiedler to the Alpine foot hills.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-05

The QeclS1On was taken at an emergency cabinet session at 9:3O a. m. Tokyo time, the Tokyo ra- dio said, Koiso proceeded to the imperial palace and presented the resignations len bloc" to Emperor Hirohito at 10:30 a. m.
 The KoiSo cabinet went into of- flee eight and half months ago after the overthrow of the extrem- ist government of Gen. Hideki Tojo in political crisis touched off by the loss of Saipan in the Magianas.
 Koisos ministers, mostly con- servative elder army, navy and business leaders, had been expected to rally the Japanese people and armed forces for new exertions to stem the Allied march toward Japan.
 Disaster On Disaster
 But instead disaster followed dis. aster. The cabinet weathered the furor caused by the SuperfortreSs offensive against Japan, the inva- sion of the Philippines and even the loss of Two island, only 75O miles south of Tokyo, to American marines last month. The success ful invasion of Okinawa was the final straw, however.
 Who will succeed Koiso was problematical, Koiso, like Tojo, was a product of the ruthless Kwangtung army in Manchuria, though perhaps slightly more mod crate than his predecessor.
 Should another army or navy man be chosen to succeed Koiso, Far Eastern observers looked for a final frantic effort to prepare Japan to repel the ultimate Allied invasion of the homeland itself.
 An all-civilian cabinet, however, might be the first step toward peace.
 The text of the board of infor- nation announcement on the res ignation of the Koiso cabinet, as quoted by Tokyo, was as follows:
 In view of the gravity of the war situation, the entire Koiso ca binet decided to resign en masse. Premier Koiso, after having as- sembled the resignations of the ca binet members, presented them to the throne today.
 Earlier Japanese broadcasts had reported merely that an emergency cabinet meeting had been held to discuss various current problems" on which Koiso subsequently, report ed to the throne.
 After his audience with Hirohito, earlier broadcasts said, Koiso resum- ed deliberations with his cabinet un- til noon. Among the principal mat
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Planes Over Reich
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London, April 5.-(UP)-Lt. Gen, James H. Doolittle hurled more than 1900 Warplanes at air fields, rail yards, supply dumps and other tar gets in the Munich Nuremberg area of southern Germany today.
 Upward of 1,2OO U. s. Eighth Air Force heavy bombers and 600 fight CTS swarmed over Bavaria to strike crushing blows in support of Ameri- can troops advancing from the west and the Red Armys drive from the southeast.
 Well over 1000 British bombers last night attacked the sources of oil from the German war machine. The combined American and 6ri- tish attacks put nearly 5000 planes over the Reich within few hours.
 Doolittle's flying fortresses. L;b- orators and escorting fighters hit German ordnance depots at h. golStadt, 40 miles northeast of Ml'- nich, and GrafenWohr, 40 mics northeast of Nuremberg; rail tar- gets at Nuremberg, Bayreuth and Plauen; and air fields at Undter- schlauersback, southwest of Nuern- berg.
 Other targets of the broadside aimed at the keystones before Ger many's So-called national Redoubt" ill the mountains were not identi- fled.
 Nazi radio reports of widespread air activity over Thuringia, Bo- hemia, Franconia, and Saxony in- dicated that all of central and southern Germany was under at- tack or threatened.
 The Air Ministry announced that synthetic oil plants ill the areas of Merseburg and Hamburg were the primary targets of the British night raiders out in "very great 
 Mosquito bombers also made their customary night nuisance stab at Berlin.
 Lancaster and Halifax heavy bomberS hit the Lutzkendorf a1d Luena oil plants in the Mersepurg area and the Rhenania oil refin- cry at HaIburg, across the river from Hamburg.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-05
M'Arthur On Mosbote Isle
BY H. D. QUIGG

Manila, April 5. 'CUP)-Gen Douglas Macarthur brought the Philippines campaign to it's final stage today with the seizure of Masbate Island and said Japan's entire stolen empire to the souttl now was isloated.
 Masbate, 1,262-square mile island oil the southeastern tip of LuZon was the 18th island in the Philip. pine invaded by MacArthtur'S Amer ican forces. Units of the 48th divi- sion landed on Masbate Tuesday against little opposition and were rapidly securing the entire island.
 Maintaining the strict blockade of the southwest Pacific swarms of heavy and medium bombers and fighters shuttled across the China seas from the Philippines in wide spread assaults from the China coast to French Indo- China.
 More than 100 Liberater,: escorted by fighters, delivered the first heavy attack on the big shipping base on Hong Kong Monday from Philip pines bases. The Kovloon and Taikoo docks were plastered with 126 tons of bombs which started fires sending smoke more than mile into the air.
 Three Jaanese planes were shot down and two others probably de- stroyed over Hong Kong without loss to the American forces.
 Mitchell Medium bombers again raided Formosa, hitting rail trans port targets and an alcohol plant near Tainain which was left burn- ing fiercely, while naval patrol planes sank 8 destroyer escort, a l0y0OO-ton tanker and six freighters ln strikes from Shanghai to French 1ndo-C China.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-05
Krug Meets Car Makers
By HERBERT K. LEWIS

