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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-11
P Pallotti, Comley
 Judgeships Loom
(Far East Air Force Photo from NEA Telephoto)

Hartford, Conn.,, April 11.-(UP) -Gov. Baldwin today nominated Attorney General Francis A. Pal lotti, Hartford, and John M. Com icy, Stamford, as judges of the superior court.
 Both are Republicans and would succeed Judges William H. Com- ley, Bridgeport. and Robert L. Nun ger, Ansonia, who are nearing the retirement age of 70. Judge Comley will be 70 October 12, and Judge Munger July 16. Comley is brother of Judge Comley, and 8 former reporter of the state supreme court of errors. The appointments would be for eight years at $12,000 a year. The nominations require con- firnation by the senate and house.
 The house, meantime, was sched- uled to receive the state labor re- lations act approved yesterday by the senate and amended to correct a typographical error. When re- passed, it will be sent to the gover- nor for signature. The acts extends collective bargaining privileges to about 250OOO workers in intra- state industry.
 The house also may be called upon to approve a joint resolution peti- tioning President Roosevelt to "re- affirm the tenets of the Atlantic charter in order that our ally, Po- land, shall remain territorially intact as free and independent member of the United Nations. It will be submitted by Rep. Helen w. zbi- kowski, D, Bristol.
 Senate action yesterday gave final approval to a resolution to restore the forfeited rights of Charles E. Williamson, former Fairfield county leader convicted five years ago of taking part in legis- lative lobbying conspiracy in be- half of the city of Waterbury. Un- der a new law such resolutions do not have to be signed by the gov. ernOr.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-11
Jops Stall Noho Drive
BY FRANK TREMAINE

Guam, April Il = (UP) - Bitter Japanese resistance stalleN the 24th hrny corps push toward Mana in kouthern Okinawa today, but mar lnes in the north seized a submarine base in a mile-and-a-half advance.
 Other army troops unlocked th@ entrance to Nakagusuku Bay, one of bhe finest naval anchorages south ot papan, with an amphibious landing Tuesday on tiny Tsugen (Tsukata fsland), about 10 miles off the boutheast coast of Okinawa.
 The invasion troops stormed quickly inland from the south coast hnd captured the town of Tsugen against only slight opposition. Mod- erate resistance in the form of small hrms and mortar fire developed later, but officers expected the en- Eire mi1e-long island soon would be m American hands.
 Japanese broadcasts said Amerl- gan warships already were operating In Nakagusuku Bay. Nearly two- thirds of the Okinawa shore of the bay has been captured.
 Marines captured Japanese sub- marine pens and other naval install lations at Unten Bay I the, north boast of Motobu Peninsula, which buts out of the west coast of north- krn Okinawa, yesterday after beat Ing off two small enemy counter kttacks the previous night.
 Torpedoes and mines were seized At Unter Bay, but the enemy had evacuated all submarines and other craft. The base was known to have been 8 lair for midget submarines, though larger types also may have hsed 1t.
 The marines decimated counter Attacking Japanese Monday night, then advanced their lines to Unten Bay in the northwest and the Man. ha river in the southeast. Tsuwa killage was captured.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-11
Army Plans To Send AM
 Able-Bodied Men Across

News that the Army is planning to get all able-bodied troops in this country overseas, presumably to take the place of battle-weary com bat troops for occupation duty in Europe and fighting in the Pacific, came yesterday in letter from Stimson to Rep. George M. Mahon, D., Tex.
 Mahon suggested that the Army "scrape the bottom of the barrel" in this country before switching combat troops from Europe to the Pacific after VIE day.
 StimSon replied that of 2,9OO,O00 men on duty in the U. s. almost half, or about 100000, already are being trained for foreign duty. He said 1S0,000 more were in Army hos pitals, while the remaining 1,365,- 900 were in essential administrative and service jobs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-11
NINTH ARMY CAPTURES ESSEN British Report Germans 0usting Hitler; Fall Of Vienna UnofficiaIIy Disclosed
American And Red Juncture In Next Three Days Looms
BY BOYD D. LEWIS

Paris, April II. = (UP) - The great German arsenal city of Essen fell today in the wake of three American armies racing over the last 100 miles to Berlin at a clip that was expected to bring a iuncture with the Red Army in the next 24 to 72 hours.
 In a day of spreading Nazi military disaster that brought the final collapse ot the Wehrmacht measurably closer, the American First, Third and Ninth armies, more than 100000 strong, broke loose on what appeared to be the final drive for Berlin.
 Vanguards of the Ninth Army in the north were 99 miles or less from the capital early today and all three armies were pounding ahead against disorganized resistance.
 Essen, Germany's greatest manu- featuring city and the core of the Ruhr valley industries, was cap- tured by the Ninth Army's 17th Air Borne Division in an advance into the northern wall of the Ruhr trap.
 Home of the sprawling Kr1lpp works and the sixth largest city in Germany, it was the richest indus trial prize to fall into Allied hands. The German garrison, already more than 100 miles behind the Berlin bound American armies, offered only weak resistance.
 Essen fell barely 24 hours after the Ninth Armys 84th Division had captured the big railway and fac- tory city of Hanover, Cologne and Frankfort on Oder also were in American lands and seven more of Germany's 20 largest cities-Ham- burg, Bremen, Dortmond, Dusiburg, Dusseldorf, Leipzig and Magdeburg were by-passed, under direct att tack or imminently threatened by the Allied sweep.
 The swift equalization of the Es- sen garrison was expected to speed
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-11
Flood Toll Rises To4

New Orleans, La, April 11-(UP) -Helicopters carried food, clothing and medicine to thousands of homeless flood victims in Central Louisiana today as the death toll from swollen streams mounted to four.
 Two Negro workers drowned when their boat overturned near Fletcher Lake while they were tot ing sandbags to weakened spots in Red River levees. Two persons had drowned previously.
 Clarence F. Rowland. head of the National Red Cross disaster con- mittee headquarters at Alexandria said almost 10000 families were af- fected by the floods. More than 10000, he said, had been evacuated. Thousands of refugees were living in tent cities through the stricken area and were being fed from field kitchens.
 Approximately 1,50O,000 acres of land were under water and thous- ands of head of cattle had drowned.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-11
Government Nobs Mines
By CHARLES N. HERROLD

Washington, April 11.-(UP)-Soft coal producers and the United Mine Workers prepared today to ratify a new wage contract estimated by operators to mean an average daily raise of $1.30 for miners and 8 $150. 100000 a year expense to the industry.
 Negotiations for the two parties reached agreement last night short- ly after the government seized 235 coal mines that had been beset by wildcat strikes traceable in part to the uncertainty of the nearly six weeks of wage discussions.
 The seized mines were located in seven states-Pennsylvania, Ohio, Alabama, Virginia, India, Tennessee and Kentucky-and for the most part were the so-called captive mines operated by steel companies.
 The new contract, which still needs government approval, will be put in final form by an operators UNIV subcommittee this afternoon and placed before the full negotiat- ing committee for final ratification at 3:30 D. m. EWT.
 The 10-centS a ton royalty de- manded by UNIV President John L. Lewis was not in the final contract. Operator sources said concessions (Continued on Page 4)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-11
Cinema Star Dies or Burns M $25,OOO HoLLwUood Fire

Hollywood, April 11-(UP)-Police said today blond film star Gloria Dickson, 28, died of burns and suf- location last night in a fire that destroyed her palatial hillside home.
 Alone in the house and appar- ently trapped by the flames, Miss Dickson, dressed only in silk slip, had made her way to an upstairs bathroom where her body was found, charred almost past recogni- tion. The body of her pet boxer dog lay nearby.
 Mis- Dickson'S husband, Marine veteran and former boxer William Fitzgerald, tried to enter the blaz- ing mansion, neighbors said, crying i've got to get to my baby" He collapsed on learning of her death.
 Bremen declared the fire appar- ently spread through the luxurious home from an overstuffed chair in the rlimpus room. Actor Sidney Folder, owner of the house, esti- mated the loss at $25.0o0.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-11
H|MMLER SAID
 TO BE REICH'S SUPREME RULER
BY W. R. HIGGINBOTHAM