Detroit, Mich, April 5-(UP)-J A. Krug, War Production Boarl chairman, was scheduled to confer today with Automobile Industry leaders amid widespread controv- ersy over whether the government planned to authorize the production of 25O00O automobiles this year.
 Industry leaders preferred te wait until after the defeat of Ja- pan and open up with all-out car production, than begin partial pro- duction immediately. They feared partial production because of the in- ability to meet demand would cre- ate black market.
 Charles E. Wilson, General Mo- tors President, said 100000 cars was the minimum number that could be produced to sell lat less than black market prices"
 Wilson said he knew nothing of a reported meeting in Washington between manufacturers and Krug who was said to have told the pro- ducers the government would ap- prove partial reconversion to civil ian production late in 1945.
 No General Motors executives attended such a conference, Wilson said. George Romney Executive Di- rector of the Automotive Council for War Production, also doubted that Krug had promised a recon version go-ahead for this year.
 Krug told me-" Romney said, that he was coming to Detroit to, insure that the industry would make war production its number one business until Japan's defeat"
 The report of the Washington conference, published in a local said that Krug had met
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-05
New German Drive Seen
By w. R. HOIGGINBOTHAM

London, April 5 = CU.P.) - A Nazi broadcast said today that Adolf Hitler, in his first public ut- terance since the Allied break through in the west, appealed to German soldiers to hold until 8 new German offensive is launched soon.
 Hitler made the appeal 8 few days ago while addressing an Army unit which had distinguished itself on the eastern front, a brief broadcast by the German Westphalian Station said.
 He told the soldiers 1t was nec- essary for the German Army to hold firm against the enemy until the new offensive could be launched in the near future, the station said in a broadcast recorded by the BEG.
 The address presumably was in- tended to raise NaI hopes of . German offensive such as broke through the Allied lines in Belgium and Luxembourg last December and delayed the American British push across the Rhine.
 european reports said Hitler was believed to have moved every prom inent Allied parsonage in German hands into a '1ast-stand zone'' around Berchtesgaden where they will be used as hostages to bargain for the lives of Nazi war criminals.
 Among those shifted to hideouts in the Bavarian Alps, the London Daily Herald said, were reported to be King Leopold of Belgium, former French Premier Paul Reynaud, Ja- kob Stalin, son of Premier Stalin. and Kurt Won Schuschnigg, former premier of Austria.
 The Herald suggested that Hitler was planning to threaten to kill these hostages unless he and mem bers of the Nazi Cant were granted amnesty.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-05
Clean Cut German Surrender Not Likely Says Eisenhower

1 Washington, April 5.-(UP)-Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower, suprem i commander of Allied Armies in Eu rope, has written to President tha there probably twill never be { clean cut military surrender" of tht German armies, the White House disclosed today.
 Eisenhower said that if the pres ent situation continues, V-E-Day (Victory in Europe) will be signal ized only by an Allied proclama- tion and not by any definite col lapse of German resistance.
 He foresaw guerilla warfare which would require for its suppreS- sion very large number of troops. '
 The further the European cam paign progresses, Eisenhower wrote MT. Roosevelt, "The more probable it appears that there will never be a clean cut military surrender of the forces on the western front"
 Our experience to date is that even when formations as small as a division are disrupted" he said, "their fragments continue to fight until surrounded. This attitude if continued will likely mean that a V-E-Day will come about only by a proclamation on our part rather than any definite or decisive col- lapse or surrender of German re- Sistance.
 Projecting this idea further, it would mean that eventually all the areas in which fragments of the German army, particularly the paratrooper, panzer and SS ele- ments, may be located, will have to be taken by the application of or the threat of force. This would lead into a form of guerilla war fare which would require for it's suppression a very large number of troops"
 Eisenhower added that if the German government or any group that could take political control would make a national surrender "then all armed bodies remaining in the field would, in my opinion,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-05
Bradley in Charge Of American Ninth

Paris, April 5.-CUP)-The Amer ican Ninth Army has reverted tc the operational command of Gen Omar N. Bradley, commander of the American 18th Army group, su- preme headquarters announced to- day.
 The change followed the army.s completion of its mission with the 21st Army group under Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery. The Ninth Army crossed the Rhine with the British Second Army abou. ten days ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-05
Okinowo Isle
 Yonks Slowed Down By Jops
By FRANK TREMAINE

Guam, April 5 = U.P.) = The showdown battle of southern Okin- ava and the Japanese island bas- tion's caiptal city of Naha appeared to be shaping up or already mount ing to full fury today.
 Field reports said suddenly stiff- ened resistance had slowed the 10th Army's advance on Okinawa to Snail's pace. The Japanese were fighting hard from well pre- pared positions-perhaps the lines on which they chose to undertake 8 stand = little more than four miles north of Naha.
 Both American and Japanese tanks were jockeying for position. A front dispatch reported the pos- sibility of a major tank battle, the first of the war in the Pacific, on the plain between Naha and Kani- kau.
 In one sector Japanese tank concentration already had stalled the American push temporarily. A United Press Correspondent on the scene said the Americans were re- lying heavily on tanks now, since their high velocity, poit blank fire was the best way of hitting strong enemy emplacements.
 Apparently we have reached the outpoSts of enemy defenses in the south, where 8 force of as many as 6O,000 Japanese may be con- cealed," United Press Correspond ent Edward L. Thomas reported from an advanced command post on Okinawa.
 He said Japanese strong points appeared to be scattered through the hills around the villages of Ka- niku, TsuWa and Tanbaru. Ap- preaching them, the Americans overran several preliminary lines of resistance in advances of 500 to 1,500 yards down the 3 1-2 mile wide isthmus separating central and southern Okinawa.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-05
Second TrioI
 In Zone Case Now Probable
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Plaintiffs in the East End zoning litigation, which involves the Syca- more Corporation building at the corner of East Main and Wales streets, tomorrow will seek permis- sion from Superior Court Judge John A. Cornell to amend their complaint, as 8 first step toward seeking new trial.
 A decision in favor of the plain tiffs was rendered by Judge Cornell in June, 1942, but the state supreme court of errors last month found error and remanded the case to the trial court.
 One of the errors found by the high court involved failure of the plaintiffs to file a sufficient bond The motion to amend, which is scheduled for hearing at the short calendar session of the court to- morrow, requests permission to in- clude a paragraph in the complaint on a bond.
 The requested amendment states, Henry J. Corden as principal and Laurence A. Kenny as surety, both of Waterbury, jointly and severally acknowledge themselves bound to the zoning Board of Appeals of the City of Waterbury in the sum of $75 that the said Henry Corden, Helen Meridas, Frank Gaglione, and the Waterbury Second Mortgage Corp, shall prosecute this appeal to effect and shall comply with the orders and decrees of the court to which this appeal is taken"
 The issue of the board was raised by the defendants, the Sycamore Corporation and the City Zoning Board of Appeals, in a plea of
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-05
Premier Actually Admits Inability To Halt Invaders
BY PHIL AULT

London, April 5. = (UP) = Premier General Kuniaki kolso and the Japanese cabinet resigned today with virtual admission that they poweress to halt the American advance on their homeland
 Japan'S second wartime cabinet fell only four days after American invasion forces stormed ashore on Onawa Island 33O miles southwest of the enemys home islands, against almost non-exstent opposition.
 The Japanese board of information announced that the resgnaonS decided upon n view the gravity of the situation and in order to bring more powerful cabinet" into office
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-05
9th Massing On Weser River On
 4O-Mile Front
BY BOYD D. LEWIS

Paris, April 5. = (UP) = American Third Army troops reported driving into the Harz Mountains 12O miles southwest of Berlin today and the U S. Ninth Army massed at the Weser river 4Oile front for drive down the direct northern speedway to the capital.
 Long lines of German military transport damned the roads east of the Weser beyond Hanover 136 miles make only token fight for the river crossings.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-05
Anti-Nozi Cleric
 Found in HosDitoI

London, April 5. (UP-The British Radio today said that American and British troops have located Bishop von Galep of Muenster. the outSpoken anti-Nazi cleric, living in . hospital in . small town near Nuenster.
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-03-16

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crew chief of the fighter"
the houseboys better and more eff
ficient ways to do things. But they
never changed, and finally | real
lied that they were changing me.
Now in raising this ship they had
used a method three thousand years
old. / have read since how they had
employed it in Burma, long years
before, when the great temple bell
weighing over thirty tons was
thrown into the deep lake to save it
from the heather. When the heath
en- had occupied the land and had
himself been beaten in due time,
probably by the country and by time
itself, they had come back to the
lake, these Chinese, and with bam-
boo poles had raised the thirty tons
of metal.
During my stay in China ! have
watched the Chinese being bombed,
and have seen them 60 out and pick
their dead from among the ruins of
their cities. Then wait bravely for
the Jap to come again, while they
went on scratching out a road with
their bare hands, stoically working
and watching for material to come
over that road with which to fight
the enemy. Waiting patiently, as
though they knew that some day
they would have a chance to fight
the Japanese who have tried to ex-
terminate them.
Even with the small fighter and
bomber force that we now had in
China, the people had taken a new
lease on life. Every time we had an
air battle over Hengyang they would
capture another town along the
Yangtse or near the lakes around
Nanchang. / think we realized then,
as General Chennault had realized
for long time, that all these people
needed was chance, with air sup
port for their ground armies and
modern equipment for their soldiers.
Our small force had put new life
into them. They had plaques en-
broidered in commemoration of the
battles that we fought. These would
sometimes represent the American
eagle holding the flags of America,
Britain, Russia, and China. In Chi
nese characters would be a poetic
account of the battle that the pilot
or the squadron had fought. AS we
drove along the roads in our jeeps
to the field for the alert of the "Jin-
bao," the little children would hold
their thumbs up and call again and
again, "Ding-hao."
More and more we asked our
selves, 'What couldn't we do with
plenty of equipment for the Chinese
ground armies, and us over their
heads with adequate air support"
Would the day ever come when we
could make an attack with force