London, April Il. = (UP) e British official quarters circulated a report today that the Nazis were ousting Adolf Hitler and that he was dying.
 Heinrich Himmler, Ges- bapo chief, interior minister and commander of the Ger man Home Army, was said bo be replacing Hitler as supreme ruler in the Reich as the military disaster in bne west mounted almost hourly.
 The semi official British Press As- kociation and the Exchange Tele- graph Agency carried almost dupli- cate stories of the Nazi split and attributed them to reports reach ing official or authoritative quar- ters in London"
 . Sources close to the British For eign Office said they had no mowl- edge of the reports and told the United Press the matter looked like utter rumor."
 Even if the rumor turned out to be true, these sources said, it would make little difference in the course lof tho war.
 It was possible that the reports game from members of British Commons perhaps members of < Prime Minister Churchill's govern ment-who could not be named. Nevertheless, there was nothing new hn German propaganda to lend Eredence to reports of Hitler's dis posal.
 Tt seems certain that 8 grave split among Nazi leaders is develop ing" E. P. Stackpoole, lobby corre-. spondent of the Press Association, Wrate.
 A Dying Man
 Foreigners who for some time have been in very close touch with Germany are also convinced that Hitler is today a dying man. They report he is looking terribly ill. Some wonder whether he will ever be captured alive"
 Stackpoole speculated that Hitler
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-11
Massa Naval Base Seized
BY WALTER COLLINS

Rome, April 11.-UP)-BotE coastal wings of the German de- lenses in Italy swayed back today before concerted Allied drives which captured the La Spezia naval bases outpost of Massa and gained two and a half miles thorugh three Pc Valley towns.
 The American Fifth Army stormed through Massa, German stronghold 18 miles southeast of La Spezia and on the other side of Italy the British Eighth army's new offensive army's new offensive across the Senio river toppled Lugo, 28 miles southeast of Bologna. Fusignano, four miles northeast of Lugo, ard Cotignola, four and a half south east of Lugo.
 Gen. Mark Clark's 18th Army group was striking all along the line ill bid to whittle down the German might in Italy before it could fall back to join the homeland defend- CTS in a last hopeless stand.
 Troops of the Fifth Army 442nd and 473rd regiments cracked through Massa against stubborn resistance. A communique said they struck on northwest toward La Spezia on the Ligurian Sea and were we'll across the Frigido river which flows through the MaSSa area.
 The fall of MaSsa and the river crossing four miles to the north- east followed several days of bitter fighting. The resistance was built around heavy artillery batteries on Punta Blanca southeast of La Spe- zia, designed to guard both the land and sea approaches to the naval base.
 Eight Army forces preceded by flame throWerS and supported by a record air bombardment plunged across the Senio at Fusignano and San Severe. The first impact car- ried more than 1000 yards beyond the river.
 By night the bridgeheads were extended and fused. Bridges were thrown over the river and tanks and strong supporting forces moved ill behind the vanguard.
 By midday yesterday the Eighth Army had taken 1,200 prisoners.
 It. Gen. Sir Bernard c. Frey : berg's Second New Zealand Division
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-11
State Labor MeosureOK'd In Hartford

Hartford, Conn, April 11-(UP)- The House suspended the rules to- day to give final approval to the state labor relations act and sent it to Gov. Baldwin for signature.
 Only the changing of 8 word, to correct 8 typographical error, was necessary, and the action was quick ly taken to approve a senate amend ment rectifying the mistake. dicated he would sign the bill as soon as it reached his desk, it was expected the act would become law before nightfall.
 Providing for collective bargain ing privileges to more than 250,0O0 workers in intra-state industry, the act had the support of both the CIP and Connecticut Federation of La- bor.
 Republican State Chairman Har- old E. Mitchell said of the bill:
 Tn passing the state labor rela- tions act the 1945 general assembly had earned a high honor in pioneer 4116 tAlC NACdbAO11 OA Q AAAOoU ANCL d4 and vital piece of legislation. Organ ized labor has come long way to win the legislative recognition of it's position. am very proud of the splendid job done by the Republican organization in bringing about the type of sound, liberal compromise so deserving of the enthusiastic sup port of labor and legislators of both parties"
 The House approved, under sus- pension of the rules, a resolution asking President Roosevelt to "reaf- firm the tenets of the Atlantic charter in order that our ally, Po- land, shall remain territorially in- tact as free and independent mem Der of the United Nations"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-11
By DEAN w. DITTMER

Washington. April 11-(UP)- Congress took its first steps toward demobilization legislation today as the Army revealed plans to send virtually all phySically-fit troops in this country overseas as soon as they can be replaced.
 Chairman Andrew J. May, D., Ky, of the House Military Affairs committee said he believed the fall of Germany was "close enough" for the War Department to let con- gress in on it's plans for demobiliza- tion and reorganization of the Army after VIE day.
 He asked Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson to send the proper Army officers to a closed meeting of the committee next Tuesday to discuss legislation ito coordinate the gen. .eral problems with which we will all be concerned"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-11
Jefferson Day Party Dropped

Hartford, Conn, April 11.-(UP) Cancellation of the Jefferson day dinner at New Haven April IA was announced today by Democratic State Chairman Adrian w. Maher.
 Maher said that a number of local dinners will be given instead, and that U. s. Sen. Brien McMahon would address each of them. These dinners will be limited to residents of the cities in which they are to be given, and those of neighboring towns because of ODT travel re- StrictiOnS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-11
Chinese Seize Chonqshichenq

Chungking, April 11.-(UP)-Chi- nese troops have re-captured Changschicheng in Western Honan Province, killing 400 of the Japanese defenders and chasing the rem nants toward Lonin, communique said last night.
 In North Honan, other Chinese troops northwest of Sichwan were reported continuing drive east against stubborn Japanese resist ance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-11
RED COSSACKS MOVING UP TO
 BERLIN FRONT
BY ROBERT MUsEL

London, April II. = (UP) - The fall of Vienna was indicated unofficially today, and Moscow said big forces of Cossack cavalry were nov ing up to the Berlin front in apparent preparation for a lightning sweep westward to meet Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- hower's armies.
 An Austrian broadcast said Soviet siege forces had cleared the last three Ger man-hald districts of Vienna, evidently completing the con- quest of the Austrian capital.
 In Moscow the government organ, Izvestia. reported that powerful formations of Cossacks, the swift striking mobile forces usually spead- heading Russian blitZ, were swing ing into position on Marshal Greg ory K. Zhukov's front which runs through the Oder valley some 30 miles east of Berlin.
 The German radio also reported atcion on the Berlin front. It said a German force encircled for two weeks at Klessin, B miles east of Berlin and two miles west of the Oder, had broken through to the Nazi lines. The report was signifi- cant for it's indication of the size of the bridgehead Zhllkov has won west of the Oder.
 The massing of Soviet cavalry on the front facing Berlin and the fast moving Anglo-American armies CO., incided with forecasts from the western front of an Allied juncture within 8 matter of 24 to 72 hours which would cut Germany in two at the tightly pinced wasp waist.
 The German high command wrote off Vienna with an acknowledgement that it's defenders had been beaten back to the Danube canal in the city.
 Front Falls Apart
 It also admitted that the whole 15O-mile southeastern front in Aus tria between the Danube and Drava rivers had Host cohesion - o1 fallen apart. A high command claim that the crackup was tempor- ary and the front had been re- was weak in contrast with the implicit acknowledgment that for time at least no connected positions stood between the Rus sians e,ad the Bavarian sanctuary of the NaziS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-11
Relief Plan For Europe Faces Delay

Washington, April H. (UP) - Congress was told that prolonged resistance by isolated Nazi units may delay indefinitely the United Nations relief and rehabilitation administration program for Europe.
 President Roosevelt's second re- port to Congress on U. S. partici- patton in UNRRA said the relief agency may have to wait for the Allies to "clean up pockets of re- sistance'' before more than the present token relief can be chan nelled into liberated Europe.
 The report pointed out, however, that even under the full program the liberated areas would get only two per cent of their relief and rehabilitation needs from UNRRA.
 It revealed that up to Dec. 31, eleven countries had failed to com plete their payments to UNRRA's $10 100000 administrative fund for 1914.
 Russia, owing $1,soo,ooo, was the biggest debtor.
 \O4NAWe1A D u Y " U O oC OoOno showed that Russia still has not paid the 1914 instalment, plus 8 slightly smaller assessment for 1945 administrative expenses. Like all invaded members of the United Ma tions Russia is required to con- tribute to the small administrative fund, but not to the bigger opera tions budget)
 The other countries owing ad- ministrative contributions were Aus tralia, $134,OOO; Chile, $2O,OOO; Bol- via, $1O,000; Costa Rica, $5,OO0; Ecuador, 5000; Iran, $1OOO0; Iraq, $10,000; Paraguay, $5,0O0; Uruguay, $20,000 and Yugoslavia, $65,O00.
 The president reported that as of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-11
Jops Claim Three
 U. s. Carriers Sunk
(By United PreSs)

Radio Tokyo today identified three American aircraft carriers which it said had been sunk off Okinawa last Friday and Saturday as the Essex, the converted carrier Langley and the auxiliary carriel Ripper.
 The broadcast was recorded by United Press in San Francisco.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-11
Wayne Taylor Quits Underseeretory Job

washington, April 11.-(UP)- Wayne c. Taylor resigned today as Gndersecretary of Commerce and asked President Roosevelt to trans Der him to a job concerned with ethe international economic and bocial fields"
 The President immediately nom- hated Alfred Schindler, St. Louis
 atness man, to succeed Taylcr.
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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1945-12-27

get a room I'll he a good booster
for that dam you wrote about
not sc long ago. Mr.. H. G. Wells
thinks that's real good readin
that you sent to the Hardin pa
per about that Dam. l met You
once when you were here last,
I'm not shure if you remember
me. The last time l was in Chi
cago a year ago l spent So rid
ing a taxi and finally the taxi
driver sed to me. He sed. Son get
wise you're in Chicago now you
hafta pay your way around here.
Go to the best hotel here in Chi
cago & give the Captain Bell
Hop SIS and you will get a room.
I did it alrite and l also paid
$9.s5 a mite for a room. We were
in Chicago 4 days. That's about
how long Id likta stay this time
too. In case you can help me &
Bob out III promise no rough
of any kind. If you should
see this letter before Jan. 2, 1876
and can fix us up please wire
me here in Hardin-coIlect on
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1945-12-27
BRIDGE

Mrs. r. 3. Saunders entertained
at 4 bridge luncheon honorny
Mrs. l.. II. Labbitt at her home
Friday. Dec. 81. Mrs. L. r. Cool
and Mrs. l.. S. McAllister received
honorS. Mrs. I,abhitt received n
gift. Dr.. ard Mrs. Lahbitt plan
to leave soon on a trip over
SOME of the western states.
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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1945-12-27

MIKE
SEz-

I am goin on a buying trip
to Minneapolis, St. Paul and
Chicago Jan. 2 and expect to be
gone 8 weeks or less. Bob Brown
is going with me In Minneapolis
s. St. Paul l am SURF of a room
but l cant seem to be able to get
one in Chicago. So after being
disguised & ready to call off my
trip Mr.. H. G. Wells from the
theatre here in Hardin sed Mike
I think I knoe where you may
get a room. Just write to my
friend John j. Harris in Chicago.
He viii get you a room or you
mite even get to sleep in his
basement. So I'll write & let him
knoe I'm comm, wether l get a
room or not.
Mr.. John J.. Harris
1922 w. Lake St.
Chicago, III.
Dear Mr.. Harris:
Will you please fix me up
with a room when l and Bob
Brown come to Chicago. Mr..
Wells here in Hardin sed in n
pinch you wood help me and Bob
If you let me down I'll just hafta
come home and go broke and
I'm kinda shure that you woodn't
do that to me If you help me
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1945-12-27
DINNERS HIGHIIGHT
CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES

Guests attending Christmas din
ner at the R. A. Vickers home
were Mr.. and Mrs. S. B. Newark
and family, Mr.. and Mrs. Lyle
T%intinger. Sr., MI. and Mrs. Rus
sell Nickers and family, Mrs.
Ieona Tintinger and Mrs. George
Ward and son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Smith had
as their guests on Christmas. Mrs
Robert Herman, Bobby, Dennis
and Dale of Billings, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Herman Pauley, Dooley and
Douglas.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. A. Weir and
Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Hogan and
Dorothy were dinner guests tf
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Croghan on
Christmas day.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Z. Remmeic
entertained Mr.. and Mrs. Lowell
Painter and Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Traphagen and daughters, Alice
and Elizabeth Ann on Christmas
day.
Christmas dinner guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Jack Helmann we're MI.
and Mrs. Melvin Harris and
daughter and Mr.. and Mrs. Rob-
ert Harris.
| On Christmas day Mr.. and
Mrs. Elmer Skeie had as their
dinner guests Mr.. and Dick
Louk, Mr.. and Mrs. E o. Preston
and Roam. Mrs. Lura P. Strand
and Miss Edna Tobias.
Guests of Mr.. and Mrs. A. W.
F. Koch on Christmas we're Mr..
and Mrs. Carl Rankin and Mr.. and
Mrs. r. B. Peck.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. S. Romine
had as Christmas dinner guests
Mr.. ana Mrs. George Miller,
Allen Romine and children and
Mrs. James Romine and Larry.
Guests at the c. E. Ford home
on Tuesday were Mr.. and Mrs
Taylor Elder and family, Mr.
and Mrs. Gordon Swaby and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence
Breid and daughter of Belflower;
Calf, Mr.. and Mrs. William
Corkins and sons of Sidney and
MI. and Mrs. c. A. Corkins.